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This fellow, apparently called Mr Pregnant, has produced this singing, dancing extravaganza.

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`A Welsh-speaking Elvis tribute act has been left all shook up after receiving death threats — because he is bald.

Geraint Benney said he got the warnings from extreme Elvis fans who claimed he was showing disrespect to The King.

The 34-year-old of Aberdare, South Wales, said one fan had even threatened to shoot him.’

`Rolf Harris has apologised for using racist language in the song that launched his career, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport.

The original words that Harris wrote for the 1960 hit included a verse referring to Aboriginal workers as if they were slaves.

The opening lines tell of a dying stockman giving his friends instructions on how they should treat his pet animals, such as “keep me cockatoo cool, Curl” and “take me koala back, Jack” before the fifth verse:

Let me Abos go loose, Lou,
Let me Abos go loose.
They’re of no further use, Lou,
So let me Abos go loose.
Altogether now!‘

[sings] Bilbo.. Bilbo Baggins.. Only three feet tall.. Bilbo.. Bilbo Baggins.. Bravest little hobbit of them all..

HAHA!

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Someone has taken Michael Richard’s racist outburst and turned it into a rap song. It’s pretty good. 🙂

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`Yes, Microsoft’s new Zune digital music player is just plain dreadful. I’ve spent a week setting this thing up and using it, and the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face.

“Avoid,” is my general message. The Zune is a square wheel, a product that’s so absurd and so obviously immune to success that it evokes something akin to a sense of pity.

The setup process stands among the very worst experiences I’ve ever had with digital music players. The installer app failed, and an hour into the ordeal, I found myself asking my office goldfish, “Has it really come to this? Am I really about to manually create and install a .dll file?”

But there it was, right on the Zune’s tech support page. Is this really what parents want to be doing at 4 a.m. on Christmas morning?’

`A toilet which flushes to the sound of Italy’s national anthem has been impounded by police in northern Italy, sparking great patriotic debate.

The offending loo was the creation of two local artists and was on display at the Bolzano Museum of Modern Art.

Prosecutors say the Fratelli d’Italia anthem is a national emblem which should be protected and should never be open to ridicule.’

Here’s a trailer for what appears to be a Tenacious D movie coming out some time. Could be kinda amusing, if you like Tenacious D I s’pose. 🙂

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Using some PVC pipes and a tank of LPG these people make a flame that changes with the frequency of sound waves in the pipe. It’s really very cool, especially when they start playing music with it.

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`When Willie Nelson’s bus was searched on Monday in Breaux Bridge, LA on Interstate 10, a “routine traffic stop” turned into a drug bust. Louisiana state troopers found more than a pound and a half of marijuana (0.7 kg) and more than three ounces (91 grams) of psilocibin mushrooms. See photo above’

‘A wedding singer belts out a tune on the dance floor when out of nowhere a dancing couple bangs into the back of the mic stand causing her to gag.’

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‘A racy music video that asks the crucial question, “Do you take it?”.’

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Y’all know ya want a piece of my chicken..

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`Celebrity Paris Hilton has become the latest victim of “guerrilla artist” Banksy after he doctored hundreds of copies of her latest album and smuggled them into record shops.

The notoriously secretive artist has “reworked” the sleeve of Hilton’s debut album by superimposing a dog’s head on top of the svelte singer’s topless body.

The 500 tampered albums also come with a sticker on the cover, boasting that the album contains the hits: Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For?

Inside the accompanying booklet, a picture of the heiress emerging from a luxury car has been retouched to include a group of homeless people.’

`To help him get through his grueling live performances, Mick Jagger has an oxygen tank backstage. At 63, the Rolling Stones lead singer struggles to keep his energy levels up for an entire two-hour performance, so when guitarist Keith Richards plays his two solo songs, Mick goes backstage and straps on an oxygen mask.

A source told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper, “It helps him get his breath back quicker, keeps the airways clear and gives him what he needs to get back out and step it up a gear for the second half of the show.”‘

‘…and the other girls just keep on singing! An instant classic.’

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`It’s not the record that spins. The world’s smallest self running record player doesn’t need turntables but churns out music by driving round the record with a needle that is underneath the car.

If you have this, you can enjoy music whenever and wherever you are.’

`Crooner Barry Manilow believes Rockdale Council has it all wrong by using his music to ward off car hoons.

Manilow has told locals who are getting tired of hearing his songs every weekend that he is putting the rock back into Rockdale.

Manilow’s spokeswoman told The Daily Telegraph he could not believe his music was being used to stop car hoons gathering at Cook Park Reserve in Brighton-le-Sands.

“He thinks it will have the opposite effect,” she said. “He thinks people will hang around to dance to it.”‘

followup to: Bystanders caught in Manilow cross fire.

`Singer Bob Geldof had to cancel concerts in Milan and Rome when only a handful of people bought tickets to the events.

Geldof is widely known in Italy for his African Poverty campaign to and his campaign to eliminate Third World debt, but still, only 45 people bought tickets to his concert in Milan, held at a venue built to hold 12,000, The Times of London reported Monday.

He also canceled a concert in Rome because of similar slow ticket sales.’

`To play the record the handle needs to be turned in a clockwise direction at a steady 33.3 rpm. The paper cone then acts as a pick up and amplifies the sound enough to make it audible.’

`When Metallica’s 2003 Summer Sanitarium tour arrived in Chicago, few of the 40,000 headbangers gathered at Hawthorne Racecourse were keen to see openers limpbizkit. Possibly incited by a feud between bizkit frontman Fred Durst and local shock-jock Erich “Mancow” Muller, the crowd held up signs reading “Fred Sucks” and pelted him with garbage and coins. Dodging the barrage of detritus, Durst suggested that the audience’s lousy aim explained why the local baseball teams were so bad — ironically, he was then struck squarely in the balls by a lemon. Calling the set to an early end, Durst berated the crowd from the wings, boasting that limpbizkit was the greatest band in the world, until his microphone was taken from him.’

He sure knew how to dance.

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Snakes on a Plane meets Zero Wing.

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`In a move reminiscent of U.S. efforts to drive former Panama strongman Manuel Noriega from the Vatican Embassy where he took refuge in 1989, the local council in Rockdale, in Sydney’s southern suburbs, started a six-month trial of high-volume hits by Manilow and Doris Day to chase away car enthusiasts who were gathering on weekend nights at Cook Park Reserve. [..]

But some people living near the park are less than enthralled. They say the barrage of “Copacabana,” “Could It Be Magic” and “Que Sera Sera,” blasting from 9 p.m. to midnight every Friday, Saturday and Sunday is driving them crazy.’

`When the death of 60-year-old Roger “Syd” Barrett was announced on Tuesday, the media raised an astonishing last hurrah for the founder of Pink Floyd, the “crazy diamond” who had shunned the public gaze for decades.

The descriptions of him as a “mad genius”, “recluse” and “acid casualty” were far off the mark, however, according to his sister Rosemary.

When I wrote Barrett’s biography, Madcap, four years ago I had off-the-record guidance from Rosemary — his junior by two years and closest friend. Last week, after his death, we spoke again and this time she went on the record — the first time she has given a press interview for more than 30 years.’

`Wiggle jiggle, yellow middle.. That’s the best of what you are..’

`Syd Barrett, the troubled Pink Floyd co-founder who spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, the band said Tuesday. He was 60.

A spokeswoman for the band said Barrett died several days ago, but she did not disclose the cause of death. [..]

He reverted to his real name, Roger Barrett, and spent much of the rest of his life living quietly in his hometown of Cambridge, England. Moving into his mother’s suburban house, he passed the time painting and tending the garden. His former bandmates made sure Barrett continued to receive royalties from his work with Pink Floyd.’

`An apparently intoxicated Jackie Chan disrupted a concert by Taiwanese singer-songwriter Jonathan Lee in Hong Kong and exchanged insults with the audience, a news report said Tuesday.

Ming Pao Daily News said Chan suddenly jumped on stage at the concert Monday night and demanded a duet with Lee. He then tried to conduct the band but stopped and restarted the music several times, Ming Pao said.

As the awkward interruption dragged on, audience members started to heckle Chan and the actor replied with an insult, according to the report.’

`The velvet ropes were down Friday as Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley gave a private “family” tour of Graceland to President and Mrs. Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. [..]

Elvis’s daughter said she “inherited from my dad” his interest in Japan – she even went to Kyoto to get married earlier this year. “I’ve been several times,” she said, and was rewarded with a hearty embrace from Koizumi as he sang the opening lines to Elvis’s “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You”: “Hold me close, hold me tight.”

The prime minister told People of the trip, “It was thrilling. It was exciting. This was a dream come true. When I think of the United States, it’s Elvis.”‘

A Jamaican demonstrating how Bob Marley used to sit on a rock and smoke spliffs.

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