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| Korean rapper Psy’s story immortalised in comic book Posted: 30 Apr 2013 08:52 PM PDT THE story of South Korean rap sensation Psy's ascent to global stardom with his megahit Gangnam Style has now been immortalised in full colour and with appropriate dramatic flourishes in a comic book. Fame:Psy, which went on sale in the United States and South Korea on Wednesday, focuses mainly on what went into making Gangnam Style, which catapulted the sunglassed singer with the garish jackets to global fame and became YouTube's most popular song ever with more than 1.5 billion hits. "Has he fallen from the sky? Has he risen from the earth?" the comic begins, with illustrations showing Psy - in the suits he made famous in Gangnam Style and striking poses from his "Horse Riding Dance" - descending from heaven and bursting through the earth. "It was the end of summer, 2012, when a little-known Asian rapper put his music video on YouTube. It exploded in popularity," continues the 26-page tale, from US publisher Bluewater Productions and South Korean firm able. "His stubby build and dynamic stage presence caught people's eyes. Psy's not your typical pop star". In similarly breathless prose, the comic covers the decade of Psy's pre-Gangnam career in Korea, the origins of the video and the dance, and the fame that followed, including scenes of a delighted Psy teaching UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon his dance and performing for US President Barack Obama. The comic, which also touches on the less happy parts of Psy's past such as being charged with possession of marijuana in 2002, includes a guide that shows readers how to do Psy's dance themselves. It ends with the release of Psy's second video, Gentleman, last month. The video has racked up nearly 260 million YouTube hits after smashing the previous record of first-day views for songs, and hit fifth place on the Billboard Hot 100 last week. - Reuters |
| Paramedic: Michael Jackson seemed at end of long illness Posted: 30 Apr 2013 08:48 PM PDT LOS ANGELES: The first paramedic on scene at Michael Jackson's home the day he died said Tuesday the singer looked emaciated and like someone at the end of a chronic illness. On the second day of a trial pitting Jackson's mother against tour promoter AEG Live, paramedic Richard Senneff - the first witness to be called - said doctor Conrad Murray was "frantic, pale and sweating." "The patient was in pajamas. He looked very pale, very, very underweight," he said, recounting how he was called to the self-styled King of Pop's plush Holmby Hills mansion on June 25, 2009. "He looked very ill .. To me, he looked like someone who was at the end stage of a long disease process," he added. Murray - who is serving four years in jail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 - "looked at me blankly at first," said Senneff, who was among witnesses who testified at the medic's 2011 trial. "He was frantic, pale, sweating. He identified himself as a cardiologist," Senneff added, answering questions from Katherine Jackson's lawyer Brian Panish at the Los Angeles Superior Court, where the wrongful death trial started Monday. "It just looked a lot more complicated than dehydration and exhaustion," Senneff testified. When he asked Murray when the emergency had happened, Murray said: "Just this minute. Right when I called you," he told the court, adding that Jackson's eyes were dilated and his skin cool. This suggested to him that the star had been dead for as long as an hour, he said. The 50-year-old singer died from an overdose of powerful sedative and anesthetic propofol, administered by Murray to help the "Thriller" legend deal with chronic insomnia. At the time of his death, he was rehearsing for a series of 50 shows in London, organized with AEG, in an attempt to revive his career and ease his financial woes. On Monday the lawyer for 82-year-old Katherine Jackson accused tour promoter AEG of sacrificing the troubled star in a "ruthless" pursuit of profit in the months before his death. But Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) lawyer Marvin Putnam argued the mega pop star had hidden the evidence of his addiction and health woes from everyone, including his family and the concert promoters. Putman said evidence to be presented during the trial, likely to last at least three months, would show that Jackson began using propofol to help him sleep as far back as the 1990s, but concealed it from almost everyone. -AFP |
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