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Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years The Lovin Spoonful - Summer in the city v Jeff Beck - Hi Ho Silver lining

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First, a caveat. We all know how quickly toddlers can get themselves into a potentially fatal predicament. You only have to close your eyes to yawn and you're liable to find them probing a plug with a sharp knife. All mothers are distracted, and all distraction is dangerous around small children: that is one element of risk it is impossible to eliminate from child-rearing. So it should be the case that we feel nothing but hair-raising, there-but-for-the-grace-of-God horror and pity for Shellie Ross. The Floridian mother was cleaning out her chicken coop last week when her two-year-old son, Bryson, fell into the family swimming pool and drowned. The reason this tragedy made international headlines, however, is that Ross continued to update her Twitter feed even as it unfolded. While paramedics fought to revive Bryson, she tweeted: "Please pray like never before, my 2 yr old fell in the pool." Five hours later, with her son pronounced dead, she posted a photograph of him on Twitter, with the tagline: "Remembering my million dollar baby." If you've ever wondered whether the Twitter generation recognises any limits to the acceptability of self-exposure – this, right here, is the front line. Some of Mrs Ross's 5,000 Twitter followers insist it is perfectly natural for her to share her fear and grief with her online friends. Others are boggle-eyed with disapproval. One blogger, Madison McGraw, points out that Mrs Ross is a Twitter addict who posted 74 tweets in the hours leading up to her son's death: "Perhaps if Mrs Ross had spent less time Tweeting and more time playing with her son," she concludes, "this would not have happened." She also suggests starting a fund "in Bryson Ross's name to sue his mother for negligence". Mrs Ross is not the first Twitterer in recent weeks to overstep the mark. Another American woman, Penelope Trunk, found herself blasted by a blunderbuss of online vitriol after she tweeted about having a miscarriage in the middle of a board meeting, expressing her relief that she would no longer have to go through the bother of arranging an abortion. Hardly less controversial were the wedding-day antics of Dana Hannah, a Maryland groom who interrupted his marriage service to update his relationship status on Facebook. He also tapped out a tweet reading: "Standing at the altar with @TracyPage where just a second ago, she became my wife! Gotta go, time to kiss my bride." He then posted a video of the whole thing on YouTube, for maximum online exposure. If, as social analysts argue, a social networking site is just another form of "community", then you could argue that these people are behaving entirely appropriately. Where once we would have joked, commiserated or wept with our geographical neighbours, now we might look for support to our fellow online villagers. As long as you get the support from somewhere, what's the difference? But it is different, in lots of ways. For one thing, the online community has no physical authenticity. It cannot put its arms around you, go to the hospital with you, dose you up with gin and put you to bed. The practical consolations that come from letting real people, carefully chosen, into your life, cannot compare with the glib sympathy of online passers-by. Social networking is really a form of disconnection – requiring you to look at a screen instead of at your life as it happens – and the relationships it breeds are similarly inadequate facsimiles of the real thing. Moreover, what comfort the online community does provide comes at a cost. For everyone who sends you a virtual hug or a sympathetic emoticon, there will be a Madison McGraw: someone who, rightly or wrongly, thinks you're the pits, and is not afraid to say so. In normal society, people are mercifully two-faced. They might think that your wedding stunt was naff, or that you indirectly killed your own son, but they will balk at telling you to your face. You can call it hypocrisy, or you can call it human kindness. Either way, it makes the real world a far better place to live. Source: Sunday Telegraph Is this what the twitter users have become? I cannot believe a mother can be so cold, with her child dying what does she do, she gets on her bloody laptop, not looking for a way to help her child, but telling her stupid followers what is happening to her child.

I was just posting this when my pc froze and I couldn't mention the source, which you are correct was the Independent on Sunday :rolleyes:

Throughout the last 50 years there always seems to be the search for the holy grail of number ones,(the xmas no. 1), but it seems only in the UK does it become fever pitch. There is no doubt in recent years the X factor has spoilt the battle for the coveted No.1. But down through the years there has been some good xmas number 1's, and a lot of terrible ones. Now what about the songs that reach no.2 at xmas, would they have been a better number 1? Here are the top 2 songs at xmas over the period from 1960 to 2000. 1960 1. Cliff Richard and the Shadows – I Love You 2. Elvis Presley – It's Now or Never 1961 1. Danny Williams – Moon River 2. Frankie Vaughan – Tower of Strength 1962 1. Elvis Presley – Return to Sender 2. Cliff Richard and the Shadows – The Next Time/Bachelor Boy 1963 1. The Beatles – I Want to Hold Your Hand 2. The Beatles – She Loves You 1964 1. The Beatles – I Feel Fine 2. Petula Clark – Downtown 1965 1. The Beatles – Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out 2. Cliff Richard – Wind Me Up 1966 1. Tom Jones – Green, Green Grass of Home 2. Donovan – Sunshine Superman 1967 1. The Beatles – Hello, Goodbye 2. The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour 1968 1. Scaffold – Lily the Pink 2. The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup 1969 1. Rolf Harris – Two Little Boys 2. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition – Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town 1970 1. Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knockin' 2. McGuinness Flint – When I'm Dead and Gone 1971 1. Benny Hill – Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 2. T Rex – Jeepster 1972 1. Little Jimmy Osmond – Long Haired Lover from Liverpool 2. Chuck Berry – My Ding-a-Ling 1973 1. Slade – Merry Xmas Everybody 2. Gary Glitter – I Love You Love Me 1974 1. Mud – Lonely This Christmas 2. Bachman Turner Overdrive – You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 1975 1. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 2. Greg Lake – I Believe in Father Christmas 1976 1. Johnny Mathis – When a Child Is Born (Soleado) 2. Showaddywaddy – Under the Moon of Love 1977 1. Wings – Mull of Kintyre/Girls' School 2. Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band – The Floral Dance 1978 1. Boney M – Mary's Boy Child 2. The Village People – YMCA 1979 1. Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall 2. Abba – I Have a Dream 1980 1. St Winifred's School Choir – There's No One Quite Like Grandma 2. John Lennon – (Just Like) Starting Over 1981 1. The Human League – Don't You Want Me 2. Cliff Richard – Daddy's Home 1982 1. Renée and Renato – Save Your Love 2. The Shakin' Stevens EP 1983 1. The Flying Pickets – Only You 2. Slade – My Oh My 1984 1. Band Aid – Do They Know It's Christmas? 2. Wham! – Last Christmas/Everything She Wants 1985 1. Shakin' Stevens – Merry Christmas Everyone 2. Whitney Houston – Saving All My Love for You 1986 1. Jackie Wilson – Reet Petite 2. The Housemartins – Caravan of Love 1987 1. The Pet Shop Boys – Always on My Mind 2. The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York 1988 1 Cliff Richard – Mistletoe and Wine 2 Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan – Especially for You 1989 1. Band Aid II – Do They Know It's Christmas? 2. Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers – Let's Party 1990 1. Cliff Richard – Saviour's Day 2. Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby 1991 1. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody/These Are the Days of Our Lives 2. Diana Ross – When You Tell Me That You Love Me 1992 1. Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You 2. Michael Jackson – Heal the World 1993 1. Mr Blobby – Mr Blobby 2. Take That – Babe 1994 1. East 17 – Stay Another Day 2. Mariah Carey – All I Want for Christmas Is You 1995 1. Michael Jackson – Earth Song 2. Mike Flowers Pops – Wonderwall 1996 1. Spice Girls – 2 Become 1 2. Dunblane – Knockin' on Heaven's Door/Throw These Guns Away 1997 1. Spice Girls – Too Much 2. Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh! 1998 1. Spice Girls – Goodbye 2. Chef (Isaac Hayes) – Chocolate Salty Balls 1999 1. Westlife – I Have a Dream/Seasons in the Sun 2. Cliff Richard – The Millennium Prayer 2000 1. Bob the Builder – Can We Fix It? 2. Westlife – What Makes a Man

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The world-renowned composer – labelled the "Godfather of World Music" by George Harrison – said he resented the attention from people who were too stoned to appreciate his music. In an interview with an Indian television channel, Shankar, now frail at 89, said he enjoyed their company at first but quickly tired of everything associated with the Sixties music scene. "All four came. All of them were very sweet but George was so special. He would corner me and ask me about the relation between spirituality and music, religion and music," he said. "He met me a few times and then I started teaching him. And that news spread all over. That did help me. When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way. "Then what happened was that I became a pop star all of a sudden. All young people, bearded, long hair, wearing beads and not normal. They would behave like Naga sanyasis [cannabis-smoking holy men] if they were permitted. And I was not happy at all. I would tell George, 'What have you done?'," he added. Shankar taught Harrison to play the sitar shortly after they met in 1966 and went on to influenced other bands including the Byrds and the Rolling Stones. Although he has talked of his disapproval of the 1960s culture before, his latest comments reveal his resentment for acts like The Who and Jimi Hendrix, who smashed-up their instruments, and the role of the Beatles in fuelling the drugs culture. He refused to follow The Who on stage at the Montreal Pop Festival. "I saw them kicking the instruments, burning the guitars and doing obscene things," he said. "It was all drugs and nobody normal there – the audience or the people on stage. I said I was cancelling my programme." He also described his shock when he arrived at the Woodstock during the first "Summer of Love" to find thousands of fans "stoned" and rolling in the mud. "It was raining, there was mud all over. And who was listening to music? They were all stoned. Completely stoned. And they were enjoying it," he said. "What I was not happy about was that though they gave me all the adoration and I was like a pop star. They all would sit down and say, 'Tell us guru'. And I said, I am not your guru. "You know it was a strange situation, at that time I found such talent but there were those dumb ones too. But they all were into drugs and that is what I objected to." But while he resented the fame and adulation, he said he could not resist the "free love". His tangled personal life includes two official marriages and other relationships from which he has three children including the Grammy-winning country-blues star Norah Jones. Despite his rejection of the Western-style celebrity his connection with the Beatles brought him, he remained close friends with George Harrison and Paul McCartney, he said. Source: Daily Telegraph

Troubled record company EMI is in the news again for all the wrong reasons, as its current owner Terra Firma turns on the bank that financed the £4bn ($6.5bn) takeover. Private equity dealmaker Guy Hands, fighting to salvage his reputation, thinks Citigroup set him up by not telling him other players had pulled out of the bidding war in 2007. For its part, Citigroup says it will defend its role in the proceedings "vigorously". But while the legal battle rages, EMI is still showing its peerless expertise in exploiting the crown jewels of its back catalogue. In September, EMI gave its balance sheet a much-needed boost with remastered CD editions of all the Beatles' original albums. There were also two expensive box sets, one in mono and one in stereo. Now, just when long-suffering collectors thought their wallets were safe from further attack, EMI has returned to the fray with two more repackage jobs. One is a "Christmas pack" containing four of the most acclaimed Beatles albums - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road. The other is an extremely limited apple-shaped USB drive containing the Beatles' works in MP3 and Flac formats - the only way to obtain the band's music legally as digital files, since none of their songs are available from download sites. see whole article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8411741.stm

It took more than 40 years, but John Lennon has finally got in his furious response at having Revolution, one of his most famous songs with the Beatles, unfavourably compared to the BBC radio drama Mrs Dale's Diary. The jibe that the Beatles had sold out to the establishment was made in 1968 in a letter to Tariq Ali's radical journal Black Dwarf – which had concluded that the Beatles' mortal rivals, the Rolling Stones, had superior radical credentials. Now, an apparently forgotten interview reveals how Lennon felt about the criticism at the time. "It's no good knocking down a few old bloody Tories!" Lennon raged, at the end of a year when Europe had been convulsed by student, trade union and political demonstrations and strikes. "The system's a load of crap. But just smashing it up isn't gonna do it." Today's music fans will be stunned by the circumstances of the interview: Lennon spoke for six hours at his home in Surrey, sustained only by macrobiotic bread and jam made by Yoko Ono, to an overawed first-year student from Keele University who had hitchhiked hundreds of miles to meet him after applying by a letter sent to a fan magazine. A snippet was duly published in the Keele student magazine, but most of the material stayed in the files of Maurice Hindle, now an author completing a book on Lennon and an academic at the Open University – until today, when he finally publishes the full version in the New Statesman. "Outside Weybridge station a Mini Cooper with smoked-glass windows skidded to a halt like something out of The Italian Job. In the driver's seat was Lennon, looking much as he does in the colour photograph included with the Beatles 1968 White Album faded blue Levi's jacket, white T-shirt and jeans, dirty white sneakers, his shoulder-length hair parted in the middle, and , wearing the now famous granny glasses. "We students crammed into the back of the Mini and John drove us up the bumpy private road that led to his house, Kenwood. In a sitting room at the back of the house we sat down on thick-pile Indian carpets around a low table, cross-legged. Yoko said little, as we all knew this was primarily John's day – and he said a lot. Apart from a short break, when Yoko fed us macrobiotic bread and jam she had made, Lennon talked continuously for six hours." Lennon was enraged by the open letter by John Hoyland published in Black Dwarf. The Beatles might have changed their image, but had lost none of their fire, he insisted. "OK so we mop-topped it to get where I am – I'm here," he said. "There have been millions of changes, of course, but I'm still doing exactly the same thing I was doing at school, or at art school, and as a Beatle. "I'm not going to get myself crucified if I can help it, and so I've compromised. But I just want to see someone who hasn't, and who's still alive.""I've always said that 'don't drop out man – just stay in and subvert it!'" Memories of the altercation were revived last year when most of the surviving protagonists were interviewed for various documentaries marking the anniversary of the 1968 protests and uprisings. John Lennon died on December 8 1980, shot on the doorstep of his Dakota building home in New York by Mark Chapman - but by then had long since made his peace with Tariq Ali, and regained his radical laurels.The American journal Counterpunch four years ago finally published in full a long 1971 interview by Ali and Robin Blackburn, originally for the Trotskyist Red Mole, in which Lennon agreed with Ali that he was becoming "increasingly radical and political". There was nothing new about this, Lennon insisted. "I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere." Source: The Guardian

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower The Hollies - The Baby v Ace - How Long

Instead of dueting with some youngsters he's never heard of, he should duet with Susan Boyle, now she knows something about shifting albums :)

Will be interesting to see if they will still be in the top sellers in the next decade.

Space Hoppers of course. What cars did they all own in 1970?

Uncle Albert-Admiral Halsey

Shaved Fish

The Turtles - She'd Rather Be With Me Moody Blues - Nights in white satin v Pink Floyd - See emily play

Because Ringo had hidden all his shoes. What was the Beatles' favourite game to play in their hotel rooms?

Quarry Bank School

Octopus's Garden

Another song that might work, and it could kill two birds with one stone. We all know Cowell hated David Bowie, and Cowell has certainly ruined music so what about..... ZM0e1m9T9HQ David Bowie - The man who sold the world