Isaac Hayes - Hayes Family Wants Songs Back

Soul fable ISAAC HAYES' family is to set up legal military action to regain the rights to his hit songs.

The singer's back catalogue, which includes classics such as Do Your Thing and Theme from Shaft, was sold for $30,000 (GBP15,000) on the orders of a court next his bankruptcy in 1976.

Now his relatives are provision to recover the rights to the material - which is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in royalties - to provide financial security for his widow and two year old son.

An elder son, Isaac Hayes III, says, "He definitely was done wrong. I'm very passionate or so that (providing security for the menage). If that means me trying to get my father's material back, I'm all for it."

Hayes' solicitor, Allen Arrow, says, "I can't rule out judicial proceeding... I would hope that we tin can retrieve a good part of what he lost."

And Lance Armstrong, president of Rondor Music, which owns the publication rights to Hayes' songs, added: "He lost millions, and it was virtuously and ethically wrong to take it from him. He was devastated."

The mortal singer died from a stroke earlier this month (Aug08).

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Sienna Miller & Married Lover Balthazar Getty Still Together?

Sienna Miller and Balthazar Getty take been spotted together � despite reports that the actor is desperate to save his marriage for the sake of his four children.


The Alfie actress was aforesaid to be 'heartbroken' after the oil-heir ended their affair to return to wife Rosetta.


But it seems that the couple

Tarmvred and Iszoloscope

   
Artist: Tarmvred and Iszoloscope

   Genre(s): 
Industrial
   

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Discography:


   
 Do America

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3

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George Michael to quit touring

Though the Final Two may sound like a name for world's strongest man finalists, a Mighty Boosh episode or some Battlestar Galactica characters, the truth of the matter is far more serious. The Final Two represents the end of an era, the last hurrah, a kind of entertainment apocalypse. Yes, they're George Michael's final two tour dates.

The pop star has announced that his 25 Live tour will end with a pair of concerts in London, the "Final Two" that will mark his retirement from touring. Though Michael may continue to play charity events and special one-off gigs, the days of record-breaking world tours are over, he said.

"He's not going to play any more big arenas," a spokeswoman told Reuters.

The gigs will take place August 24 and 25 at Earl's Court, London. The Live 25 tour started in Barcelona in 2006 and since then more than 1.3 million fans have attended the shows. George Michael will play dates in North America this summer, ahead of the Final Two in London.

"These very special shows will naturally feature Michael's hits, and some tracks not previously performed in Britain," said a statement on his website. Both concerts will be filmed, and will feature "a stunning new stage set". Oh yes.

The Final Two name is a reference to a 1986 gig called the Final, where George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley said farewell to Wham! in a sold-out Wembley Stadium performance.

Perhaps one day George Michael will organise a gig called the Final Final, to mark the end of doing final concerts.


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Singer R. Kelly won't testify at his child pornography trial

CHICAGO - R. Kelly told the judge his child pornography trial Tuesday that he doesn't plan to testify in his own defence.

After Judge Vincent Gaughan told Kelly he had a right to not testify, the R&B singer leaned forward at the defence table with his hands folded and - speaking for the first time at the trial - responded: "I decided not to testify." The jury wasn't in the room at the time.

Kelly, 41, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he videotaped himself having sex with an underage girl. Both Kelly and the alleged victim, now 23, have denied being on the tape.

Also Tuesday, the judge ruled that jurors can view the sex tape once they begin deliberating.

Kelly's lawyers had asked the judge to bar jurors from reviewing the graphic video, saying they worried jurors would overemphasize one piece of evidence. But prosecutors argued the tape is the primary subject of the trial and couldn't be kept from jurors.

Prosecutors are scheduled to call two rebuttal witnesses. Closing arguments are likely to be delivered Thursday.

Kelly's lawyers surprised courtroom observers by resting their case Monday. Over two days, Kelly's lawyers called 12 witnesses. One was a forensics expert who testified there didn't appear to be a mole on the back of a man in a sex tape.

Defence lawyers say Kelly has a mole on his back, so the man on the tape can't be him. But a prosecution witness who'll take the stand for a second time is expected to challenge that claim.

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Richard Clayderman

   
Artist: Richard Clayderman

   Genre(s): 
Other
   New Age
   Instrumental
   Easy Listening
   Classical
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Mon Amour CD2

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 18


   
 Mon Amour CD1

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 19


   
 What A Wonderful World

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 17


   
 Christmas

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 16


   
 The New Romantic Ballads

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 14


   
 Best Songs

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 24


   
 Richard Clayderman

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Best of A.L. Webber

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


   
 20 Greatest Hits

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 20


   
 When A Man Loves A Woman

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 16


   
 The ABBA Collection

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 13


   
 My Classic Collection Vol #2

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 23


   
 My Classic Collection

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 16


   
 The Love Songs Of Andrew Lloyd Webber

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Fantastic Movie Story Of Ennio Morricone

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10


   
 France Mon Amour

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 14


   
 The Golden Collection

   Year:    
Tracks: 24


   
 Tango Passion

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


   
 Tango

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


   
 Romantic Melodies

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 Richard Clayderman Plays Abba

   Year:    
Tracks: 15


   
 Light My Fire

   Year:    
Tracks: 22


   
 Essential 20

   Year:    
Tracks: 18


   
 Especially For You

   Year:    
Tracks: 20


   
 Classical Passion

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 20 Greatest Hits 2

   Year:    
Tracks: 3


   
 20 Greatest Hits 1

   Year:    
Tracks: 17

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With his profuse, sophisticated, instrumental, approach to pop medicine, Richard Clayderman (innate: Phillipe Pages) is, according to The Guinness Book of World Records, "the most successful piano player in the humans." Clayderman's albums routinely sell millions of copies and his concerts ar rapidly sold kayoed. In a review of his 1985 Carnegie Hall concert, Variety wrote, "(Clayderman's) principal attract lies in his youthfulness and schoolboyish honorable looks...coupled with his gentlemanlike magic spell and his thick French accent, they promise to roach in the romantically inclined middle-aged Yank ladies world Health Organization cotton to this ilk of soothing entertainment." Nancy Reagan referred to Clayderman as "the prince of latinian language." Instructed in classical piano by his father-God, Clayderman enrolled in the Paris Conservatory of Music at the age of twelve. Four eld later, he placed first in a piano challenger at the schooltime. Despite his classical background, Clayderman opted for popular music when he launched his professional life history. A tour as opening play for French rock candy musician Johnny Hollyday introduced him to an outside following. Clayderman's debut album, Ballade Pour Adeline, recorded at the urging of producers and composers Oliver Toussaint and Paul De Senneville in 1977, sold more than twenty gazillion copies and was distributed in 38 countries. Clayderman, world Health Organization took his degree advert from his Swedish nanna, has continued to hitch throughout the world to enthusiastic audiences. A live concert, pass around on Chinese television in 1987 attracted more than 800 billion viewers.

Angelina Jolie Spotted Looking Very Pregnant

Angelina Jolie has not yet given birth as French reports have been indicating.

Rumours from the European country led Brangeloonies in believing the actress had popped out twins on Sunday.

However, the pregnant star had been spotted with her family shopping in the Var region of France earlier this week, still looking heavily pregnant.

When will Angie and Brad be welcoming their new additions? The world awaits...