Glasvegas frontman James Allan has admitted feeling disillusioned over the knife criminal offence culture which is currently sweeping the UK.
The singer has admitted that every time he reads about a wounding it "strikes" him with "total shock".
He said: "I guess there's a large list of potential roots to the problem. There are emphatically frustrations in the youth which experience been in our finish for quite a spell.
"But no matter how many times you read about it, it strikes you with total shock, the lack of human beings. Or like I say in (record album track) 'Ice Cream Van' 'pure community, freedom of faith, act of citizenship'.
"You recognize, there's no-one's actually expression, 'Grow a heart, man'. How could you actually harm another person? What's happening to us man?"
The singer, whose band's forthcoming debut record album features the track 'Flowers & Football Tops', which is lyrically inspired by the slay of a 15-year-old Glaswegian who was abducted close James's home, stabbed 13 times and drenched in petrol, aforesaid knife criminal offence was coarse in his hometown.
He told The Guardian: "It's been in the news a lot in London, merely in Glasgow it's always been like that. If you uprise up in Glasgow, you've been chased with something. I've been chased with a five iron!"
Between April 2007 and March 2008 up to 7,409 knife crime attacks were reported in London alone.
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Tuesday 12 August 2008
Molecule CX717 Has Positive Effects In Opiate-Induced Respiratory Depression In A Phase IIa Clinical Study
�Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX:
COR - News) reported that top-line data from its number one Phase IIa
study in opiate-induced respiratory depression (RD) demonstrated that
a single oral superman of 2100mg of AMPAKINE� CX717 achieved statistical
significance over placebo on the primary terminus measure. These
results are being presented at the Bank of Montreal Capital Markets
Focus on Healthcare Conference in New York City on Wednesday morning,
August 6, 2008 at 9:30AM (EDT) by Dr. Roger G. Stoll, President & CEO
of Cortex. This placebo controlled, double blind, randomized bipartite
crossover trial (RD-02) was performed by Parexel's clinical research
unit in Europe. In this study, eight (8) volunteers per cupid's disease group
each received either 900mg, 1500mg, or 2100mg of CX717 or matching
placebo that was by word of mouth administered two hours before each bailiwick
received an intravenous infusion of the opiate agonist, alfentanil.
The primary performance measures were derived from a CO2 re-breathing
procedure that measured the ventilation response of the subject to
increased CO2 levels in the presence of alfentanil. The primary
bar, the instant expiratory volume (VE) at 55mgHg CO2 (VE55), was
reversed by 2100 mg CX717 in comparison to placebo (p
No reliable responses were seen in the 900mg and 1500mg CX717 groups,
only procedural problems were detected by the Data Safety Monitoring
Board (DSMB) for this study, which was authorized by the protocol to
monitor safety and responses on an interim basis. Corrective
procedural changes were instituted before the initiation of the net
group of subjects in the 2100mg segment of the study.
"While we initiated this study victimisation oral doses of CX717 and had only
eight subjects per treatment chemical group, we were pleased to obtain
statistical significance using such small study groups," said Dr.
Roger Stoll the CEO of Cortex. The primary objective was to but
verify that the chemical mechanism, which was seen operation in animate being
studies, would also be operative in humans. Substantial investments
were required to develop an intravenous dose form of CX717,
including formulation developing and stability studies for such a
dosage form as well as deuce species toxicology trials. The Company now
feels that it lavatory proceed with such studies. Cortex latterly received
confirmation of three months of accelerated stability for the
experimental intravenous formulation of CX717 and plans to initiate
toxicology trials in the fourth quarter 2008.
A second respiratory depression study has been performed by a group
in Frankfurt, Germany. This study uses a single cupid's itch of 1500mg of
CX717 and focuses on both the respiratory depression and the
pain pill effects associated with alfentanil. The analysis of the
data has been initiated and related to results should be reported within
a few weeks. Studies of CX717 in animal models by Dr. John Greer at
the University of Alberta ingest shown that the AMPAKINE drugs do not
interfere with the analgesic personal effects of opiates.
Cortex continues to advance other AMPAKINE compounds, specially
those newer compounds that have potential difference patent lives to 2028. It
will also be reported at the BMO Capital Markets conference that
Cortex has initiated human phase one safety and kinetic trials with
CX1739 in normal volunteers. Assuming successful Phase I human trials
with this compound, the Company plans to rapidly pursue the Attention
Deficit-Hyperactivity disorder indication for CX1739 in the second
half of 2009. The Company will also written report on an initial creature trial
with CX1942, a unique pro-drug analog of another humbled impact AMPAKINE
drug that is highly water soluble, ideally suited for an intravenous
dosage form. This compound speedily hydrolyzes to the parent AMPAKINE
drug in vivo. CX1942 has shown exceptionally rapid results in
reversing respiratory low due to intravenously administered
fentanyl in rats. The Company plans to initiate toxicology studies
with this unique parallel during the last quarter of 2008.
High impact AMPAKINE compounds from recent patent applications are
as well being ripe with a focus on neurodegenerative diseases, such
as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, as easily as orphan drug
indications like Huntington's and Fragile X disease.
The conference presentation roved for the discussion of whatsoever disease. Cortex
disclaims any intent or obligation to update whatsoever forward-looking
statements.
Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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COR - News) reported that top-line data from its number one Phase IIa
study in opiate-induced respiratory depression (RD) demonstrated that
a single oral superman of 2100mg of AMPAKINE� CX717 achieved statistical
significance over placebo on the primary terminus measure. These
results are being presented at the Bank of Montreal Capital Markets
Focus on Healthcare Conference in New York City on Wednesday morning,
August 6, 2008 at 9:30AM (EDT) by Dr. Roger G. Stoll, President & CEO
of Cortex. This placebo controlled, double blind, randomized bipartite
crossover trial (RD-02) was performed by Parexel's clinical research
unit in Europe. In this study, eight (8) volunteers per cupid's disease group
each received either 900mg, 1500mg, or 2100mg of CX717 or matching
placebo that was by word of mouth administered two hours before each bailiwick
received an intravenous infusion of the opiate agonist, alfentanil.
The primary performance measures were derived from a CO2 re-breathing
procedure that measured the ventilation response of the subject to
increased CO2 levels in the presence of alfentanil. The primary
bar, the instant expiratory volume (VE) at 55mgHg CO2 (VE55), was
reversed by 2100 mg CX717 in comparison to placebo (p
No reliable responses were seen in the 900mg and 1500mg CX717 groups,
only procedural problems were detected by the Data Safety Monitoring
Board (DSMB) for this study, which was authorized by the protocol to
monitor safety and responses on an interim basis. Corrective
procedural changes were instituted before the initiation of the net
group of subjects in the 2100mg segment of the study.
"While we initiated this study victimisation oral doses of CX717 and had only
eight subjects per treatment chemical group, we were pleased to obtain
statistical significance using such small study groups," said Dr.
Roger Stoll the CEO of Cortex. The primary objective was to but
verify that the chemical mechanism, which was seen operation in animate being
studies, would also be operative in humans. Substantial investments
were required to develop an intravenous dose form of CX717,
including formulation developing and stability studies for such a
dosage form as well as deuce species toxicology trials. The Company now
feels that it lavatory proceed with such studies. Cortex latterly received
confirmation of three months of accelerated stability for the
experimental intravenous formulation of CX717 and plans to initiate
toxicology trials in the fourth quarter 2008.
A second respiratory depression study has been performed by a group
in Frankfurt, Germany. This study uses a single cupid's itch of 1500mg of
CX717 and focuses on both the respiratory depression and the
pain pill effects associated with alfentanil. The analysis of the
data has been initiated and related to results should be reported within
a few weeks. Studies of CX717 in animal models by Dr. John Greer at
the University of Alberta ingest shown that the AMPAKINE drugs do not
interfere with the analgesic personal effects of opiates.
Cortex continues to advance other AMPAKINE compounds, specially
those newer compounds that have potential difference patent lives to 2028. It
will also be reported at the BMO Capital Markets conference that
Cortex has initiated human phase one safety and kinetic trials with
CX1739 in normal volunteers. Assuming successful Phase I human trials
with this compound, the Company plans to rapidly pursue the Attention
Deficit-Hyperactivity disorder indication for CX1739 in the second
half of 2009. The Company will also written report on an initial creature trial
with CX1942, a unique pro-drug analog of another humbled impact AMPAKINE
drug that is highly water soluble, ideally suited for an intravenous
dosage form. This compound speedily hydrolyzes to the parent AMPAKINE
drug in vivo. CX1942 has shown exceptionally rapid results in
reversing respiratory low due to intravenously administered
fentanyl in rats. The Company plans to initiate toxicology studies
with this unique parallel during the last quarter of 2008.
High impact AMPAKINE compounds from recent patent applications are
as well being ripe with a focus on neurodegenerative diseases, such
as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, as easily as orphan drug
indications like Huntington's and Fragile X disease.
The conference presentation roved for the discussion of whatsoever disease. Cortex
disclaims any intent or obligation to update whatsoever forward-looking
statements.
Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Endoscopic Circumferential Ablation Promising For Barrett's Esophagus With High-Grade Dysplasia
�A multicenter U.S. register study examining the treatment of Barrett's esophagus (BE) with high-grade dysplasia (HGD) showed that in 92 patients treated with endoscopic circumferential ablation who had at
Noctes
Artist: Noctes
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Vexilla Regis Prodeunt Inferni
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Pandemonic Requiem
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
Thursday 3 July 2008
Sandalinas
Artist: Sandalinas
Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
Living On The Edge
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
The Five Stars to Watch This Summer
Orlando Bloom & Miranda Kerr Get Naked
Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr have gone public with their relationship by cavorting around naked in the Canary Islands.
The pair has been rumoured to be an item since last October but - despite a recent trip to Kerr's native Australia reportedly so Bloom could meet the 25-year-old model's parents – they have never admitted their romance.
But this week they destroyed any illusion they are just good friends with saucy snaps, published online, showing a naked Bloom and a semi-naked Kerr strutting around a villa on the Spanish islands.
The pair has been rumoured to be an item since last October but - despite a recent trip to Kerr's native Australia reportedly so Bloom could meet the 25-year-old model's parents – they have never admitted their romance.
But this week they destroyed any illusion they are just good friends with saucy snaps, published online, showing a naked Bloom and a semi-naked Kerr strutting around a villa on the Spanish islands.
George Clooney calls for unity among actors
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George Clooney just wants actors to get along instead of choosing between sparring unions.
In a two-page letter released Thursday, Clooney adopted a neutral stance in the dispute between the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild.
"What we can't do is pit artist against artist," he wrote.
AFTRA has already reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios. SAG wants AFTRA members to vote against the deal, saying its approval will handcuff SAG at the bargaining table.
Both unions' current contracts are set to expire Monday, leaving Hollywood on edge about a possible replay of the 100-day writers strike that ended in February.
Results of the AFTRA vote are expected July 8.
Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin and others have joined hundreds of actors in signing an online petition urging actors to ratify the AFTRA pact.
Meanwhile, Jack Nicholson, Viggo Mortensen and Holly Hunter have endorsed a SAG ad calling for AFTRA to return to the negotiating table to get a better deal.
Clooney called the fight counterproductive.
"Because the one thing you can be sure of is that stories about Jack Nicholson vs. Tom Hanks only strengthens the negotiating power" of the studios, he said.
Clooney also called on higher-paid actors to chip in a greater share of union dues and for 10 A-listers - "people that the studio heads don't often say 'no' to," he suggested, listing only Nicholson and Hanks by name - to sit down with studio heads once a year to "adjust the pay for actors."
SAG deputy executive director Pamm Fair called Clooney's letter valuable input. AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers declined comment.
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'Madonna To Announce Divorce Details After Current Tour'
Madonna plans to reveals details of her divorce to husband Guy Ritchie once she has completed her promotional tour, according to latest reports.
The couple has been under intense media scrutiny amid rumours they are allegedly on the verge of a permanent split, with whispers of the superstar spending time with baseball star Alex Rodriguez.
And the Material Girl's publicist Liz Rosenberg attempted to set the record straight earlier this week, insisting that there are no plans for a divorce.
But the statement has failed to quash speculation about the state of the pair's marriage, with new reports suggesting the star is putting off making an official announcement until after she has completed her upcoming Sweet & Sticky world tour later this year.
A source tells the Daily Mirror: "Trust me, it's over. Why else would they both consult divorce lawyers? Madonna hates being pushed into a corner and would hate other people having the satisfaction of saying, 'We told you so.'
"The announcement will be slipped out after her tour - as planned."
It would not be the first time the pop star has attempted to keep big news quiet. In 2006, at the height of speculation that Madonna was to adopt a child from Malawi, Rosenberg issued a statement on behalf of the singer vehemently denying the adoption rumours.
Less than two weeks after issuing the denial, Madonna and Guy Ritchie filed adoption papers and brought baby David Banda back to the U.K.
The couple has been under intense media scrutiny amid rumours they are allegedly on the verge of a permanent split, with whispers of the superstar spending time with baseball star Alex Rodriguez.
And the Material Girl's publicist Liz Rosenberg attempted to set the record straight earlier this week, insisting that there are no plans for a divorce.
But the statement has failed to quash speculation about the state of the pair's marriage, with new reports suggesting the star is putting off making an official announcement until after she has completed her upcoming Sweet & Sticky world tour later this year.
A source tells the Daily Mirror: "Trust me, it's over. Why else would they both consult divorce lawyers? Madonna hates being pushed into a corner and would hate other people having the satisfaction of saying, 'We told you so.'
"The announcement will be slipped out after her tour - as planned."
It would not be the first time the pop star has attempted to keep big news quiet. In 2006, at the height of speculation that Madonna was to adopt a child from Malawi, Rosenberg issued a statement on behalf of the singer vehemently denying the adoption rumours.
Less than two weeks after issuing the denial, Madonna and Guy Ritchie filed adoption papers and brought baby David Banda back to the U.K.
Nine Inch Nails replaces bassist ahead of tour
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Nine Inch Nails has reshuffled its
new touring lineup announced in early April, with bassist
Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Garbage) replacing British
musician Rich Fownes.
Frontman Trent Reznor will also be backed by Robin Finck
(who spent years in NIN prior to a recently ended stint in Guns
N' Roses), drummer Josh Freese and keyboardist Alessandro
Cortini on a North American trek that begins July 25 at British
Columbia's Pemberton Festival.
"We've added, we've subtracted and we've wound up with
unquestionably the strongest lineup I've EVER had," Reznor said
on NIN's Web site (http://www.nin.com). "We've been working on
something really special for these shows and so far I couldn't
be happier with the results."
Reuters/Billboard
new touring lineup announced in early April, with bassist
Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Garbage) replacing British
musician Rich Fownes.
Frontman Trent Reznor will also be backed by Robin Finck
(who spent years in NIN prior to a recently ended stint in Guns
N' Roses), drummer Josh Freese and keyboardist Alessandro
Cortini on a North American trek that begins July 25 at British
Columbia's Pemberton Festival.
"We've added, we've subtracted and we've wound up with
unquestionably the strongest lineup I've EVER had," Reznor said
on NIN's Web site (http://www.nin.com). "We've been working on
something really special for these shows and so far I couldn't
be happier with the results."
Reuters/Billboard
Sam Cooke
Artist: Sam Cooke
Genre(s):
Pop
R&B: Soul
Other
Discography:
Wonderful World: the Best of Sam Cooke
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
One More River
Year: 1992
Tracks: 18
Wonderful World: The Best Of
Year: 1988
Tracks: 12
Live At The Copa 1964
Year: 1964
Tracks: 1
Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963
Year: 1963
Tracks: 9
Live At Harlem Square Club 1963
Year: 1963
Tracks: 1
The Man and His Music
Year:
Tracks: 28
Portrait Of A Legend: 1951-1964
Year:
Tracks: 31
Sam Cooke was the most important soulfulness singer in history -- he was too the inventor of psyche medicine, and its most popular and honey performer in both the pitch-dark and patrick Victor Martindale White communities. Equally authoritative, he was among the first modern black performers and composers to attend to the business side of the music business organization, and founded both a book label and a publication company as an extension of his careers as a vocalizer and composer. Yet, those business interests didn't forestall him from being busy in topical issues, including the contend all over civil rights, the pitch and intensity of which followed an arc that paralleled Cooke's egression as a asterisk -- his own life history bridged gaps betwixt calamitous and white audiences that few had tested to surmount, very much less succeeded at doing, and as well between generations; where Chuck Berry or Little Richard brought opprobrious and e. B. White teenagers together, James Brown sold records to e. B. White teenagers and fatal listeners of all ages, and Muddy Waters got young e. B. White folkies and senior black transplants from the South onto the same page, Cooke appealed to all of the above, and the parents of those ovalbumin teenagers as well -- yet he never lost his credibility with his core sinister audience.
In a sense, his attract awaited that of the Beatles, in width and depth. He was born Sam Cook in Clarksdale, MS, on January 22, 1931, one of octonary children of a Baptist minister and his wife. Even as a young son, he showed an extraordinary voice and oft american ginseng in the choir in his father's church. During the middle of the decennary, the Cook family moved to Chicago's South Side, where the Reverend Charles Cook cursorily established himself as a major figure in the spiritual community. Sam and trey of his siblings too formed a group of their possess, the Singing Children, in the thirties. Although his have singing was confined to gospel truth music, he was mindful and appreciative of the popular medicine of the period, particularly the tuneful, harmony-based sounds of the Ink Spots, whose influence could after be heard in songs such as "You Send Me" and "For Sentimental Reasons." As a teenager, he was a phallus of the Teen Highway QCs, a gospel group that performed in churches and at religious gatherings. His membership in that group lED to his introduction to the Soul Stirrers, one of the top gospel singing groups in the country, and in 1950 he united them.
If Cooke had never recorded a note of euphony on his possess, he would still be remembered today in gospel circles for his work with the Soul Stirrers. Over the next captain Hicks years, his role within the mathematical group and his prominence inside the opprobrious community rose to the point where he was already a sensation, with his own fiercely admiring and devoted audience, through his performances on songs like "Touch the Hem of His Garment," "Closer to Thee," and "That's Heaven to Me." The grouping was matchless of the upside acts of the Apostles on Art Rupe's Specialty Records label, and he might have gone on for years as their nearly democratic singer, just Cooke's goal was to pass audiences beyond the religious community, and beyond the mordant population, with his voice. This was a tall order at the time, as the mere act of recording a democratic sung could alien the gospel listenership in an exigent; telling for God was regarded in those circles as a gift and a province, and pop music, rock music & vagabond, and R&B were to be abhorred, at least approach from the mouth of a gospels isaac Bashevis Singer; the gap was so majuscule that when a blue devils isaac M. Singer such as Blind Gary Davis became "sanctified" (that is, institute organized religion) as the Rev. Gary Davis, he could still sing and play his old blues melodies, simply had to prepare raw words, and he never american ginseng the vapors words once again.
He time-tested the amnionic fluid of popular euphony in 1956 with the individual "Lovable," produced by Bumps Blackwell and credited under the name Dale Cooke so as non to attract besides much attention from his existing hearing. It was sufficiency, however, to get Cooke dropped by the Soul Stirrers and their record label, merely that freed him to record under his real list. The termination was matchless of the biggest marketing singles of the 1950s, a Cooke original entitled "You Send Me," which sold over two jillion copies on the lilliputian Keen Records label and hit number one on both the pop and R&B charts. Although it seems like a tame record today, "You Send Me" was a pioneering psyche record in its time, melding elements of R&B, evangel, and pop into a well-grounded that was newfangled and unruffled coalescing at the time.
Cooke was with Keen for the next iI years, a period in which he delivered up some of the prettiest wild-eyed ballads and teenager pop singles of the geological era, including "For Sentimental Reasons," "Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha," "Only Sixteen," and "(What A) Wonderful World." These were extraordinarily beautiful records, and in 'tween the singles came some early album efforts, near notably Tribute to the Lady, his record album of songs associated with Billie Holiday. He was unhappy, however, with both the business enterprise system that he had with Keen and the limitations integral with recording for a small label -- every bit to the point in time, major labels were knock on Cooke's door, including Atlantic and RCA Records; Atlantic, which was non so far the outside conglomerate that it later became, was the summit R&B-oriented label in the country and Cooke nearly sure would have signed thither and found a glad rest home with the ship's company, leave off that they treasured his publication, and Cooke had seen the sales figures on his songs, as well as their popularity in cover versions by other artists, and was well cognisant of the importance of owning his copyrights.
Thusly, he sign with RCA Records, and then matchless of the three biggest labels in the world (the others existence Columbia and Decca), even as he organized his have publishing company, Kags Music, and a phonograph record label, SAR, through which he would make former artists' records -- among those sign to SAR were the Soul Stirrers, Bobby Womack (late of the Valentinos, world Health Organization were besides signed to the label), other Soul Stirrers extremity Johnny Taylor, Billy Preston, Johnnie Morisette, and the Simms Twins.
Cooke's RCA sides were a queerly schizophrenic body of work, at least for the first-class honours degree deuce days. He stone-broke new ground in down and soul with the single "String Gang," a strange mix in of sweet melodies and gritty, sweaty sensibilities that also introduced something of a social conscience to his work -- a number two murder on both the pop and R&B charts, it was his biggest reach since "You Send Me" and heralded a bolder form in his calling. Singles like bluesy, romanticist "Sad Mood," the idyllic romanticist psyche of "Cupid," and the straight-ahead dance tune "Twistin' the Night Away" (a bulge Top Ten and a issue unitary R&B reach), and "Land It on Home to Me" all lived up to this promise, and also sold in immense book of Numbers. But the first two albums that RCA had him do, Hits of the Fifties and Cooke's Tour, were among the lamest LPs always recorded by whatever soul or R&B singer, comprised of faded pop tunes in arrangements that showed nigh none of Cooke's gifts to their advantage.
In 1962, Cooke issued Twistin' the Night Away, a somewhat late "twist" album that became unrivalled of his biggest-selling LPs. He didn't actually hit his stride as an LP artist, however, until 1963 with the waiver of Night Beat, a beautifully equanimous, grim, dwight Lyman Moody assembly of blues-oriented songs that were among the topper and most challenging numbers game that Cooke had recorded up to that time. By the fourth dimension of its spillage, he was mostly identified through his singles, which were among the best work of their geological era, and had developed deuce separate audiences, among white teen and post-teen listeners and black audiences of all ages. It was Cooke's hope to cross over to the andrew Dickson White interview more than soundly, and open up doors for calamitous performers that, up to that time, had by and large been closed -- he had time-tested playing the Copa in New York as early as 1957 and failed at the time, mostly undischarged to his rawness, but in 1964 he returned to the baseball club in prevail, an upshot that besides yielded one of the most finely recorded live performances of its flow. The problem with the Copa performance was that it didn't really present what Sam Cooke was about in full -- it was Cooke at his most amiable and non-confrontational, doing his safest repertoire for a largely middle-aged, bourgeoisie patrick White audience; they responded enthusiastically, to be trusted, but only to Cooke's tamest persona.
In mid-1963, however, Cooke had done a show at the Harlem Square Club in Miami that had been recorded. Working in presence of a black audience and doing his "real" show up, he delivered a sweaty, mesmeric functioning built on the same elements institute in his singles and his best album tracks, combination achingly beautiful melodies and mealy soul sensibilities. The deuce live albums aggregate up the split up in Cooke's calling and the see-through range of his talent, the rewards of which he'd finally begun to realize more fully in 1963 and 1964.
The drowning death of his infant son in mid-1963 had made it impossible for Cooke to work in the studio until the end of that year. During that time, however, with Allen Klein at once managing his clientele personal business, Cooke did accomplish the financial and originative independence that he'd wanted, including more money than whatsoever black performing artist had always been advanced before, and the eventual ownership of his recordings beginning in November of 1963 -- he had achieved originative control of his recordings as intimately, and seemed equanimous for a breakthrough. It came when he resumed making records, amid the melodious ferment of the early '60s. Cooke was keenly aware of the music around him, and was particularly charmed by Bob Dylan's strain "Blowin' in the Wind," its intervention of the troth of black Americans and other politically oppressed minorities, and its succeeder in the men of Peter, Paul & Mary -- all of these factors convinced him that the clip was right for songs that dealt with more than twisting the night away.
The resultant role was "A Change Is Gonna Come," perchance the greatest strain to come out of the civil rights fight, and one that seemed to close and sEAL the gap between the deuce directions of Cooke's calling, from gospel to pop. Arguably his sterling and his most of import song, it was an artistic nonesuch for Cooke. During this same period, he had as well devised a newer, more advanced dance-oriented soul sound in the form of the song "Shake." These 2 recordings heralded a new geological era for Cooke and a new phase of his career, with on the face of it the whole world open to him.
None of it was to be. Early in the day on December 11, 1964, piece in Los Angeles, Cooke became involved in an affray at a seedy motel, with a fair sex guest and the night handler, and was The case is silent shrouded in dubiety and mystery story, and was never investigated the way of life the hit of a lead of his stature would be today. Cooke's decease shocked the black community and reverberated far beyond -- his single "Shake" was a posthumous Top Ten hit, as were "A Change Is Gonna Come" and the At the Copa record album, released in 1965. Otis Redding, Al Green, and Solomon Burke, among others, picked up key parts of Cooke's repertory, as did white performers, including the Animals and the Rolling Stones. Even the Supremes recorded a memorial record album of his songs, which is now unrivalled of the most sought of their original recordings, in either LP or CD variant.
His reputation survived, at least among those wHO were smart enough to front behind the songs -- to get wind Redding's performance of "Judder" at the Monterey Pop Festival, for lesson, and pick up where it came from. Cooke's possess records were a short tougher to revalue, however. Listeners world Health Organization heard those low deuce, rather inadequate RCA albums, Hits of the Fifties and Cooke's Tour, could only curiosity what the big apportion was nigh, and respective of the albums that followed were scratchy sufficiency to give potential fans pause. Meanwhile, the contractual situation circumferent Cooke's recordings greatly complicated the reissue of his wreak -- Cooke's business manager, Allen Klein, exerted a good deal of control, specially over the songs cut during that last year of the singer's liveliness. By the seventies, there were some evenhandedly poor, largely budget-priced compilations available, consisting of the hits up through early 1963, and for a meter at that place was even a telecasting compiling out in that respect, just that was it. The motion-picture show National Lampoon's Animal House made use of goods and services of a geminate of Cooke songs, "(What A) Wonderful World" and "Twistin' the Night Away," which greatly raised his profile among college students and jr. baby-boomers, and Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes made virtually a mini-career out of revitalizing Cooke's songs (most notably "Having a Party," and even part of "A Change Is Gonna Come") in concert. In 1986, The Man and His Music went some way to correcting the absence seizure of all simply the early hits in a career-spanning compilation, simply since the mid-'90s, Cooke's last year's worth of releases get been detached from the before RCA and Keen material, and is in the men of Klein's ABKCO mark. Finally, in the late '90s and beyond, RCA, ABKCO, and even Specialty (which still owns Cooke's gospel sides with the Soul Stirrers) each issued comprehensive collections of their portions of Cooke's catalog.
Mark Norman and Cor Fijneman
Artist: Mark Norman and Cor Fijneman
Genre(s):
Trance
Discography:
80 Days Vinyl
Year: 2006
Tracks: 2
Amy Winehouse Turns Down Book Deal
Michael Bay conjures 'Ouija' movie
Platinum Dunes working on film based on Hasbro game
David Berenbaum and Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes have been brought on deck to bring Hasbro's supernatural game "Ouija Board" to the big screen. The project is set up at Universal, where Hasbro has a six-year strategic partnership.
Platinum Dunes' Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller will produce "Ouija" along with Hasbro.
Although the specific log line for the film is being kept under wraps, the film will be a supernatural adventure with the Ouija board playing an integral part of the story. The movie is not taking a "Jumanji"-like approach, which involved a game coming to life.
While divination or spiritual boards have been around for centuries, they began being sold as novelty items in the late 1800s, with the first Ouija board, one with an alphabet on it, being patented in 1890. Players' fingers are placed on a small planchette that mysteriously moves to letters and numbers in order to spell out messages from beyond the earthly realm.
The board has been produced by Hasbro's Parker Brothers since 1966, with millions being sold worldwide.
Bennett Schneir, Hasbro's senior vp and managing director of motion pictures will oversee the project for Hasbro.
Berenbaum penned "Elf" and worked on "The Spiderwick Chronicles," "Zoom," and "The Haunted Mansion." The scribe was approached by Hasbro before the company's partnership with Universal and his deal only very recently closed.
Platinum Dunes, known for its horror remakes, is working on "Unborn," an original supernatural thriller being directed by David Goyer.
The project is another example of WMA synergy at work: the agency reps Hasbro, Berenbaum and Platinum Dunes.
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