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Katie will re-release her Piece by Piece album on Sept 25... LifeLight

There are 2 GH collections and they are double ! 1986-1998: The Singles 1981-1985: Singles I don't think this new one is gonna be 1999-2006... so it will be a mix between the first two plus the singles from 99-06... let's call it another cash in ! :o LifeLight

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There won't be new singles from IC ! Rudebox is not a side album or something. It's a poper new Robbie album. So the IC era is over. :( :( :( A place to crash had to be released :( LifeLight

Oasis to release film And you could go to the premiere Oasis have announced that they are to release a film to accompany their forthcoming best of 'Stop The Clocks'. As previously reported on NME.COM on November 20 the group will release a collection of their best tracks - as chosen by the band - the tracklisting of which is still secret. However the group have confirmed that a road movie filmed on the band's 'Don't Believe The Truth' world tour entitled 'Lord Don't Slow Me Down' will also be released. The documentary was shot by director Baillie Walsh, and follows the band across the globe. The band are also running a competition to allow one fan to attend the worldwide screening of their choice, from a list of cities to be confirmed shortly. To win, fans must predict exactly which 18 songs Oasis will select to appear on 'Stop The Clocks' and the record's running order, bearing in mind 'Acquiesce', 'Half The World Away', 'Supersonic', 'Wonderwall' and 'The Importance of Being Idle' are all confirmed. To enter go to Oasisinet.com/stoptheclocks LifeLight

so early ? I think ths was planned early 2007 ! :o LifeLight

Smack That is the first single off Akon new album Konvicted, out Dec 18. you can hear it at Myspace website http://www.myspace.com/akon [flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUjT7ZSu5Ag.swf LifeLight

13 years ago... how many MF fans around ? And there is no Jim Steinman (or whaterver he is named) with him.. LifeLight

it seems it's fake ! :) LifeLight

It's up now :) LifeLight

cover: http://www.capitolmusic.de/images/cover/150/0094637186329.jpg tracklist 1. Perfect Girl 2. You Came 3. Together We Belong 4. Forgive Me 5. Four Letter Word 6. You Keep Me Hangin´ On - feat. Nena 7. Baby Obey Me 8. Kids In America - feat. Charlotte Hatherley 9. I Fly 10. Game Over 11. Lost Without You 12. View From A Bridge 13. Maybe I´m Crazy 14. Cambodia (Paul Oakenfold Remix) Out: Sept 11 (In Europe) You came 2006 1. You Came (2006) 2. Maybe I´m Crazy 3. You Came (Groovenut Remix) 4. You Came (Old School-Mix) LifeLight

Maronn 5 new album is scheduled for Nov 15... 1st week will be huge... they can definitely sell 700000 copies before the end of the year if the pick the right single and the reviews are good... Take That ? I think they will be in the 10 most sold albums of the year, not the most sold one... LifeLight

Drownedmadonna According to Warner Japan, the re-Invention Tour (live in Portugal) will be released world-wide in September. THE RE-INVENTION WORLD TOUR LIVE IN PORTUGAL - DVD - Japanese Release Date: September 15 THE RE-INVENTION WORLD TOUR LIVE IN PORTUGAL - DVD - Rest of the World Release Date: September 18 LifeLight

From Post Gazette The many faces of Christina: Aguilera keeps her image ever changing Tuesday, August 22, 2006 By LaMont Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette One of a celebrity's greatest fears is to be forgotten. It would be better to get bad publicity, which is at least some acknowledgment that an entertainer has not disappeared from the pop-culture radar and so remains, to some degree, relevant. Constant visual metamorphosis is one key to getting attention. Ongoing transformation is a keep-your-eyes-on-me technique used successfully by a number of celebs, most notably young female pop singers. Madonna made it an art form beginning in the '80s, Janet Jackson mastered it into the '90s and Beyonce continues to reinvent herself in a new decade. Although she has yet to achieve the level of superstardom of any of these women, Christina Aguilera has earned a place in the pantheon of celebrity chameleons. In less than six years, she's gone from bubble-gum, teen-mall-girl simplicity to an aesthetic amalgam of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Marilyn Monroe. With the launch this month of the former Wexford resident's new album, "Back to Basics," there's no time like the present to assess her ongoing visual transformation: Feb. 23, 2000 Aguilera's appearance reflects her music and her audience: young, light, frothy. Simple, straight blond tresses closely frame her face at the Grammy Awards. The style is one of those wash-and-blow-dry looks that a teenager might get for $25 at her local mall salon. Sept. 7, 2000 Six months later, Aguilera sports a more confident look at the MTV Video Music Awards. Extensions give her hair more length, and the addition of black highlights lends an aggressive edge. Her hair style begins to reveal more of her face, and she begins experimenting with sparkle to brighten up her usual dark eye makeup. June 2, 2001 Aguilera continues to age herself and move toward a more sexed-up rocker look. She pumps up the volume in her hair, retaining but toning down color highlights. The fake mole moves to the other side of her mouth and strong lip color magnifies her pucker. The result, exemplified at the MTV Movie Awards, is a more radical, intentionally sexy pop priestess. Sept. 26, 2003 Sporting her latest look, a fusion of goth and punk, Aguilera performs at a concert in Sweden. Long, limp, scraggly black hair and all-black attire project a harder, rebellious image. She continues to favor dramatic jewelry, and the large hoop earrings signal a transition from youth to young adult. Feb. 8, 2004 Aguilera keeps the locks black but chops them shorter and adds curls and waves. By now, her eyebrows are little more than pencilwork. But with more tastefully applied makeup, it's a softer, cleaner, more mature look that suits the auspiciousness of the Grammy Awards. June 3, 2006 By now a wife, Aguilera still projects strong sex appeal -- after all, she's only 25. By the time the MTV Movie Awards roll around, she has morphed into a comfortable look that recalls Old Hollywood screen sirens. With wavy blond tresses, more natural brows, less eye makeup, strong red lips and more sophisticated bling, she confidently pays homage to Marilyn Monroe. Here for the pictures : http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06234/715219-42.stm :) LifeLight

from Undercover Christina Aguilera Gets Fans Back Into Music Stores by Paul Cashmere August 21 2006 Christina Aguilera has broken the music industry sales drought. Her number one debut with 'Back To Basics' has generated around three times the sales of a number one record has been worth in the last few months. 'Back To Basics' sold around 15,000 units last week in Australia and finished a long way in front of Pink's 'I'm Not Dead' which did around 5800 units. The good Aguilera result is probably little consolation for a bleeding industry which recorded its all time worst ever number one seller only a week ago when the High School Musical soundtrack topped the honours with just over 5800 sales. The last month also saw the number one DVD outselling the number one album, a thumping that came from a 10 year old title in Pink Floyd's 'Pulse'. While the weekly sales figures have been on the nose, certain artists have been having bona -fide hits regardless. The Veronica, Eskimo Joe, James Blunt, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chris Isaak have maintained dominance in the Top 10 ever since their latest albums were released. The Veronicas is the greatest stayer in the Top 10, clocking up its 44th week and still maintaining a spot at number 8. James Blunt 'Back To Bedlam' is the longest performer in the Top 20 with 56 weeks on the chart and Coldplay can claim the longest charting album in the Top 40 with 'X&Y' hitting 61 weeks on the chart this week. The Top 100 album this week from Kelly Clarkson sold just 471 units. To get a Top 40 single in Australia this week, just 341 units would get you there and the Number 100 single was worth just 77 sales. LifeLight

It seems a lot of people aren't able to enter the Ronan official site, neither the forum ! I know his last single flopped badly, but this doesn't seem a wise move ! :o LifeLight

From Billboard The Darkness Refutes Label Rumors August 21, 2006, 4:50 PM ET Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. U.K. glam rock act the Darkness has taken to its Web site to deny rumors it has been dropped by its label, Atlantic Records. In the same statement, the group revealed that frontman Justin Hawkins entered a rehab facility last week to address unspecified substance abuse issues. "We would however like to make it clear that this emphatically does not signal the end for The Darkness nor are their label Atlantic Records considering 'dropping' them," the site says. "On the contrary, they have taken up their option with the band and are looking forward to releasing the Darkness' third album in early 2007." The group will hit the studio as soon as Hawkins is ready, according to its site. The new album will be the follow-up to last year's "One Way Ticket to Hell ... and Back," which fizzled at No. 58 on The Billboard 200 and has sold just 91,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In contrast, the Darkness' 2004 debut, "Permission To Land," has shifted just shy of 700,000 copies to date. A message from the band After Justin saw a doctor last week and was recommended to “cancel all professional commitments or work-related activitiesâ€, we had little choice but to cancel the band’s appearance at the Skanderborg Festival in Denmark, something that the band hate to do, but having been out on the road constantly for such a long time and having not had any time off over the past three years, that’s what Justin has decided to do and we are all agreed that his health must come first. As everybody found out today, Justin has been admitted to a rehabilitation clinic. We would however like to make it clear that this emphatically does not signal the end for The Darkness, nor are their label Atlantic Records considering ‘dropping’ them. On the contrary they have taken up their option with the band and are looking forward to releasing The Darkness' third album in early 2007. We are not here to comment on Justin’s private life – or anyone else’s for that matter – but he is feeling better already and as soon as he is ready we will be going straight into the studio to begin recording album number 3. We hope you would join us in wishing Justin well – and it is for you to judge if a platinum album, headlining and co-headlining sold out shows across the UK, Continental Europe and Australia, etc. to an audience of tens of thousands of adoring fans can ever be considered a failure! Dan, Ed and Richie LifeLight

Source: Walmart 1. (Intro) 20 2. So Excited - Featuring Khia 3. Show Me 4. Get It Out Me 5. Do It 2 Me 6. This Body 7. 20, Pt.2 (Interlude) 8. With U 9. Call On Me - Featuring Nelly 10. 20, Pt.3 (Interlude) 11. Daybreak 12. Enjoy 13. 20, Pt.4 (Interlude) 14. Take Care 15. Love 2 Love 16. (Outro) 20, Pt.5 17. Call On Me - Featuring Nelly LifeLight

From the Sun I'm too Keane on coke KEANE frontman TOM CHAPLIN is battling addictions to booze and cocaine. He checked back into a clinic after playing at the weekend V Festival in Essex. It was at first believed the singer was suffering from “exhaustion†and the band were forced to cancel gigs. But last night Tom told The Sun: “I’ve admitted myself to The Priory to get the professional help I need to overcome my increasing problem with drink and drugs. I’m looking forward to sorting myself out and getting back to playing again as soon as possible.†Tom checked in to the clinic at the beginning of last week but was let out to perform at V then driven back to the centre after the gig. He was very popular with other patients at The Priory after giving them an impromptu solo gig. After arriving last Monday he sat at the piano and played “a truly brilliant set.†When he finished there was a round of applause from fellow patients. Friends of the singer claim he struggled to cope with the band’s gruelling schedule and their phenomenal success. One friend told me: “Tom is on a long road to recovery but he is getting better. “He has basically admitted to himself he had a problem with drink and that is the first step. “All of the group and his family are there for him and he looks as though he’s going to come out of the other side of this.†Keane performed at the Pukkelpop concert in Belgium on Friday before hitting the stage at the V Festival on Saturday. Tom had been picked up from The Priory on Thursday in a stretch limo for the gigs. Tom and fellow band members RICHARD HUGHES and TIM RICE-OXLEY have cancelled their Ibiza Rocks concert on August 23 and shows in Edinburgh, Dublin and the US. On their website the group blame an “extremely punishing worldwide promotion and touring scheduleâ€. Tom wrote: “I am gutted that I have to take a break from touring. “I was really looking forward to these dates, but if it means we can do what we’ve got planned for the rest of the year then I’ll take the time off.†A source said: “Staff at The Priory have told his management that Tom is a really popular patient because he’s down to earth — just a genuinely good bloke. “He gave the other patients their very own gig, which went down a storm. The staff said it was a truly brilliant set. “Everyone just wants him to get better so Keane can get back to what they do best — performing live.†The Priory might want to think about setting up a recording studio at this rate. Other rock stars being treated there include PETE DOHERTY and DARKNESS star JUSTIN HAWKINS. They’d make a brilliant supergroup. LifeLight

Good ? this song is so bad ! Worst than COM ! :o LifeLight

From TimesOnLine Times Saturday Magazine For Pete's sake Jackie Doherty’s son is Britain’s most notorious drug addict, the gifted, self-destructive musician Pete. On the publication of her anguished memoir, she talks to Janice Turner about the enduring power of a mother’s love – and wonders where it all went wrong Jacqueline Doherty, mother of Pete. From Saturday Magazine article on her book Pete Doherty: My Prodigal Son Even before the coffee is poured or the tape recorder set running, Jackie Doherty is in tears. Pulling a ladylike lace handkerchief from her pocket, she dabs her great round eyes, Pete’s eyes, with their same brew of bafflement, innocence and fun. I was saying how affected I’d been by the family photos in her book – Pete at seven fallen asleep reading the Beano; a solemn six-year-old taking the Beaver cubs oath; aged 13 in cricket whites – and how it is hard to reconcile this child with Pete Doherty, Britain’s most notorious junkie. For three years, since what she calls “the Peter Problem†began, Jackie has searched for that link. She has re-evaluated her son’s childhood, raked through a blur of busy summers, outstanding school reports, uproarious Christmases, hunting for clues, signs, triggers. “I remember being so proud of my children who were bright, upright citizens,†she writes in Pete Doherty: My Prodigal Son. “They would never take drugs or break the law; they were past their teenage years and we’d sailed through those without a hitch. Hadn’t I watched other parents who’d had awful trouble with their kids? Hadn’t I felt smug?†Yet here she is, a nurse for 30 years, a woman who’s only been “squiffy†three times in her life, who won’t take aspirin for a headache, an early-rising, fête-running Army officer’s wife, now the mother of a convicted criminal and heroin addict. “But we haven’t suffered as much as other families of junkies,†she says. “Peter’s never stolen from us, never beaten us for money, never brought trouble to our door…†Yet she does endure a rare and peculiar pain. To Jackie her son is a sick and fragile boy. But to the world, Pete Doherty, former lead singer of the Libertines, now Babyshambles, is a self-destructive rock icon, glorious heir to Hendrix, Cobain, Joplin and Morrison, whose drug-related ends all came at 27, “the year of rock and roll death†as Jack White called it, and Doherty’s age now. Her very worst fear is the subject of ghoulish anticipation. “I meet Peter’s fans who say they never miss one of his gigs, in case it’s his last.†Her friends thought it consoling to say, look, he’s a rock star: taking drugs and living dangerously is what rock stars do. “But,†Jackie cries, “he isn’t their son.†It was the day of her mother’s funeral in April 2003 when Jackie realised that Peter (he is never “Pete†to his mum) was an addict. Doherty had flown to Liverpool from the Libertines’ tour of Japan to be a pall-bearer. He was fidgety, tearful and melancholy, but Jackie attributed his mood to jet-lag and grief. But when they talked after the funeral he confessed many lyrics to his songs were about drugs. Then in the car to Heathrow – Doherty was to rejoin the Libertines in America – he became anxious, desperate to reach London. He refused to be taken to the airport, demanded they set him down in Whitechapel. He needed to meet someone and it had to be tonight… Eight weeks later, Jackie was on night duty when a friend of Doherty’s called to say Peter was out of control. She heard of drug-induced frenzies, bizarre behaviour. So Jackie rushed to London – her husband, a major in the Royal Corps of Signals had been posted to the Netherlands – to meet with Rough Trade, the Libertines’ record label. Her son should seek rehab and he’d be fine within two or three years, she was told, a time-frame that seemed pessimistic back then. Yet first Jackie had to find her son. The book is full of such chases across London, following tips from some of Doherty’s nefarious associates, trips to his flat only to find he’s left, Pete not turning up or being surrounded by a huge, swirling entourage of fans and musicians, so Jackie can rarely speak to him alone. But this time she found him calm and lucid. He admitted he was smoking heroin and crack cocaine. She recalls being relieved for the small mercy he wasn’t (yet) injecting. He agreed to begin drug treatment at the Farm Place centre in Surrey and Jackie, reassured, returned to Holland. But within days Doherty had fled rehab and Jackie was driving back across Europe to plead with him to return. The story of their meeting poignantly encapsulates her struggle and sets the pattern of the following years. Over lunch, Pete had agreed to go back to Farm Place – the taxi was on its way. But then a crowd gathered around the Soho pavement café. Fans queued for autographs, someone produced a guitar and Doherty began to sing. In that moment Jackie knew he would not return to rehab. She had lost him to the crowd and to his celebrity, with all its great adventures and temptations. This is the first time Jackie, 52, has been interviewed and she is wary of upsetting Peter or those close to him, whom she relies upon for information and to protect him. When I ask about Kate Moss, Doherty’s on-off love, she says merely that she met her once. Does it not make her angry that while the supermodel faced no charges and has grown richer, her glamour only enhanced by her then cocaine problem, Doherty is arrested every other week, vilified and imprisoned? “I think everyone should leave them alone,†is all she says. “They’ve been deeply in love and people just won’t leave them alone.†Thus My Prodigal Son is squeamish of the more lurid details of Pete’s life. At no point does she describe his East London home: a chaos of broken furniture, drug paraphernalia and, famously, pictures Doherty painted in his own blood. Doesn’t she have that mother’s instinct of wanting to clear up the mess? “I am an extremely tidy person, I know where everything is in my drawers,†she says and, gesturing to my heap of cuttings, “I’d like to tidy up that table now. But some people live in chaos, you have to allow people to live how they want to live. Because amid the chaos is an awful amount of creativity that I don’t understand. Now that might be madness in some people’s mind. But what is mad? People thought Impressionism was mad.†I suggest that she still has reason to be proud: her son is a prolific song-writer, has had best-selling albums, is an electrifying live performer and, uniquely among today’s airbrushed stars, is a raw, authentic and original voice. “Perhaps,†she says with a heavy sadness. When she sees Pete, she has taken to joking: “I blame the parents.†At which he replies, “Well, you have to blame them for the good things too.†And it is clear – although she denies it – that Jackie, a gregarious, open Scouser with all her native Liverpool humour and flair for language (she has published a book of poetry), is the source of much that is good about Pete Doherty. It is from his mother he has acquired his unconventional style, in particular his trademark hats. She has a huge collection herself, berets in every hue, and loves searching out oddities at antiques fairs and house-clearance sales. She also seems to be the source of his capacity to live utterly in the moment. I ask if the family ever worried when her husband Peter senior was in danger – he served in Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq (during the first Gulf war) and Northern Ireland – she shrugs and smiles: “You just get on with it. Carpe Diem!†And last summer at the Glastonbury festival, when her son was locked in his addiction, and she could only snatch a few moments with him, Jackie still had a blast. “Have you been to Glastonbury?†she asks with excitement. “I was in the Chas & Dave tent and I danced my legs off, with girls, with boys. It was fantastic! I’d go again.†Peter, her second child, was born when the family were stationed in Northum­berland. The Dohertys already had a daughter, AmyJo (now 28 and a teacher), and later had another, Emily (19 and in the Army). Pete, in Jackie’s account, grew up more prodigy than prodigal. He had lead roles in school plays, won a debating cup and an Arts Council poetry competition. He was always writing verse, including an anti-smoking ode: “Cough, cough, cough,†it begins. From an early age he was an insatiable reader, devoured Brecht, Camus, Genet, Baudelaire, the Romantic poets, and was obsessed with Oscar Wilde. He published his own Queens Park Rangers fanzine, All Quiet on the Western Avenue. He acquired 11 mostly A* GCSEs, and a bunch of A levels decent enough to take him to Queen Mary’s, London, to read English. He was patient and cheerful, gentle with his grandparents. There were no door-slamming strops. “Life was just wonderful,†Jackie says wistfully. “Well, that is my perception. You’d have to ask him.†Jackie prided herself in communicating with her teenage children. She held out from buying a dishwasher because in the routine of handwashing, her kids opened up about their lives. “I was strict,†she reflects. “Peter says I was stricter than my husband. I like truth, I like honesty, I like things to be done properly. The kids never roamed the streets. All around us were teenagers who partied. And we didn’t allow that. Or rather, it didn’t become an issue because the kids were busy with their various activities.†She recalls Peter and a friend entering a stand-up comedy competition and although they won through to the next round, it went on too late so Peter just came home. The only trouble she can remember is nagging him to do his paper round. Doherty’s family were posted frequently – to Germany, Cyprus, Northern Ireland – and the transience of Army life has been blamed for Doherty’s addiction. But the constant uprooting didn’t bother Pete or AmyJo, although Emily hated it and opted for boarding school. Pete learnt German, had a free, outdoor childhood chasing lizards around the Cyprus base. He made friends easily. “We’re a military family and we’re used to moving around,†says Jackie, currently stationed in Dorset. “Everywhere is so exciting. You unpack and you throw yourself into the community. A lot of people don’t like that life. But I still love it today, at my age. I would like to be posted tomorrow.†Being officer class does not mean that the Dohertys are in any sense posh. On a crude class calculator they’d register as aspirational lower-middle. They are grafters, copers, resourceful and uncomplaining, Queen and country folk. And the shame of having a son flaunt his crack habit, perform at Live8 before millions too doped to remember his words, has hit his father hardest. He is a problem-solving, practical man, says Jackie, and it pains him that this has no solution. And he has his pride: how do you discipline recruits under your command when you feel you have failed with your own son? After a stormy few days in London trying to thrash out Doherty’s problems in early 2005, Peter senior decided that he was tired of broken promises and vowed never to see his son until he is clean of drugs. “It is ironic,†says Jackie, “because my husband is a record collector. He has 5 or 6,000 records and most of them would be by drug addicts. But it is different when it is your own son.†It was only after Pete left home that he started experimenting with drugs. Perhaps he felt the thrill of freedom from the rigour of military life and his family? More likely, drugs were just part of his romantic inclinations. The Libertines, the band he set up with Carl Barat, espoused a manifesto of individual freedom and Doherty liked to pretend the heroin he smoked was opium. In an afterword to Jackie’s book, Doherty senior describes his pride and excitement at the Libertines’ early gigs, but adds, “Peter’s greatest misfortune was to become famous. People seem hell-bent on perpetuating his wretchedness – a pathetic, limp figure.†This “tough love†approach has clearly affected Doherty. Recently he told a newspaper: “I say to my dad, “I respect you and I love you enough not to talk about you any more. Do you hear me? But f*** you. Because there’s a fellow here who’s your son and he wants to be your mate and he doesn’t want to upset his mum. Why are you being so stubborn? Why are you being so hard?†When Doherty met Kate Moss in 2005 the craziness around him multiplied. A year of fights and arrests culminated in the footage of the couple snorting cocaine in a record studio. She dumped him, his drug-taking worsened, he was arrested, then entered treatment (his sixth spell) in Arizona. Jackie only knew he had fled when his record company called to say he’d been arrested in London on drug charges. This for Doherty’s father was simply enough. “Peter [senior] was sick of the phone going, sick of journalists ringing, sick of being questioned at work.†Her mobile phone has caused a rift in their marriage: she refuses to turn it off as Doherty often rings her at 3am. “I feel I have to be contactable at all times. So there is no peace in the house.†Just before Christmas, Jackie’s husband told her to leave home for a week. He needed to be alone. So scared was she that he was about to kill himself, she warned the camp padre. But her husband called her home only two days later. He hadn’t slept, was severely distressed. They didn’t celebrate Christmas that year, but sent their daughters off on a holiday to Cyprus. Both had suffered from being Pete Doherty’s sisters: AmyJo changed jobs and Emily left school before her A levels to escape the gossip about their brother’s antics. Peter senior moved into the spare room, away from his wife’s phone. I ask if Jackie felt torn between her son and her marriage and she says, “I could never make the choice. I won’t give up my son and I can’t give up my husband because I take my vows seriously. If my husband chose to leave me, that’s his decision.†Jackie writes of this period: “To say that I can fully understand why and how Marvin Gaye’s father killed his son [after a bitter argument about the singer’s addiction] seems rather dramatic, but the fact is I do understand.†I ask her about the strategies she has tried to get him to change. She has fantasised about locking him away until he is clean: “But he is 27, a grown man. He would just reject me.†In her book, Jackie, a devout but non-denominational Christian, asserts her belief in free will, recalls that the father in the parable of the prodigal son did not bind his son to him, but waited for the repentant to return. Yet isn’t her support like putting a pillow under the head of someone in the gutter? If his mother withdrew, might this not precipitate his change? Jackie looks at me with surprise. “You’ve certainly given me food for thought. You really have, I’m not being flippant.†Yet next day on the phone, she says, “I’ve wrestled with what you said, but I could never turn my back on my son.†Anyway, she says, her support doesn’t amount to much. She wishes she had the strength to roll her sleeves up, clear up and kick out all the hangers-on. While she no longer blames anyone for his addiction, she clearly loathes some of the seedier members of his entourage. “Peter is so trusting,†she says. “But some of them steal from him, they sell stories about him.†They even, she says, contrived the photos, published in April, of Doherty appearing to inject an unconscious girl with heroin. They are the reason she has not shown Doherty her book. “They’d steal it,†she says sadly. “They’d sell it.†What will he think of it? “I think he’ll love it. He asked me, ‘Mum, what’s your book about?’ I said, ‘It’s about faith, love, God, forgiveness.’ He said, ‘I thought it was about me.’ And I said, ‘No, but you’re the vehicle that will sell it.’†So why has a woman who despairs about press intrusion opened up her life? She has always written, she says, scribbled down thoughts during sleepless nights, worrying about Pete. She wants to balance out the demonising accounts of her son and help the other addicts’ families who have told her their stories, with a “book any heart-broken mother could pick upâ€. And the proceeds? She wants to save the money in case Peter needs medical help. Is he broke now? “He has never cared about money or possessions. As long as he can stand up and sing he can make a living,†she says. “But who knows about the future.†But does she not have an instinct about how things will turn out? “He doesn’t want to die,†she says urgently. “He enjoys his life. He is fragile, but I think he is still a happy soul.†His current court order – that he must fight his addiction or return to jail – has driven him to have another implant (to suppress the effects of heroin) inserted in his stomach. “He dreads going back to prison,†says Jackie. Meanwhile, she has found some peace in her marriage, aided by Astile, Doherty’s three-year-old son by singer Lisa Moorish. Jackie has just had him to stay for a week and when she opened his suitcase found a tiny QPR kit, a present, she assumes, from his daddy. She has only seen her son and grandson together once: Doherty’s drug problems mean he has only limited access. “But he is my blood,†Jackie says of the boy who looks like Pete at the same age, whom Peter senior calls by the same pet-names he used for his own son. Trawling through photos and memories to write the book also lightened her husband’s heart. “It made him remember what a fabulous kid we had,†she says. Yet of next Christmas, she has no plans: “He’s a big boy, has a lot going on in his life,†she says. Jackie Doherty has learnt to cushion herself from disappointments. But she is still waiting, will always be waiting, for her prodigal son to come home. Pete Doherty: My Prodigal Son is published by Headline Book Publishing on September 11 and is available from BooksFirst priced £15.29 (RRP £16.99), free p&p, on 0870 1608080; www.timesonline.co.uk/booksfirstbuy Read exclusive extracts from Jackie Doherty’s book in Times2 on Monday and Tuesday LifeLight

from RealityTVWorld Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera end feud with gift exchange With a recent exchange of honorary gifts, U.S. pop singers Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera have ended a musical feud that raged for over a decade. World Entertainment News-Network said that since the two singers debuted in the '90s, a feud has brewed between them -- and only came an end recently after each singer presented the other with a gift for a momentous moment in her life. "She got me a really beautiful crystal vase and a little crystal bucket that you can put ... champagne in (when I got married)," said the 25-year-old Aguilera. "And when she had her baby, I sent over a huge baby basket. I didn't know whether it was a boy or a girl yet, so I sent over just something really sweet, something cute." Since Spears debuted in 1998 with her album, "Baby One More Time," and Aguilera's self-titled debut album was released a year later, the two stars reportedly feuded over such issues as their public images and celebrity boyfriends like Justin Timberlake. From Radiosargam Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears have ended the long-running feud Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears have ended the long-running feud that was allegedly between them by sending each other gifts. "She got me a really beautiful crystal vase and a litte crystal bucket that you can put...champagne in [when I got married]," Aguilera said recently. "And when she had her baby, I sent over a huge baby basket. I didn't know whether it was a boy or a girl yet, so I just sent over something really sweet, something cute." The alleged feud between the pop starlets reportedly began close to the time they both released their debut albums. I'm so happy :) LifeLight

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From FoxNews Beyonce: New Album 'B'Day,' First Look Imagine if Whitney Houston never had Clive Davis steering her career for those first few important image-defining albums. The result would have been Beyonce Knowles ’ new "B'Day," the follow up to her huge-selling debut album "Dangerously in Love." "B'Day" launches on September 5, one day after Beyonce’s real 25th birthday. Last night I got to hear tracks from the new album after a short listening party concluded at a Regent St. nightclub in London. Click Here for the Music Center Beyonce and her mother, Tina, turned up for the event and stayed a little over an hour, then bolted for greener pastures at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. I was told that one day earlier, the singer and her parents made an appearance for Sony execs and played the album for them. Beyonce’s world is made up of family, and they are close-knit business partners. Her dad, Matthew, is her controversial manager. Her mom makes her outfits. Her sister Solange sings and gets writing credits on her songs, as does a similarly named cousin, Angela Beyince. More importantly, her boyfriend, rapper Jay-Z, casts a huge influence over her sound. The result of so many cooks in the kitchen, and none of them objective, is that post-Destiny’s Child Beyonce serves up a mixed bag of Tina Turner-inspired videos, shrill singing and invariably tuneless songs. Her biggest hit, "Crazy in Love," was an invention of producer Rich Harrison that was heavily sampled from an old Chi Lites song called "Am I Your Woman?" written largely by the late great Eugene Record. Harrison then took the major elements of that song and reworked them for several more artists, including Usher and Jennifer Lopez. But on "B'Day," there is no Chi Lites song to act as a saving grace. The closest they come to a defining single is "Déjà Vu," written and produced by Rodney Jerkins with a team he’s used on Lopez’s records, among others. Jay-Z contributes an extended rap and appears in the video. The song is catchy if you hear it enough times — like a sidewalk drill — but it lacks a consistent melody. I am told that focus groups (yes — can you imagine?) don’t care for it. A London radio DJ told me last night that "Déjà Vu" and Justin Timberlake’s new "Sexyback" recently tied for least-liked records in his station’s polling. Ouch! That isn’t to say that "B'Day" doesn’t have its charms, or its hits. They’re just not by the cynical people who created this thing or have the most to gain from it. A clever ballad called "Irreplaceable" is the most memorable track, and has the most potential of catching on with fans quickly. It’s also the only song on "B'Day" that you might actually want to sing along to, written and produced by Stargate, an anonymous Norwegian pop hit production team akin to Max Martin’s boy band factory of a few years ago. (As with all the songs, Matthew Knowles makes sure his daughter gets a songwriting credit and publishing royalty on "Irreplaceable," a sop for making the composers rich. Knowles, like Celine Dion’s husband before him and other managers of contemporary singers, is canny to do this, since there is no such thing as a performance royalty. In years to come, when the records aren’t selling, Beyonce will have that money to look forward to. That’s one thing Whitney didn’t do and likely regrets now.) The other potential hit from "B'Day" is the bluesier soul number called "Green Light," written and produced by melody makers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, aka The Neptunes. "Green Light" precedes "Irreplaceable" late in the album’s running order (they’re 8 and 9, respectively, not usual spots for singles), but the well-made song stands out as the album's possible chart redemption once "Déjà Vu" has run its course as Beyonce’s club hit. Among the tracks that sound less obvious — and more tired — are the next planned single, "Ring the Alarm." It features an extremely annoying siren and is accompanied by a bizarre video depicting a wildly angry and unappealing Beyonce telling off someone (maybe Jay-Z?) for cheating as if she were an enraged guest on Maury Povich. The pair of Harrison-produced tries at "Crazy in Love" fall short of originality but mimic the Chi Lites percussion section yet again. Harrison is like the Indiana Jones of soul, constantly pulling out forgotten gems of the past for sampling. This time, in "Suga Mama," he quotes heavily from Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers’ “Searching for Soul.†You can hear the original funk instrumental at www.pandora.com, a Web site created in 2000 by the Music Genome Project to catalog obscure music. I’ve no doubt that Harrison is a subscriber. You can’t help but think: Thank God someone wrote music in the past that can be repurposed now. So, where does that leave Beyonce? In the next few weeks, before the Grammy deadline expires on September 30, we’re going to have new and similar endeavors from Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson and Sean "Diddy" Combs. They will each be billed as “hot†and “sexy.†They will all be pushing some envelope in a bid for publicity and attention at a time when the music industry desperately needs a hit. They will also, to some degree, promote monotony. In Beyonce’s case, she may have the upper hand. For Christmas, she’ll co-star in the big-screen version of "Dreamgirls," which I told you looks to be an Oscar nominee, based on a presentation at the Cannes Film Festival in May. One new song from "Dreamgirls," called "Listen" — “co-written†by Beyonce with the musical’s original composers — is included on "B'Day" as a “hidden track.†If the two projects — "B'day" and "Dreamgirls" — arrive with any synergy, then it won’t matter if "B'Day" suffers from a sophomore slump. :rolleyes: LifeLight

Really ??? why is she taking so long for a new album ? :( :( :( LifeLight