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Celebrity news & gossip from the world’s showbiz and glamour magazines (OK!, Hello, National Enquirer and more). We read them so you don’t have to, picking the best bits from the showbiz world’s maw and spitting it back at them. Expect lots of sarcasm.
10 Things Younger That Keith Richards
TODAY, Keith Richards is 70 years old! We have to admire him, seeing as he’s about 1% blood and the rest is made up of cigarettes, drugs and urinal cakes.
The NME placed Keef on top of their list of rock stars most likely to die in 1973 and yet, somehow, he’s proven them all wrong by still being alive. We assume.
Of course, with such celebrations, most people would compile a list of Keef’s most scandalous moments, or maybe he’s greatest songs. They may even nerdgasm over his Top 10 Riffs.
However, those people are boring.
We’re going to look at ten interesting things that Keith Richards is older than. Yes, he may have looked like he was going to die on numerous occasions, but here he is, older than…
1. The atomic bomb, first detonated in 1945.
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Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Petition Asks David Cameron To Put An End To Dirty Music Videos
YOU may not know, but Robin Thicke is the first man ever on Earth to be featured in a clip with some naked women for spurious reasons. We checked on Twitter and the outrage confirmed it.
And his Blurred Lines video really caused a stink, to the point that it has prompted a petition urging Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron to change the law and ban children from watching dirty music videos online.
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Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities, Politicians | Comment
Ian Watkins Gets 35 Sentence For ‘Mega Lolz’ Police Knew Of In 2008
SINGER Ian Watkins is starting a 35-year-sentence for a string of child sex offences.
Reports say Watkins shook visibly in the dock at Cardiff Crown court. He confessed to 13 offences.
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Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Daily Mail Shocked When Fans Fail To Mob Nicholas McDonald On A Cold Tuesday School Night At Glasgow Airport
THE Daily Mail has a question: “Where have they gone? Defeated X Factor finalist Nicholas McDonald jets home to Scotland… and finds his army of fans has vanished.”
Poof! Vanished.
Only a week ago, he arrived home by helicopter and was met by hordes of screaming X Factor fans. But on Tuesday, it was a very different story for teenager Nicholas McDonald after he lost out in the talent show final on Sunday. The 17-year-old jetted in to Glasgow Airport, where he signed only a couple of autographs before his uneventful journey home to Motherwell, Lanarkshire.
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Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Daily Mail Bashes BBC Over Wrong Roux
THE Daily Mail can’t tell one Roux from the next:
French-born Masterchef chef Michel Roux Sr, 72, says: ‘The EU’s increasing and bewildering intrusion into national lives dilutes countries’ identities as it marches on with its alarming aim of an “ever closer union”.’ Let’s hope Roux’s chance of future appearances on the Europhile BBC survives such heresy.
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Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Lookalikes: Harry Styles Is Karl Marx
LOOK Alikes: Karl Marx and Harry Styles:
Send us your lookalikes.
Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Artist Recreates Punk And Indie Stars As Super Heroes
BILLY BUTCHER has turned faces of music into superhero. He asks:
What makes a pop culture icon?
Would it be the effect of their contribution to a cultural movement? Is it the way they impact the time and the generation they are targeting? Or just how their exposure constitutes a defining characteristic of a given society or era?
As a child of the 80’s I was heavily influenced by everything from saturday morning cartoons on TV to the music coming from the radio. Ian Curtis or Johnny Rotten are as iconic to me as Superman or Batman. Real people or imaginary characters, the incorruptible ideals of perfect superheroes or the human flaws and desires sometimes so desperately depicted in song lyrics – all of those influences affect us to the point of defining our character and personality, career paths and life choices.
The references we are exposed and specifically the ones we choose to absorb make us who we are. Who are your heroes?
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5 Unforgivably Awful Christmas Songs
THERE have been so many awful, bowel shaking Christmas songs over the years, it’s hard to narrow them down. The number of holiday polka tracks alone is terrifying. So, let’s take it slow. Here are five from the bottom of the barrel – proceed at your own risk.
“Trim Your Tree” by Jimmy Butler (1954)
“I’m gonna bring along my hatchet,
My beautiful Christmas balls,
I’ll sprinkle my snow all on your tree,
Hang a mistletoe on your walls.”
I’m all for playful wordplay, but the imagery ol’ Jimmy is conjuring up is a tad graphic for holiday music. Call me a prude, but I could do without the mental image of Mr. Butler sprinkling his snow. I’m just funny that way.
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Posted: 18th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, Music | Comment
The Angriest Christmas Caroling Ever (With Lyrics By Donny Tourette And George Michael)
SING along but not at work, where it is not safe.
We (Vocal4Play) decided to go christmas caroling… Donny Tourette answers the door IN Y-FRONTS!!…sings a nice christmas tune but then goes CRAZY!!! Even though he did lose the plot… he treated us to some beers and he’s actually alright so go check out his band here – www.facebook.com/towersoflondonband cheers Donny! You certainly made this years caroling unforgettable!
Posted: 17th, December 2013 | In: Music | Comment (1)
Cool Kids: Malcolm Brickhouse & Jarad Dawkins Are Metalheads
IN a profile on Unlocking The Truth, we get closer to Malcolm Brickhouse & Jarad Dawkins, two metalheads we met earlier in the year:
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Watch Bob Dylan’s TV Singing Debut In The Madhouse on Castle Street
IN January 1963, an unknown young Bob Dylan got some work in a (now lost) BBC play The Madhouse on Castle Street. He sings The Ballad of the Gliding Swan. The Sunday night play also features Dylan’s first televised performance of Blowin’ in the Wind.
He was paid a fee of 500 guineas to play the role of Bobby.
* While in London, Dylan stayed with Martin Carthy, who helped introduce him to the burgeoning folk club circuit and who remembers chopping up a piano for firewood to counter the effects of that long cold winter. Dylan became a regular figure on the folk scene and even found the time to cut an LP in a record shop on Charing Cross Road, under the pseudonym of Blind Boy Grunt.
Dylan’s stay also resulted in a burst of original songs (Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright, Bob Dylan’s Dream) which were heavily influenced by his exposure to traditional English folk music.
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Posted: 16th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, Music, TV & Radio | Comment
6 Offbeat Reasons Why Vinyl Is Better Than Digital
WE’VE all heard the arguments why vinyl or digital music is best – no need to beat a dead horse. It is this author’s humble opinion that vinyl wins by a landslide due to analog sound superiority and the customer satisfaction of owning something tangible. But that is neither here nor there. Instead, let’s look at a few minor points that belong in vinyl’s “win column”.
1. The Joy of Looking
Nothing can beat the joy of perusing the shelves of Ye Olde Record Store. Whether you were on a mission, or just hoping for a serendipitous find, it was an enjoyable endeavor all around. Plus, the record store was often a hangout and so there was a social element to the process as well.
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Posted: 16th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comments (12)
When Peter O’Toole Died The Mail Raced To Beat God And Shout ‘FIRST’
WHEN Peter O’Toole died the women of Connnemara stood up straighter and the Daily Mail’s celebrity vulture rushed to scream “FIRST”:
Such are the facts…
Spotter: Anna Ingram @
Posted: 16th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Jim Davidson Is Innocent – What Now For the Celebrity Police Force?
JIM Davidson is innocent. He will not be investigated further over an alleged historic sex offence – a claim that he assaulted a woman in the Falkland Islands in the 1980s.
His solicitor Henri Brandman said: “My client, Jim Davidson, is delighted to have received news today that there will be no further action relating to an allegation of an historic sexual nature in the Falkland Islands. I will not be making any further comment on his behalf.”
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Posted: 16th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Peter O’Toole Recalls Connnemara: ‘Nicest Asses In The World’
IN August 1963, Gay Talese interviewed Peter O’Toole for Esquire:
“Oh, look at that ass,” O’Toole said softly, shaking his head, raising his eyes with approval. “That ass is covered with tweed made in Connnemara, where I was born…Nicest asses in the world, Ireland. Irish-women still are carrying water on their heads and carrying their husbands home from pubs, and such things are the greatest posture builders in the world.”
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Posted: 16th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
1970s Pop Stars And DJs Outraged By James Arthur’s Teenage Sex Shame
IN “MY TEN SEX SHAME”, X Factor winner James Arthur wings the last drops from fame’s flannel by confessing to the Sun about his “TEEN SEX SHAME”. James, 25, had consensual legal sex, with 17-year-old Ellie Shepherdson.
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Posted: 16th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Well Of Course No One’s Paying For Streaming Music Services
THERE’S a bit of a logical disconnect in this idea that we’re all going to sign up for streaming music services like Pandora, Spotify and so on. The problem being that the more free services there are competing for our custom then the fewer of us are going to bother to pay for it. This is indeed how it normally works you know, more suppliers thus lower prices to consumers:
Yet even as they have grown, streaming companies have encountered a stubborn problem: Music lovers will consume large amounts of music as long as it is free, but getting them to pay a monthly subscription has proved much more difficult.
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Posted: 16th, December 2013 | In: Money, Music, Technology, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Cashing In On Christmas: The Biggest Rip-Off Albums Ever
IT’S Christmas! Time for a rip-off…
The historic album charts are full of magnificent Christmas Number Ones, including runs by the Beatles from 1963 to 1965 and 1967 to 1969. Ironically, however, the one year they didn’t manage the feat was 1966 – when their record label released a greatest hits collection specifically for the Christmas market.
The album was something of a rip-off, in that it consisted of pre-released hits, plus one song that had not been yet released in the UK. Thus fans wishing to hear the boys’ cover version of Larry Williams’s Bad Boy were forced to shell out for a full-price album.
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Posted: 16th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comment
Jmes Bond’s Drinking Linked To 2.5 Million Deaths Every Year Around The World
THE results are in. Ian Fleming ‘s James Bond liked a drink. Science says there is no way … that Bond would have been able to consume the amount of alcohol he is described as drinking … and still have kept up the precision, coordination and critical thinking skills that made him such a successful agent”.
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In 1966 The Beatles Burned For Jesus
ON March 4, 1966, John Lennon, 25, was talking to Maureen Cleave, reporting for the London Evening Standard. The article was entitled How Does A Beatle Live? John Lennon Lives Like This. It was behind-the-scnes look at John. The article spoke of his status:
When John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce, with its black wheels and its black windows, goes past, people say: ‘It’s the Queen,’ or ‘It’s The Beatles.’ With her they share the security of a stable life at the top. They all tick over in the public esteem-she in Buckingham Palace, they in the Weybridge-Esher area. Only Paul remains in London.
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Posted: 14th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comment
Christmas Disco! The 70s Songs Played At Christmastime In Hell
DISCO music started with a fair amount of street cred; it wasn’t until it was marketed to oblivion that it fell out of favor. Like other counterculture movements (i.e. the hippie, psychedelic, punk, and grunge) it found its way to the mainstream whereby it was diluted and force fed to the masses. Disco, once an underground movement, flooded pop culture in the latter half of the 70s to such an extent that a backlash was inevitable.
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Posted: 14th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comment
Copyright Treasure Trove: Fans Of 60s Music – A Goldmine Awaits You
THE news that rare Beatles recordings are being released on iTunes next week, all 59 tracks of it! Recordings from ’63 will be unleashed on the world, but weirdly, without the usual fanfare of usual Beatle releases.
The thing is, this is a release of necessity after changes to copyright laws are forcing them to put music out so they can retain control over it.
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Jaden Smith’s Words of Wisdom: The Movie
JADEN Smith’s Words of Wisdom:
Posted: 13th, December 2013 | In: Celebrities | Comment
