Japan, Britain, Russia, Czech Republic and Estonia. “Nordic Thunder” Justin Howard reportedly gave an “energetic” performance, sliding across the stage bare-legged, and won with a total of 34.6 points to Matt Burns’ 34.4. Air guitarists will usually perform a 60-second solo performance with an imaginary guitar-like instrument. They are marked on their technical prowess and stage…
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…w that timber they use is legally obtained. Deforestation is a huge issue affecting Madagascan wildlife such as lemurs. Gibson’s premises were raided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in 2010 and 2011, with agents impounding ebony and rosewood imported from Madagascar and India. The US government has settled its legal case against the iconic Gibson Guitar company over use of illegal…
With nearly a quarter of a century of music under their belts, Green Day certainly have plenty of material. So perhaps it is understandable why Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong went on a foul-mouthed tirade after his band’s playing time was cut to make way for Usher at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas. The 40-year-old Dookie star flew off the handle when he discovered 20 minutes…
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The Rolling Stones opened their North American 50 and Counting tour in Los Angeles on Friday in a packed house, but only after websites slashed ticket prices and the band released additional cheap seats at the last minute. The 17-date tour is the Rolling Stones’ biggest in six years and follows a handful of dates in London, Paris and New York at the end of 2012 marking 50 years since they b…
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New reports give details about James Holmes, the psychotic gunman who killed 12 people at a screening of the new Batman film on Thursday night. James Holmes, 24, was a PhD student who was described as “really smart” but was in the process of dropping out of graduate school at the University of Colorado Denver. He is said to have had few friends and barely any social life, instead spending hours i…
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As Amanda Knox pledged to return to a normal life after being cleared of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, she has embarked on a romance with an old friend, classical guitar student James Terrano. James Terrano’s brother William, 27, confirmed: “Yes, she’s dating my brother. They have known each other for years. We’ve all been friends since before Amanda went to Italy.”…
Sue, That’ll be the Day, True Love Ways, Oh Boy!, Everyday became classics and recently two new all-star tribute albums have tried to interpret them like he did. Buddy Holly died on February 3, 1959, in a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Waylon Jennings, who had given up his seat on the plane to Holly, was haunted by the crash. Along with Buddy Holly Ritchie Valens and J….
Mike Scaccia, guitarist with heavy metal bands Ministry and Rigor Mortis, has died aged 47. Rolling Stone magazine reported that Mike Scaccia was playing at a birthday celebration for Rigor Mortis singer Bruce Corbitt when he collapsed on stage in Texas. He was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Al Jourgensen, Ministry’s lead singer, confirmed his death on the band’s we…
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Nicole Kidman shows her playful side as she is staring in a commercial for Melbourne-based Swisse Wellness Vitamins. Nicole Kidman, 45, is seen picking herbs from the garden while playfully dance-kicking to an up tempo guitar track – geared toward projecting an idealized vision of healthy living. In the slow-moving montage, Nicole Kidman can be seen eating a low glycemic green apple as she…
…n Colbert said in a toast to David Letterman. “Dave was stupid. Dave was ours. Dave was like us. “We wanted to throw things off of buildings. … We would love to stick our heads out the window of 30 Rock and yell at passers-by, <<I’m not wearing any pants!>>.” Stephen Colbert marveled at David Letterman receiving such an award after he “corrupted the minds of a generation”….
f the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Department and no more details were released up to now. The American virtuoso guitarist was a musical pioneer who explored a vast range of cultures in more than 30 albums, the fruit of trailblazing research and recordings in Hawaii, India, Africa, Japan, Australia, Greece, Papua New Guinea and Reunion Island. Bob Brozman was born in New York on March 8, 1954…
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…died in Tokyo aged 70 Miho Harasawa, a spokeswoman for Tokyo Blue Note, the last venue Donald Dunn played, confirmed he died alone early Sunday. She had no further details. Born in Memphis on November 24, 1941, Donald Dunn started playing bass at the age of 16. “I tried the guitar but it had two strings too many,” he wrote on his website. “It was just too complicated, man! Plus,…
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gs recorded by Kenny Rogers, Sammy Hagar, the Pointer Sisters and others. In 1999 he released a CD, Bob Welch Looks at Bop, a salute to bebop music in the 1940s. In an interview with The Tennessean in 2003, Bob Welch said he never dreamed he’d be remembered for much. “I just wanted to play guitar in a good band,” he said. “I wanted to make the music I love. I wanted to travel the world and h…
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Guitar player and singer Phillip Phillips has won the American Idol talent show, with viewers casting a record number of 132 million votes. Phillip Phillips, 21, a shop worker from Leesburg, Georgia, was overcome with emotion as he ended the show with his first single, Home. Runner-up was Jessica Sanchez, 16, a southern Californian of Filipino and Latino descent. The contest remains one of the mo…
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iled the rockers’ return a success. Reviews of the gig described the band as “still leading the pack” and “at the cutting edge of pop”. “They have a combined age of 273, but the four Stones remain an extraordinary live proposition,” John Aizlewood wrote in the Evening Standard. “Jagger, camp and louche, was a preening but energetic peacock; Richards…
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Since 1924, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has kicked off the holiday season in New York City. More than 2.5 million people line the streets every year to see giant balloons, floats, marching bands, and waving celebrities (while 44 million more tune in to the NBC TV broadcast). This year, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will continue an 85-year tradition with new giant helium c…
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Justin Bieber, the world’s richest self-made teenager, has now 47 million Facebook fans, 29 million Twitter followers and three billion YouTube hits. As the world’s first social-media superstar, Justin Bieber, 18, built up a fan base of millions before he’d even signed a record deal. His world record puts him ahead of Lady Gaga, Rihanna or Eminem. “The genius of Justin Bieber is he used the power…
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, our moral values, destroy the country. What would we be left with then?” Vladimir Putin said. Opinion polls in Russia suggest a majority backing the sentence against Pussy Riot. One poll found 43% of respondents considered the sentence too lenient. On Wednesday the judge rejected two motions from defence lawyers to call in experts for their opinions and more witnesses from the cathedral. T…
Oil painting Abstraktes Bild by the German artist Gerhard Richter has sold for £21 million ($34 million) – an auction record for a work by a living artist. Abstraktes Bild, painted in 1994 , which was owned by rock star Eric Clapton, has been described as a “masterpiece of calculated chaos”. The artwork, expected to fetch £9-12 million, was sold to an anonymous bidder at Sotheby…
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tention she cannot have hoped for. Her father, General John R. Allen, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, is under investigation by the FBI after the agency discovered between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of communication between him and 37-year-old housewife Jill Kelley. Jill Kelley entered the public eye when she was the target of threatening emails from General David Petraeus’ mi…
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Richie Havens, the famous folk singer who opened the legendary 1969 Woodstock rock festival, has died of a heart attack at the age of 72. First reports, quoting family in New York and his agency in Los Angeles, did not say where Richie Havens had died. Richie Havens has died of a heart attack at the age of 72 Brooklyn-born Richie Havens was famous for his distinctive guitar and singing style. Re…
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Mark Sanchez, who lives in the neighborhood and shares Ariel Castro’s affinity for the bass guitar, told The Daily Telegraph that he was at the kidnapper’s home on May 2 when he heard weird thudding sounds coming from the floor above. Mark Sanchez also saw a little girl at one point whom he claimed he had never seen before. Ariel Castro explained that the child was his granddaughter….
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…rova will also be recognized at the gala in December. President Barack Obama will also host a White House reception for them. “With their extraordinary talent, creativity and tenacity, the seven 2012 Kennedy Center honorees have contributed significantly to the cultural life of our nation and the world,” said chairman David Rubenstein. The award is the highest honor awarded to those th…
Anthony Castro – son of Ariel Castro, the prime suspect in the abduction of three Cleveland girls – interviewed missing Gina DeJesus’ mother for a local newspaper, with no idea she was being held captive at his father’s house. Anthony Castro, 31, said he was absolutely stunned when he heard about what his father has been accused of, after Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Michele Knig…
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…DeJesus went missing at age 14 on her way home from school about a year later. They were found just a few miles from where they had disappeared. Police said Michelle Knight went missing in 2002 and is 32 now. They didn’t provide current ages for the other two women….
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