Mark Ronson - Ronson Jackson Hated Watching Porn

Producer MARK RONSON once tried to make his childhood pal MICHAEL JACKSON watch porn - but the pop superstar hated the experience and wasn't amused.

Ronson, whose father Laurence was a band manager, used to spend his time in the company of John Lennon's son Sean and Jackson as they were growing up.

The trio would frequently have sleepovers - but when Ronson and Lennon used to switch over the TV to the pornography channel, Jackson was left cringing with embarrassment.

He recalls, "It's a weird story, but I didn't touch him. We (Ronson and Lennon) used to watch the porn channel because we were like 10 and, 'Oh my God, tits!' So Michael was in bed. And me and Sean said, 'Michael do you want to see something cool?'

"We turned the dial to the porn channel and there were strippers shaking their tits around. We were like, 'Michael, Michael, how cool is this?' We turned around and he was cringing, saying, 'Ooh stop it, stop it, ooh it's so silly.' We were like, 'Michael, you have to look, maybe you're not seeing it right, it's naked girls!'

"He was not down with the programme whatsoever! I think he had really strong feminist views on porn."

Ronson's comments were made during the taping of British gameshow the Sunday Night Project, which is due to air in the U.K. on Sunday (22Jun08).

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Corinne Bailey Rae - Raes First Live Comeback After Husbands Death

British singer CORINNE BAILEY RAE is making a return to the public spotlight - to perform for the first time since the tragic death of her husband JASON RAE.

The Put Your Records On star was widowed when her musician husband was found dead in a Leeds flat in February (08), with preliminary pathologist's report suggesting his death was caused by a drugs overdose.

The star buried Rae in April (08) at a service attended by stars including music producer Mark Ronson, before fleeing the music scene in order to grieve.

But the singer is set to make her first live appearance to play on Britain's Channel 4's Live From Abbey Road TV show - filmed at the London recording studio made famous by the Beatles.

She will join legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock to play the set on Thursday (26Jun08).

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Jessica Simpson is treated at hospital

Singer and actress Jessica Simpson was admitted to hospital after suffering from a fever last weekend.
According to People magazine, the 27-year-old star was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles on Friday after she began to feel unwell.
The magazine reports that a kidney infection was the cause for the star's high temperature.
Simpson's representative has now confirmed that she "has been released and is doing fine".
The star is currently recording a country album.

Surreal and The Sound Providers

   
Artist: Surreal and The Sound Providers

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 True Indeed

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 13

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Fito y los Fitipaldis

   
Artist: Fito y los Fitipaldis

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Fito y los Fitipaldis

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8


   
 Fito y los Fitipaldis 2001

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Fito y los Fitipaldis 1998

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 9

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Time Machine

Filo and Peri Feat. Vanessa Valentin

   
Artist: Filo and Peri Feat. Vanessa Valentin

   Genre(s): 
Trance
   

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Discography:


   
 Inside Of Me Incl Marco V Remix CDS

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 4

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Madge -- Burned by Her Own Bro?

One person who knows where Madonna's bodies are buried –- her brother Christopher –- is apparently going to reveal 'em all in an upcoming book.

Christopher, with whom Her Madgesty fell out with years ago, is writing a saucy tell-all that comes out next month. And sources tell the New York Post that it's going to ride rough on Madonna. "It's extremely graphic and devastating," says a source. "He wrote it on the sly without telling Madonna."

Or, as a pal of Madonna put it, "Oh, my."

Heigl Hates on Her Own Writers

You have to hand it to Katherine Heigl: Girl does not pull her punches.

She's yanked herself from consideration for an Emmy, says the L.A. Times, because, she says, the writing on "Grey's Anatomy" sucked –- at least the stuff she had to read. "I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination," she says.

Wonder how good that material's going to be now.

Babs Ditches Hill, Backs Barack

Barbra Streisand –- lifetime F.O.C. (Friend of Clintons?) Not so fast.

It looks like Babs is jumping on the Obama-wagon now that her pal Hillary got beat: The L.A. Times reports that Streisand has "offered to help" in B.O.'s run for the White House. This is the same Barbra Streisand who's been such a strident supporter of the Bill-and-Hill show for years.

Nothing's solid yet, but Obama's H-wood backers hope she'll at least sing at some campaign events.

Party Favors: Lynne Spears Set to Exploit Brit, Finally ... Paul Newman Pal Backtracks on Cancer Claim

Lynne Spears' big memoir about raising Britney and Jamie Lynn (one presumes, not a how-to) will be out on shelves this fall, its publisher tells People. The book was put on hold when J-L got knocked up. It'll be called "Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World." ... Paul Newman's friend A.E. Hotchner tells Access Hollywood that he never said anything about Paul having cancer, as the AP reported yesterday. He says he was misquoted. And Newman maintains that he's doing "nicely."



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Teens check into German twins' Tokio Hotel

Move over Jonas Brothers, the Kaulitz twins are moving in.
The 18-year-old Kaulitz brothers comprise half of Tokio Hotel, a German glam-pop quartet that is creating Beatles-like hysteria among the teen set in their native land. They’ve sold close to 3 million CDs and DVDs in Germany, and are hoping to replicate that rabid fan base in the United States.
For Tokio Hotel, the visual is as vital as the vocals and is propelled by lead singer Bill Kaulitz’s anime look: straightened, teased black hair; heavy eye makeup that accentuates his delicate, androgynous, doll-like features; chain necklaces and vintage rock ’n’ roll T-shirts. He’s so thin he appears almost one-dimensional on stage, adding to the cartoonlike appeal. Tom Kaulitz, the older brother by 10 minutes, developed his hip-hop/ dreads look when he was 7 or 8, in part as a way to differentiate himself from his identical twin.



The Kaulitz brothers began playing guitar when they were 7 - the instruments were gifts from their musician stepfather. By the time they were in their mid-teens, they were playing in clubs.
Their mother’s backing was not only desired, but vital: “We needed the support of our parents because we had no car, no money,” Bill Kaulitz said.
Mom has long since stopped driving the band to gigs; they have people who do that for them now as they have accumulated a team during their meteoric rise. The group’s first single, “Through the Monsoon,” went to No. 1 in Germany in 2005, a pair of No. 1 albums and sold-out European tours followed.
After witnessing the spectacle at the band’s February appearance at New York’s Gramercy Theatre, Amy Doyle, MTV’s senior VP of music and talent, became a convert. “I could not believe the line outside of screaming teen girls,” she said. “It reminded me of the audience of the late ’90s and 2000 for Backstreet Boys and ’N Sync.”
But the band has a long way to go before they reach Backstreet- or ’N Sync-like sales - since the group’s CD was released in April, it has sold approximately 23,000 copies.
“It’s so cool that we have fans already here. But we are at the beginning,” said Bill Kaulitz. “We really want to be successful in America, we really want to try it. There are not so many German bands who get the chance to come to America to play.”

Coldplay Ask Joy Division Film Director To Make New Video

Coldplay have enlisted film director Anton Corbjin to direct the video to their next single.

Singer Chris Martin gave nothing away when he told the Sun: "We're trying an experiment with him. It could be a disaster, but it could be OK."

Anton Cobjin had previously worked with Coldplay in 2005, when he directed the video for their single 'Talk'.

He also recently directed the movie 'Control', which was released last year, a film that told the story of the life of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.

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Slipknot reveal new album details

Slipknot's fourth album is to be titled 'All Hope Is Gone', and will be released August 26.

Frontman Corey Taylor told Billboard that the album would be the best body of work the band had recorded yet.

"We have made an album that will show the road behind, the road ahead, and where we are as men," he said. "I think it's the best thing I've ever made... It's controlled chaos that hits you right out of the gate."

The new album will be the band's third studio album, and their first since 2002's 'Iowa'.

Hennie Bekker

   
Artist: Hennie Bekker

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Sonic Aid Music To Promote Sleep

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 6


   
 Kaleidoscopes: Winter Reflections

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8


   
 Velvet Nights

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Salama

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12


   
 After The Rain

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


   
 Meditation

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 4


   
 Meditation

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


   
 Tranquility

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 13


   
 Spa

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 6


   
 Silk and Satin

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 Jabula

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 Dreaming

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 14


   
 African Tapestries Kusasa

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 A Time For Romance

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 Mirage

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Essence Of Romance

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 African Tapestries The Smoke That Thunders

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10


   
 African Tapestries Temba

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


   
 Tranquility Awakenings

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 10


   
 Summer Breeze

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 Spring Rain Solo Piano

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 Spring Rain

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 Algonquin Suite

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 Great Lakes Suite

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


   
 Harmony

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 11


   
 Winter Reflections

   Year:    
Tracks: 8


   
 Transitions

   Year:    
Tracks: 8


   
 African Tapestries

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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New age singer/musician Hennie Bekker issued several solo albums during the '90s; contributed tracks to such albums serial as SolitudesTM, Kaleidoscope, and Tranquility; as well as beingness a member of the Canadian techno/dance outfit BKS. Raised in a Zambian copper-mining ithiel Town tenner miles south of the Congolese border (Mufulira), Bekker became delighted former on by such sounds as tribal chanting and drumming, perking up his stake in music. Shortly thereafter, Bekker taught himself how to play the piano, and at the age of 15, began playing with various jazz nuclear fusion bands in Zambia, Zaire, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. From at that place, Bekker began grading for plastic film, television system, radio, and commercials; before finally moving to London, England, where he teamed up with manufacturer Emil Zoghby and started arranging, conducting, and producing albums for the likes of Freddie Cole, Magna Carta, and Stanley Black. By 1987, Bekker had relocated once more than, this time to Canada, where he focused on commercial form (conducive musical bits to stock-music companies).


Finally, Bekker gravitated toward the musing sounds of new age, where he added soothing melodies to nature sounds compiled by Dan Gibson, which light-emitting diode to the couplet collaborating on a tot up of 14 Exploring Nature With Music releases and to further Bekker musical contributions for the aforesaid Kaleidoscope and Tranquility series. In add-on, Bekker launched another record album series, African Tapestries, which explored the alien medicine of his homeland. Showcasing his versatility, Bekker then turned his attention to techno/dance, working with the grouping BKS, a group that achieved rather a bit of succeeder in Canada (their 1996 acquittance, Astroplane, standard a Juno Award for Best Dance Recording). Bekker besides set up metre to matter his possess solo releases, including such titles as Groovy Lakes Suite, Summer Breeze, Mirage, Tember, Jabula, and Watering place, among others.





Jona