With magazines, mail shoots and Sunday Newspapers you are more and more likely to find a free CD or film included for the readers as a incentive to buy the paper. In professional terms this is known as ‘cover mount’ and is impacting the music and film industry as individuals are ‘saved’ from buying the CD or film. Recently Prince announced that he will be giving away his new Planed Earth CD – the first new studio album to be handed out absolutely free. This deal has been hand shook with the Mail on Sunday. Princes fans who were unable to see him at the O2 have this opportunity to buy the album for £1.40.
The impact on the shops as Prince gives away his free CD is massive and they are naturally outraged. The deal between Prince and the Mail on Sunday remains undisclosed however in there defense the paper argues that by giving the CD out free it will increase the sales of the song writer. These kind of promotions have been on going over the years and has concerned the Entertainment Retailers Association who says this will impact new artists trying to come through, it devalues music as for these individuals they don’t have the support from record companies who are giving away free music CD’s.
Albums written by the Late John Lennon are now being repaired using the latest digital technology in a attempt to restore them for fans. The timing has been around the singers 70th birthday where his widow Yoko Ono has worked with engineers as well as London’s Abbey Road Studios on the project. The project involves recreating the 121 tracks that John Lennon wrote and created over the span of his solo career. This will once again allow fans and musicians to appreciate the gift he had as a songwriter, musician and vocalist. The singer was murdered at the age of 40 by gun shot outside his home in New York on the 8th December 1980.
Recently as workers, tourists and the general public who have visited New York or London may have spotted a spray of brightly painted pianos appear on the streets across various parts of the city. These range from a piano next the square at St Paul’s Cathedral, the Millennium Bridge, Bank of England as well as many other popular locations. The is a project of British Artist Luke Jerram who has named the project Play Me, I’m yours has been touring cities since 2008. He sees this as a opportunity for strangers to meet, play a few chords, give each other a few lessons and allows to strike a few chords at there leisure.
The rocker Ozzy Osbourne has touched many of his fans who now feel that they know more about him and his family due to the reality show that MTV cast ‘The Osbournes’. He is due to release a album called Scream – the 10th one to be released yet. This is the first album to be released since 2007. the Osbourne show which was broadcast over several years from 2002 to 2005 gave Osbourne a new fan base from a new generation. It showed a inside to the rockstar. The star is now 61 years old with his first success being over 40 years ago.
For many rappers and musicians these days just making music is not enough to live their huge life style on evidence of this has been shown by the like of Jay Z, 50 Cent, Ice Cube who have expanded not just from making music but to making films, clothing lines also owning their own record labels one rapper who is profiting well from the movie scene at the moment is Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson
He has recently joined the cast of Dead Man Running, a British gangland thriller that has been partially funded by England footballers Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole, Jackson joins a cast including Danny Dyer, Tamar Hassan, Brenda Blethyn and Monet Mazur
Wayne pleads guilty yesterday to attempted weapons possession charges, and is expected to be sentenced to a year in prison.
This comes after he originally pleaded not guilty in which if he was found to be guilty would have been looking at a 3½ year jail sentence so I’m sure the thought of this changed his mind in which he pleaded guilty.
Statements have been released from his record label The Cash Money family and have stated they will continue to support the artist and friend in his current court case.
Wayne has worked with his record label since he was a teenager, and has seen him grow into one of the world’s most successful hip-hop artists, with a work ethic that is second to none.
Robbie Williams has sensationally revealed details of his “drugs hell”, admitting that he once even tried heroin now this may be a shock to some of you to other it would not have surprised you. The singer returns after a three-year break, and revealed that he started taking Class A drugs when he was a teenager. He said he has had addiction problems with everything from LSD and speed to cocaine and ecstasy.
Williams also stated that in the last five years he has suffered from the “American addiction” meaning an addiction to prescription drugs such as Adderall and Vicodin, although he’s now clean. He added that at one point he feared he would end up dying from an overdose of the drugs, like other high-profile stars.
With the world cup not too far away we are already hearing many claims by music artist stating they would like to do world cup anthem for the team next year
The latest reports came from Chipmunk who revealed that he wants to team up with Tinchy Stryder to record the official anthem for the 2010 World Cup. At the Mobo awards at the end of last month chipmunk stated that “Me and Tinchy could do a song, it would be a great thing to do and something different.”
The rapper / mc has also stated that he become exhausted from touring to the stage where he fell asleep and missed his first flight to Glasgow.
Traditionally Mancunian monkey man Ian Brown has suggested that Noel and Liam Gallagher should go solo following the slip of Oasis a few weeks ago. Both Noel and Liam have written songs on the last few Oasis albums, and Liam has improved his song writing dramatically since his early attempts, such as “Little James” on “Standing on the Shoulder of Giants”.
Brown said:
“I would say go solo, I can heartily recommend it. It’s a fine way to be.”
He suggested that it was a shame that the brothers are scrapping like toddlers even though they are grown men, which I agree is a bit sad as they should really have learnt to work together by now.
The former Stone Roses front man then added:
“I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us (The Stone Roses) and they saw that we did it and they thought they could do it too.
“We’re lads like they are, and that inspired them. That means a lot to me.”
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