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- The Eagles have no regret about early life in the fast lane
- Justin Bieber shrugs off rumours after drugs found in his tour bus
- Psy bounced off Korean charts by 63-year-old singer
| The Eagles have no regret about early life in the fast lane Posted: 25 Apr 2013 09:07 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - From hell raisers to family men, The Eagles have mellowed over the years and are grateful to have survived the drugs that fuelled the sex and rock 'n' roll of their early years. In London for the British premiere of their documentary, History Of The Eagles Part One, the U.S. band said they looked back now at the prolific use of drugs, particularly cocaine, in the 1970s and see it as a snapshot of those times. It was during those years The Eagles produced a string of hits, such as Hotel California and Lyin' Eyes, with their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 album still ranked as one of the best-selling albums with sales topping 29 million. Drummer and singer Don Henley, 65, one of the band's founders, said they behaved liked "kids" then, enjoying all the trappings that came with fame until tensions between band members led to line-up changes and their break up in 1980. "For one reason or another, be it good genetics or willpower or good fortune, we're all fine and we intend to stay that way ... A great many people didn't make it," Henley told a news conference in a central London hotel. Singer Glenn Frey, who founded the band with Henley in 1971, said retracing their lives for the two-part documentary had made him accept their past. History Of The Eagles Part One, screened as part of London's Sundance film and music festival, chronicles the band's creation and rise to fame until 1980 while the second film looks at their years apart, their reunion in 1994 and later career. That included relatively recent, back to back Grammy Awards - one in 2007 for best country performance and one on 2008 for best pop instrumental performance. "You have to look at yourself and look at your past and accept who you are, what you did, be thankful that no one got hurt, say you're sorry for the things you did that were wrong, and get on with it," said Frey. "We are pretty comfortable with who we are up here now," added Frey, 64, looking more like a businessman than a rock star, with short hair and dressed in a shirt, tie and blazer. TRASHING ROOMS AND DRUGS Guitarist Joe Walsh, who joined the band in 1975 and was known for trashing hotel rooms, said he was uncomfortable seeing footage of himself in such a mess but it was important for the documentary to be honest about those years. "There was a point when we would do pretty much anything we wanted and so we did," said Walsh, 65, a guitar great who kept up the rock star image with long blond hair, black T-shirt and chunky necklace. He said he ran into serious trouble after the band split, with little left in his life and dependent on alcohol and drugs. He didn't clean up his act until Henley and Frey came to him in 1993 talking about a band reunion but insisted he was sober. "That is the reason I had been waiting for all those years so it was pretty much a no brainer," he said. Back together for almost 20 years, the band is still amazed people want to hear them play. In July they set off on a world tour starting in the United States that hits Europe in 2014. These days the fights and tensions are under control. "We are a lot more mature. We are more accepting of each other. Things changed for us in this band once people started having kids," said Frey. The fourth member of the band, bassist Timothy B. Schmit who joined in 1977, said people might view the drug use and promiscuous behaviour in the 1970s with disapproval. "But we had a lot of fun," said 65-year-old Schmit. |
| Justin Bieber shrugs off rumours after drugs found in his tour bus Posted: 25 Apr 2013 09:06 PM PDT STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Teen idol Justin Bieber on Thursday seemed to shrug off the latest controversy surrounding his European tour after Swedish police said they had found drugs on his tour bus but could not link them to any single person. Bieber, 19, has made headlines in the past two months for showing up late for his own London concert, walking shirtless through airport security in Poland, posting a cartoon of himself in bed with a young woman, and expressing the hope that Holocaust victim Anne Frank would have been a "belieber" like his millions of fans. On Thursday, Swedish police said an officer smelled marijuana on an empty tour bus outside the hotel where Bieber was staying before his Stockholm concert on Wednesday. They said they found a small amount of drugs but had no suspects and did not plan further action. "Some of the rumors about me....where do people even get this stuff. whatever...back to the music," Bieber tweeted on Thursday to his 38 million Twitter followers after announcing he had arrived in Finland. Representatives of the Canadian singer, who started his career as a squeaky-clean 15-year-old, had no comment. In Stockholm, police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said the drugs were being sent for analysis. "We don't know who had the drugs or who smoked them, so it will be hard to link them with any individual," Lindgren said. Bieber has been on the road with barely a break since September 2012 on his Believe world tour, where he has been greeted by screaming young girls and blaring headlines for some bizarre behaviour. In March, he abandoned a pet monkey at Munich airport because he did not have the right papers, and flew back to Los Angeles for 36 hours and into an altercation with a neighbour. Last week, he came under fire in the media on grounds of taste after he wrote in a guest book at the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam that the 15-year-old Holocaust victim and diarist was inspiring and "hopefully she would have been a belieber". The museum later defended Bieber, saying they were delighted he had visited and that his comments were innocent. |
| Psy bounced off Korean charts by 63-year-old singer Posted: 25 Apr 2013 08:21 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean rapper Psy, whose latest video Gentleman tracked global megahit Gangnam Style by going viral on the Internet, has been knocked from the top of the music charts in his native country by a 63-year-old easy listening pop singer. Gangnam Style, which holds the YouTube record for most views with more than 1.5 billion, catapulted the sunglassed Korean with the garish jackets to world stardom and made him one of the best-known faces to grace the growing K-pop music scene. But Cho Yong-pil (pic), who has been a fixture of Korean pop music since 1975 with his electronic music and ballads, took over the top spot in Korea with Bounce, according to both the daily and weekly charts on Naver, Korea's top Internet portal. Fans lined up to buy Hello, Cho's first album in a decade, when it went on sale earlier this week, and packed a stadium concert on Tuesday with people screaming his nickname of "Oppa" - a word used by Korean women for older men that Psy took to the world with the refrain "Oppa Gangnam Style". Cho's songs took the top 10 places on the daily charts, pushing Gentleman to no. 13, and Psy had to settle for second place on the weekly charts. But Gentleman surged to fifth place on the Billboard Hot 100 this week and has racked up over 220 million views on YouTube after smashing the record for first-day views for songs. Psy told reporters he had nothing but respect for the veteran crooner, noting that Cho had praised him at a Tuesday news conference. "I couldn't be happier, although getting on the Billboard chart also makes me really grateful," Psy told reporters on Thursday prior to leaving for the United States. |
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