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Downloads Named Most Important Innovation of Last 30 Years

A lot has changed in music in 30 years and the most important change, according to an English survey, was the launch of downloadable music.

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Tue Dec 01, 2009

Online Sun

I desperately want to help sick children... I know their pain

NURSE Birhan Woldu knows more than most how fragile our grip on life can be. The world watched horrified as TV footage showed her as a three-year-old clinging to life in famine-ravaged Ethiopia.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Famine, Music!

Sun Nov 29, 2009

The Sun Online

BOB Geldof revisits Ethiopia to open new school paid for by re-released charity single

THE sound is distorted by rickety old speakers - but as the band strikes up on a windswept Ethiopian plateau, the song is unmistakable.

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Related Topix: Music!, Family, Kids, Famine, Natural Disasters

Sat Nov 28, 2009

The Independent

The singer and activist in Ethiopia 25 years on

The first time Bob Geldof saw Birhan Woldu was on television. It was 1984 and the face of the child was one of the most haunting images in the BBC report which alerted the world to the famine in Ethiopia in which as many as a million people died.

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Related Topix: Music!, Famine, Natural Disasters, World News, Ethiopia,

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Examiner.com

On This Day: Thirty-six rock stars make a difference

November 25, 1984: Do They Know It's Christmas is recorded. There were 36 famous musicians who gathered together to form Band Aid.

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Related Topix: Music!, Famine, Natural Disasters, Agriculture, Science, Weather, Drought

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Scotsman.com Living

A preview of the music acts set to appear at the Homecoming Live Final Fling

Some of Scotland's most influential music acts of the past three decades will hit the stage for the Homecoming Live Final Fling on Saturday.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Fife County, Scotland, World News, United Kingdom, Music!, Hue and Cry

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Daily Express

Tina Turner is a soul survi...

THERE are no rules. Some surrender to the ageing process, others fight it. Your Madonnas resist through desperation, frantically gymming it four or five hours a day, nibbling barely enough to nourish an anorexic sparrow.

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Related Topix: Short, Music!, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, What's Love Got to Do with It?, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Action Movies, Adventure, Science Fiction Movies, Tina Turner, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Aretha Franklin, Soul

Sun Nov 22, 2009

News of the World

THEN - Gender bender Marilyn was a big star

HE urged us to Feed The World - but 25 years after Band Aid, Eighties star Marilyn seems only to have fed his FACE.

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Related Topix: Music!, Horror Movies, Short, Thriller, Face, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Bob Geldof, Pop/Rock, Drugs, World News, United Kingdom, Hertfordshire County, England,

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Harrogate Advertiser

Status Quo coming to Harrogate

SEASONS come and go throughout the year and they all mean different things. Winter means snow, Spring means flowers, Summer means sunshine and Autumn means the annual UK tour by Status Quo.

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Related Topix: Music!, Status Quo, Pop/Rock, The Rolling Stones

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Singapore Entrepreneurs

Sir Bob Geldof on The Power of The Individual

The recently concluded Youth Engagement Summit 2009 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia brought together an impressive line-up of speakers.

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Related Topix: Music!, World News, Malaysia,

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Aretha threatens to pull out of Hall of Fame show over demands

Soul diva Aretha Franklin threatened to pull out of her planned performance at the recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary tribute - if organizers couldn't promise to shut off all ventilation at Madison Square Garden in New York while she was in the building.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Aretha Franklin, Soul, Music!

Sun Nov 15, 2009

The Sun Online

WE are celebrating our 40th birthday all week a " free today is a special edition of first Sun

OUR great front pages and world exclusives have not just made The Sun a national institution over the last 40 years.

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Related Topix: Music!, Health, Medicine, Malaria

Fri Nov 13, 2009

ContactMusic.com

Aretha Franklin - Fussy Franklin Threatened to Pull Out of Hall of Fame Show Over Air Issue

Caption: Aretha Franklin and guest the 31st annual Kennedy Center Honors - arrivals at the Kennedy Centre Washington DC, USA .... Soul diva ARETHA FRANKLIN threatened to pull out of her planned performance at the recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary tribute - if organisers couldn't promise to shut off all ventilation at Madison Square ...

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Aretha Franklin, Soul, Music!

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Reuters

Yoko Ono looks back on early activism

No one knows better than Yoko Ono how far celebrity activism has come in the last 40 years.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, John Lennon, Music!, Entertainment

Daily Express

The truth about Peaches and the Scientologists

SOCIALITE Peaches Geldof attended a glitzy Church of Scientology ball where the star-studded guest list is understood to have included Hollywood A-listers Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

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Related Topix: Scientology, Religion, Music!

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Hypebot

EMI Diversifies With Abbey Road Live Recordings

An expanded move by EMI into live concert recordings offers a glimpse both at a much needed revenue stream for record labels and an additional income source for many artists.

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Related Topix: Computers, Symphony, Arts, Music!

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Bloomberg Business News

U2 Conquered U.S. With Noise, Risks, Poetry, Says Producer Eno: Interview

Its anthemic template, crafted in 1984 with the assistance of co-producer Brian Eno , came three years before a oeThe Joshua Tree,a which took the Irish band a oefrom heroes to superstars,a according to Rolling Stone magazine, and sold 25 million copies.

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Related Topix: Music!, U2, Ambient, Brian Eno, Joshua Tree, CA

Sun Nov 01, 2009

USA Today

Postcard from the road: Rock Hall concerts in NYC, Part 2

The event: U2, Metallica , Jeff Beck , Aretha Franklin and a string of sharp guests played Part 2 of the two-night celebration of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 's 25th anniversary.

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Related Topix: Music!, Metal, Metallica, U2, Aretha Franklin, Jeff Beck, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Soul, Eric Clapton, Blues, Music, Entertainment

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Online Sun

PEACHES Geldof tells Fearne Cotton she is intrigued by Stephen Hawkinga s theories

PEACHES Geldof just can't help nodding off - even during an interview for a documentary all about HER.

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Related Topix: Music!, Wedding

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Londonist

Book Review: I Know This Much, By Gary Kemp

As you've probably noticed by now, Spandau Ballet are back and we reckon they're 'definitely the best reformed band of the year'. They're also one of the most Londony, as Gary Kemp's just-published biography reveals.

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Related Topix: Music!, Spandau Ballet, Pop/Rock

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Starring Bob Geldof and Bono

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