Amy Winehouse has tested negative for TB in a London hospital - but doctors are still stuggling to diagnose her mystery ailment.
The star has been in hospital since Monday when she collapsed at her home. She has been reported to be coughing up blood.
According to The Sun newspaper today, has been in an isolation ward since she was rushed to hospital. Friends and family have been barred from seeing her with only her father Mitch allowed into her room until the source of her ailment is discovered.
The damaged star is still desperate to play both Glastonbury and Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday celebration in London next weekend. However, it remains unclear if she will be discharged by then or if she'll be well enough.
Friday 27 June 2008
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Shirley Bassey
Artist: Shirley Bassey
Genre(s):
Pop
Other
Vocal
R&B: Soul
Dance
Easy Listening
Rock
Discography:
Get the Party Started (Remixes)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
Get The Party Started
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Legendary Performer (With The London Symphony Orchestr)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Thank You for the Years
Year: 2003
Tracks: 22
Sings The Standards
Year: 2001
Tracks: 22
Love Album
Year: 2001
Tracks: 20
The Fabulous Shirley Bassey
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Shirley Bassey - The Greatest Hits: This Is My Life
Year: 2000
Tracks: 22
Diamonds Are Forever: the Remix Album
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Magic Is You: The Very Best of Shirley Bassey
Year: 1998
Tracks: 18
Sings the Movies
Year: 1995
Tracks: 14
Thought I'd Ring You EP
Year:
Tracks: 6
Known to Americans well-nigh for her belting rendering of the theme to Goldfinger, the 1964 edition in the James Bond series (as well as 1971's Diamonds Are Forever and 1979's Moonraker), Shirley Bassey was one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the net half of the twentieth century. Known as Bassey the Belter and as well the Tigress of Tiger Bay, her other career in touring shows and floorshow brought her a recording contract with Philips by the late '50s. After stretch the round top of the British charts in 1959 with "As I Love You" and later "Strive for the Stars/Climb Every Mountain," Bassey was tapped to swing the musical theme song to the third James Bond vehicle. Her voice, bodacious and aphrodisiacal, conveyed the James Bond myth utterly and became a big hit in America. Though later graph placings in the U.S. were few, she continued to do well in Great Britain, France and the Netherlands into the mid-'70s.
Born in January 1937 in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales, Shirley Bassey was the youngest of vII children. Her parents, a Nigerian panama and an English woman, divorced in front she was trey geezerhood old, but they kept the family together for the most part, and Shirley was able to blab duets with her pal at kinsperson get-togethers. After finishing school, she establish a job at a local factory, and earned extra money singing at men's clubs after-hours. Bassey traveled more or less the land in revues during the early '50s, and made her great breakout in 1955 at a London Christmas show apt by comedian Al Read (though it was promoted by bandleader Jack Hylton, world Health Organization had caught Bassey's act at the nearby Albany Club). Soon after, Shirley Bassey began appearance in Read's revue, Such Is Life. The show ran for o'er a year, and gained her a recording shorten for Philips Records. "Banana Boat Song" hit the British Top Ten in early 1957, followed by her number one hits, 1959's "As I Love You" and 1961's "Reach for the Stars/Climb Every Mountain." A 1962 pairing with adapter Nelson Riddle increased her prestigiousness in America, and a vaunted resilient prove gained her headlining floater in both New York and Las Vegas during the early '60s. Popular recognition in the United States came in early 1965, when "Goldfinger" make number octad in the American charts, instantaneously becoming her signature vocal across the Atlantic. (Queerly though, it lost even the Top 20 in Great Britain.)
Bassey's hits in the U.K. continued into the mid-'70s, lED by Top Ten entries such as "Something," "For All We Know" and "Never Never Never." After the crowning achievement of her career, a 1977 Britannia Award for Best Female Solo Singer in the Last 50 Years, Shirley Bassey gained her own highly rated BBC-TV show in the later '70s, just step by step slowed dispirited her in use agenda during the side by side decennium. Semi-retired to Switzerland by 1981, she still emerged quite oftentimes, spurred by the recording of several telecasting specials and LPs, including a 1987 date with the synth-pop radical Yello. Bassey became much more visible during the '90s, opening a nightclub in Cardiff, and touring the world several times.
Saturday 14 June 2008
Sing along to Sound Of Music
A free singalong screening of The Sound Of Music in Toronto will celebrate the launch of CBC Television�s new reality series How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?
The screening is at 6:30 p.m. today at the Royal Cinema, 608 College St.
CBC�s Gavin Crawford will lead the vocal warmup with the great-grandchildren of Captain von Trapp. To top it all off, audience members are invited to come dressed as their favourite Sound Of Music song, object or character, for a costume contest.
A limited number of free tickets will be available at the Royal Cinema box office through today.
The CBC Television series debuts Sunday.
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Madonna hangs out with Mike Tyson - Daily Gossip
Welcome to the Daily Gossip: your daily stop-off to find out who in the world of music has been up to what.
Today�s top gossip:
Madonna hung out with an unlikely compadre at the Cannes Film Festival recently. Apparently she made a beeline for former boxer Mike Tyson at the VIP club, pushing a bunch of half-naked ladies out of the way to get near the man. They then laughed all night together (Daily Mirror).
From the papers:
Lily Allen has been told to head home after her topless antics on Flavio Briatore's yacht � she had been behaving a bit too boisterously (The Sun).
Former Pink Floyd man Roger Waters signed autographs for fans in Albert Dock, Liverpool (Daily Mirror).
Arctic Monkeys Alex Turner visited Agent Provocateur in London before heading to the pub (Daily Star).
Tina Turner has spoken about Amy Winehouse's troubles, saying, "Her problems started before her success and that's the problem. This girl's voice is wonderful, timeless. If she wants to help herself� of course she can and she must" (The Sun).
Adnan Ghalib, the former lover of Britney Spears, is supposedly threatening to leak a sex tape he filmed of the duo onto the internet (Daily Star).
Natalie Imbruglia wore a cap that said, "F*** ME I'M FAMOUS!" on it at the Cannes Film Festival (Daily Mirror).
Check back tomorrow for the next Daily Gossip. E-mail your spots to news@nme.com.
Today�s top gossip:
Madonna hung out with an unlikely compadre at the Cannes Film Festival recently. Apparently she made a beeline for former boxer Mike Tyson at the VIP club, pushing a bunch of half-naked ladies out of the way to get near the man. They then laughed all night together (Daily Mirror).
From the papers:
Lily Allen has been told to head home after her topless antics on Flavio Briatore's yacht � she had been behaving a bit too boisterously (The Sun).
Former Pink Floyd man Roger Waters signed autographs for fans in Albert Dock, Liverpool (Daily Mirror).
Arctic Monkeys Alex Turner visited Agent Provocateur in London before heading to the pub (Daily Star).
Tina Turner has spoken about Amy Winehouse's troubles, saying, "Her problems started before her success and that's the problem. This girl's voice is wonderful, timeless. If she wants to help herself� of course she can and she must" (The Sun).
Adnan Ghalib, the former lover of Britney Spears, is supposedly threatening to leak a sex tape he filmed of the duo onto the internet (Daily Star).
Natalie Imbruglia wore a cap that said, "F*** ME I'M FAMOUS!" on it at the Cannes Film Festival (Daily Mirror).
Check back tomorrow for the next Daily Gossip. E-mail your spots to news@nme.com.
East Coast SAG Leaders Say West Coast Leaders Lied
East Coast SAG leaders have charged that West Coast leaders lied to them when they assured them that their "solidarity" rally last Monday would be "pro-SAG" and would not be "remotely anti-AFTRA." Instead, they said, the rally became a blistering attack on AFTRA's deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. "We were lied to by" union president Alan Rosenberg and national executive director Doug Allen, an unnamed East Coast member of SAG's national executive committee told today's (Wednesday) Hollywood Reporter.Moreover, members of the Chicago local of SAG have reportedly sent a letter to Rosenberg asking that he call off the $75,000 "educational campaign" aimed at attacking the AFTRA contract with the AMPTP. Todd Hissong, president of the Chicago local, called the campaign "an unconscionable waste of our resources and our time. And Chicago's rank and file does not support it."
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Programs to fall for
With summer schedules already in place, it�s time for Canwest to unleash what they�re offering their viewers on Global Television and E! networks this fall.
Of course the unveiling of this new lineup wouldn�t be the same without rolling out the red carpet for some of Global�s favourite stars at Toronto�s Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre yesterday.
Former Bachelor Dr. Travis Stork was on hand to talk about his new show coming this fall to Global titled The Doctors.
The Colorado-based ER physician is bringing his own series to daytime � with practical advice, the latest information and a regular panel of top medical talent from all areas of expertise.
�We�re committed to providing the best in television entertainment, and this year proves no exception,� said Kathy Dore, President of Canwest Broadcasting. �With the amazing new array of new and returning prime-time offerings scheduled across Global and E!, we�ll engage viewers and advertisers with top notch programming while leveraging opportunities across multimedia platforms.�
Mike Holmes of Holmes On Homes announced details of his latest project to the press.
In a two-hour special documentary, Make It Right: New Orleans, Holmes and his crew will rebuild hope in the Lower 9th Quarter of New Orleans, the area worst hit when the levee broke in August 2005. They will be constructing one of five prototype homes with the Make It Right Foundation, a charitable organization launched by actor Brad Pitt, to be finished in time for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Other stars present at the gala event included Justin Bruening who will star in the new Knight Rider series, Metro columnists Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan from Home Heist, The Guard�s Steve Bacic, �da Kink In My Hair�s Ngozi Paul, and Survivor: Fans vs. Favourites Oscar �Ozzy� Lusth, James Clement and million-dollar winner Parvati Shallow.
A total of 13 new series will be added to the Global and E! lineups including 90210, The Doctors, Knight Rider and My Own Worst Enemy.
Returning fan favourites include Heroes, The Office, The Biggest loser, How I Met Your Mother, Survivor and House.
For more information, visit www.globaltv.com and www.eonline.com.
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Celebrity chef Keith Floyd collapses
Television chef Keith Floyd has reportedly been hospitalised after collapsing at his friend's pub.
According to reports, the chef became ill earlier this week while staying at The Chesters pub, run by his friend Glenn Geldard.
The cause of his collapse is not yet known but the chef's agent Stan Green told BBC Radio Stoke: "It's probably exhaustion. He was in hospital a year ago with a similar complaint."
"He recovered from that, so let's hope he recovers from this. We understand he's stable," he said.
Floyd's friend Geldard said: "He is not doing very well. I've just been down to the hospital now."
The chef recently returned from a trip to Thailand.
According to reports, the chef became ill earlier this week while staying at The Chesters pub, run by his friend Glenn Geldard.
The cause of his collapse is not yet known but the chef's agent Stan Green told BBC Radio Stoke: "It's probably exhaustion. He was in hospital a year ago with a similar complaint."
"He recovered from that, so let's hope he recovers from this. We understand he's stable," he said.
Floyd's friend Geldard said: "He is not doing very well. I've just been down to the hospital now."
The chef recently returned from a trip to Thailand.
New Grass Revival
Artist: New Grass Revival
Genre(s):
Country
Discography:
New Grass Anthology
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Live
Year: 1984
Tracks: 7
New Grass Revival, formed in 1972 by four-spot late members of the Bluegrass Alliance, flourished in a decade when numerous groups took traditional bluegrass and changed it to varying degrees. The group was successful sufficiency to have the group's identify become a generic mark: "newgrass." The band's image, with long hair and on occasion electrified instruments, as good as its melodious material contrasted greatly with standard (traditional) bluegrass Region like that played by Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, the Lilly Brothers, and Lester Flatt's isthmus. In damage of longevity, popularity, and exposure, the Revival, with its hip reputation, was perchance the nigh successful in rival against II Generation, Seldom Scene, the Country Gentlemen, and others.
The origins of New Grass Revival lay in the Bluegrass Alliance, which Sam Bush (vocals, tinker, guitar, mandolin) and Courtney Johnson (banjo, vocals) linked in 1970. At the fourth dimension, the Alliance as well featured bassist Ebo Walker and violinist Lonnie Peerce. Within a class after Bush's and Johnson's arrival, Curtis Burch (dobro, guitar, vocals) linked the circle. In 1972, Peerce left the band, and the left over members decided to continue under a new bring up -- New Grass Revival. The isthmus released their eponymous debut, Arriver of the New Grass Revival, afterwards that class on Starday Records.
After the release of their debut, Walker parted slipway with the circle, and the mathematical group replaced him with Butch Robbins, world Health Organization was but with the circle for a forgetful prison term. He was replaced by John Cowan, an Evansville, IN, native. This lineup was stable end-to-end the '70s, recording a phone number of albums for Flying Fish Records. As their name suggested, New Grass Revival never played traditional bluegrass -- all of the members brought elements of stone & roll, jazz, and megrims to the group's well-grounded. Consequently, certain portions of the bluegrass community detested them, but they besides gained a devoted following of listeners wHO believed they were moving the genre in a new, unused counselling.
In 1981, Johnson and Burch left the band, claiming they were tired of touring. Bush and Cowan continued the group, replacing them with banjoist Béla Fleck and mandolinist/guitarist Pat Flynn. New Grass Revival moved to Sugar Hill Records in 1984 and released their first base album featuring the new card, On the Boulevard. Two geezerhood later, the circle signed with EMI Records and released an eponymous album, which proven to be their breakthrough into the mainstream. Two of the singles from the album -- "What You Do to Me" and "Ain't That Peculiar" -- were minor hits on the land charts, and Fleck's case "Seven-spot by Seven" was nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Instrumental. Hold to a Dream, released in 1987, was just as successful as its predecessor, featuring the hits "Unconditional Love" and "Can't Stop Now," which both nearly made the Top 40.
In 1989, New Grass Revival released their third major-label album, Fri Night in America, which was yet another commercial success. "Callin' Baton Rouge" became their first base Top 40 exclusive, followed by the number 58 hit "You Plant Your Fields." Even though the band was more popular than of all time, Bush distinct to pull the male plug on the group afterward the release of Fri Night in America. Bush became a session musician, and Fleck went onto a very successful and well-thought-of solo career.
Magic Affair
Artist: Magic Affair
Genre(s):
Trance
Electronic
Techno
Dance
Discography:
Night of the Raven
Year: 1997
Tracks: 7
Break These Chains
Year: 1997
Tracks: 4
Phenomenia
Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
Magic Affair
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
In the Middle of the Night
Year: 1994
Tracks: 3
Give Me All Your Love
Year: 1994
Tracks: 3
Omen III CDS
Year: 1993
Tracks: 3
Omen
Year:
Tracks: 14
Formed by ex-Mysterious Art DJ/producer Mike Staab, Magic Affair emerged in 1994, comprising isaac Bashevis Singer Franca Morgano and knocker A.K. Swift. After issue the singles "Omen III" and "In the Middle of the Night," the club/dance-oriented outfit recorded their debut album. In 1995, original members were replaced by singers Jannet De Lara and Anita Davis, making their debut with "The Rhythm Makes You Wanna Dance"; followed by Phenomenia, co-produced by Cyborg; and a cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" for Queen Dance Traxx 1. In 1997, knocker Raz-Ma-Taz coupled in.
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin Set For Canada Dates
Rock supergroup LED ZEPPELIN are to play four shows in Toronto, Canada this summer (08), according to new Internet reports.
A news blog on Canadian music TV channel's Much Music website reports the August (08) dates at the Skydome/Rogers Centre stadium will officially be announced shortly.
No other shows will be announced, according to the report, and the band will not tour the U.S.
Led Zeppelin founders Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones reunited last year (07) for a one-off tribute show to late music mogul Ahmet Ertegun in December.
The trio has fuelled speculation of more dates with remarks made in a series of interviews since the December concert in London.
Reports suggest the threesome has been offered upwards of $200 million (GBP100 million) for a full-scale tour.
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VIDEO: Cusack Vs. McCain
John Cusack has decided to voice his political views about the upcoming presidential election and he's not beating around the "Bush" about who he's going to vote for.
In a pair of videos posted on YouTube, Cusack calls Republican nominee John McCain a war-profiteering clone of President George W. Bush.
"I know my opinion doesn't matter more than anyone else's and I just make films," he told the AP on Wednesday. "But I do feel you have to speak out, and that's what I'm doing."
The 30-second videos went out to members of the liberal political activist group MoveOn.org and will begin airing as television ads on Thursday. In one of them Cusack offers a "pop quiz" to voters, asking them, among other things: "Who supports keeping our troops in harm's way in Iraq but not the bipartisan G.I. bill of right to support them when they return home?"
The actor continues, saying that McCain and Bush both do, adding, "Bet you can't tell them apart."
Cusack, whose latest film, the war satire War Inc., deals with these very subjects, says he supports Democrat Barack Obama.
Check out one of the political ads below and tell us what you think!
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