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September 1st, 2008

Estelle Bombs On Being Removed From iTunes

Estelle was riding high in the US charts with her album Shine, and the best-selling single from it, American Boy, and her career seemed to be heading in just one direction: up. Then her record company, Warner Music, decided to remove her material from Apple iTunes, and it’s all gone horribly wrong.
The short-sightedness of record […]

By Dave Parrack -- 0 comments

July 1st, 2008

The Ting Tings Announce Huge UK Tour | Manchester Band Are No One-Hit Wonder

The Ting Tings seemed to come out of nowhere to become one of the hottest bands in the UK right now. They have even been noticed in the US after their song Shut Up And Let Me Go, which I recently reviewed on Killed By The Video Star, was featured on an Apple iPod advert.

I […]

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May 6th, 2008

40 More Songs To Add To Your iPod or Mp3 Player - b5 Music Channel Recommendations

Yesterday, I suggested two songs which you should add to your iPod or mp3 player’s playlist. They were two of the finest songs by British artists out there at the moment, namely Warwick Avenue by Duffy and Without You by The Feeling.
But I wasn’t the only one with recommendations to make, and the whole of […]

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March 25th, 2008

Neil Aspinall - The Beatles Manager and Confidant Takes Secrets To The Grave

Neil Aspinall, The Beatles manager and confidant died on Sunday night at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in Manhattan. He was there receiving treatment for lung cancer, and was only 66 when he passed away.
Aspinall was often referred to as “The Fifth Beatle”, a title which George Harrison himself gave to the man with probably […]

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March 23rd, 2008

Apple Brings Lawsuit Over Bootleg Beatles Recording From Early Days In Hamburg

You might think that after 45 years of making money from being in The Beatles, the surviving members, namely Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, would have enough wealth not to worry about the odd release of a few unlicensed tracks here and there.
But it seems not, as Apple Corps, the Beatles company rather than […]

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