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The Life of Billy Idol

Alice Sue — Mon, 09 May 2011 07:35:15 +0000

His great success on MTV with songs like “White Wedding” and “Dancing with Myself” Billy Idol earned him to be considered among the greatest minds of that generation.

Later, her second album “Rebel Yell” in 1984, was also a bestseller and was highly regarded in the main lists of the United States. Now, this singer was born in England, saw realize their dreams when he witnessed the success of songs like “Eyes Without a Face”, “Flesh for Fantasy” and it “Rebel Yell” which gave name to their album.

In 1986, Billy Idol has a new album called “Whiplash Smile” with which echoed among his followers with great songs like “To Be a Lover”, “Do not Need a Gun” and “Sweet Sixteen”. But it was in 1990, when being about to launch his album “Charmed Life”, which Idol has an accident on his motorcycle in which he almost lost a leg.

Making a career high, choose to participate in the film about Jim Morrison and The Doors, “directed by Oliver Stone, while in 1993 released an album was a commercial failure and also his addiction to drugs almost carried death from an overdose in 1994.

The picture of Billy Idol was pretty dark and everything was expected to end as the artist had arrived. However, decides to seek a new opportunity and manages to play himself in a romantic comedy in 1998, where they use “White Wedding” as the main theme of the work.

Apparently, this gave him back the boost it needed to reinvent his musical art, and success will be smiling again appears on “VH1 Storytellers” and then manages to sell over half a million records with a “Greatest Hits” in the 2001.

His 2005 disc, “Devil’s Playground” takes you back to a studio album after nearly 12 years of estrangement.

One of the best and most memorable tracks of Billy Idol was undoubtedly “Dancing with Mysef” the same we invite you to see in the next video clip.

What was Elvis Presley’s Favorite Pastime?

Alice Sue — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:14:56 +0000

At eleven years, Elvis received as a gift from his parents his first guitar, which was a harbinger of the rising musical career in a few years was beginning.

Holder of the title “King of Rock & Roll”, Elvis Presley took advantage of every opportunity presented to him during his career and became unthinkable for someone of accomplishment in those times, reaching influence youth of his time and even be an important reference for the emergence of rock in Spanish and other languages.

Its huge popularity led him to satisfy even the most eccentric of his desires, being the symbol of their ongoing fame and eminence, his Graceland mansion.

Besides, he developed an inordinate fondness for firearms that led him to have one of the largest collections, of which he was extremely proud and never hid his passion for it.

By some accounts, Elvis had taken the habit of shooting the TV, which had become one of his favorite pastimes, and most of their weapons were decorating the walls of Graceland.

In his first meeting with President Nixon, Elvis gave him a Colt 45 causing the surprise of the president, but this gesture of the King of Rock was not surprising, since many of their girlfriends also made them such gifts.

The day he learned that his bodyguards had published a book that had his eccentricities, Elvis was barricaded with several of his arms, raised his staff and told them to continue to go to settle scores with their former guardians.

However, despite the exorbitant behavior that Presley said, like that of many other celebrities, we must recognize that justice was a deserved king of rock genre.

For those who came to enjoy his talent and those who did not see it here we leave you with the following video to appreciate one of the topics that characterized it.

Lara Fabian, Between doubt and mystery

Maria Oswald — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:07:14 +0000

“An artist is a mix between a doubt and mystery. It’s pretty incredible to live elsewhere with such a dichotomy because in the mystery, there is the desire to preserve certain things, and when in doubt, the desire to expose them for reassurance. ”

Lara Fabian weighs every word. At 40, the singer is reflected, asked. Lara Fabian has clearly come a long way.

Under the arm with his album All the women in me, the singer returned to Quebec, where it feels best, which is its root, as she likes to say.

“I made choices in my life. I chose to leave at a time when I was very lonely here, where it was very difficult to continue where I had one, no family, “she said.

“That may be why always explode into tears at the end of shows, that when I leave, it’s a pain. When the plane takes off, I feel that tears me something, “she says about what he misses and Quebec, which represents both for her.

All Woman In Me was released in Europe in spring 2009.

Lara Fabian revisits songs like Sun Sun, Love still exists or Hymn to Love.

“This is my idea, after a conversation with my best friend, says she. We posed the question, how do you become what you are, not what would be, but what one really is. ”

To be what it is, Lara said he forged his person in contact with all the women in his life: his mother, his grandmother, her best friend.

For fun, she began to compile a list of famous women – in film, literature, music – that were important in his life.

Somewhere, Lara Fabian was going up the list of artists to whom she would borrow a title for his new album.

“I had never done an album of covers. I had already sung covers in my life I had sung I’m sick, that was not my song, but that has almost become my song over time. I waited for almost 40 years to do, “she says.

The album was recorded in Belgium, Paris, in the south of France and mostly in Montreal.

Moreover, in France, the album was greeted by at least one negative review.

“But I’m not doing this for people who do not like me. (…) I do my job with great conviction and enthusiasm, saying that those who love it are welcome, “the singer proclaims, adding that a cover album exposes the artist to more risks and to more negative reviews.

“There are people that it was deeply disturbed to hear Ode to the love of Piaf in gospel. I understand. I understand, but I had no desire to sing like Edith Piaf because it would have had no interest for me to do it like that. I would not have had the sense of making something. ”

Pink taken to hospital after a fall

Maria Oswald — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:47:00 +0000

Thursday evening, during the preparation of an aerobatic exercised within the framework of his show at Nurnberg, Germany, the singer Pink has fallen from the scene on a steel fence.

The show was immediately stopped. Pink rose again briefly on stage to announce to fans that the show must be shortened. She was then taken to the hospital.

The singer of 30 years said his mood on Twitter a few minutes after his fall, while she was en route to the hospital: “To all my fans Nurnberg … I feel embarrassed and I’m really sorry. I am currently in the ambulance, but I’ll get through. “

Pink, Alecia Beth Moore, or his real name, also explained the reason for his downfall: “I have not been properly attached to the harness. I was propelled from the stage and I fell on the fence. ”

After seeing the doctors, the star was keen to reassure his fans: “Nothing broken, no fluid in my lungs, just very sore …”

Moments later, her boyfriend Carey Hart revealed on Twitter it was “already out of the hospital” and she was well.

Here’s the video of the incident, taken from Youtube.

Miley Cyrus says his look is according to your disk

Clarissa Smith — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:14:58 +0000

Miley Cyrus does not accept being told how to dress or what to sing. The actress and singer of 17 years is releasing a new album, Can not Be Tamed, which goes on sale Monday 21 June, and makes it his own way, even though some say is going too far for his age.

“I’m not trying to look like a slut,” Cyrus said, explaining that he wants to maintain consistency between the new album and her style.

The young star, whose series of Hannah Montana Disney ends this year, also said he felt comfortable with her body and wearing little clothing.