LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler disclosed on Thursday that he entered rehab earlier this month because he needed "a safe environment to recuperate" following a series of painful foot surgeries.
The 60-year-old rocker, America's answer to Mick Jagger, has been a passionate advocate of sobriety for more than two decades, and so Web site TMZ.com's report last week that he had checked into a Los Angeles-area clinic raised some eyebrows.
His camp did not confirm the TMZ report until Thursday, issuing a statement in which the former rock 'n' roll bad boy discussed his decision to seek help, and vowed that Aerosmith "has no plans to stop rocking."
Tyler said that surgeries to correct foot injuries caused by his grueling on-stage athletics proved more painful than expected. The post-operative physical therapy was also traumatic.
"I really needed a safe environment to recuperate where I could shut off my phone and get back on my feet," Tyler said. "Make no mistake, Aerosmith has no plans to stop rocking. There's a new album to record, then another tour."
A spokeswoman declined to provide additional information about Tyler's health issues, or to confirm TMZ's report that he was at Aurora Las Encinas Hospital in the Los Angeles-area municipality of Pasadena.
Tyler and his bandmates raised the bar for rock 'n' roll excess during the '70s -- an era not known for its self-restraint -- while they rocked the charts with such songs as "Walk This Way" and "Back in the Saddle." He and guitarist Joe Perry, the band's creative forces, were dubbed the "Toxic Twins."
After self-destructing by the end of the decade, and enduring a few years in the wilderness, the band slowly launched a hugely successful comeback, with a carefully structured drug-free environment in place.
Saturday 31 May 2008
Sarah Greene is voted off Dancing on Ice
Television presenter Sarah Greene has become the first celebrity to be voted out of 'Dancing on Ice'.
She was placed in the bottom two alongside Irish singer Samantha Mumba as a result of the public vote last night.
Following a skate-off, the judges decided to save Mumba.
Greene said: "It is a fantastic sport. I can't wait to meet my friends down at Slough ice rink and carry on skating without the pressure."
She was placed in the bottom two alongside Irish singer Samantha Mumba as a result of the public vote last night.
Following a skate-off, the judges decided to save Mumba.
Greene said: "It is a fantastic sport. I can't wait to meet my friends down at Slough ice rink and carry on skating without the pressure."
Arturo Sandoval
Artist: Arturo Sandoval
Genre(s):
Folk
Jazz: Latin
Discography:
Dream Come True
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
A blinding, technically flawless trumpeter from Cuba, Arturo Sandoval has been eye-popping audiences all all over the world with his supercharged note and bop-flavored flurries way up in the trumpet's highest register. In slower numbers, he sports a prosperous, laid-back tone of voice on the flügelhorn, pronounced with a sure, subtle sense of swing out. Apparently he is capable of acting anything, proving it more than once by tackling classic repertory as well as nothingness in the same concert, and he has sufficiency oddity to lookup far beyond his Cubop al-Qaida for repertoire. Yet he a great deal lets his desire to please the crowd with high-note displays get in the way of musical values, and he has yet to make a majuscule criminal record that canful stand with those trumpet giants that feature preceded him.
The logos of an motorcar automobile mechanic, Sandoval took up the graeco-Roman trumpet at 12 and was enrolled in the Cuban National School of the Arts at 15, perusing with a Russian graeco-Roman trumpeter. Early in the 1970s, he became one of the introduction members of the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, which by 1973 had evolved into the Afro-Cuban, rock-influenced band Irakere. Sandoval met his matinee idol Dizzy Gillespie in 1977, wHO promptly became a mentor and colleague, playing with Sandoval in concerts in Europe and Cuba and later featuring him in the United Nation Orchestra. After transcription an album with David Amram, Havana/New York, and a couple of high profile Irakere albums on Columbia, Sandoval left the group in 1981 to duty tour with his own ring and record in Cuba. Occasionally, the Castro government would allow Sandoval to seem in diverse international wind festivals and with orchestras like the BBC Symphony and Leningrad Philharmonic. Though he galled under a regimen that restricted his touring, Sandoval bided his time until he could get his wife and son out of Cuba, and only then, in July 1990 during a long European spell, did he defect at the American Embassy in Rome, subsiding in Florida.
Signing with GRP, Sandoval's first-class honours degree American record album, fittingly highborn Escape to Freedom, demonstrated his versatility in several idioms, and he toured with his own high-energy Afro-Cuban radical in the nineties. Hot House followed in 1998, and a year later he returned with Americana. L.A. Meetings appeared in spring 2001. For 2003's Trumpet Evolution, Sandoval selected material from his favorite cornet players. Since that time, he has released a handful of recordings including Live at the Blue Note in 2005 and Arturo Sandoval & the Latin Jazz Orchestra and Rhumba Palace, both in 2007.
Unemployed Heche can't afford child support
David Archuleta Says 'American Idol' Champ David Cook 'Deserved It So Much'
"American Idol" runner-up David Archuleta doesn't shy away from the tough questions.
Want to know what kind of album he hopes to release? How he felt about the controversy surrounding his dad? Whether he has time for a girlfriend? (We know a few of you are wondering ... ) Read below for that and more.
Q: Backstage after the finale, you said you felt a sense of relief. Can you explain that?
A: It was such a relief to just feel good about what I did [on Tuesday's performance night] and the fact that that was the last impression I gave on the show. The competition's all over. Now it's time to really focus on music.
Q: What do you want to say to your fans who are disappointed that you didn't win the show?
A: To the people who've been supporting me so much, I just want to thank them. It means more than anything to know that people are appreciating the hard work that we put into this. I want them to know that I'm feeling great about it. The fact that Cook won, I think he deserved it so much. He just proved it week after week. He deserves to be the American Idol! He's such a great guy too. My main priority wasn't to win the competition; it was just to do my best. You can suck and people can vote enough for you to win, but that wouldn't feel very good. [Laughs.] We both gave it all. We just poured it all onto that stage on Tuesday night. And we both feel really great about it. I don't think I could have done anything better or change anything to make me feel any better about what I did.
Q: Was it hard to hear all the criticism about your dad throughout the season?
A: I hadn't really heard much of it until later on. I tried to stay away from the press. I didn't like to hear anything going on in the news about me, good or bad, just because I didn't want it to distract me or let it go to my head. I just wanted to stay myself and how I was at the beginning of the competition. ... In interviews, it started coming up, and it was just kind of strange, because they're really weird things, like that he refused to give me water. That's the weirdest thing. I'm 17, and if I want water I'm pretty sure I would just go get it! [Laughs.] And then another thing was that he made me cry during one of the recording [sessions]. He's a great guy. There isn't really anything he's done that's bad like the things that have been spoken about him. My family has just been such a great support, and they're the ones who've kept me grounded and allowed me to be who I am today. No one understands what I'm here for more than they do. They get what I love about music and how it's changed my life.
Q: What kind of album do you hope to make?
A: I'd love to still do the pop thing, just because I'm still a teenager, and on the show, I was getting a little mature with my songs, even though I love to do that stuff. I still want to be able to relate to the kids my age, so I like the pop, but I still wanna have meaning in my music. I'd still like to do some fun stuff, along with songs that have more meaning in them. John Mayer and Sara Bareilles are examples I use of people who have done the more pop side of music, but their music is still real. It has meaning and depth to it. They're respected as real musicians and artists.
Q: You have a lot of female fans. Now that the show's over, do you have a little more time to date someone?
A: Now it's really time to focus on making an album and writing songs and all that. I just feel like, being 17, I'm not really mature enough to understand those feelings yet. I've watched so many of my friends, like, "Oh, we broke up. I can't live without them!" It's like, "You're 17! What are you talking about?" ... I so don't want to deal with the drama right now. [Laughs.] I just wanna be able to focus on music and then, when I feel like I've met a girl who has a great personality and I can connect with and has really good standards for themselves and has respect for themselves, but not like in an arrogant way, someone who cares about others as well, you know, it's not all about them. It's just something I'll want to focus on later on in life, when I'm ready, but I just feel like I'm so young. I'm still learning so much.
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Beyonce Knowles to record James Bond theme?
Beyonce Knowles is being lined up to sing the soundtrack for the new James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, after troubled Amy Winehouse pulled out.
Amy, 24, earlier this month scrapped plans to do the theme song, three weeks after her bust up with producer Mark Ronson.
And now the former Destiny's Child's singer -- who recently wed beau Jay-Z -- is in talks with movie bosses about performing a new track written by Amanda Ghost and collaborating with legendary Bond composer John Barry, reports the London Paper.
Earlier this month, Ronson -- who worked with Amy on her smash hit album Back to Black -- said the singer was not in a fit state to make music; and that it would be "a miracle of science" if she recorded the soundtrack.
Winehouse's rep confirmed she was no longer in the picture for the coveted soundtrack. "She didn't like the track they were working on and felt it was the wrong thing to get involved in," he said.
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Life At These Speeds
Artist: Life At These Speeds
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Life At These Speeds
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
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