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Tuesday 2 September 2008

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Artist: Amy Grant: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Pop
Rock
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Discography:

Greatest Hits 1986-2004

Year: 2004

Tracks: 23

Home for Christmas

Year: 1992

Tracks: 12

The Collection

Year: 1986

Tracks: 17

A Christmas Album

Year: 1983

Tracks: 11

Although Amy Grant cannot claim to hold invented the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) elan of evangel music, she did the most to popularize it in the seventies and 1980s in the beginning successfully ford over to pop music in the '80s and early '90s. When Grant came along as a teenager in the mid-'70s, "inspirational" (i.e., caucasian) gospel music was a flyspeck subgenre, its records sold about entirely in Christian bookstores and most entirely in small numbers racket. By the mid-'80s, when she released Unguarded, her first album to be marketed to a profane as well as a Christian listening, gospel music established eighter from Decatur percentage of U.S. record gross gross sales, a higher per centum than that for farting or graeco-Roman medicine.

She achieved this breakthrough for CCM and for herself by forging a pop/rock sound that matched the production values, and oft aped the styles, of pop/rock, and by committal to writing lyrics that often were ambiguous in their substance, sounding to Christian music fans wish appeals to God and to more general pop fans like love songs. She too matched the theatrical production of rock candy concerts in her shows, which oftentimes played in venues more typical of secular performances than religious ones. And her music videos, which emphatic her photogenic appearance, were on a equality with those of pop stars. When it occurred, her fill in crossover to pop was more a little shift of emphasis than a major change of direction. Nevertheless, it made her a controversial figure in the Christian music residential district of the '80s in a way similar to Bob Dylan in the family line music of the sixties: she was both the field's biggest star and came to be viewed as something of a traitor. As her career went on, however, she managed to patch fences with traditional fans and achieve a libra of bulge out and Christian-oriented songs on her albums as her career became less of a full-time stress for her and her record gross sales declined from the heights of her pop flower.

Innate November 25, 1960, in Augusta, GA, where her founding father, Dr. Burton Paine Grant, was doing his residency, Amy Lee Grant was a descendent of one of the most outstanding and prosperous families of Nashville, TN. Her great grandfather, Andrew Mizell Burton, was a affluent indemnity administrator and altruist. She was the fourth and final daughter born to her don and her mother, Gloria Grant, next her sisters Mimi, Kathy, and Carol. The family moved briefly to Houston, TX, in 1961 in front returning to settle in Nashville. In addition to existence well established socially and financially, the Grant family was likewise deeply spiritual, belonging to the exacting Protestant sect the Church of Christ, which was sufficiently conservative to forbiddance the playing of melodious instruments at its services; worshipers sang the hymns a cappella. Despite this stricture, Grant was allowed to start pickings piano lessons when she was ten. While in the seventh grade at the secret Ensworth grammar school, she off to the guitar. Although she was baptised in the Church of Christ, she before long followed her sister Mimi in attending a breakaway variation of the religion, the Belmont Church of Christ, which took a less formal approach, more than in guardianship with the Charismatic movement.

While attendance the private girls' homework school Harpeth Hall, Grant began performing with her guitar at devotional meetings at the shoal, playing songs by such favorites as James Taylor, Carole King, and John Denver. None of them, however, panax quinquefolius religious songs, so Grant augmented her program with her own Christian-oriented compositions. While working as an intern at a recording studio, she made a tape of her songs for her parents that was heard by producer Brown Bannister, wHO in twist played it for gospel singing singer Chris Christian, recently retained by gospel pronounce Word Records as a talent lookout. Christian took the tape recording to Word, which sign-language Grant to a transcription squeeze spell she was motionless in her mid-teens.

Amy Grant, her debut album, was released on Word's Myrrh Records impression in 1977. It sold 50,000 copies during its showtime class of release, a identical good sales agreement for a Christian album at the clock time. The songs "Sure-enough Man's Rubble" (written by Bannister), "What a Difference You've Made in My Life" (written by Archie Jordan), and "Beautiful Music" (written by Lanier Ferguson) all stratified as Top Ten hits on Christian receiving set. Grant gradatory from high gear school in the springtime of 1978 and began playacting concerts roughly the country that summer. At number one, her touring was restricted to deuce weekends a month as she attempted to combine her budding melodic life history with college; she enrolled at Furman University in Greenville, SC, in September.

My Father's Eyes, Grant's moment album, was released in April 1979. The lay "Father's Eyes" had been written by Gary Chapman, a loretta Young wishful Christian songster, and it carried a subtle religious message quite than the sort of open statement typical of gospel truth music. That message was positively charged, and it alluded to elements of Christian impression, only it too could be appreciated in closely secular terms. The more openly religious "Religion Walkin' People" besides earned Top Ten airplay on Christian receiving set, only "Father's Eyes" was the real hit off the record album, helping it to unattackable gross revenue that would gather to a gold record authentication by 1987. In the short term, My Father's Eyes attracted sufficiency attention to earn Grant her number one nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational.

Ulysses Grant focused on her school assignment piece silent finding time to do and platter. Her third album, Never Alone (1980), featured songs for the most part scripted by some combination of her, Chris Christian, Bannister, and Chapman, among them "Appear What Has Happened to Me," which Christian receiving set made a Top Ten hit, only the LP was not as popular as My Father's Eyes, even though it earned her a second Grammy nomination for Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational. She toured with Chapman as her opening playact during the summer of 1980. She then took a semester sour from college and accepted concert dates on the Billy Graham Crusade and as an opening playact for the Bill Gaither Trio.

Or else of reversive to Furman, she enrolled at Vanderbilt University in Nashville for the natural spring 1981 semester, simply prior to that she undertook her first national headlining circuit, performing 40 dates starting in February, backed by the Christian rock band of DeGarmo & Key. Some of the shows were recorded, and Myrrh released two separate LPs, In Concert in May and In Concert, Vol. 2 in November. Christian radio made Top Ten hits out of deuce new songs from the discs, "Vocalizing a Love Song" (scripted by Jim Weber) from the beginning album and "I'm Gonna Fly" from the second gear, and In Concert earned Grant her third gear successive nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational.

Grant's life and life history reached a turn int in the fountain of 1982. Unable to symmetry her college studies with her performing and recording work, she dropped out of Vanderbilt 20 credits shy of her point. Before that, she had recognized Chapman's proposal, and she marital him on June 19. By then, her star was on the rise following the April vent of her quartern studio record album, Long time to Age. This was her breakthrough as a gospel vocaliser and, more than than that, an album that tried and true the limits of how pop religious doctrine music could be. Christian radio institute three Top Ten hits starting with the number unitary "Sing Your Praise to the Lord" (written by Rich Mullins), followed by "El Shaddai" (written by Michael Card and John Thompson) and "In a Little While." Years to Age entered Billboard magazine's Inspirational graph in July and cursorily raced to number unitary, where it stayed for an astonishing 85 weeks. It south Korean won Grant her offset Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary, and it last earned her recognition from the Gospel Music Association, which gave her its Dove Awards for Gospel Artist of the Year and Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year. ("El Shaddai" was named Gospel Song of the Year.) In November 1983, Years to Age became the kickoff gospel record album by a solo creative person to be qualified gold; it went platinum in June 1985. Myrrh assembled a pastiche of the album's songs for liberation as an EP in the natural spring of 1983, and "Eternal Medley" made the Top Ten of the Christian radio receiver charts and won Grant her second gear Grammy, for Best Gospel Performance, Female.

Years to Age made Grant a wiz within the creed arena. With that, her managers, Michael Blanton and Dan Harrell, began considering whether she could envision her life history beyond the gospel truth music genre. In the summer of 1983, they sent her to the Caribou Ranch in Colorado, a crack transcription facility used by the likes of Chicago and Elton John, to book a holiday LP. The modestly coroneted A Christmas Album appeared in October. Christian radio made "Emmanuel," a song written by Grant's keyboard player, Michael W. Smith, a Top 20 attain, and the album peaked at number four in Billboard's Inspirational graph. It became a perennial vender, leaving gold in November 1985 and atomic number 78 four eld subsequently. As Grant worked on her following album, Blanton and Harrell began booking her outside the usual gospel music circuit, and they did so with succeeder. In December 1983, she sold out deuce dates at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.

Straight Ahead, Grant's fifth studio record album, was released in February 1984, and spell it did non be the commercial success of Eld to Age, it was too very popular. On March 31, it ascended to number one on Billboard's Inspirational chart, holding that place for 61 weeks. Christian wireless made hits out of quaternary of its songs: "Angels," which hit number one; "Thy Word"; "Almighty" (written by Geoffrey P. Thurman), and "The Now and the Not Yet" (written by Pam Mark Hall). "Angels" north Korean won Grant her third Grammy for Best Gospel Performance, Female, and the album won the Dove Award for Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year. Meanwhile, Blanton and Harrell continued to take care beyond the gospel mart. In the spring of 1984, Grant asterisked with Paul Williams and Tom Wopat in an hourlong TV special called Tale, Songs and Stars that was based on the Cinderella chronicle; it featured her euphony video for "It's Not a Song," a rails from Square Ahead with no overt religious motif. That summer, she toured the U.S. opening shows for res publica star Kenny Rogers. By October, she had sold out deuce shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, hardly a hotbed of gospel truth music.

All of this helped to set up Grant's major crossover locomote of 1985. Word Records made a distribution deal with the big independent label A&M Records, which reissued Straight Ahead just as Grant was coming into court on the Grammy Awards show in February 1985, telling "Angels." As a resultant role, the year-old album stone-broke into the Billboard pop album chart in April; in May it went gold. That same month, Grant's sixth regular studio album, Unguarded, was released at the same time by Myrrh for the Christian market place and by A&M for the pop market place. The overt Christian messages of the songs on Age to Age and Straight Ahead were scaled back well on Unguarded, which much featured promising, but sacredly ambiguous, lyrics. That, however, did non preclude Christian wireless from giving airplay to cinque songs: "Find a Way," which hit number unmatchable; "Wise Up" (by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Billy Simon); "All over I Go" (by Mary Lee Kortes); "Sharayah"; and "Erotic love of Another Kind." A&M's promotional musculus got "Bump a Way" into the pop Top 40, and "Sassy Up" became a minor pop chart entry. ("Come up a Way" reached the Top Ten of the Adult Contemporary chart, and both "Wise Up" and "All over I Go" too reached this chart.) Supported by an 18-month tour, the album went gold in September 1985 and atomic number 78 in June 1986, after it had won Grant her fourth Grammy for Best Gospel Performance, Female and the Dove Award for Artist of the Year.

As Grant continued to tour in support of Unguarded, A&M and Myrrh released The Collection in July 1986, a digest that topped the Inspirational chart for 29 weeks and went amber in February 1987, then platinum in August 1989. The record album contained deuce freshly recorded tracks, "Quell for Awhile" and "Love Can Do." Both made the Top Ten of the Christian radio chart, "Appease for Awhile" at identification number one; "Appease for Awhile" besides made the Top 20 of the Adult Contemporary chart. Grant won a Dove Award for Short Form Music Video of the Year for the song. Her increasing profile in the euphony business sector resulted in opportunities to work with other artists. Producer Michael Omartian, whom she knew from the Christian music airfield, invited her to duo with former Chicago singer Peter Cetera on "The Next Time I Fall," a song for Cetera's second solo record album, Solitude/Solitaire. The record album was released on Warner Bros. Records in June 1986, and "The Next Time I Fall," billed to Peter Cetera with Amy Grant, was issued as its second unmarried in September. Spurred by a fashionable video recording that ran frequently on MTV, the single topped the Adult Contemporary chart in November and the come out chart in December, leading to a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. At the same time, the always Christmas-conscious Grant had united Art Garfunkel n transcription a suite of songs written by Jimmy Webb as The Animals' Christmas, released by Columbia Records in November, and Garfunkel united Grant on her first-class honours degree network television system special, Headin' Home for the Holidays, which was broadcast on NBC in December. (There was likewise a home-video version, retitled Amy Grant's Old Fashioned Christmas, which went gold in 1992.)

Having accomplished all her recording and promotional activities in December 1986, Grant proclaimed that she was pregnant and temporarily retired to prepare for the arrival of her starting time nestling. Matthew Garrison Chapman was born September 25, 1987. His mother returned to the music business with the release of her seventh studio apartment record album of new material, Confidential information Me On, in June 1988. Lead Me On was a surprisingly good exploit from Grant, its title track discussing (albeit in poetically heightened terms) slavery and the Holocaust, patch "Treasonable Heart" described adulterous temptations and "What About the Love" (written by Kye Fleming and Janis Ian) drop a doubting eye on preachers, Wall Street brokers, and nursing homes. With a sheeny pop production and Grant's ardent vocals, the album was well received critically, stellar to the by-now expected awards: a fifth Grammy for Best Gospel Performance, Female, Dove Awards for Artist of the Year, Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year, and Short Form Music Video of the Year for the track "Lead Me On."

Merely it marked something of a fastness bump in footing of Grant's career as a phonograph record seller. Christian radio was beguiled, giving important airplay to six songs: "Saved by Love" (identification number one), "Hint Me On" (identification number one), "1974" (a song about youthful conversion that lED cancelled the LP), "What About the Love" (identification number one), "Say Once More," and "Faithless Heart." The pop food market was less impressed, however. The Adult Contemporary graph listed both "1974" and "Saved by Love," but only in modest positions, and "Lead Me On" played out just two weeks in the Billboard Hot one C, peaking at number 96. The album shipped atomic number 79 and topped the Inspirational graph for 36 weeks, simply despite a promotional tour that ran from September 1988 to March 1989, acting to a trillion fans in 135 cities, Lead Me On was a commercial disappointment from a pop position. (In March 2002, CCM cartridge holder announced the results of a poll of its readers that named Lead Me On the number one Contemporary Christian Music album of all sentence.)

At the terminal of the Lead Me On duty tour, Grant took another maternity leave alone, her only significant recording action for the class being a functioning of the hymn "'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus" on the Word Records various-artists album Our Hymns; she co-arranged the sung, which earned her a ploughshare of a Dove Award for Country Recorded Song of the Year. On December 18, 1989, she gave birth to Gloria Mills Chapman, known as Millie. On May 26, 1990, a Billboard poll on the eighties named Grant Gospel Artist of the Decade and Geezerhood to Age Album of the Decade. She would become evenly successful in the '90s, only would do so by going away gospels euphony behindhand nigh entirely. Heart in Motion, her one-eighth newfangled studio record album, largely downplayed the serious side she had revealed on Lead Me On in party favor of effervescent pop/rock medicine.

Released in March 1991, it was accompanied by an strong-growing promotional political campaign on the theatrical role of A&M Records. (Subsidization by and by claimed that the label was trying to make up for its recent loss of Janet Jackson to Virgin Records by creating a newfangled female pop sensation.) That movement, along with a medicine picture portraying Grant and a male worker pretending to be in love, helped make "Baby Baby" (which Grant aforementioned she actually wrote around her girl) into a issue one pop hit in April, leading to Grammy nominations for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. It was followed by four-spot more Top 40 hits, each accompanied by a medicine picture, the first trey of which as well reached the Top Ten: "Every Heartbeat," "That's What Love Is For," "Good for Me," and "I Will Remember You." As a solvent, the album sold cinque one thousand thousand copies by the end of 1997. (The Heart in Motion Video Collection, meantime, went atomic number 79.) The Christian marketplace came along, also, with Philia in Motion enjoying 32 weeks at number one on Billboard's Top Contemporary Christian Albums graph, spell Christian radio found six songs it could beam, though it tended to prefer more thoughtful fare such as "Hope Set High" and "Require Me" (which tempered the issue of paedophilia and even asked the thorny theological head of how God could let such a condition fall out).

Concession toured North America and Europe from July 1991 to March 1992. The following month, she was over again named Artist of the Year at the Dove Awards and as well picked up a Dove for Song of the Year as the coauthor of Michael W. Smith's "Place in This World." She went on gestation leave a third meter, just managed to add a cover of the Elvis Presley hit "Love Me Tender" to the soundtrack for Honeymoon in Vegas, released in August, and to record a second seasonal worker album, Home for Christmas, released in October, which hit number deuce and went pt in inadequate monastic order. On October 11, 1992, she gave nativity to Sarah Cannon Chapman, named later on Harpeth Hall graduate Minnie Pearl, the Grand Ole Opry comedienne whose substantial bring up was Sarah Ophelia Colley.

With the monumental success of Heart in Motion, Grant could afford to bring some time off before tackling some other album, but she undertook various recording projects in 1993. She participated in 2 spoken book albums for children, The Gingham Dog & the Calico Cat with euphony by Chet Atkins and The Creation with euphony by BÃ©la Fleck, both released by the Rabbit Ears mark. And she and Chapman assign together Songs from the Loft, a various-artists aggregation of spiritual tunes for teenagers that north Korean won the 1994 Dove Award for Praise and Worship Album of the Year. Then she turned her attending to her one-ninth regular studio record album, rising with House of Love in August 1994. The record album was patterned after Nerve in Motion, with a combination of tricky wild-eyed songs meant to arrive at the pop charts and more than spiritual efforts to fulfil her Christian fans. The consequence was some other multi-platinum achiever, even if the album sold less than half what its forerunner had. "Lucky One" made the Top 20, the claim outspoken (a pas de deux with domain star Vince Gill written by Wally Wilson, Kenny Greenberg, and Greg Barnhill, and featured in the picture demonstrate Speechless) get at the Top 40, and a cover of the Joni Mitchell measure "Big Yellow Taxi" reached the lour end of the singles chart. Meanwhile, the record album topped Billboard's Contemporary Christian (Albums) chart for 12 weeks and Christian wireless typeset up fiver other songs to play, among them "Children of the World" and "Serving Hand," both of which impinge on number one. Grant embarked on a yearlong racing circuit in reenforcement of the album that complete in September 1995. A month before, she had been featured on the various-artists album My Utmost for His Highest, vocalizing the vocal "Lover of My Soul." This enabled her to parcel in a 1996 Dove Award for Special Event Album of the Year.

In February 1996, Grant was featured on the soundtrack for the film Mr. Wrong, vocalizing the 1976 10cc impinge on "The Things We Do for Love," which reached the Adult Contemporary chart. In December, she performed 2 sold-out shows dubbed "Amy Grant's Tennessee Christmas" at the Nashville Arena, outset what became an annual outcome. Otherwise, she spent 1996 and much of 1997 working on her tenth part regular studio record album, Behind the Eyes, which was released in September 1997. The record album earned critical approbation for what reviewers power saw as a return to her early folk-rock style and for its serious, self-examining lyrics. It would sustain been equally precise to note that Grant, wHO always paying close attention to stream trends in pop, had dropped the heavy synthesizers and drum programing afterwards listening to new competitors like Sheryl Crow and Jewel. As for the lyrics, piece Grant had always emphatic the travails of life, contrasted with the benefits of religious support, on Behind the Eyes many fans thought they detected suggestions of real life romantic dissension.

The album entered the pop chart at number ashcan School and went gold in less than trey months as "Takes a Little Time" became a Top 40 pop and Top Ten Adult Contemporary tally, patch "Like I Love You" also made the Adult Contemporary Top Ten and "I Will Be Your Friend" (written by Michelle Lewis, Dane DeVillier, and Sean Hosein) also reached the Adult Contemporary chart. The album won a Dove Award for Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year. Grant toured for a month in the fall of 1997, returned to the road for quaternion months in March 1998, and played 22 cities on a Christmas tour in November and December 1998. Meanwhile, there was other recording activity. She american ginseng a duo with role player Kevin Costner on a report of the Lovin' Spoonful's "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice" for the soundtrack of his celluloid The Postman (December 1997); she and land singer Bryan White american ginseng a duo on "With These Hands" from the various-artists recording of songs from composer Frank Wildhorn's Broadway melodious The Civil War called The Civil War: The Nashville Sessions (October 1998); and she panax quinquefolius "River Lullaby" on the soundtrack of the alive moving-picture show musical The Prince of Egypt (December 1998).

Grant and Chapman announced their detachment after more than than 16 years of married couple on December 30, 1998. Grant filed for divorce in March 1999, and the couplet was divorced in June. The same month, she paired with the British Christian rock band Delirious? on "Find oneself Me in the River," a song on the various-artists record album Streams that earned her a share in the 2000 Dove Award for Special Event Album of the Year. In September 1999, she returned to playacting in the television system moving-picture show A Song from the Heart, a drama in which she played a blind violoncellist. In October, she released her third base seasonal album, A Christmas to Remember, which topped Billboard's Contemporary Christian Albums chart for five weeks starting in November, made the pop Top 40, and went gold. Her television special of the like name was send at the same time.

On March 10, 2000, Grant marital Vince Gill. She gave parentage to her quartern child, Corrina Grant Gill, one year and two years subsequently. In May 2002, she released Bequest...Hymns & Faith, her first record album of overtly spiritual music since her pop crosswalk, consisting largely of traditional material with various originals included. It topped Billboard's Contemporary Christian Albums chart and entered the pop graph at number 21. Grant and her producers, Gill and Brown Bannister, north Korean won the 2003 Dove Award for Inspirational Album of the Year, and Grant and Gill north Korean won the Dove for Country Recorded Song of the Year for the cut "The River's Gonna Keep on Rolling" (written by Gill). Grant returned to pop euphony with her get-go temporal album in six years when she released Simple Things in August 2003. The album topped Billboard's Christian Albums chart and entered the pop graph at number 23, the same number achieved by the title sung dynasty on the Adult Contemporary chart. Grant seemed to sum up her hitmaking period with the release of Superlative Hits 1986-2004 and the

Saturday 23 August 2008

Jackson Browne sues McCain, RNC over song in ad

LOS ANGELES - Jackson Browne doesn�t want John McCain running on anything fueled by his lyrics.

The singer-songwriter sued McCain and the Ohio and national Republican committees in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Thursday, accusive them of using his song "Running on Empty" without his permission.

The causa claims the song�s employment was an infringement of his right of first publication and volition lead the great unwashed to close he endorses McCain. The suit says Browne is a womb-to-tomb liberal world Health Organization is as well-known for his music as for being "an advocate for social and environmental justice."

The advertisement mocks Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama�s contention that if U.S. drivers got even tuneups and drove on properly high-sounding tires, they could pull through the same amount of oil that would be gained by offshore drilling. According to the suit, "Running on Empty" plays in the background of the ad criticizing the remarks.

Robert Bennett, chairman of the Ohio party, said the ad was pulled when Browne objected. He called the lawsuit a "big flutter about nothing."

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers disavowed the ad, saying it wasn�t a product of the Republican presidential candidate�s campaign.

Browne�s lawsuit contends the Ohio Republican party released the ad on behalf of McCain and the RNC. The RNC did not bring back a telephone call seeking comment.

The suit notes that other musicians, including ABBA and John Cougar Mellencamp, have asked McCain to stop victimisation their work.

Browne�s attorney, Lawrence Iser, called the ad�s use of the song dynasty "reprehensible."

The 59-year-old singer claims his reputation has already been damaged and is seeking more than $75,000 in damages.

Browne released "Running on Empty" � the song and an album by the same name � in 1977. According to the suit, the album has sold more than 7 meg copies.

Browne�s fiscal success has aided Democratic candidates over the eld. Campaign finance records show he contributed $2,ccc to Obama�s presidential hunting expedition last year and $2,000 to the Illinois senator�s campaign coffers in 2004.

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Tuesday 1 July 2008

Fired Philadelphia newscaster sues former employer

PHILADELPHIA —

A fired Philadelphia newscaster sued her former employer Thursday, alleging that the television station maliciously damaged her reputation and contributed to a number of her embarrassing off-camera episodes.

Alycia Lane sued KYW-TV in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, alleging the station and its management deliberately got her personal life into the news in order to get free publicity. She is seeking unspecified damages.

A KWY spokeswoman told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the station has not seen the complaint and had no comment. A call by The Associated Press seeking comment was not immediately returned.

Lane was fired in January, a month after being arrested in New York City following a late-night scuffle with plainclothes police. In her lawsuit, she said she believed she was witnessing an assault on her boyfriend.

The lawsuit says the station told Lane to interview TV psychologist Phil McGraw in 2004 and suggested that she talk about some of her past relationships. She said she understood that inappropriate personal elements would be removed and was mortified when footage of her crying about her divorce was included. She said that she did not want to appear on McGraw's show a second time, but that the station ordered her to do so.

The suit says that because of those decisions, Lane "was branded in the press as someone who sought to make herself the news, rather than to merely report the news."

Lane was also previously the target of critical news coverage after it was reported she had e-mailed photos of herself in a bikini to married NFL Network sports anchor Rich Eisen.

She said in the lawsuit that she sent the photo to Eisen because they were curious about whether someone else in the picture had met him.

Lane's suit also alleges that the station's management had a pattern of "deep-seated gender-discriminatory animus" toward female employees.

Lane's former co-anchor, Larry Mendte, isn't listed as a defendant. The FBI searched his home and removed a computer last month following allegations that someone might be reading Lane's e-mail messages.

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Thursday 19 June 2008

Mildred Bailey

Artist: Mildred Bailey

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

Collection (Boogie Woogie)

Year:
Tracks: 1

An early jazz vocaliser with a sweet representative that belied her fill out physique, Mildred Bailey balanced a good deal of popular success with a hot jazz-slanted calling that proverb her billed as Mrs. Swing (her married man, Red Norvo, was Mr. Swing). Born Mildred Rinker in Washington land in 1907, Bailey began performing at an early age, playing forte-piano and vocalizing in moving-picture show theaters during the early '20s. By 1925, she was the headlining move at a golf-club in Hollywood, doing a mixture of bulge out, early jazz tunes, and vaudeville standards. Influenced by Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, and Connie Boswell, she highly-developed a soft, swing delivery that pleased all kinds of nightspot audiences in the field. After sending a presentment disk in to Paul Whiteman in 1929, she gained a pip with one of the to the highest degree popular dance orchestras of the day.

The added exposure with Whiteman before long gave Bailey her possess receiving set plan. She had already debuted on a transcription day of the month with guitar player Eddie Lang in 1929, but in 1932 she gained celebrity by recording what became her signature song, "Rockin' Chair" -- written peculiarly for her by Hoagie Carmichael -- with a Whiteman little radical. Recording for Vocalion during the 1930s, Bailey often utilised her husband, xylophonist Red Norvo. She as well appeared on his recordings of the late '30s, and the arrangements of Eddie Sauter proven a unadulterated co-occurrence to her vocals.

Though she and Norvo later divorced, Bailey continued to execute and record during the 1940s. She appeared on Benny Goodman's Camel Caravan radio programme, and gained her possess series again during the mid-'40s. Hampered by health problems during the late '40s, she fagged time in the hospital hurt from diabetes and died of a heart approach in 1951.

Gere's obscenity charges are suspended

Wednesday 11 June 2008

MANGoA

Artist: MANGoA

   Genre(s):
Ambient

Discography:

Spritiual Travelling 4

Year: 2004
Tracks: 1

Wednesday 4 June 2008

Lollies

Artist: Lollies

   Genre(s):
Pop

Discography:

Lollywood

Year: 2006
Tracks: 16

Pop ne'er dies, it simply finds diverse sport forms to mutate into. The Lollies embracing that special principle, tackling everything from fille group back talk to Britpop caustic remark and distilling it through wickedly funny lyrics and self-described "indie sugary" sound. Born and raised in London, the grouping came into being at the start of 1999 when two expatriates, Canadian bassist/singer Jane Mountain and American guitarist/singer Kate St. Claire, woke up with hangovers from a New Year's Eve party and a call scripted. Initial demo recordings for what the two initially mentation of as a everyday jest attracted interest from likewise minded label and band types, resulting in a total band card when some other expatriate, Canadian drummer Matthew Lazowski, stepped up in late summer 1999. Keyboardist Rachel Angel, the one English member of the grouping, joined with only when a week ahead the band's first real gig, having come to interview the band and then invited to hang around for good. The band made its first famed splashes in 2000 with a variety of gigs (including some dates in America and Canada) and a full debut EP, Bang! Bang! Bang! Lookout, Lookout, Lookout!

Sunday 1 June 2008

Madonna - Bust-up With Pharrell Made Madonna Cry

MADONNA wept with rage after an angry studio bust-up with producer PHARRELL WILLIAMS.

The pair clashed while collaborating on Madonna's new album Hard Candy - and the Material Girl was shocked Williams was brave enough to stand up to her.

She reveals, "Pharrell made me cry. You know when you get angry with someone and you're spitting snot.

"I was in a sensitive mood in the studio and I didn't understand the rhythm he wanted me to sing in, and he was giving me a hard time.

"I was taken back by how he was talking to me."

Rather than walk away, the pair decided to clear the air, and patch things up - and they are now firm friends.

She adds, "We went upstairs and I said, 'You can't talk to me like that,' and burst into tears. And he said, 'Oh my God, Madonna has a heart.'

"We had it out and now I love him and we make great music together."

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Simpson set to make country record

Jessica Simpson has moved to Nashville to begin work on her first country album.
Speaking to Billboard.com about her decision to record a country album, Simpson said: "I am a country girl. I grew up in Texas, and country music was what I listened to. I always wanted to make a country album, but I wanted to wait until the time was right."
Simpson said that some of her musical inspirations were Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Reba McEntire and Martina McBride.
"I think there is a strength in female country artists," she said.
When asked what had surprised her most since moving to Nashville to begin work on the album, Simpson said: "Nashville is a very warm city. The people are friendly and kind. There is a sense of community, which thrives on music. There is no animosity ... only respect for one another's talent."
The album is due out later this year on the Columbia Nashville label.

Alberto Cortez and Facundo Cabral

Artist: Alberto Cortez and Facundo Cabral

   Genre(s):
Rock

Discography:

Cortezias Y Cabralidades

Year: 2000
Tracks: 21

McQueen Picks Up Cannes Prize For Film Debut

Artist-turned-director Steve McQueen has been awarded the prestigious Camera d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his movie debut Hunger. Hunger details the final days of Irish Republican Army (Ira) hunger striker Bobby Sands - played by 300 Star Michael Fassbender - who died aged 27 in Maze Prison in Belfast, Ireland in 1981. McQueen was presented with the award - which honours first-time filmmakers - on Sunday by Easy Rider star Dennis Hopper.

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A vintage Donnie button... just $17.50

Hey, you New Kids on the Block fanatic: That giant Jordan Knight pin you’ve kept for 20 years has the right stuff - on eBay.
Yeah, the NKOTB reunion tour is hot, but those vintage T-shirts, buttons and painter’s hats featuring the fivesome? Totally on fire thanks to 30-somethings so drunk on Boston-boy-band nostalgia they’re coughing up $31 for a bunch of old Teen Beats with Joey McIntyre’s mug on the cover.
“I made $1,200 so far,” said 35-year-old Jen Stanley, who had the prescience to rummage through her parents’ attic when NKTOB announced their reunion on the “Today” show April 4. The stay-at- home mother of three auctioned off everything from T-shirts to Tiger Beat on eBay for more than a grand - and she’s not even half done.

“You know, I did it to get some extra cash in the house,” said Stanley, who as a teenager used to drive from her childhood home in Billerica to the Wahlbergs house in Dorchester to get a glimpse of Donnie.
“Right now it’s magazines that sell the best,” she said. “I got $128 for a set of 20.”
New Kids concert tickets were being auctioned for hundreds of dollars on eBay this week, but smaller, stranger items were drawing higher-than-expected bids yesterday: $36 for a set of 5 New Kids dolls, $17.50 for a 6-inch-diameter pin of Donnie Wahlberg circa 1990, $26 for a set of three VHS tapes of the New Kids, $56 for a block of 10 magazines and $6.50 for a fanny pack featuring all five Kids’ faces.
Steve Higgins, owner of The Outer Limits, a collectibles store in Waltham, doesn’t get it.
“There’s not a lot of interest here,” he said, adding that he has a few NKOTB dolls and games that are “more of a conversation piece, not a serious collectible. But I think they will be eventually.”
Stacy Wilbur, 28, who scored 11th row tickets to the NKOTB concert at TD Banknorth Garden Sept. 26, said she’d have to really dig to find her New Kids collection. And even if she did, she’d never sell it.
“I’m a pack rat,” she said.
Stanley admits that selling off her coveted collection of all things Joey, Jordan, Jonathan, Donnie and Danny tugs at her inner teeny-bopper heart.
“God, selling off my prized Jordan T-shirt just about broke my heart,” she said.
And she can’t even use the money to buy tickets to the concert.
“I just spent $83 to fill up my gas tank,” she said. “The money is coming in handy in other ways.”

Indy Likely To Go Down As Holiday #2

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull earned an estimated $101 million between Friday and Sunday and might well outdo the current Memorial Day holiday champ, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, for the five-day record. Pirates earned $153 million during that period last year. Currently Crystal Skull is expected to come in at about $151 million. Final figures are due to be released on Wednesday. The film is expected to earn nearly the same amount internationally, due primarily to the greater strength of foreign currency. Nevertheless, it will take more than a single Indiana Jones success to lift the box office to its year-ago level. Currently, total ticket sales for 2008 are down almost 4 percent from 2007 and admissions are down 6.7 percent, according to box-office trackers Media by Numbers. In an interview with the London Financial Times, Dergarabedian said, "Indiana Jones is a shot in the arm but we're going to need consistency in the entire marketplace to catch up to last year." The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Media by Numbers: 1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, $101 million; 2. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, $23 million; 3. Iron Man, $20.1 million; 4. What Happens in Vegas, $9 million; 5. Speed Racer, $4 million; 6. Made of Honor, $3.4 million; 7. Baby Mama, $3.3 million; 8. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, $1.7 million; 9. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay, $900,000; 10. The Visitor, $800,000.

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Catherine Lara and Eric Mouquet

Artist: Catherine Lara and Eric Mouquet

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Aral

Year: 2000
Tracks: 11

American Idol - Cook Crowned New American Idol