Chris Martin has revealed that the religious themes in Coldplay's new album Viva La Vida come from attending school assemblies.
The record, the band's fourth studio album, contains lyrical references to Church of England teachings.
Martin told BBC 6 Music: "I think you talk about things you saw a lot when you were a kid so we grew up with school assemblies, being constantly told about that kinda stuff - so it's bound to come out."
The singer recently walked out of a Radio 4 interview when asked if the album reflected an obsession with death.
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Summer Ratings Continue To Shrink
It must be summer when a show can dominate two hours of primetime with a 5.4 rating and a 9 share. But that was the case when Fox 's So You Think You Can Dance offered its first night of competition Wednesday. A 90-minute Celebrity Circus debuted on NBC with 6.5 million viewers, a respectable number for summertime. But the series finale of ABC's Men in Trees drew only 4.51 million viewers, terrible even in a New York heatwave.
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Ophelia's Dream
Artist: Ophelia's Dream
Genre(s):
Gothic
Industrial
Classical: Neo-Classical
Discography:
Not A Second Time
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Stabat Mater
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
All Beauty Is Sad
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Friday, 6 June 2008
Gere's obscenity charges are suspended
India's Supreme Court has suspended legal proceedings against Hollywood star Richard Gere, who faced obscenity charges for publicly kissing Bollyood star Shilpa Shetty last year.
Gere caused controversy after he tilted Shetty backwards and kissed her repeatedly on the cheek at an anti-AIDS show in New Delhi.
Today Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran stayed the arrest warrants against the 'Pretty Woman' star and granted permission for him to travel to and from India.
According to Reuters, the court also criticised the complainant for his "moral policing" and said "such complaints are publicity hunting. You are bringing a bad name to this country".
Similar charges against Shetty, who won the last series of 'Celebrity Big Brother', were suspended last year.
Gere caused controversy after he tilted Shetty backwards and kissed her repeatedly on the cheek at an anti-AIDS show in New Delhi.
Today Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran stayed the arrest warrants against the 'Pretty Woman' star and granted permission for him to travel to and from India.
According to Reuters, the court also criticised the complainant for his "moral policing" and said "such complaints are publicity hunting. You are bringing a bad name to this country".
Similar charges against Shetty, who won the last series of 'Celebrity Big Brother', were suspended last year.
Minor accident on the set of Hannah Montana movie
RIDGETOP, Tenn. —
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No one was seriously injured when the wind blew a projection screen against a Ferris wheel on the set of "Hannah Montana: The Movie," witnesses said.
No local law enforcement agencies or emergency medical services reported being called to the set Tuesday in Robertson County, some 15 miles north of Nashville.
Witnesses told WKRN-TV in Nashville that some children were on the ride at the time.
Jim Humphrey, the business manager for Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old star of "Hannah Montana," said he wasn't aware of the accident.
Humphrey didn't return later phone calls for information.
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Pete Doherty - Pete Doherty Confirms Winehouse Collaboration
PETE DOHERTY has confirmed that he is teaming up with AMY WINEHOUSE to produce some new tracks.
Speaking to BBC News, the BABYSHAMBLES frontman added that Amy is taking the lead on their joint project, saying: "I kind of took a bit of a back seat. She said: 'Listen to this new song, listen to this new song, record this, record this.'."
"I've got a truckload of some of her stuff and I'm going through it," he added, telling the news provider that Amy is "great" at the moment.
Meanwhile, reports suggest that Amy has not been so complimentary about Pete, with the Mirror quoting a source as saying she has thrown back every song he has written for her.
The songstress has not only been helping Pete musically, she acted as his good luck charm at a recent celebrity football tournament.
Amy turned up at Millwall football club to support her pal's band in the Samaritans Soccer Six tournament and watched them reach the final which they lost to FAITHLESS.
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Vincent Delerm
Artist: Vincent Delerm
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Kensington Square
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
The music of French chanson Vincent Delerm channeled the sophisticated, archly literary pop tradition first popularized by American songwriters like Randy Newman and Paul Simon. No surprise, tending that he is the tyke of acclaimed novelist Philippe and children's writer/illustrator Martine Delerm. Born August 31, 1976, in Evreux, Vincent was brocaded on the amatory, melancholy pop of French icons Alain Souchon and Françoise Hardy. As a teen, he embraced British post-punk icons the Cure and Joy Division, and at 17 formed his own mope-rock outfit, Triste Sire. He continued writing songs and pedagogy himself piano patch perusal modern lit at the University at Rouen, later expanding into theatre and celluloid as good. Delerm nonetheless reserved his superlative passion for euphony, and in 1998 made his solo live debut at Rouen's Ronsard Hall. A Parisian floorshow tour followed a year later, and in early 2000 Delerm befriended comedian Jérôme Deschamps, world Health Organization passed his demonstration to producers with wireless spreader France Inter, world Health Organization in February invited the virtual strange to perform on the network's flagship programme, Tyre le Pont dES Artistes. A stint in reinforcement of Matthieu Bermeulen followed, and in the summer of 2001 Delerm open for Thomas Fersen during an extensive residence at Paris' Cigale Club. After the run came to a close, Fersen recommended him to the Tôt ou Tard label, which issued Delerm's self-titled debut LP in the bound of 2002. Inspired in large character by Delerm's sexual love of French cinema, fill in with nods to stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Irène Jacob, the disc quickly racked up sales in excess of hundred,000, with a spell highlighted by a five-night bide at Paris' celebrated Le Bataclan. In early 2003, Delerm besides standard the Victoire de la Musique prize for the year's best debut album. Guests including Keren Ann and Dominique A populated the 2004 follow-up, Kensington Square. The disc was another considerable commercial success, but Delerm temporarily mothballed his musical vocation to drop a line the stage production Le Fait d'Habiter Bagnolet, which was arranged at Paris' Théâtre du Rond-Point at year's conclusion under the direction of Sophie LeCarpentier. Delerm's third base album, Les Piqûres d'Araignée, followed in the fall of 2006.
Baby on the way for Wonder Years star
Remarc
Artist: Remarc
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
Suburban Base (SBA109)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
The Daily Mail Responds to My Chemical Romance Emo Protest
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COLDPLAY star CHRIS MARTIN has vowed to remain loyal to beleagured record label EMI, despite an exodus of major names from the British music giant.
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Specials considering reunion shows
Band getting along well, Terry Hall says
MANCHESTER, England -- Specials leader Terry Hall says he had "five years of reservations" about reforming the famed U.K. band, but that long-held tensions between members have been resolved and that the group is now getting along well.
As such, the original lineup is planning its first shows in more than 25 years for this fall, possibly as early as October.
"We've been trying to do it for five years, but we solved those problems and hopefully got over them," Hall said. "Seven 50-year-old men together in a room is not very pleasant, no matter who you are. But we're getting on great and that's all you can hope for, really."
The Specials had a succession of top 10 U.K. hits from 1979 to 1981 on the seminal 2-Tone label, including No. 1s with "Too Much Too Young" and "Ghost Town." They spilt in 1981 when original members Hall, Neville Staples and Lynval Golding left to form Fun Boy Three.
"It's weird because we're all living all over the place, so it's difficult arranging to be in the same place at the same time," Hall admits. "We're doing a block of rehearsals in June and then once we've done that, we'll see when we're ready."
"We're going to play just the first and second album," he continues. "The first album probably in full and half of the second one. That's all we want to do -- just get together and play the songs once more."
At present, the band only intends to play a series of theatre-sized venues in the U.K. "That's the kind of venue where we started," explains Hall. "I don't like arena dates, at all. They're just soulless. The very nature of this band, we shouldn't go and play sit-down theatres. It would just be weird. I think we should carry on where we left off."
Hall expressed his delight with how the rehearsals were going, although he did admit that he was sometimes having trouble remembering lyrics.
"It's feeling surprisingly fresh," he said. "Purely because we haven't really played them for 25 years. I've played a few of those songs live since that point, but there was like an album-and-a-half that I haven't even thought about since 1981. I'm using lots of lyric sheets because I keep on getting words mixed up, although that's also down to old age."
MANCHESTER, England -- Specials leader Terry Hall says he had "five years of reservations" about reforming the famed U.K. band, but that long-held tensions between members have been resolved and that the group is now getting along well.
As such, the original lineup is planning its first shows in more than 25 years for this fall, possibly as early as October.
"We've been trying to do it for five years, but we solved those problems and hopefully got over them," Hall said. "Seven 50-year-old men together in a room is not very pleasant, no matter who you are. But we're getting on great and that's all you can hope for, really."
The Specials had a succession of top 10 U.K. hits from 1979 to 1981 on the seminal 2-Tone label, including No. 1s with "Too Much Too Young" and "Ghost Town." They spilt in 1981 when original members Hall, Neville Staples and Lynval Golding left to form Fun Boy Three.
"It's weird because we're all living all over the place, so it's difficult arranging to be in the same place at the same time," Hall admits. "We're doing a block of rehearsals in June and then once we've done that, we'll see when we're ready."
"We're going to play just the first and second album," he continues. "The first album probably in full and half of the second one. That's all we want to do -- just get together and play the songs once more."
At present, the band only intends to play a series of theatre-sized venues in the U.K. "That's the kind of venue where we started," explains Hall. "I don't like arena dates, at all. They're just soulless. The very nature of this band, we shouldn't go and play sit-down theatres. It would just be weird. I think we should carry on where we left off."
Hall expressed his delight with how the rehearsals were going, although he did admit that he was sometimes having trouble remembering lyrics.
"It's feeling surprisingly fresh," he said. "Purely because we haven't really played them for 25 years. I've played a few of those songs live since that point, but there was like an album-and-a-half that I haven't even thought about since 1981. I'm using lots of lyric sheets because I keep on getting words mixed up, although that's also down to old age."
John Barrowman - Barrowman We All Have Our Own Ideal Nancy
John Barrowman has revealed that each of the I'd Do Anything judging panel already know who they personally want to win the role of Nancy.
Just three contestants are left on the BBC1 reality show, with Saturday night's live final seeing the climax of more than three months of intense competition.
Jodie Prenger, 28, Jessie Buckley, 18, and Samantha Barks, 17, are all vying to play Nancy in Sir Cameron Mackintosh's new Oliver! revival and one of the hopefuls will see her life irrevocably changed after the contest ends.
And according to Torchwood star Barrowman, who sits on the judging panel alongside Denise Van Outen, Barry Humphries and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, each judge has their own ideal contestant to play the feisty East End girl.
"Andrew has a specific favourite, we all do," he said on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
"The three girls all have a great amount of talent, how I look at this now is, this is going to be life-changing, who can handle it?"
Sir Andrew had revealed that Mackintosh was unsure about Prenger's suitability for the role, saying the Blackpool girl - who lost eight-and-a-half stone in six months prior to the series, may be too curvaceous for the demands of the part.
"Cameron thinks she is a bit too big and has more or less said so," he told the Mirror newspaper on Friday.
Sir Andrew seemed to disagree, saying: "Jodie could be anybody's idea of Nancy - I can see it absolutely. She has got a lovely voice and a super personality. She has experience as well."
However, he denied any rivalry with Mackintosh, telling Jonathan Ross the producer was "a good lad".
"He's been responsible for three of the greatest musicals of all time," he added.
"He said at the beginning [of I'd Do Anything] that he was a bit dubious [but] he's really bought into this process."
The live final screens on BBC1 at 18:00 BST on Saturday before the winner of the series is announced at 20:45.
31/05/2008 00:01:01
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