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DATE: 14.06.06
SUBJECT: THE CARLING WEEKEND TO BE
BROADCAST ON BBC
Reading And Leeds To Be Broadcast On BBC
Reading and Leeds
Festival is set to be shown live on BBC Three, with highlights
on BBC2. A statement made by the organisers says:
"Organisers of the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds
Festival, Mean Fiddler, are delighted to announce that BBC TV
will continue their commitment to music television this summer
by broadcasting direct from
the sites. The legendary event will be shown live on BBC Three
from 7pm each evening over the August Bank Holiday and the
main bands and highlights from the festival will be shown on
BBC2 each night over the weekend. Music from the amazing
artists on the bill will be broadcast each day along with live
reports from around the sites and VT packages taking the
viewer behind the scenes at the longest-running event in the
UK festival season."
DATE: 13.06.06
SUBJECT: FIRST EVER 'FOUNDATION'
FESTIVAL ACTS ANNOUNCED
The line-up for the first ever
Foundation Festival has been announced, with
Fun Lovin' Criminals,
Goldie Lookin Chain,
Kosheen and
Coldcut heading the bill.
Taking place over September 1-3, some major headline acts are
still to be announced for the Somerset festival. The
organisers of
Foundation hope that the
event will also promote charitable organisations like Oxfam,
War Child and Shelter.
Organiser Oliver Gurney said: "We felt it was our own personal
responsibility to support good causes in order to bring about
change for future generations, and give people a damn good
time doing it." As well as the six live stages and capacity of
20,000, the festival will feature circus and burlesque acts
and a dance tent. or more information go to
Foundationfestival.co.uk
DATE:
08.06.06
SUBJECT: LINDA MCARTNEY TURNS DOWN THE
SMITHS
The Smiths asked Linda McCartney
to guest star on their classic album 'The Queen Is Dead',
guitarist Johnny Marr has revealed. In a new interview with
NME, Marr disclosed that frontman
Morrissey wrote to the wife
of Sir Paul McCartney requesting she play piano on the track
'Frankly, Mr Shankly', though she politely refused. Marr said:
"Morrissey wrote a postcard to Linda McCartney asking her to
play piano on the track, but she said no. She just said she
couldn't do it, we would have loved for her to do it because
we were big fans of hers." The revelation comes in this week's
issue of NME, a special commemorative issue marking the 20th
anniversary of the album's initial release. The issue features
a track-by-track guide to the recording of the album with the
band and engineer Stephen Street, the initial 1986 NME review,
a look at how the album influenced a new generation and much
more. 'The Queen Is Dead' special issue is out this week,
dated June 10, from today (June 7) in London and nationwide
from tomorrow.
DATE:
08.06.06
SUBJECT:
'FIFTH BEATLE' BILLY PRESTON DIES AGED 59
'Fifth Beatle' Billy Preston has
died aged 59. The keyboard player, who played with the Fab
Four as well as The Rolling Stones and
Bob Dylan, had been battling
chronic kidney failure for some time. He underwent a kidney
transplant in 2002, but the kidney failed and he has been on
dialysis treatments ever since. The star's manager Joyce Moore
told Billboard that Preston had been in a coma in a care
facility since November. He was taken to a hospital in
Scottsdale, Arizona at the weekend (June 3) after his
condition deteriorated. Preston is best known for providing
keyboards on The Beatles' 'Let It Be' album, most notably a
solo on the Number One single 'Get Back'. He even performed
with them the last time they played live, at the rooftop
concert in central London in 1969. It was around this time he
began to be dubbed 'The fifth Beatle' by fans and the press.
Preston also later appeared on solo albums by Beatles pals
George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr. He also most
notably guested with The Rolling Stones on their classic
albums 'Sticky Fingers' and 'Exile On Main Street', as well as
Bob Dylan's 'Blood On The Tracks', Sly And The Family Stone's
'There's A Riot Goin' On' and Aretha Franklin's 'Young, Gifted
And Black'. Preston was also successful as a solo artist in
the Seventies, winning a best instrumental Grammy in 1973 for
the track 'Outta Space'. Mick Jagger was among the first
paying tribute to Preston, saying: "Billy was a fantastic and
gifted musician...a superb singer at both recording sessions
and live. He was great fun to be with onstage when touring
with us...I will miss him a lot." Jagger's bandmate Keith
Richards, himself recovering from a recent operation, added:
"One For Billy, a genius with all the baggage! Too soon, so
great! Miss you."
DATE:
07.06.06
SUBJECT:
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS IN HOT WATER OVER 'STADIUM ARCADIUM'
SONG
Blue collar rocker Tom Petty
is reportedly pondering taking The Red Hot Chili Peppers to
court over a song on their 'Stadium Arcadium' album.
However, Petty's people are being vague about the whole
affair, with his spokesperson claiming that there's nothing
afoot as yet. "I am well aware of this situation. I guess
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," she said.
"Tom doesn't have a comment on this at all. I have no idea if
he is going to sue the Chili Peppers, and am not prepared to
make a comment on that."
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