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    What specifically links these six songs ??

     

    C.W. McCall - Convoy.

     

    Dirty Little Things - Bang Bang, You're Dead.

     

    Paul McCartney - Coming Up.

     

    Girls Aloud - Whole Lotta History.

     

    Steps - The Way You Make me Feel.

     

    Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3).

     

    are they all faves on Burt Reynolds' iPod?

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    this is five leaves left, by nick drake, its a kinda folksy chilled album from years ago. it has an excellent song valled river man which you might know. it's an album thats always seems to be cheap in the hmv sale, it might be in this weeks, if you havent got it i would recommend it.

     

    ITC cult fans might know his sister Gabrielle Drake who was in loads of those shows that are on itv4 at around 7pm on a weeknight.

     

     

    this is from wiki:

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Five_Leaves_Left.jpg

     

    Nicholas Rodney Drake (June 19, 1948 – November 25, 1974) was a British singer/songwriter.

     

    Drake is known for his gentle, autumnal songs and his virtuoso right hand finger picking technique. Although he recorded only three albums, critics and fellow musicians held his work in very high esteem. Drake failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, though, which fed his severe clinical depression. Since his death, Drake’s music has gained a significant cult following.

     

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Nick_Drake.jpg

     

     

    Biography

    Drake's father worked as an engineer. Although he was born in Rangoon, Burma, Nick and his family moved back to England when he was four, and Drake was brought up in Tanworth-in-Arden, a small village in the English county of Warwickshire. He went to public school at Marlborough College, where he learned to play the flute. As a young adult, Drake enrolled in Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge to study English literature. His older sister, Gabrielle Drake, is an actress.

     

    Drake was a fan of British and the emerging American folk music scene, including Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs. While a university student, Drake began performing in local clubs and coffee houses. He was discovered by Ashley Hutchings, the bass guitar player of the folk rock group Fairport Convention. Hutchings introduced Drake to the other members of Fairport Convention, folk singer John Martyn and producer Joe Boyd.

     

    Drake's associates convinced Island Records to sign the young singer/songwriter to a three-album contract. At the age of twenty, he released his first album Five Leaves Left (1969), which featured a chamber music quartet on several songs and had a light, breezy sound. Drake's second album Bryter Layter (1970) introduced a more upbeat, jazzier sound, with keyboards and several brass instruments. Both albums were produced by Boyd and featured several members of Fairport Convention.

     

    Many accounts of Drake focus on his mythology, but a large part of his enduring popularity is due to his meticulous songwriting, prosody, odd guitar tunings and lyricism.

     

    Drake was pathologically shy and resented touring. The few concerts he did play were usually in support of other British folk acts of the time, such as Fairport Convention or John Martyn and were often brief and awkward. Partially because of this, his work received little attention and sold poorly. Whilst in the recording studio, he was so shy that he'd always play into the wall so as to avoid people's gazes.

     

    Severely depressed and doubting his abilities as a musician, Drake recorded his final album Pink Moon (1972) in two two-hour sessions, both starting at midnight. The songs of Pink Moon were short (the album consists of eleven of them and lasts only 28 minutes), and emotionally bleak. Drake recorded them unaccompanied, in the presence of only a sound engineer (a piano was later overdubbed, by Drake himself, on the title track). Naked and sincere, it is widely thought to be his best work. After recording the album, Drake dropped off the master tapes at the front desk of Island Records' office building and then swore he was retiring from performing music, planning to train to be a computer programmer and possibly write songs for others to perform. The master tapes lay on a secretary's desk over the weekend and were not noticed until later the next week.

     

    However, none of Drake's plans materialized. In the next few months, Drake grew more depressed and maintained relationships only with close friends such as John Martyn, who wrote the title song of his 1973 album Solid Air for and about Drake and French singer Françoise Hardy. Friends from that time have described how much his appearance had changed: his nails grown; his hair and frame long and thin.

     

    In 1974, Drake felt well enough to write and record a few new songs. However, on November 25, he died of an overdose of the antidepressant Tryptizol. The coroner concluded that the cause of Drake's death was suicide, although this was disputed by friends and relatives. Antidepressants of that time were quite lethal if ingested in any higher dosage than the one prescribed. His mother recounts that he must have had difficulty sleeping and had got up in the night to have a bowl of cornflakes. It's unclear whether he took more pills to help him sleep or to take his own life.

     

    His simple gravestone in the Tanworth churchyard ([1]) bears the line 'And now we rise/And we are everywhere', taken from "From the Morning"â€â€the last song on the last album Nick lived to completeâ€â€a beautiful song on an otherwise stark album and one of his mother's favourites.

     

     

     

     

    This is the story:

     

    Bangles, Go-Go's team for CW reality show

    Wednesday, April 26 2006, 20:41 BST - by James Welsh

     

    Four members of The Bangles and The Go-Go's will be part of a new reality show to find America's next girl band.

     

    The show, which will be executive produced by America's Next Top Model's Anthony Dominici, is in the works for The CW's launch season. Susanna Hoffs and Vicki Peterson of The Bangles along with Charlotte Caffey and Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go's will be co-executive producers and are expected to appear on-camera during the show's run.

     

    yep thats the one!!!

    It definitely looks to be a cut above the usual sort of Rom-Com rubbish such as "Love Actually", I like the cast as well - actors from excellent comedies such as "Green Wing", "Man Stroke Woman" and "Peep Show".... And Jimmy Carr to boot.... :thumbup:

     

    have you seen Festival that was out last year?

    It was that bad...

     

    actually come to think of it actually i like the one star fun of scary movie 4 which i saw before it and that i thought was mostly c**p. however leslie nielsen made it alright. still a star at 80+ :lol:

    I'm just back from having seen this at the cinema, and I have honestly never seen a bigger pile of junk in my entire life. <_<

     

    I'd advise everyone to steer clear of this, avoid it like the plague even. :puke2:

     

    i suppose it was alright. but it looked like it was shot on a budget of one episode of american idol. also those shows have much more tension that was shown in the film, no wonder cinema had a dodgy year last year with all the tv shows on being better!!!

    What has Lost got to do with MI3 :unsure:

    I won't be going to see it cause it will no doubt be just another predictable Tom Cruice action film :zzz:

     

    looking at your flag must mean you watch it on something rte? well on channel 4 in nearly every break last night you had J.J. Abrams saying something like hi i'm the creator of lost, come see my new movie mi3!!!

     

    maybe i should have put the question as would you watch a franchise picture/sequel if you like the director but never have seen/hated the others in the franchise?