Johann Sebastian Bach: Master of Fugue music

The Asian Age, op-Ed, October 07, 2008 

The art, science and beauty of Bach’s music

Jayati Ghosh

A fugue is a composition of western classical music that is based on several parts, or voices, singing simultaneously. The opening subject is introduced by one voice, and then taken up by others until each voice has expressed the theme. The music can then take any direction, with periodic entries of the theme or other strands depending on the composer’s choice. But the extraordinary thing about a successful fugue is that, even as individual voices proceed on their own often quite complex ways, the whole combination is continuously harmonised and internally consistent.

The word fugue comes from "fuga" (or "flight") possibly expressing the idea of one voice pursued by, or fleeing from, another. It could also express the greater freedom of form which is accorded to the fugue, compared to the canon (which means "rule") a much more strict version in which repetition of the theme by different voices is all that is permitted.

The great master of the fugue was of course Johann Sebastian Bach. In the two-and-a-half centuries since his death, it has proved impossible for anyone to even come close to his fugal output, which certainly marks the pinnacle of human creation in this area. It is impossible to describe the sheer perfection and completeness of his fugues in words, while a simple recounting of their numbers would leave anyone utterly exhausted.

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There is no human touch, technology rules music: Jagjit Singh

New Delhi, Sep 3 (PTI) Legendary singer Jagjit Singh, who is known to have brought 'Ghazals' to the music collection of the common man is a bit uncomfortable with the tag and would rather like to be be known as one capable of singing all genres and styles. "Why do you call me a ghazal singer? I have done playback for Hindi and Pujabi films and also have sung Gurbani and bhajans.

So why restrict me to just ghazals. I am a trained singer," Singh replied to a question during a press conference here recently.

He believes that technology has taken over the music industry more than needed. Read more

Michael Jackson: 'I Feel Very Young' at 50

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U.S. pop star Michael Jackson waves to fans as he leaves the "Premium VIP Party with Michael Jackson" in Tokyo, March 8, 2007. The ticket price for the exclusive party was $3,400.

Michael Jackson: 'I Feel Very Young' at 50
Speaks Exclusively to 'GMA' About His Past, His Future, His Dreams for His Children
By CHRIS CONNOLLY and MICHAEL S. JAMES
Aug. 28, 2008


He first became a star as a young boy, then endured superstardom, scandals and a legal prosecution, but as he turns 50, Michael Jackson told "Good Morning America" in an exclusive interview, he is "having a wonderful time."

Speaking by phone from his home in California, at times so softly he was barely audible, Jackson said he was listening to a little James Brown and preparing for his 50th birthday Friday, when he will have a little cake and watch cartoons with his children, and then get back to work.

Reflecting back, Jackson said the happiest time in his life was probably when he was recording his hit solo albums "Thriller" and "Off the Wall" –- which propelled him to the height of his stardom.
Asked to pick a single song as his greatest achievement, Jackson went back to the same period.

"Oh boy, that's a hard one," he said, before singling out "We Are the World," and "Billie Jean," adding that there were "so many others."

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Music and Politics:Madonna, McCain and Hitler

The Associated Press

Even at 50, the queen of pop just can't stop courting controversy.
The singer's latest stage show pairs images of Sen. McCain and Adolf Hitler.

As Madonna kicked off her international "Sticky and Sweet" tour Saturday night, she took a none-too subtle swipe at the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president.

Amid a four-act show at Cardiff's packed Millennium Stadium, a video interlude carried images of destruction, global warming, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe's authoritarian President Robert Mugabe — and U.S. Senator John McCain. Another sequence, shown later, pictured slain Beatle John Lennon, followed by climate activist Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain's Democratic rival Barack

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Barenaked Ladies singer to fight US cocaine charge - Yahoo! India News

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Barenaked Ladies singer to fight US cocaine charge
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - The lead singer of the popular Canadian band the Barenaked Ladies will fight a recent cocaine charge in the United States, the band said in a statement posted on its website on Thursday.

Steven Page was arrested last Friday in an apartment in Fayetteville, New York, and charged with possession of a controlled substance. Court documents show Page allegedly told police "Yeah, it's cocaine", when asked about a white powdery substance in his possession.

Page, 38, posted $10,000 bail and is due back in court late next month.

"Many of you have probably read or heard press accounts about Steven Page's recent arrest in New York state. Steven has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and the validity of the charges against Steven will be strongly contested," the band statement said.

The five-man group is best known for hit songs such as "One Week", "Pinch Me", and "If I Had a Million Dollars". It has just released an album of songs for youngsters and next month is due to play at a Long Island, New York, children's charity concert organized by Walt Disney Co.

"While this is happening, it's business as usual for Barenaked Ladies. We will continue to perform and look forward to heading into the studio later this year to record a new album. We want to thank our loyal fans for their continued support during this difficult time," the statement said.

Heidi Montag's Christian album

Heidi Montag Is Over 'The Hills' and the Drama
Her Eyes Are on Music, Marriage and Charity
By William Keck, USA TODAY
June 30, 2008


"The Hills" are alive with the sounds of Montag.
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Heidi Montag, star of MTV's reality show 'The Hills,' is debuting a fashion line and a new single, aptly named 'Fashion.'


Depending on whom you ask, Heidi Montag is the villainess on the hit MTV reality show "The Hills". But ask Montag, and she'll sing a different tune: She's merely the outcast friend who is portrayed as the troublemaker by star Lauren Conrad.

Regardless, Montag, 21, has used the drama to her advantage. She is unveiling the fall collection of her fashion line, Heidiwood, which is sold at Kitson and Anchor Blue. And with the help of her manager/boyfriend, Spencer Pratt, she is releasing her first official single, appropriately titled "Fashion", after previous song "Higher" leaked online.

"The Hills" ended Season 3 (available on DVD July 29) in May with Pratt, 24, flying to Vegas to reclaim Montag after a broken engagement. (There was some ugliness involving a tacky pink ring he had given her.) Montag and company have been shooting Season 4 for more than four months in Los Angeles; the first of 19 episodes premieres Aug. 18. Montag reveals that viewers will meet her older sister, Holly, 24, an aspiring filmmaker who once lived with Montag and Conrad.


"Holly and Lauren were inseparable for a while," Montag says. "But they stopped being friends when Lauren and I stopped being friends."

Montag credits Pratt with saving "The Hills" from cancellation when he joined the series in Season 2 as the resident troublemaker. The two had met a year earlier off-camera. "I fell in love with him the second I saw him," she says. "He's the most amazing person to exist. Everything you could ever want in a best friend, soul mate and boyfriend."

Nonetheless, they broke up repeatedly, and Montag changed her number several times so he couldn't contact her. Asked whether they are engaged, Montag looks at Pratt and her naked ring finger and asks, "Where's my ring?"

He says he's saving up for a multimillion-dollar bauble to show how much he adores her.

Even though "The Hills" chronicles Conrad's life (it's the most watched TV show among women 18-24), it's her feud with Montag that's grabbing most of the attention. The falling-out began when Conrad expressed her dislike for Pratt. Montag blames Conrad for telling co-star Audrina Patridge to drop her as a friend, even though Montag introduced them. All hell broke loose this past season when Pratt and Montag revealed that Conrad had supposedly shot a sex tape with ex-beau Jason Wahler.




"I don't even want to talk about that," Montag says. "There were rumors about a sex tape, but I had nothing to do with that. God knows the truth in all of this, and at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters. Jesus was persecuted, and I'm going to get persecuted, ya know? But it doesn't matter to me."

Little coverage in celebrity magazines, which seem to chronicle every movement of this reality troupe, is given to Montag's and Pratt's Christianity. Montag identifies herself as "kind of non-denominational Baptist" and hopes to release a Christian album one day. Both she and Pratt read the Bible conscientiously. Montag even planned on devoting her life to God as a missionary in Africa.

"I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God," says Montag, who grew up in Colorado with Holly, brother Sky, 15, and her since-divorced parents, Bill, a rancher, and Darlene, who runs a restaurant with Montag's stepfather.

This August, she and Pratt are headed to Africa to "feed children and help build things." Cameras will capture their trek, but not for The Hills. Pratt says it's possible they could adopt a baby while over there, but Montag laughs that idea off.

"Not right now," she insists. "I think we'd be married before we do that."

Montag likes to think she and the Jonas Brothers are part of a new wave of positive role models. "As a parent, I would not want my daughter looking up to someone throwing money away, on drugs or coming out of rehab," she says.

But while Jesus preached forgiveness, Montag says "Hills" fans should not hold their breaths for a big reunion for her and Conrad. "I don't think people are ever going to get that," she says emphatically. Even so, if Conrad offered an olive branch, Montag would accept. "She'll always have a place in my heart."

A more likely scenario: Montag and Pratt will wrap up their time on "The Hills" after this season and launch their own MTV reality series along the lines of "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica" — Montag's all-time favorite show.



Any concern such constant camera presence could lead her and Pratt down the same doomed path as the since-divorced Lachey and Simpson?


"I don't really feel that way," she says. "You're either going to make it as a couple or you're not. I love cameras, but the cameras aren't with us when we're falling asleep at night.

"The show's going to be about our lives, and it's such a blessing to be doing this."

Music and Politics: Bob Dylan Endorses Obama

Has Bob Dylan Endorsed Obama?
Mercurial Songwriter Has Never Formally Endorsed a Politician
By CHRIS FRANCESCANI
June 6, 2008



Bob Dylan, the maverick architect of modern American protest music, appears to have endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Or did he?

In an apparent break from the singer-songwriter's lifelong policy of refusing to make political endorsements, Dylan told The Times of London, "Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval.

"Poverty is demoralizing,'' he said. "You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up — Barack Obama. He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to."

Dylan, 67, reportedly shook hands with his interviewer and as he walked out the door, added, "You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future."

If indeed intended as an endorsement of America's first black major party presidential candidate, the statements were extraordinary for Dylan — from a cultural if not necessarily political standpoint.

Even at the height of his fame in the 1960s, when mass movements like the civil rights brigades and the anti-war establishment literally begged Dylan to lead them, the artist recoiled from taking sides.

Perennial Contrarian

The moody, mercurial Dylan has devoted his entire career to confounding expectations and constantly re-inventing himself, in an ever-nimble effort to dodge the endless ranks of ideologues who have been co-opting his songs for political purposes for decades.


As recently as 2004, he baffled the globe when he appeared in a 'Victoria's Secret' commercial with supermodel Adriana Lima and allowed the lingerie company to license his song "Lovesick."

The commercial — so surprising for an anti-establishment renegade like Dylan — led writer Mike Marqusee to ruefully note that "forty years ago [Dylan's] motto was 'Money doesn't talk, it swears …'

"Today, it's 'stretch-lined demi-bra with lace.'"

That same year, Dylan puzzled plenty and broke lefty hearts everywhere by admitting in his autobiography, decades after it would ever matter, that in the early 1960s "my favorite politician was [Republican Arizona Senator] Barry Goldwater,'' who Dylan said reminded him of Tom Mix, the cowboy actor who starred in hundreds of silent Westerns in the 1920s and 1930s.

Ozzy Osbourne Accepts Libel Damages and Apology

Ozzy Osbourne accepts libel damages over a newspaper claim that he was ill at the Brit Awards
LONDON June 5, 2008 (AP)
The Associated Press


Ozzy Osbourne has accepted undisclosed libel damages and an apology over a newspaper claim that he was ill at the Brit Awards.

The 59-year-old rocker sued over a story in the Daily Star that alleged he had toppled over twice just before the televised ceremony and that he was moved around the awards in an electric buggy.

Osbourne's lawyer, John Kelly, told a court in London on Thursday that none of the allegations were put to Osbourne or his representatives before they were published.

Express Newspapers' lawyer Kate Wilson said the publisher now accepts that the allegations were untrue.

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Chick Rocker Grace Slick Says, 'Retire Before 50

Cher, Bette, Tina, Madonna Still Strutting Their Stuff
But First Chick Rocker Grace Slick Says, 'Retire Before 50, It's Embarrassing'
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
May 30, 2008




Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick, who shocked audiences in the 1960s by jumping offstage drunk to pick a fan's nose and once exposed herself sans undies, has little faith in aging rockers.

The iconic beauty left the music scene at age 48 after her 1985 hit "We Built This City on Rock and Roll," topping off her career as a lead singer for the Airplane and its later incarnations.

Slick, whose brash style in the masculine world of rock was a role model for today's greatest female performers, confessed in a 1998 VH1 documentary that "all rock 'n' rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire."

Now 68, Slick told ABCNEWS.com, "It's sad somehow when you watch people who are doing things that my daughter calls 'age inappropriate.'

"They can sing almost anything but rock and roll and rap," said Slick, who lives in California as a painter. "When [a rapper] gets old he'll look sappy holding his crotch and making finger signs and wearing 'bling' and talking about my 'b***h.'"

But today's sold-out concerts by some of her contemporaries suggest that Slick has miscalculated the staying power of aging female rockers.


The grande dames of rock and pop -- Tina Turner, Cher, Bette Midler and Madonna -- are still recording, touring and commanding astronomical ticket prices at the biggest venues with fan bases that cross all age barriers.

So, too, are Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Gladys Knight, Dolly Parton and many more. Only one publicist, Liz Rosenberg, who represents Nicks, Cher and Madonna, commented on Slick's classic off-color invective.

"What an ageist statement to make," Rosenberg told ABCNEWS.com. "I find all these women totally inspiring as their fans obviously do as well. Tell Grace to get out on the road this summer and see if any of these 'grand dames' perform. I think she will change her mind. And tell her to bring her daughter with her."

For more than a decade, Slick and Turner dominated Billboard's Hot 100 list as the oldest female vocalists. The R&B singer, who was 44 with her 1984 hit "What's Love Got to Do With It" gave way to Slick, at 47, with "Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now." Pop vocalist Cher beat both records in 1999 at the age of 53 with her hit "Believe."

Cher, at 62, kicks off her debut at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas this weekend in new Bob Mackie costumes and a show that includes 18 dancers and aerialists. The over-the-top singer is one of Billboard's Top 40 "greatest artists of all time," selling 200 million albums since she emerged as part of the Sonny and Cher duo in 1965.

Boy band creator sentenced to 25 years in prison

Boy band creator sentenced to 25 years in prison

By TRAVIS REED, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

ORLANDO, Fla. - Lou Pearlman, the man who created the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for engineering a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of their life savings.
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It was the maximum sentence the boy band mogul could receive for allegedly swindling some $300 million from investors and banks since the early 1980s.

He pleaded guilty in March to two counts of conspiracy and single counts of money laundering and presenting a false claim in bankruptcy court.

U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp noted that many victims were Pearlman's relatives, friends and retirees in their 70s or 80s who lost everything.

"The sympathy factor just doesn't run very high with the court," Sharp said.

However, the judge said he would reduce Pearlman's sentence by one month for every $1 million returned to investors. It wasn't clear how, or if, investors would ever be compensated.

"I want to say clearly that there's no pot of gold out there," defense attorney Fletcher Peacock said.

Prosecutors allege Pearlman scammed individuals out of an estimated $200 million, and banks out of another $100 million.

The courtroom was packed with victims, some of whom gave emotional testimony. Another two dozen or so waited outside.

"Over the past nine months since my arrest, I've come to realize the harm that's been done," Pearlman said in a short courtroom statement. "I'm truly sorry and I apologize for what's happened."

Peacock said Pearlman meant to pay back all the investors, and noted he had returned about $103 million.

He said Pearlman got caught up in lawsuits — also alleged fraudulent business practices — over his otherwise successful entertainment ventures in the 1990s that prevented him from returning the money.

Gretchen Wilson Graduates High School at 34

Gretchen Wilson Graduates High School
By Steve Helling,
Posted: 2008-05-17 14:59:05

(May 17) - She's got a Grammy, two Country Music Awards, and an album that went five times platinum, but Gretchen Wilson is finally achieving something that she has wanted for years: her high school diploma.

Wilson, 34, best known for her 2004 hit "Redneck Woman," dropped out of high school in ninth grade amid family problems. She worked as a cook and bartender in Illinois before heading to Nashville to pursue her country music career.




Biography (from Wikipedia)


Gretchen Frances Wilson, June 26, 1973 in Pocahontas, Illinois) is a Grammy award-winning American country music singer-songwriter. Her debut album, Here for the Party, topped the US country charts in 2004 and reached #2 on the Billboard 200 chart. Her two subsequent albums, All Jacked Up (2005) and One of the Boys (2007), have also reached the top of the US country charts.[1]


Gretchen was born in Pocahontas, Illinois to a 16-year-old mother. Her father left before she was two years old, and she and her mother lived in trailer parks and relative poverty. Gretchen's mother worked as a waitress, and Gretchen herself dropped out of the 9th grade at age 15 to work as a cook and bartender in rural Illinois. In 2008, she completed the GED program.

After a failed marriage to former Baywolfe bandmate Larry Rolens, Gretchen moved to Nashville and began dating Mike Penner. They have a daughter, Grace Frances Penner, who was born November 9, 2000.

Gretchen, who had sung for Kmart as a child, sang in two bar bands by the age of 20. In 1996 she moved to Nashville to sing back-up and record sample songs. In 2000, she met John Rich, a member of Big & Rich, who invited her to become his song-writing partner. Wilson signed with Epic Records in 2003 and recorded Here for the Party within the year.

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Her first single, "Redneck Woman", was released in early 2004 and reached the top of the Hot Country Songs charts and #22 on the Billboard Hot 100. The success of "Redneck Woman" prompted an earlier-than-planned release for Here for the Party -- May 11, 2004 -- and it debuted at #1 on the Billboard country chart. It also reached #2 on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Internet album sales charts. She performed as a support artist for Brooks & Dunn and Montgomery Gentry.

She released the title track Here For The Party as the second single. It peaked at #3 on the Billboard country chart. Two other songs were released as singles, and both reached the top 10. Released in markets outside the U.S., the album hit #2 on the Australian country charts (behind Kasey Chambers) and the top 50 of the Australian charts. As of July 5, 2004, "Redneck Woman" was #1 on a world composite country chart (based on the U.S., UK, and Australia charts). The album went on sell more than 4 million copies in the U.S. and 5 million worldwide and was certified four times platinum.

On September 27, 2005, Gretchen released her second album, All Jacked Up, which peaked at #1 on both the Top 200 and Country album charts, but, after initial decent sales, the album quickly fell off the charts. It was certified Platinum and sold 1 million copies. The title track, All Jacked Up, peaked at a disappointing #8 on the Country singles chart and was the only song from the album to reach the top 10. The second single, I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today, peaked at #22. The third and the fourth singles were Politically Uncorrect and California Girls, which peaked respectively at #23 and #25 on the Country chart. Kid Rock appeared on "The Other Side of Me," an exclusive track that Target released with the album.

On February 28, 2006, Gretchen appeared on Kid Rock and The Twisted Brown Trucker Band's "Live" Trucker, as she performed "Picture" recorded at Detroit's Cobo Hall, 3/26/04. On November 2006, she released a new single called Come To Bed, a song produced by her friend John Rich, who also sings the background vocals. The song's suggestive video received a TV-14 S rating when aired on CMT.

Gretchen's "I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today" was nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Female Country Vocal Performance, and Best Country Song. In 2006, Wilson contributed a well-received cover of Kris Kristofferson's Sunday Mornin' Coming Down on the tribute CD The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson. In 2007, Wilson displayed her rock and roll vocals on the cable TV special VH1 Rock Honors, singing Heart's hit Barracuda, along with Alice in Chains and Heart member Nancy Wilson on guitars.,

On May 15, 2007, Gretchen released her third album, One of the Boys. The album debuted at #5 on the Top 200 and at #1 on the Country album chart. After 11 weeks, it exited the Billboard Top 200, having sold just 178,220 copies at that point. "Come To Bed" and "One Of The Boys", the first two singles released, both failed to enter the top 30 and missed the Hot 100 completely. The third single, "You Don't Have to Go Home", was even less successful, peaking at #53.

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Rumer Willis at 19 set to fly high

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Rumer Willis is set to release a record.


The 19-year-old aspiring star - the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore - has reportedly caught the interest of music executives with her 'deep, husky voice'.

A source said: "She can definitely hold a good tune - keep in mind her mother, Demi, has a sultry, raspy voice, and Bruce likens himself as being a blues artist.

"With the right production and material, she could put out something solid and already people are talking."

Rumer recently insisted she landed a role in upcoming film 'Wild Cherry’ without any help from her A-list parents.

She said: 'I think when people meet me they’re shocked, because the idea of celebrity children is that they’re trust-fund babies that don’t have any desire to work and they’re just going to ride their parents’ train.'

Bruce has had a little known music career with rhythm and blues albums 'Return of Bruno’ and 'If It Don’t Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger’.

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Early Navajo songs and pop, blues, country, jazz preserved for future

"Thriller," historic speech added to U.S. archive

By Brooks Boliek Wed May 14, 8:26 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - We don't think much about the Internet winging messages across the globe at blinding speeds, but in 1925 the first broadcast that spanned the Atlantic was a technological marvel.


A recording of that broadcast joins the world's best-selling album, political speeches, a collection of Navajo songs and pop, blues, country, jazz and musical theater classics among recordings newly deemed worthy of preservation for future generations.

Librarian of Congress James Billington on Wednesday announced the 25 additions to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress as part of its efforts to preserve the nation's aural history by archiving recordings deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

The inductees range from Michael Jackson's 1982 all-time best-seller "Thriller" and T-Bone Walker's "Call It Stormy Monday but Tuesday Is Just as Bad" to the 1977 record of Earth sounds that flew aboard the spacecraft Voyager in the event alien life forms encountered the craft. Other recordings added to the registry include works by Roy Orbison, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Kitty Wells and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and the original cast recording of "My Fair Lady."

Appropriately in an election year, this year's list also includes President Truman's 1948 speech at the Democratic National Convention and future President Reagan's radio broadcasts from 1976-79. New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia reading comics to children during a 1945 newspaper delivery strike also made the cut.

A technological breakthrough in broadcasting was included: a 37-minute broadcast that originated in London, traveled by land line to station 5XX in Chelmsford, then crossed the Atlantic and was picked up by an RCA transmitter in Maine and relayed to WJZ New York and WRC Washington.

"Audio preservation constitutes a critical challenge," Billington said. "Much has already been lost, particularly in the field of radio."

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Fatboy Slim takes new Avtar

Fatboy Slim new identity
14 May 2008 // by: newsdesk





Norman Cook says he has laid out plans to retire the now legendary moniker Fatboy Slim and will soon DJ under a new name.


Charlatans 'You Cross My Path'


After 12 years and four studio albums, Norman says it's time for Fatboy to be put to rest.

He tells The Sun: "Yes, I am ditching the Fatboy Slim name, but I can't tell you the new one.

"I'm going to take the Fifth Amendment on that question and not say because I'll get myself into trouble."

Although he has not officially discussed the new name recent reports suggest he's the man behind Brighton Port Authority, who had a tune released on the soundtrack for fantasy TV show, Heroes.

The track, entitled He's Frank, featured Iggy Pop on vocals and it is rumoured that the BPA album will also feature collaborations with Martha Wainwright and Talking Heads legend David Byrne.