Robert Napier, from Wiltshire, had just had the 1698 Venice-made Goffriller valued by a London dealer at £180,000. He got off a Paddington to Taunton train at Bedwyn on 29 January with the family heirloom still on board.
"It was just one of those terrible moments when I realised, as the train was steaming off, that I had left it on the train," he said.
That is going to be an expensive …music trip!
Sebastien Tellier's entry, entitled Divine, combines both English and French lyrics with electro music.
France's culture minister has defended the song, saying the country should fully support his bid for victory. A total of 43 countries are taking part in a contest that draws some 200 million viewers from Europe and beyond. "Sebastien Tellier has great talent, he has a real international dimension," Christine Albanel told Agence France Presse.
Some people have serious issues, most related to sex some to …language!!!
"We are planning the sequel," he said. "It is a real challenge." The 60-year-old said about two million people had seen We Will Rock You, written and directed by Ben Elton, since it opened in London in 2002.
May also say the band were preparing for their autumn tour and new album. "The long arm of Queen has pulled me back in at the moment. It is a beast." He added: "We've pressed the button to go on tour this autumn so already the preparations are very consuming.
"We've chosen our set; we've chosen our environment on tour. It is very exciting, very exciting indeed. Very time consuming but Queen always was consuming." Productions of We Will Rock You, based on the songs of Queen, have since opened in Australia, Spain, Russia, the US, Japan and Germany.
The musician was speaking at a formal ceremony to install him as the Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture".
The special music award recognised the 66-year-old's "lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power". Prize administrator Sig Gissler said the honour "reflects the efforts of the Pulitzer board to broaden the scope of the music prize".
The time has come!
U2 have signed a 12-year deal with concert promoter Live Nation to handle the band's merchandising, digital and branding rights.
The deal follows the ground-breaking recording and touring contract Madonna signed with the company last year. U2, however, will continue to release records through Universal Music. "We've been dating for over 20 years now," said singer Bono. "It's about time we tied the knot." Live Nation has managed U2's tours since 1980.
Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed. In the end is all about money!
Vangelis Papathanasiou, born March 29, 1943 and he is mostly known through just his first name, has made a remarkable career in music composition.
The musical talents of Vangelis first became obvious at a very early age. His parents tried to encourage him to study with a professional teacher, but he did not respond well to formal education, as he was generally unwilling to follow instructions. At the end of his school years, he and some friends formed a band called "Formynx", which became popular. In 1968 Vangelis moved to Paris.
Together with Demis Rousos and Lucas Sideras, he formed "Aphrodite's Child". This group
scored an immediate world wide hit with their first release, "Rain and Tears". Later on, the band split and he continued solo in Paris writing music for movies.
His career launched and Vangelis received an array of awards, among them an Oscar in 1982 for the soundtrack of the film "Chariots of Fire". The music of Vangelis is too diverse to be described as pop, rock, classical, jazz, or new age.
Explaining his music, Vangelis says, "All I try to do is let people know what I think through my music. I just bring the music to you and it is up to you to do what you want with it".
The Los Angeles Times has apologized for claiming rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was involved in a 1994 shooting of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur.
The apology follows a claim that the newspaper was conned by a prisoner who doctored the documents used. "The bottom line is that the documents we relied on should not have been used," said editor Russ Stanton. Combs has already called the report "completely untrue" and "a lie". Writer Chuck Philips said he "got duped". Two years after the attack in New York, Shakur died in a separate shooting incident in Las Vegas.
The LA Times, which published the original story on its website, initially said its claims were based on FBI records, witness accounts and other unnamed sources. Mr. Stanton launched an investigation following claims published earlier this week on The Smoking Gun website.
"We apologies to both our readers and to those referenced in the documents and in the story," he said. The Smoking Gun claimed the documents used were fabricated by a prison inmate with a history of exaggerating his place on the rap music scene.
The newspaper said its story, published on 17 March, was based on FBI records, interviews with people at the scene of the shooting, and statements to the FBI by an informant. None of the sources were named. Mr. Philips, who wrote the story, said a former FBI agent examined the documents in question on his behalf and said they appeared to be legitimate.
But he said he now wished he had done more to investigate their authenticity. And if he did would he find anybody’s involvement? This is very tricky answer and still leaves suspicions in the air!
One of the best Rock albums in the history of music released on March 24, 1973! Its use of Musique concrète with philosophical lyrics, something that would eventually become a trademark of Pink Floyd's music, is also present.
The album was a huge landmark in rock music, as it featured the use of synthesizers in a way never heard before, exceptional sound quality (even by present day standards), and radio-friendly songs such as "Money", "Time", "Us and Them", and "Brain Damage/Eclipse". Some music critics use the album as a point of reference in determining between "classic" blues-rock and the then-new genre of electronic music. The Dark Side of the Moon is probably Pink Floyd's best work and it is all thanks to Roger Waters.
The Dark Side of the Moon spent 741 consecutive weeks (14 years) on the USA-based Billboard 200 album chart, the longest duration in history. It is also the sixth highest selling album globally of all time, selling more than forty million records.
Like today, 24th of March, Elvis Aaron Presley joined the US army.
Elvis Presley was drafted and served in the HQ Co.1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32d Armored Regiment from 24 March1958 to 5 March 1960. His Army serial number was US 53310761. He earned a sharpshooter badge for the .45 pistol and M1 rifle and a marksman badge for the M2 carbine. He received a Good Conduct Medal and a 3d Armored Division Certificate of Achievement (for faithful and efficient performance of duty).
He was twenty-three years old when he was drafted as a recruit and age twenty-five when he left as a sergeant E-5.
A legal attempt has begun to block the release of early Beatles recordings. Lawyers for the group's surviving members have claimed the eight tracks, apparently played in Hamburg in 1962, were taped without permission.
The songs include Paul McCartney performing Lovesick Blues by Hank Williams, and McCartney and Lennon singing together on Ask Me Why. But the Miami company trying to sell the music, Fuego Entertainment, has insisted the recordings were legal. The firm's president, Hugo Cancio, told the Associated Press he planned to release the songs as an album entitled Jammin' with The Beatles and Friends, Star Club, Hamburg, 1962. "It's unfair to millions of Beatles fans not to allow this recording to be put out. The world deserves to hear these tracks."
Apple, let it be!
Blake Fielder-Civil begged his wife Amy Winehouse to secretly buy him or fund his drug habit behind bars. Fielder-Civil, 25, told fellow lags he had asked the singer to make payments into the bank account of another con — that would then pass him heroin.
And a prison source revealed: “Blake’s addiction is just as bad as ever and he’s bragging about how he’s been asking Amy to help him get a fix. He showed us the bank details of a known dealer inside Pentonville and said he’d asked Amy to make regular wire transfers to this guy in exchange for heroin. “Apparently he wanted each transfer to end in a single pound, so the dealer would know who the money came from.”
The asking price for each “wrap” is said to be £100 — four times its street value. And the source said: “Blake doesn’t care as long as he gets his hit. He’s prepared to put his wife at risk. It shows how desperate he’s become.”
I’m not going to judge Mr. Fielder and his habits, I’m not going to judge Ms. Winehouse even though I feel really sorry because she’s wasting one of the greatest jazz voices of all time and she’s so young; what I cannot understand is what’s going on in the British prisons. Has anybody realized that Blake is in prison and he just asking money from his wife to find his drugs …inside the prison?