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Second sight
A YEAR ago this week, at the ramshackle premises of Skinnyfish Music in Darwin, the tension and excitement were high. The launch date was looming for the first solo album by an unusual performer: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, an Aboriginal musician, born blind, from Elcho Island in northeast Arnhem Land.
But Gurrumul -- quiet, seated on stage, still as a stone -- reaches to his listeners in another way. There is his sweetness and his tone of sadness. There is the complete absence in him of anger or political edge. There is the air of mystic insight that clings to the blind songman. There is another quality about him, too, which is quite hard to fix: it is not androgyny, but a universality, a being beyond age-group or gender. In this it is much like the appeal the young Michael Jackson, with his pure voice, held for a worldwide audience in his great days.
More http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24970270-5013575,00.html
ROBBIE DOES A JACKSON-STYLE COVER-UP
RECLUSIVE pop star Robbie Williams wrapped himself up like Jackson when he was snapped for the first time after returning to Britain.
Only instead of wearing a mask like Michael Jackson, the former Take That star hid behind a balaclava.
The camera-shy singer completed the cover-up with shades and a black bomber jacket when he visited a bicycle shop near the £7million rural bolthole he has bought in Compton Bassett, Wilts.
But that did not stop an army of fans descending on the shop in Swindon, where Robbie, 34, splashed out more than £10,000 on two Italian Bianchi bikes.
The bizarre appearance fuelled speculation that Robbie has moved back to Britain after several years in Los Angeles. Shop manager Freddie Platt said: “He just turned up out of the blue.”
One of the fans, singer-songwriter Emma Payn, 28, of Swindon, said: “I invited him to my gig this coming Saturday and he said he might head along. It’s unlikely he will but, hey, we’ll see.”
lol http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/67764/Robbie-does-a-*****-style-cover-up/
Second sight
A YEAR ago this week, at the ramshackle premises of Skinnyfish Music in Darwin, the tension and excitement were high. The launch date was looming for the first solo album by an unusual performer: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, an Aboriginal musician, born blind, from Elcho Island in northeast Arnhem Land.
But Gurrumul -- quiet, seated on stage, still as a stone -- reaches to his listeners in another way. There is his sweetness and his tone of sadness. There is the complete absence in him of anger or political edge. There is the air of mystic insight that clings to the blind songman. There is another quality about him, too, which is quite hard to fix: it is not androgyny, but a universality, a being beyond age-group or gender. In this it is much like the appeal the young Michael Jackson, with his pure voice, held for a worldwide audience in his great days.
More http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24970270-5013575,00.html
ROBBIE DOES A JACKSON-STYLE COVER-UP
RECLUSIVE pop star Robbie Williams wrapped himself up like Jackson when he was snapped for the first time after returning to Britain.
Only instead of wearing a mask like Michael Jackson, the former Take That star hid behind a balaclava.
The camera-shy singer completed the cover-up with shades and a black bomber jacket when he visited a bicycle shop near the £7million rural bolthole he has bought in Compton Bassett, Wilts.
But that did not stop an army of fans descending on the shop in Swindon, where Robbie, 34, splashed out more than £10,000 on two Italian Bianchi bikes.
The bizarre appearance fuelled speculation that Robbie has moved back to Britain after several years in Los Angeles. Shop manager Freddie Platt said: “He just turned up out of the blue.”
One of the fans, singer-songwriter Emma Payn, 28, of Swindon, said: “I invited him to my gig this coming Saturday and he said he might head along. It’s unlikely he will but, hey, we’ll see.”
lol http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/67764/Robbie-does-a-*****-style-cover-up/
Today in
Michael Jackson History
Michael Jackson History
1981 - Michael Jackson won the Favorite Male Artist, Soul/R&B and Favorite Album, Soul/R&B catagories at the 8th annual American Music Awards.
1989 - Michael Jackson was presented with the Special Award of Achievement by Eddie Murphy at the 16th annual American Music Awards.
2004 - Michael Jackson's lawyers made their initial demand for discovery (of evidence) in Jackson's child molestation case.
2005 - Michael Jackson issued a court-approved video statement on his Web site that responded to recent leaks of information concerning his pending child molestation trial. The trial started the next day.
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