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Victoria Beckham's Cheryl Sympathy
The Spice Girls singer - who befriended the Girls Aloud star when her husband David Beckham played on the 2006 England soccer squad alongside Cheryl's spouse Ashley Cole - has offered advice and support as her pal struggles to cope with allegations of Ash
on 2010-03-09 04:48:30
Geri Halliwell Wants Gavin
Geri Halliwell wants to star in 'Gavin and Stacey'.The Spice Girls singer was completely starstruck when she met the comedy show's writer and actor Ja...
on 2010-02-19 04:49:28
Beckham Backs Fashion Campaign
Singer-turned-designer Victoria Beckham has backed a campaign urging fashion houses not to employ underweight models. The former Spice Girls star has dabbled in style ventures for many years, and launched her first couture clothing collection in 2008.
on 2010-02-19 04:48:57
Ivyrise Review : Seasick Steve … Songs For Elizabeth
Seasick Steve is such a legend! His songs are blues rock as it’s meant to be and I just love listening to him.Not only that, but his life story is so interesting, I mean, there’s been a TV documentary made about him… how many real music
on 2010-02-10 04:50:53
Hotel Designer Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham has been offered £25 million to design a luxury hotel in Dubai.The former Spice Girls singer was personally approached by the ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who asked her to lend her talents to the project aft
on 2010-01-27 04:49:47
Spice Girls' Mamma Musical
The Spice Girls were inspired by 'Mamma Mia!' to make a musical about their careers.Mel B says she and her fellow bandmates - Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell - were keen to see their lives turned into a stage show simila
on 2010-01-26 04:51:46
Victoria Beckham signs up to Spice Girl musical
Victoria Beckham will get involved in the Spice Girls musical despite her hectic design career, Mel B has confirmed.
on 2010-01-25 04:48:09
Posh signs up to Spice Girls musical
Victoria Beckham will get involved in the Spice Girls musical despite her hectic design career, Mel B has confirmed.
on 2010-01-25 04:48:16
Fuller Confirms Spice Girls Musical
American Idol creator and Spice Girls founder Simon Fuller has confirmed he's developing a West End stage musical based on the all-conquering girlgroup.The former girl band, comprising of Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, GeriHalliwell, Melanie Brown and Mel
on 2010-01-22 04:49:03
Fuller plans Spice Girls musical
A stage production based on the Spice Girls and their music is being created by Mamma Mia! producer Judy Craymer for London's West End, music mogul Simon Fuller says.
on 2010-01-22 04:48:11
A Spice Girls musical is what we really, really want
Sporty, Ginger, Posh, Scary, Baby and…Musical? It’s true: A Spice Girls musical is in the works from Mamma Mia! producer Julie Craymer and Simon Fuller. Tentatively titled Viva Forever, the musical “will be a mix of fact and fiction, a s
on 2010-01-22 04:47:32
Spice Girls musical on the way
Producer Judy Craymer says her company will create and produce a new stage musical based on the songs of the girl-power group whose recordings have sold more than 75 million copies.
Musical theatre - Arts - Girl Power - Music - Spice Girls
on 2010-01-22 04:47:04
Emma Bunton: Spice Girls are all still friends
Spice Girl Emma Bunton, now a judge on Dancing On Ice, says the girls really are still good friends - although she won't confirm if the Spice Girls musical is happening.
on 2010-01-20 04:50:08
Victoria Beckham's Different Sons
Victoria Beckham is amazed at the differences between her three sons.The former Spice Girls singer-turned-fashion designer - who has Brooklyn, 10, Romeo, seven and Cruz, four, with her soccer star spouse David Beckham - says the trio are growing up quickl
on 2010-01-19 04:48:34
Fuller's Holiday Ruined By Thieves
He may have made a fortune from his Idol franchise (American Idol, Australian Idol, Canadian Idol - we could go on...) but former Spice Girls boss Simon Fuller had $100,000 in cash and jewellry stolen from his holiday villa in Uraguay. Fuller was on vacat
on 2010-01-15 04:49:47
Simon Fuller to launch new company
Simon Fuller, who launched the Spice Girls and Pop Idol, is to launch a new entertainment company.
on 2010-01-15 04:50:53
Victoria Beckham Amazed By Small Simon
Victoria Beckham can't get over how short Simon Cowell is.The former Spice Girls singer loves mocking her music mogul pal about his small stature - he stands at 5ft 8in - but admits he hates the jibes.She is quoted by gossip website Absolute Now as saying
on 2010-01-14 04:48:47
Beckham 'I Brought Positive Energy to American Idol Auditions'
Former Spice Girls star Victoria Beckham had to choose her words carefully when she sat in as a guest judge for American Idol auditions in Boston,Massachusetts and Denver, Colorado - because she didn't want to upset the less talented wannabes.The Brit was
on 2010-01-12 04:48:57
Mel B's Twin Wish
Mel B wants to get pregnant with twins this year.The former Spice Girls singer - who already has two daughters, Phoenix Chi, 10, and two-year-old Angel Iris, from two previous relationships - wants to extend her brood in 2010 with husband Stephen Belafont
on 2010-01-12 04:49:06
'Dance Your Ass Off' Announces Its New Host
When "Dance Your Ass Off" returns this summer, Marissa Jaret Winokur won't be the host. Today Oxygen announced its new host -- and it is one of the Spice Girls.
The plus-sized hit will now be hosted by Mel B [Melanie Brown], who was on the fift
on 2010-01-11 04:48:25
Mel C's Beckham Lie
Mel C uses Victoria Beckham to get tables in restaurants.The singer admits her fame is not as big as her former Spice Girls bandmate and says she is not afraid to invent meetings with the fashion designer in order to get what she wants.She confessed: "I s
on 2010-01-04 04:46:54
Beckham to Follow His Wife Into Fashion
Soccer star David Beckham is reportedly set to follow in his wife Victoria's fashionable footsteps by launching his own clothing range. Former Spice Girls star Victoria turned her back on singing to concentrate on her design label, which includes her Vict
on 2010-01-04 04:46:38
Victoria Beckham's Spice Delight
Victoria Beckham has said the Spice Girls reunion was her highlight of the decade.The former singer - who has sons Brooklyn, 10, Rome0, seven, and four-year-old Cruz with soccer star husband David Beckham - was delighted to get the chance to share a stag
on 2010-01-01 04:55:15
Victoria Beckham's Spice Christmas
The Spice Girls get drunk at Victoria Beckham's house every Christmas.The 'Wannabe' hitmakers - also consisting of Mel B, Mel C, Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton - pay a visit to the singer-turned-fashion designer and her soccer star husband David Beckham e
on 2009-12-22 04:48:29
Beckham to Spice Up Dancing on Ice
Victoria Beckham will lend her support to new reality show judge Emma Bunton by making a special appearance alongside her former Spice Girls bandmate on British TV series Dancing on Ice.The singer-turned-designer is one of several stars who have agreed to
on 2009-12-21 04:47:52
Cattiness is killing the Dolls
THE word is that the Pussycat Dolls - the scantily-clad singing group fashioned in the style of the Spice Girls - are planning to go their separate ways.
on 2009-12-10 04:56:55
Spice Girls musical to go ahead?
The Spice Girls are one step closer to being portrayed in a musical.
on 2009-11-28 04:48:21
Victoria Beckham Needs Feet Op
Victoria Beckham needs surgery to remove her bunions.The former Spice Girls star-turned-fashion designer has been advised by doctors to undergo a procedure to ease the painful condition - a deformity of the bone and joint which affects the big toe and can
on 2009-11-28 04:46:57
Spice Girls Musical Named
The Spice Girls musical will be called 'Viva Forever'.The girl group have chosen to name the proposed musical after their 1998 number one hit and the script for the show is presently being written.The musical - which will tell the rags-to-riches rise to f
on 2009-11-28 04:46:56
Beckham Dismisses Lively Collaboration
Victoria Beckham has dismissed reports she's hired Gossip Girl star Blake lively as the new face of her clothing collection.The former Spice Girls singer launched her own range of couture dresses last year (08) and she appeared in the line's advertising c
on 2009-11-21 04:47:37
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Rick in Oz wrote:
> http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=108239775&p=yx8z4x3xx&n
> =108240377
> star-studded Live 8 charity concert - because he fears they aren't popular
> enough.
> for the first time since 1998, when Halliwell quit the group.
> being reconsidered for the historic event, by confirming they have been
> dropped from the line-up, because they have lost their huge fanbase.
> is a political event, not a cultural one.
> an audience of at least 15 million people for the concert. It's a question
> of who is popular right now; that's the way it is.
> kids sing their stuff. But there just aren't enough people out there who
> would want to watch them."
Darn - from the thread header, I was hoping justice had finally been
done with a bladed tool.
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Bob, when's the last time you had a hit?
"Rick in Oz" wrote in message
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> star-studded Live 8 charity concert - because he fears they aren't popular
> enough.
together
> for the first time since 1998, when Halliwell quit the group.
are
> being reconsidered for the historic event, by confirming they have been
> dropped from the line-up, because they have lost their huge fanbase.
> is a political event, not a cultural one.
> an audience of at least 15 million people for the concert. It's a question
> of who is popular right now; that's the way it is.
> kids sing their stuff. But there just aren't enough people out there who
> would want to watch them."
>
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Geldof axes Spice Girls from Live 8
08/06/2005 - 11:10:43
Campaigning rocker Bob Geldof has axed the Spice Girls from this summer's
star-studded Live 8 charity concert - because he fears they aren't popular
enough.
The Wannabe stars hoped to reform the band for the gig and perform together
for the first time since 1998, when Halliwell quit the group.
But Geldof has ended weeks of speculation about whether the pop fivesome are
being reconsidered for the historic event, by confirming they have been
dropped from the line-up, because they have lost their huge fanbase.
He explains: "I can't afford to have bands who won't pull the crowds. This
is a political event, not a cultural one.
"If I get people who are currently selling 15 million albums, then there's
an audience of at least 15 million people for the concert. It's a question
of who is popular right now; that's the way it is.
"The whole thing with the Spice Girls isn't about my personal taste - my
kids sing their stuff. But there just aren't enough people out there who
would want to watch them."
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Spice Girls plan Greatest Hits album
06/06/2005 - 15:39:55
The Spice Girls are already planning to cash-in on their widely anticipated
Live 8 reunion - by releasing a Greatest Hits album.
The Spice Up Your Life stars - Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell, Victoria
Beckham, Melanie Brown and Emma Bunton - are set to reform to play alongside
acts including Paul McCartney, Mariah
Carey and Elton John at the Hyde Park concert on July 2.
Despite reports earlier this week that the girl group had been axed from the
event, singer Brown has confirmed they are all keen to play and revealed
plans for a Greatest Hits release to coincide with the historic event.
Scary Spice says: "We'll get back together because we all want to. I know
everyone is up for it.
"There is going to be a Greatest Hits Album and we've got loads of new songs
that nobody has heard yet."
The girls are also reportedly planning to release a new single penned by
song- writer Richard Stannard, who was responsible for several of their
hits - including their debut chart-topper Wannabe.
A reunion would be the first time the full five-piece has performed since
1998.
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'Change the world' call by Geldof
06/06/2005 - 09:18:39
Live 8 organiser Bob Geldof appealed to people to help "tilt this world a
little bit on its side" as he launched a lottery for the star-studded
concert today.
The event in London's Hyde Park - featuring Madonna, Robbie Williams and
Paul McCartney - will draw attention to poverty and debt in the developing
world.
Members of the public can win a pair of the 150,000 tickets available by
texting the answer to a straightforward question.
Today Geldof appealed to the country to take part and help to bring an end
to the spectre of "children dying on our television screens".
Appearing on GMTV, he said: "This country can maybe stop that. It's too
great an opportunity to miss and I think we are going to do it."
He said it would be a chance for people to feel they were "changing the
world a little bit" and for the whole country to feel it was "doing
something together".
"We have gone on this long journey together over 20 years," he said.
"It is finally going to pitch up against the doors of the leaders of the
world's richest countries at the beginning of July.
"Honestly, what we can maybe do is just change this world for the better."
Geldof said people should not despair if they do not win tickets as there
are plans to screen the July 2 event live at parks across the country.
Asked about rumours of a Spice Girls reunion for the concert, he said he had
spoken to band member Geri Halliwell last night, and they were "trying
really hard" to do it.
"There is a great willingness but they have a past. With divorced couples,
it takes years to be friends again."
Asked about suggestions that the event would not make a difference, he said:
"I genuinely think it is doing, otherwise I wouldn't bother."
Geldof appealed to people to text for tickets, saying: "Please get on your
texts. Go for it! We will, I promise you, tilt this world a little bit on
its side."
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"Rick in Oz" wrote in
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> http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/55232004.htm
> May 31, 2005, 6:04:23
They should have asked The Corrs - except unfortunately the Corrs have
already been booked for that day.
The Corrs do a tremendous amount of charity work. Sharon is going to be
at the Nelson Mandela 46664 Arctic concert in the next couple weeks.
They were personally asked by Nelson Mandela to play at the first 46664
event. And she and her husband support the Township Challenge that sends
Irish builders to South Africa to build homes for the locals - and her
husband, an Irish lawyer, actually worked on the homes.
They did a charity concert that raised over 100,000 pounds to put a
research wing on the hospital that treated their late mother for a rare
lung disease.
Compare to them, the Spice Girls are a joke. The Corrs have sold 45
million albums worldwide - including a hit in the US with "Breathless"
and are the second biggest Irish band after U2.
And they write their own songs, play their own instruments, and their
stuff you can actually listen to and understand the words, mixing pop
rock and Irish traditional.
And they're better looking than the Spice Girls will ever be. (Which is,
of course, the only thing I personally care about!)
--
Richard Steven Hack
richardstevenhack@SPAMHELLNOsbcglobal.net
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"Rick in Oz" wrote in
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> May 31, 2005, 6:04:23
> LIVE 8 charity concert - because the event's organisers fear the
> band's music undermines the show's serious political message about
> world poverty.
And THAT's why they were axed!
When you run a charity concert, you want STARS - not WANNABES!
> The corporation also believes there wouldn't be enough time for the
> Spice Girls to perform at the show, because 16 major acts, including
> SIR PAUL McCARTNEY, STING and U2 have already agreed to sing at the
> London leg of the July (05) event in the capital's Hyde Park.
> A BBC spokesman explains, "Many of the biggest rock stars in the world
> have agreed to take part, and the Spice Girls just don't fit.
Got that right. Compare these bimbos to Sting and U2? Gimme a break!
> An insider tells British newspaper THE SUN, "The girls will be gutted
> by the decision."
Better they were gutted by Angelina Jolie and some of her knives.
--
Richard Steven Hack
richardstevenhack@SPAMHELLNOsbcglobal.net
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The YELLOW singer?
"Rick in Oz" wrote in message
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> http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/56642004.htm
> June 3, 2005, 6:43:59
> SPICE GIRLS to perform at the star-studded charity concert.
> HALLIWELL, VICTORIA BECKHAM, MELANIE CHISHOLM, MELANIE BROWN and EMMA
> BUNTON - were axed from the event, over fears they would undermine the
> show's serious political message about world poverty.
perform
> together for the first time since 1998, when Halliwell quit the group.
> He says, "I hope the Spice Girls are doing Live 8, because they were a
> phenomenon.
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Live 8 Martin Backs The Spice Girls
June 3, 2005, 6:43:59
MARTIN CAMPAIGNS FOR SPICE GIRLS' LIVE 8 REUNION
COLDPLAY frontman CHRIS MARTIN is urging LIVE 8 organisers to allow THE
SPICE GIRLS to perform at the star-studded charity concert.
The YELLOW singer is disgusted by reports the WANNABE stars - GERI
HALLIWELL, VICTORIA BECKHAM, MELANIE CHISHOLM, MELANIE BROWN and EMMA
BUNTON - were axed from the event, over fears they would undermine the
show's serious political message about world poverty.
And he is lobbying for Live 8 bosses to allow the band to reform and perform
together for the first time since 1998, when Halliwell quit the group.
He says, "I hope the Spice Girls are doing Live 8, because they were a
phenomenon.
"They should get back together and do it."
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:11:04 +1000, "Rick in Oz"
wrote:
>http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/55782004.htm
>June 1, 2005, 6:49:38 SPICE GIRLS RECONSIDERED FOR LIVE 8
>LIVE 8 charity concert - after the event's organisers axed the band from the
>event over fears they would undermine the show's serious political message
>about world poverty.
But A-Ha, Joss Stone and the Scissor Sisters are
'"serious" enough acts for them?
--
Bigolhomo
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Spice Girls Reconsidered For Live 8
June 1, 2005, 6:49:38 SPICE GIRLS RECONSIDERED FOR LIVE 8
The SPICE GIRLS are being reconsidered for this summer's (05) star-studded
LIVE 8 charity concert - after the event's organisers axed the band from the
event over fears they would undermine the show's serious political message
about world poverty.
The WANNABE stars - GERI HALLIWELL, VICTORIA BECKHAM, MELANIE CHISHOLM,
MELANIE BROWN and EMMA BUNTON - hoped to reform the band and perform
together for the first time since 1998, when Halliwell quit the group.
But bosses for TV giant the BBC - which is broadcasting the event - snubbed
the fivesome, insisting the pop act is too trivial for the historic event,
which aims to persuade politicians to cancel Third World debt, double the
aid budget and rewrite global trade laws so developing countries can protect
their economies.
The corporation also claimed there wouldn't be enough time for the Spice
Girls to perform at the show, because 16 major acts, including SIR PAUL
McCARTNEY, STING and U2 have already agreed to sing at the London leg of the
July (05) event in the capital's Hyde Park.
But the co-organiser of the concert, SIR BOB GELDOF says the Spice Girls
will perform at the event, if they manage to overcome their differences.
He says, "I spoke to them this morning and it's looking very good.
"There's a lot of stuff they have got to sort through. They are trying to
resolve differences of many years."
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"Ambrose" wrote in message
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> long before now. Mixing rock and politics is always a joke. The money for
> George Harrisons the Concert for Bangledesh got so lost in the
> bureaucratic
> pipeline tha nothing got to the starving people but a lot of local
> Bangladeshy middle men got rich. The Same with Live Aid , who wants to
> give
> money for starvation when it winds up buying AK-47's and ammunition for
> various competing rebel factions, and I know reporters who researched the
> We
> Are The World proceeds and never could come up with the final destination
> of
> that money. And what of the Show Business Aids events in Hollywood which
> devolved into expensive sex pparties with less that 5-10% of the procceds
> going to research or help programs for homebound painfully ailing
> suferers.
> Don't watch the show or buy the video or cd, a bunch of lipsynching
> celebs getting their egos stroked is a waste of your precious time. I you
> want to help, find a chartity with no overhead which directs 80-90% of
> money
> raised to research or those in need. Anyway who says the Spice girls are
> less serious than say drunken never had a hit outside the UK nobodies like
> the painfully overprduced Oasis. At least the Spice Girls had a couple
> tunes
> that were actual hits in the US.
> Ambrose
They don't want singers who live in mansions and have no political message.
They want celebs like U2, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand etc. who live in
mansions and whine about poverty.
Personally I'm getting kind of pissed off with these rich tossers, telling
the rest of the world to worry about poverty. How about the next time Bono
makes a transatlantic flight, he sits in economy and gives the 2 grand saved
to charity. Or he sells one of his 4 American properties and gives the
proceeds - quietly - to a proper aid charity.
The fact is these people have made millions through capitalism. They have no
intention of abandoning their rock star lifestyle, no matter how many lives
they could save. So to listen to them whining about "poverty" really does my
head in.
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"Rick in Oz" wrote in message
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> http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/55232004.htm
> May 31, 2005, 6:04:23
> charity concert - because the event's organisers fear the band's music
> undermines the show's serious political message about world poverty.
> MELANIE BROWN and EMMA BUNTON - hoped to reform the band and perform
> together for the first time since 1998, when Halliwell quit the group.
> snubbed the fivesome, insisting the pop act is too trivial for the
historic
> fund-raising event, which aims to persuade politicians to cancel Third
World
> debt, double the aid budget and rewrite global trade laws so developing
> countries can protect their economies.
> Girls to perform at the show, because 16 major acts, including SIR PAUL
> McCARTNEY, STING and U2 have already agreed to sing at the London leg of
the
> July (05) event in the capital's Hyde Park.
> A BBC spokesman explains, "Many of the biggest rock stars in the world
have
> agreed to take part, and the Spice Girls just don't fit.
> pop act didn't seem right for this kind of event.
> rock stars and bands wanting to do their bit, there just won't be time for
> the Spice Girls. Perhaps if five or six bands pulled out it would be
> different, but the truth is it's just not going to happen."
the
> decision."
long before now. Mixing rock and politics is always a joke. The money for
George Harrisons the Concert for Bangledesh got so lost in the bureaucratic
pipeline tha nothing got to the starving people but a lot of local
Bangladeshy middle men got rich. The Same with Live Aid , who wants to give
money for starvation when it winds up buying AK-47's and ammunition for
various competing rebel factions, and I know reporters who researched the We
Are The World proceeds and never could come up with the final destination of
that money. And what of the Show Business Aids events in Hollywood which
devolved into expensive sex pparties with less that 5-10% of the procceds
going to research or help programs for homebound painfully ailing suferers.
Don't watch the show or buy the video or cd, a bunch of lipsynching
celebs getting their egos stroked is a waste of your precious time. I you
want to help, find a chartity with no overhead which directs 80-90% of money
raised to research or those in need. Anyway who says the Spice girls are
less serious than say drunken never had a hit outside the UK nobodies like
the painfully overprduced Oasis. At least the Spice Girls had a couple tunes
that were actual hits in the US.
Ambrose
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By Josh Grossberg
8 minutes ago
Bob Geldof is at it again.
Two decades after he masterminded Live Aid, the largest charity concert
ever mounted, to fight famine in Africa, the 58-year-old
singer-activist has announced an encore.
On Tuesday, Geldof unveiled a Live Aid sequel, dubbed Live 8, that aims
to be bigger than the original and will feature a who's-who of the top
music acts in the world, including Paul McCartney, U2, the Rolling
Stones, Madonna and a reunited Pink Floyd, participating in a series of
mega-concerts.
The free gigs will be staged July 2 in London, Paris, Berlin,
Philadelphia and Rome and simulcast on television and the Internet.
At a news conference, Geldof stated that the goal this time around will
be to raise awareness of poverty in Third World countries, particularly
in African nations, ahead of the annual G8 meeting in Britain attended
by the leaders of the world's most powerful industrial nations, among
them President George W. Bush.
"We don't want people's money. We want them," the Irish popster told a
news conference Tuesday, adding that the July 6-8 G8 summit offered a
"unique opportunity for Britain to do something unparalleled in the
world...to tilt the world a little bit on its axis in favor of the
poor."
Coldplay, R.E.M., Mariah Carey and the Cure are among those performing
with McCartney, Madonna and U2 in London; Dave Matthews Band, Bon Jovi,
Stevie Wonder, Sarah McLachlan, Will Smith, Jay-Z and P. Diddy will
take the stage in Philadelphia; Jamiroquai, Placebo, Andrea Bocelli
and Youssou N'Dour are among the headliners in Paris; Lauryn Hill,
Brian Wilson, A-ha and Crosby, Stills and Nash will lead the Berlin
bill; and Duran Duran, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw will command the stage
in Rome.
Meanwhile, several other A-list acts, including Pink Floyd, the Rolling
Stones, Usher, Snoop Dogg and Destiny's Child, have signed on to
perform, but there's no immediate word on where they'll be playing.
Speculation of a pending Spice Girls reunion was quickly squashed by
Victoria Beckham's publicist--not that the Girl Power group would have
been welcomed. According to an account in London's Daily Mirror, Live 8
organizers rejected the quintet out of concern its inclusion might
undercut the seriousness of the event.
The original Live Aid, held simultaneously in 1985 at London's Wembley
Stadium and Philadelphia's RFK Stadium, featured an all-star lineup led
by McCartney, David Bowie, Queen, Duran Duran, U2, Bob Dylan and Led
Zeppelin.
Geldof says Live 8 should exceed its predecessor in terms of
viewership--it will be beamed worldwide to more than 2 billion people
over various cable and satellite channels. AOL will carry the shows
live on the Internet.
Tickets for the London event, which will take place at Hyde Park, will
be given out via a lottery on June 6. Tickets for the other
venues--Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Philly's Museum of Art, Rome's
Circus Maximus, and a venue in Paris to be announced--will be
distributed via a similar lottery system.
Live 8 organizers hope the massive turnout will help pressure G8
leaders to take immediate action to forgive Third World debt and
establish programs to eradicate poverty and injustice in developing
countries.
Organizers are also hoping to stage concerts in the three other G8
countries: Canada, Russia and Japan.
Here's a complete rundown of the acts and venues confirmed thus far.
LONDON: Mariah Carey, Coldplay, Dido, Keane, Elton John, Annie
Lennox, Paul McCartney, Muse, Razorlight, REM, Scissor Sisters, Snow
Patrol, Stereophonics, Sting , Joss Stone, Robbie Williams, U2,
Velvet Revolver, Bob Geldof, the Killers, Madonna, The Cure
BERLIN: A-ha, Bap, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Die Toten Hosen, Peter
Maffay, Brian Wilson
PHILADELPHIA: Will Smith, Bon Jovi, Maroon 5, Dave Mattews Band, Sarah
McLachlan, Rob Thomas, Keith Urban, Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, 50 Cent,
Kaiser Chiefs, P. Diddy
PARIS: Andrea Bocelli, Craig David, Calo Gero, Jamiroqaui, Kyo,
Yannick Noah, Youssou N'Dour, Placebo, Axelle Red, Johnny Halliday,
Manu Chao, Renaud
ROME: Irene Grandi, Faith Hill, Jovanotti, Tim McGraw, Nek, Laura
Pausini, Duran Duran, Vasco Rossi, Zucchero,
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Spice Girls Axed From Live Aid 8
May 31, 2005, 6:04:23
The SPICE GIRLS have been axed from this summer's (05) star-studded LIVE 8
charity concert - because the event's organisers fear the band's music
undermines the show's serious political message about world poverty.
The WANNABE stars - GERI HALLIWELL, VICTORIA BECKHAM, MELANIE CHISHOLM,
MELANIE BROWN and EMMA BUNTON - hoped to reform the band and perform
together for the first time since 1998, when Halliwell quit the group.
But bosses for TV giant the BBC - which is broadcasting the event - have
snubbed the fivesome, insisting the pop act is too trivial for the historic
fund-raising event, which aims to persuade politicians to cancel Third World
debt, double the aid budget and rewrite global trade laws so developing
countries can protect their economies.
The corporation also believes there wouldn't be enough time for the Spice
Girls to perform at the show, because 16 major acts, including SIR PAUL
McCARTNEY, STING and U2 have already agreed to sing at the London leg of the
July (05) event in the capital's Hyde Park.
A BBC spokesman explains, "Many of the biggest rock stars in the world have
agreed to take part, and the Spice Girls just don't fit.
"It's a political rally to put pressure on world leaders and their kind of
pop act didn't seem right for this kind of event.
"There was also a practical problem that with so many great international
rock stars and bands wanting to do their bit, there just won't be time for
the Spice Girls. Perhaps if five or six bands pulled out it would be
different, but the truth is it's just not going to happen."
An insider tells British newspaper THE SUN, "The girls will be gutted by the
decision."
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The SPICE GIRLS have been axed from this summer's (05) star-studded
LIVE 8 charity concert - because the event's organisers fear the band's
music undermines the show's serious political message about world
poverty.
The WANNABE stars - GERI HALLIWELL, VICTORIA BECKHAM, MELANIE
CHISHOLM, MELANIE BROWN and EMMA BUNTON - hoped to reform the band and
perform together for the first time since 1998, when Halliwell quit the
group.
But bosses for TV giant the BBC - which is broadcasting the event -
have snubbed the fivesome, insisting the pop act is too trivial for the
historic fund-raising event, which aims to persuade politicians to
cancel Third World debt, double the aid budget and rewrite global trade
laws so developing countries can protect their economies.
The corporation also believes there wouldn't be enough time for the
Spice Girls to perform at the show, because 16 major acts, including
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY, STING and U2 have already agreed to sing at the
London leg of the July (05) event in the capital's Hyde Park.
A BBC spokesman explains, "Many of the biggest rock stars in the
world have agreed to take part, and the Spice Girls just don't fit.
"It's a political rally to put pressure on world leaders and their
kind of pop act didn't seem right for this kind of event.
"There was also a practical problem that with so many great
international rock stars and bands wanting to do their bit, there just
won't be time for the Spice Girls. Perhaps if five or six bands pulled
out it would be different, but the truth is it's just not going to
happen."
An insider tells British newspaper THE SUN, "The girls will be gutted
by the decision." (CM/WNTSU)
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/Music/Come-together-right-now/2005/05/27/11171298
89779.html?oneclick=true
Come together right now
May 28, 2005
The Beatles' favourite studio has reopened its doors after decades of being
closed to the public, writes Glenn Frankel.
The four long-haired young men from Liverpool were a half-hour late when
they entered Studio Two at EMI Records on Abbey Road on June 6, 1962. They
raced nervously through a ragged set of songs, while a producer named George
Martin listened to the audition from the control booth upstairs.
Afterward, Martin delivered an hour-long lecture on what they needed to do
to make a professional record.
The rest, as they say, is history. Despite his initial misgivings, Martin
signed the Beatles to a recording contract, albeit for a rock-bottom rate.
The group came back three months later to record their first single, Love Me
Do. It peaked at No. 17 on the British charts. But their next attempt,
Please Please Me, launched a run of 12 No. 1 singles in a row and a dozen
gold albums, and the most successful pop music group in history started down
the long and winding road to fame, fortune and Yoko Ono.
The Beatles crossed Abbey Road, location of the legendary London studio, for
the cover of the last LP they recorded. Ever since, the Abbey Road Studios,
especially Studio Two, have been part of the legend - the place where, by
EMI's count, 192 of the Beatles's 202 songs were recorded. Its significance
was enshrined when the Beatles named the last LP they recorded Abbey Road,
complete with iconic album cover of the four band members crossing the
street the studio complex is named after. (Let It Be, recorded earlier, was
the last album released.)
For years, pilgrims, fanatics and the mildly curious have traversed the
crossing and stood outside the gates of the studios - by EMI's informal
count, between 100,000 and 120,000 walk past each year. But except for a
brief stretch in 1982, its doors have remained closed to the public.
Until now. Last Saturday, Abbey Road's owners opened its gates for a film
festival honouring the 25th anniversary of the studio's work as one of the
world's largest producers of movie music. Nearly two dozen films are being
shown over 16 days in Studio One, the cavernous, auditorium-like room where
the movie scores are performed and recorded. But for many, the main
attraction is just across the hall: Studio Two is also open for
festival-goers.
EMI veterans say the studio looks much the way it did when the Beatles
worked there between 1962 and 1969. A soundproof iron door that looks like
it could have done service on a German U-boat still guards the entrance.
Inside, white paint is peeling from parts of the acoustic panels on the
walls, and the parquet floor bears scuff-marks from hundreds of amplifiers
and instruments that have been hauled over it. There are a half-dozen sets
of multicoloured lights that were installed at the demand of the Beatles,
who felt it gave the room a warmer, more psychedelic ambience.
The cover of the Abbey Road Beatles album.
"You can feel the ghosts when you're in here, and you can sense the
atmosphere as well," said David Holley, EMI's managing director. "It's
almost as if everyone who's ever worked here has left a sound behind."
Located in posh, leafy St John's Wood in north-west London, Abbey Road began
life in the 1830s as an elegant, nine-bedroom estate house with a long, lush
garden at the back. EMI bought it in the late 1920s and turned it into one
of the world's first recording studios.
Musical history was made here long before the Beatles arrived. Edward Elgar,
one of Britain's most distinguished composers and conductors, inaugurated
the studio in 1931 with a historic recording of Land of Hope and Glory,
Britain's unofficial national anthem, by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Violin prodigy Yehudi Menuhin, then 16, came to record the next year,
followed by cellist Pablo Casals, violinist Jascha Heifetz and pianist Artur
Schnabel.
Hundreds of actors, musicians, singers and songwriters made their way to
Abbey Road: Fred Astaire, Noel Coward, Paul Robeson, Glenn Miller, Dinah
Shore, Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis, Bing
Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Bassey, Dirk Bogarde, Burt Bacharach and
Ravi Shankar. And, lest we forget, Herman's Hermits, Cilla Black and Olivia
Newton-John. Plus an entire generation of British comedians, including Peter
Sellers, Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore and the various casts of The Goon
Show, Beyond the Fringe and That Was the Week That Was.
Music for the three parts of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was recorded in
Studio One, as were the soundtracks for director Anthony Minghella's three
major films: the Oscar-winning The English Patient, The Talented Mr Ripley
and Cold Mountain - all of the music composed by Gabriel Yared. The remake
of Alfie and the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea are among the latest
soundtracks to be recorded here.
But the Beatles are still Abbey Road's defining faces. In the early days,
they were considered just another musical act that needed to abide by the
studio's strict code of conduct. They wore coats and ties when they came to
record, and the sessions were conducted in three-hour blocks, with long
breaks for tea and lunch. Gradually, as the hits came and the money started
to flow, the Beatles took over. The coats and ties came off, and the band
started pulling legendary all-nighters. With Beatlemania exploding outside
the studio gates, the band saw Abbey Road as a refuge where they could work
uninterrupted, sleep when they needed to, then work some more.
The drugs flowed at times, too. In his 1979 memoir All You Need Is Ears,
Martin recalls John Lennon freaking out and collapsing one evening in 1967
while making Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Martin helped him to the
roof to get some fresh air, then feared Lennon might fall off. Martin stayed
with Lennon until the crisis subsided.
The first couple of Beatles albums were each recorded in one long sprint,
never taking more than a few days. But Sgt Pepper took several months. The
climax came with A Day in the Life, the album's concluding song, when Lennon
and Paul McCartney commandeered Studio One, hired 39 classical musicians and
requested that they all come formally attired. McCartney provided funny hats
for each player and a bright red nose for the conductor.
After the Beatles broke down and broke up in 1970, Pink Floyd took over as
Studio Two's unofficial house band. Since then Radiohead, Ozzy Osbourne, the
Spice Girls and a host of other acts have made the studio their home.
McCartney was back last year with the slick, powerful band he has performed
with in concert in recent years to lay down a series of tracks for an album
due later this year.
"None of this stuff was supposed to have lasted," novelist Nick Hornby, a
pop music aficionado, writes in his introduction to the film festival guide.
"The three-minute pop songs and the one-line jokes were intended for
immediate consumption, but it didn't happen like that." Instead, the story
of Abbey Road "must also be the story of 20th- and 21st-century popular
culture, pretty much all of which is dependent on recorded sound".
The Washington Post
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Geldof confirms Live 8
27/05/2005 - 07:24:06
Bob Geldof has confirmed charity concert Live 8 will go ahead this summer -
but warned music fans the gig will not be "a Live Aid 2".
At the 50th Ivor Novello Awards in London last night, where Geldof and his
Band Aid 20 co-organiser Midge Ure picked up the Best Selling UK single
prize gong for Do They Know It's Christmas?, the
musicians told of their plans for the musical extravaganza in the British
capital's Hyde Park.
Geldof said: "What started 20 years ago is coming to a political point in a
few weeks.
"There's more than a chance that the boys and girls with guitars will
finally get to turn the world on its axis. What we do in the next five years
is seriously, properly, historically, politically important."
Former Ultravox star Ure added: "We'll have all the big names we can find.
It's big and it's as petrifying as the build-up to Live Aid, if not more
so."
As Sting presented Ure and Geldof with their Novello trophy, he confirmed he
would be joining the superstar line-up, which is rumoured to include U2,
Madonna, Paul McCartney and a Spice Girls reunion.
Sting explained: "Bob called me up and said I was doing it. He doesn't ask
you, he tells you."
The organisers of Live 8 aim to raise awareness of poverty in Africa as part
of the Make Poverty History campaign.
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http://www.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1183321,00.html
Park Life For Spice Girls
The Spice Girls are set for a sensational reunion at Live Aid II this
summer, it is being claimed.
Scary, Posh, Sporty, Ginger and Baby have secretly met up to thrash out
plans to appear at the July gig in London's Hyde Park, several papers have
reported.
They have not performed together since 2000 - two years after Geri Halliwell
walked out on them - but are expected to confirm they are back as a fivesome
next week.
Just last week Mel B admitted they had been talking about reforming when she
appeared on GMTV.
An insider told the Daily Mirror: "The girls have all signed up to do this
and they're really looking forward to it.
"It is not going to be officially announced until next week but all the
parties have signed on the dotted lines.
"It's going to be absolutely amazing. Nobody can quite believe it is
happening, but the cause is so worthwhile."
But the girls will not be headlining as a Who's Who of rock and pop is
expected to appear at the event, called Live 8.
Other stars appearing include U2, Sir Elton John, Madonna, Robbie Williams,
Coldplay, The Who, Eminem, The Rolling Stones and Oasis.
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"Rick in Oz" wrote in
news:gnmje.399$oj7.5534@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au:
> Melanie Brown Hints At Spice Girl Re-union
> May 20, 2005, 6:47:16
> about to get back together.
Now WHAT did I say about that?
Go to your room, Melanie!
--
Richard Steven Hack
richardstevenhack@SPAMHELLNOsbcglobal.net
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