Pop phenom Carole King is going to the east room of the White House to receive the Gershwin Award from President Obama. Carole King is the first woman to win this award. King aged 71 has been racking up the honors recently having been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as well as receiving a honorary doctorate from Berklee School of Music in Boston. She can feel the earth moving under her feet tumbling down, tumbling down!
Ms King has hinted she would like to retire but has just been in the studio recording and has been touring. Carol King has lots of friends!
Singer Amy Winehouse will be honored with a life sized bronze statue in Camden the section of London that was her stomping ground. The statue by artist Scott Eaton will be a life sized version of Winehouse in a short dress standing on s second floor balcony of the Round House a local music venue. The statue will be pointing out at Camden.
Does anyone really remember Tony DeFranco? Of course they don't. No one has been singing "It's a Heartbeat It's a Love Beat" for over 40 years or so. Let's hope Justin Beiber becomes the next Canadian to have the staying power of Tony DeFranco. Teen Heart throbs have gone before and lets just hope Herr Bieber goes the way of Tony DeFranco and maybe becomes a realtor or maybe a record store owner. Save your money dude. Get a weed card and just politely disappear as did so many before you. The cops know where you live and apparently your neighbors hate you. and as soon as your fans get their periods they will too.
Justin learn something or you could be the next Leif Garrett and hope to get arrested on the Hollywood Redline. Have you read about Lindsay Lohan? She had a cool career and now she could be suspected of spitting on her neighbors too.
Justine you gotta kick the rappers that no one has heard of out and realize that you are are a big ole white Canadian and not a bad ass rapper. Girls are getting older and breats; soon will never admit they liked you.
Do you want to become Tony DeFranco? No? Go see some real bands, listen to the Ramones and grow a real pair.
The Spice Girls remember them? Well it seems Victoria Posh Beckahm doesn't want to and will no longer be a Spice Girl. Sad news for music lovers right? Victoria has decided she is no longer going to perform. The Spice Girls are set to reform after a long and needed hiatus. Posh has a very successful career in fashion and pouting now. Scary, Sporty, Baby and Ginger are all on their own now and wat they want, waht they really really want is a replacement. So if you are a girl and you are spicey this could be the chance for you! You could be the next Posh!
It is amazing but it is true Shane MacGowan is still alive! If anyone should be dead it is Shane MacGowan not because he is a bad person but because he has lived life well over the top. If there is a drug Shane has used it and abused it. Sinead O'Connor, not the usual voice of reason, turned him into the cops for heroin use! He claims to having started drinking at age 4 and was drinking whiskey at 10. His antics both on and off stage are legendary. He once stopped singing on stage and vomited on to the people in the front of the house. That's punk rock!
He is known to only perform drunk and his interviews are usually incoherent. But some how he soliders on. His band the Pouges kicked him out for a while because of his behavior. But he still wakes up everyday. The luck of the Irish?
This year's second place winner of the Eurovision was a group of 6 grandmother's from a small rural town in Russia called Buranovo. They are called Buranovskiye Babushki (Grandmothers from Buranovo) and they sing in Udmurt a dialect similar to Finnish, The Babuski's village is in an impoverished area of Russia and their fame has brought a recognition to the area and that has meant some development and infrastructure improvements. The 300 year old town now has street lights, a new water pipeline and freshly graveled roads. Their song "Party For Everyone" has become a viral internet success.
One of the Babuska, Natalya Pugachyova has used her new found fame to find the grave of her father who was killed during World War II. He was killed in a battle with the Nazis in 1942.
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