The cream of the American music industry gathered for the Grammy Awards 2012 last night. The 54th Grammy Awards ceremony included tributes to Whitney Houston who met with an untimely death over the weekend. Hastily rehearsed performances followed a coroners report that the death of Whitney Houston, aged 48 was unknown and would take 6-8 weeks.
Whitney Houston had battled with drug and alcohol addiction for the past 20 years and was due to be at the Grammy Awards ceremony.
Adele gave a great performance and walked away with several awards.
Grammy Award 2012 Winners:
Album of the Year: “21,” Adele Record of the Year: “Rolling in the Deep,” Adele Song of the Year: “Rolling in the Deep,” Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth New Artist: Bon Iver Pop Solo Performance: “Someone Like You,” Adele Pop Performance by a Duo or Group: “Body and Soul,” Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse Pop Vocal Album: “21,” Adele Alternative Album: “Bon Iver,” Bon Iver Rock Song: “Walk,” Foo Fighters Rock Album: “Wasting Light,” Foo Fighters Rock Performance: “Walk,” Foo Fighters Hard Rock/Metal Performance: “White Limo,” Foo Fighters R&B Album: “F.A.M.E.,” Chris Brown R&B Song: “Fool For You,” Cee Lo Green, Melanie Hallim & Jack Splash R&B Performance: “Is This Love,” Corrine Bailey Rae Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: “Fool For You,” Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona Rap Album: “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” Kanye West Rap Performance: “Otis,” Jay-Z and Kanye West Rap Song: “All of the Lights,” Jeff Bhasker, Stacy Ferguson, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West Rap/Sung Collaboration: “All of the Lights,” Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie Dance Recording: “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites,” Skrillex Dance/Electronica Album: “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites,” Skrillex Musical Theater Album: “The Book of Mormon,” Robert Lopez, Trey Parker & Matt Stone
Alexandra Burke has sold over 4 million records, had three UK No.1 singles, 49 million views on YouTube and performed to sell out crowds across the UK on her debut 2011 tour.
Now, ultimate pop sensation Alexandra Burke returns with a brand new single ‘Elephant’ featuring Erick Morillo, is due for release via RCA Records on March 12th.
Spaghetti Western Orchestra made a triumphant return to London’s South Bank last week with their hilarious celebration of the iconic collaborations between Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone. This highly theatrical show features classic themes from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, For A Few Dollars More and Once Upon a Time in the West as well as ingenious recreations of the saloons, spittoons and shotgun-slinging ambience of the ‘Wild Wild West’. Now Spaghetti Western Orchestra embark on a debut tour of the UK and Ireland throughout February and March 2012.
Dressed in period attire against a dramatic scorched sun backdrop, five brilliant musician performers play over 100 ‘instruments’ which range from the conventional to an incredible array of everyday objects including playing cards, coat hangers and a packet of cornflakes. The musical arrangements are accomplished and endlessly inventive, summoning the power of an entire orchestra and using foley (sound effects) artistry to recreate the punch-ups, gun-shots and jangling spurs evoking the glorious movies that made Clint Eastwood a star.
Spaghetti Western Orchestra burst on to the international scene at The Montreal Jazz Festival in 2007 and has garnered critical acclaim and energetic fans whenever it has played at International Festivals throughout the world. Two previous visits to the Southbank Centre in 2009 and 2010 were sold out, the show featured on the achingly cool Later With Jools Holland in 2009 and also on the BBC Proms in August 2011.
Spaghetti Western Orchestra UK & Ireland Tour
February 2012
7th BRIGHTON Theatre Royal
8th OXFORD New Theatre
9th BRISTOL St George’s
10th LLANDUDNO Venue Cymru
12th CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
13th WIMBLEDON New Wimbledon Theatre
15th YORK Grand Opera House
17th SALFORD QUAYS The Lowry
18thb LEEDS Town Hall
19th SUNDERLAND Empire Theatre
22nd KILLARNEY INEC Theatre
23rd DUBLIN The Helix
24th GALWAY The Black Box Theatre
25th CORK Opera House
2th BELFAST The Ulster Hall
29th BASINGSTOKE The Anvil
March 2012
1st COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre
2nd NOTTINGHAM Royal Concert Hall
3rd STOKE ON TRENT Victoria Hall
4th CARDIFF Wales Millenium Centre
6th LIVERPOOL Empire Theatre
7th LEICESTER De Montfort Hall 7.30pm
9th GRIMSBY Auditorium
10th FOLKESTONE Leas Cliff Hall
11th RICHMOND Theatre
12th GLASGOW City Halls
13th EDINBURGH Festival Theatre
14th ABERDEEN Music Hall
16th BIRMINGHAM Town Hall
17th INVERNESS Eden Court Theatre
18th BRADFORD St George’s Hall
Radio 1's The Official Chart Show with Reggie Yates
Music fans will be able to watch live top ten countdown as BBC Radio 1’s The Official Chart Show with Reggie Yates to be available in vision.
The format of BBC Radio 1’s The Official Chart with Reggie Yates is set to be transformed next month as the top ten best-selling singles in The Official Chart will be visualised via the Radio 1 website for the first time ever.
From Sunday 26th February Radio 1 listeners will be able to watch the final hour of The Official Chart with Reggie Yates (6-7pm) online, as Reggie counts down the Top 10 singles in The Official Chart. As well as watching Reggie live in the studio, listeners will be able to see the music videos of those artists in the top 10, previous Live Lounge performances and exclusive interviews with artists that are featured in the chart. In addition, listeners will be able to interact visually with the show via Facebook, Twitter and text.
This is the first time the Top 10 has been visualised weekly at the BBC since 2006, when long running weekly music chart show Top of the Pops ceased, having entertained audiences since 1964.
The Official Chart with Reggie Yates on BBC Radio 1 counts down the 40 best-selling singles in the UK and is broadcast every Sunday between 4-7pm.
Ben Cooper, Controller of BBC Radio 1, says:
“This is the Chart Show for the 21st century. I’m very excited about this innovation. Young people will be logging on to listen, watch and take part in the show. I hope that this will be to our young listeners what listening to the chart and waiting to record your favourite pop songs was for another generation.”
Reggie Yates, Radio 1 DJ, comments:
“It’s so exciting that Chart Show listeners can now become Chart Show viewers. For the first time fans will be able to see all the antics and interviews that take place each week on the show in the run up to announcing the No.1 single as well as being able to watch the music videos from the Top 10 artists.”
Martin Talbot, Managing Director of the Official Charts Company, says:
“It feels completely appropriate that Radio 1 should choose to reinvent the concept of the radio show in the year that the Official Singles Chart marks its 60th anniversary. The Official Singles Chart has always reflected changing musical tastes and the evolving ways music fans have bought and enjoyed their music. And Radio 1’s innovation will change the way music and chart fans engage with the weekly Official Chart Show.”
You can watch The Official Chart with Reggie Yates live online from 26th February 2012 at 6pm at www.bbc.co.uk/radio1.
The music and fitness plan for a stronger, healthier you.
Get Fit is the title designed and timed to help inspire and motivate you for the New Year as thoughts turn to getting fit and losing those excess pounds acquired over the Christmas period.
In association with London 2012, Get Fit is full of music that has been specifically chosen by the brains behind The Workout Mix. The music sequencing ensures a steady pace of training, quickening as it progresses, and then finishing with a wind down period at the end.
Inside, an informative fold out poster booklet gives you useful training tips!
Get Fit: the music & fitness plan for a stronger, healthier you
1. Taio Cruz – Dynamite – Radio Edit
2. Noisettes – Don’t Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go) – Radio Edit
3. Bobby Brown – Two Can Play That Game – K Klassik Radio Mix
4. CeCe Peniston – Finally Album Version
5. Brothers In Rhythm – Such A Good Feeling – Radio Mix
6. Yazz, The Plastic Population – The Only Way Is Up
7. Sugababes – Hole In The Head – Clean Radio Edit
8. Bodyrockers – I Like The Way – Radio Edit
9. Pixie Lott Boys And Girls – Album Version
10. The Hughes Corporation – What A Feeling – Radio Edit
11. Tiffany – I Think We’re Alone Now – Album Version
12. The Saturdays – Just Can’t Get Enough – Radio Mix
13. Sonique – It Feels So Good – Radio Edit
14. Daniel Bedingfield – Gotta Get Thru This – Radio Edit
15. Girls Aloud – Jump
16. Donna Summer – She Works Hard For The Money – Edited Single Version
17. Michael Sembello – Maniac
18. Lighthouse Family – Lifted
Get Fit: the music & fitness plan for a stronger, healthier you is out now released by Universal Music.
