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Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:14 AM PDT

LONDON: Former Beatle Paul McCartney posted wedding banns this week at Westminster Register Office in Marylebone, central London.

The banns allow McCartney to marry New York business woman Nancy Shevell any time 16 days after the Sept 14 posting at the Register offices. It will be McCartney's third marriage.

Shevell, 51, who is divorced, and McCartney, 69, are believed to have begun dating after the Fab Four singer's bitter split with second wife, former model Heather Mills.

The banns list the couple as "James Paul McCartney" and "Nancy Shevell" and say he has had a previous marriage dissolved.

He gives his profession as "business executive" and his multi-millionaire future wife is listed as an "executive".

McCartney was happily married for 29 years to American photographer Linda Eastman until her death of breast cancer in 1998.

He said at the time that he and Linda had spent just 11 nights apart during their marriage.

McCartney's partnership with John Lennon in The Beatles in 1960s Britain produced some of the most famous and enduring pop songs of the past 50 years.

The "Long and Winding Road" singer has five children - four from his marriage to Linda Eastman, and one from his brief union with Mills. Shevell has a teenage daughter.

Sheryl Crow's Mercedes brings $260,000 for tornado victims

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:20 PM PDT

KANSAS CITY (Reuters): An anonymous couple whose $130,000 bid won singer Sheryl Crow's 1959 Mercedes convertible in an auction for tornado-damaged schools in Joplin, Missouri, has donated $130,000 more to the cause.

The couple bought the white Mercedes 190SL convertible at an Aug. 22 auction in California along with one of Crow's Gibson guitars, two concert tickets and a photo opportunity with the star.

Their winning bid exceeded the car's estimated value of $50,000 to $80,000, and the couple decided to match it with a donation, according to the Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri, which is raising money for Joplin schools.

''I am so touched by the donor making this very generous contribution on my behalf to Joplin schools,'' Crow, a former teacher and a Missouri native, said in a statement released by the foundation.

The couple has chosen to remain anonymous.

''Donations such as this demonstrate the long-term commitment to individuals and organizations from across the country to get us back on our feet,'' Joplin schools Superintendent C.J. Huff said in a statement.

The tornado that struck on May 22 has taken 162 lives. It destroyed Joplin High School and two other schools while damaging seven other buildings. Losses totaled more than $150 million, officials said.

School reopened on Aug. 17, but thousands of students are in temporary facilities.

Smells like genius

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:47 AM PDT

Critics' darling Perfume Genius is still shy about basking in all the praise.

HIS first album, Learning, received rave reviews from music critics around the world and was in many of the music media's Top 10 list of best albums of 2010.

But American singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas, who performs under the name Perfume Genius, is still shy about being in the spotlight.

In a telephone interview from Seattle ahead of his first show in Singapore at The Arts House on Sept 20, the 27-year-old artiste says that he is still getting used to performing in front of an audience.

"It's hard work to really connect with the audience," he says of live shows. "I get shy but I also know how important it is for me to try to do that all the time when I'm on tour."

His songs have even attracted the attention of the people working for eccentric film director David Lynch, one of Hadreas' idols.

"David Lynch's art director e-mailed me and I got so nervous, I still haven't responded to it," he says. "They didn't say anything about working together but that was a big deal for me. Right when I read it I just shut my computer and walked away because I was going 'Oh my God'."

Hadreas' bleak and introspective piano-driven tunes from Learning were written in a bedroom in his mother's house. The BBC called the release "a truly disarming debut of open-hearted melancholic splendour", while music magazine Mojo described the songs as "deeply intimate, akin to listening to the heart-rending confessions of a character in a Tennessee Williams play."

A single from that album, Mr Petersen, for example, features dark lyrics about a suicidal teacher.

The former furniture salesman says his songs are not always about real people.

"The words are inspired by all kinds of different things and I mash them together. They're from my memories, or my mum's memories, my friends and things like that. Some of them are factual accounts and some of them are a mish-mash."

The singer will perform in Singapore with his partner, Alan Wyffels, backing him up on keyboards. Half of the setlist will comprise new songs he has written for his upcoming follow-up album.

He does not live with his mother anymore and wrote the new songs in his own apartment as well as in a cottage that he rented. These new tunes will be less dismal, he says.

"I think I wanted them to be more about the healing that comes after, instead of the actual stuff that happened. They're more like what it's like to survive things as opposed to talking about feeling depressed and confused." – The Straits Times, Singapore/Asia News Network

Tickets for Perfume Genius' show at The Arts House in Singapore are available at 4imaginaryboys.com.

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Jumaat, 16 September 2011

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