 Artist: Rage: mp3 download Genre(s): Metal: Heavy Metal: Power Rock Dance Rage's discography:  Speak of the Dead Year: 2006 Tracks: 17  Full Moon (Cdm) Year: 2006 Tracks: 3  From The Cradle To The Stage: 20th Annivesary (CD 2) Year: 2004 Tracks: 12  From The Cradle To The Stage: 20th Annivesary (CD 1) Year: 2004 Tracks: 15  Best Of - All G.U.N. Years Year: 2001 Tracks: 14  Live In Moscow Year: 2000 Tracks: 13  Ghosts Year: 1999 Tracks: 12  XIII Year: 1998 Tracks: 13  Lingua Mortis Year: 1996 Tracks: 5  Higher Than The Sky Year: 1996 Tracks: 5  Ten Years In Rage Year: 1994 Tracks: 10  10 Years In Rage Year: 1994 Tracks: 10  The Missing Link Year: 1993 Tracks: 12  Saviour Year: 1993 Tracks: 12  Refuge (EP) Year: 1993 Tracks: 4  Trapped ! Year: 1992 Tracks: 13  Beyond The Wall Year: 1992 Tracks: 6  Reflection Of The Shadow Year: 1990 Tracks: 12  Secrets In A Weierd World Year: 1989 Tracks: 11  Invisible Horizons (EP) Year: 1989 Tracks: 4  Perfect Man Year: 1988 Tracks: 14  Execution Guaranteed Year: 1987 Tracks: 9  Reign Of Fear Year: 1986 Tracks: 10  Welcome To The Other Side Year: Tracks: 17  Unity Year: Tracks: 13  Soundchaser Year: Tracks: 12  Extended Power Year: Tracks: 5  End Of All Days Year: Tracks: 16  Black In Mind Year: Tracks: 14 The German weighed depressed metallic element kit, Rage, originally formed in the early '80s, and although the grouping has issued albums on a unfluctuating basis ever so since, trail singer/bassist Peter "Peavy" Wagner is the only original extremity inactive in attendance. First known as Avenger, the group issued a pair of recordings (Entreaty of Steel and Depraved to Black) before shift their mention to Rage, to avoid confusion with a British band of the like mention. 1986's Reign of Fear signaled the group's first album to be released under their new key, as they continued on in the same heavy hitting musical direction on subsequent releases; although they used some orchestral flourishes on their late-'90s observational albums Glossa Mortis (1996) and 13 (1999). |
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Thursday 28 August 2008
Kate Hudson - Hudson Accused Of Stealing Ash Haircare Idea
KATE HUDSON is at the abrupt end of a freaky new lawsuit - bosses of a haircare company have accused her of stealing their volcano ash tree.
220 Labs bosses claim the actress stole their idea for a secret vent ash tomentum product.
In a lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles on Friday (22Aug08) and obtained by TMZ.com, the plaintiffs claim Hudson took a sample they gave her and created her own line of products, which she even promoted on U.S. cable shopping transmission channel HSN.
Lawyers for 220 Labs are demanding unspecified damages.
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Monday 18 August 2008
Mp3 music: Marisa Montes
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A full-length video was issued as easily, later reissued on DVD.Before Monte recorded her next record album, Memórias, Crônicas, e Declaracões de Amor (2000), she spread the wealth of her success. Among the contributions she made to the work of others, she performed alongside Antunes on some of his songs, as compiled on Focus: O Essencial de Arnaldo Antunes (1999), and produced Brown's irregular solo record album, Omelete Man (1999). Monte likewise negotiated her have conceitedness judge, Phonomotor Records, on which she would loss albums by Argemiro PatrocÃnio and Jair do Cavaquinho, in addition to Memórias, Crônicas e Declaracões de Amor, repackaged for English-language markets as Memories, Chronicles and Declarations of Love. The album features many of the same collaborators as sooner, to witticism Lindsay, Brown, and Antunes, with a few covers thrown in. 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Phil Spector's retrial can proceed: Appeals court
Friday 8 August 2008
Freeman has a broken arm and elbow
Oscar-winning histrion Morgan Freeman is recovering in infirmary after a car doss down in Mississippi over the weekend.
The motorcar the principal was driving left the road and rolled all over several times; no early vehicles were involved in the accident and constabulary have ruled out alcohol as a factor.
Freeman's representative, Donna Lee, said his injuries included a rugged arm, a broken elbow and "minor shoulder damage."
She said Freeman was in good liquor and was "looking fore to a full recovery".
Freeman had to be pried from the wreckage of the cable car and was treated beside the ambulance.
When he noticed onlookers pickings photos on camera phones, he joked: "No freebies, no freebies."
A friend of Freeman's was a passenger in the car; the extent of her injuries is not known.
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Thursday 19 June 2008
Leona Lewis 'To Sing James Bond Theme Song'
Leona Lewis will sing the theme tune to the next James Bond theme, it's been reported.
The former X-Factor winner is understood to have been chosen over Amy Winehouse, who last month confirmed that she had worked on a song for the film with Mark Ronson.
Speaking to the Sun newspaper, an unnamed source said: "It looks like Leona has finally won the race.
"She is seen as one of the few candidates who has the right profile both sides of the pond to do it.
"Amy was their original choice but she just can't get her act together and hasn't got the right image."
Since winning the reality TV show X-Factor, Lewis has gone on to achieve massive success in both the UK and America.
Her debut album, 'Spirit', has already sold in excess of two millions copies in the US.
The next James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, is released on October 31st and will once again star Daniel Craig as Bond.
You can see our tribute to both stars below...
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Monday 9 June 2008
Miley Cyrus - Cyrus Scraps Gig
Teen sensation MILEY CYRUS has left scores of fans disappointed after cancelling a gig in Arkansas.
The Hannah Montana star was due to perform in front of 15,000 people on Friday (06Jun08) for a one-off gig in conjunction with U.S. supermarket chain Wal-Mart.
But the concert at an arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas has now been scrapped - with organisers putting the move down to Cyrus' "scheduling conflicts".
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Tuesday 3 June 2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - 5/13/2008
Since the first comparison made with C.S. Lewis’ Narnia fantasy series is to his friend and colleague J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books, it is worth noting that – as recently mentioned in the New Yorker – Tolkien hated the Narnia books because their ideological underpinnings constrained the fiction itself. Tolkien was as devoutly religious as Lewis but you didn’t see the hobbits going to church on Sunday; Middle Earth was a pretty pagan land where mythology, not theology, was the rule of the day. Lewis was a different sort, of course, and though the seven Narnia books were brilliant fantasy, they also had an irksome tendency towards preachiness. This same problem afflicts The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the (potentially) first Chronicles of Narnia film, a crass product of merchandised morality from Disney and Walden Media, a media company owned by Christian evangelist billionaire Philip Anschutz.
Director Andrew Adamson makes his live-action debut here after the two Shreks, but it’s an easy transition for him, given that a good portion of the film has a CGI/character complexity ratio about as high as the last few Star Wars films. Although Narnia doesn’t lend itself well to the cheeky pop culture reference-o-rama that Shrek did, it shares those films’ same treacly sentimentality and market-researched plasticity.
Being nothing if not cleverly modern, the film begins in Harry Potter fashion, with the four Pevensie children being whisked out of the London Blitz on a Hogwarts-looking train to a castle-like old house in the country where a grumpy housekeeper and a magical wardrobe awaits. The normal-seeming wardrobe is actually – if you enter it at the right time and push through all the fur coats to the back – a gateway to the fantastical world of Narnia. The youngest Pevensie, cherub-cheeked 10-year-old Lucy (Georgie Henley, almost too adorable), does just that during a game of hide and seek and finds herself in a snowy wood near an incongruous gaslight, silently hissing in the wintry gloaming. She meets a faun named Mr. Tumnus (James McAvoy), who invites her back to his warren for some tea. It’s a perfect little retreat for the gleaming Lucy, even if she may know that eventually her older siblings will also show up and ruin her whole adventure. Unfortunately for viewers, their presence will also help ruin the film.
When The Chronicles of Narnia is concerned with Lucy and the wood, it gets by just fine. McAvoy and Henley have some lovely scenes together, him scared of his own shadow and her eager to explore this snow-hushed world with a new friend. Adamson also perfectly captures the book’s most iconic scene: the sorcerous gleam in the dark eyes of the White Witch Jadis (Tilda Swinton, radiantly evil) when she comes across Lucy’s treacherous brother Edmund (Skander Keynes) and plies him with sweets and just a hint of seduction to reveal information about his siblings. Unfortunately, once all the Pevensie kids come piling through the wardrobe – including mopey Susan (Anna Popplewell) and irritatingly blonde Peter (William Moseley) – the film moves on to bigger but not better things.
The kids have shown up at dire times for Narnia: Jadis rules with an iron fist, having kept the country locked in winter for a century. Revolt is brewing, though, amongst the many charming, talking animal species of Narnia (everything from beavers to centaurs), and word is that the arrival of four sons and daughters of Adam (humans) presages the return of the great lion Aslan – Churchill to Jadis’ Hitler. Before long, the snow begins to thaw, war will be waged and the young Pevensies had better get with the right side before it starts. They must also endure, along with the rest of us, endless lessons in faith and family.
For those without the Cliff Notes, Aslan is Lewis’ stand-in for the sacrificial Christ; not surprisingly he’s also the least interesting element of the book and film. A truly magnificent creature, Aslan is nobility incarnate: wise and loving, stern but judicious, and voiced (as all surrogate father figures are in films these days) by a regal Liam Neeson. The story does what it can to introduce some doubt into the possibility that Aslan and the outnumbered forces of righteousness – a mythological m�lange of brightly arrayed creatures – will triumph, but there’s about as much suspense as in the New Testament.
An even more predictable development is when Chronicles shifts from Potter-esque whimsy (adorable British moppets running about in knee socks) to a Lord of the Rings-styled battle which has all the drama of a video game. In keeping to a PG rating, not to mention placating his Christian paymasters, Adamson makes war seem a pretty bloodless and painless affair; no big deal, really, especially when the outcome is so preordained and lacking in drama. There’s a creepy element to this glossing over of violence, especially given how affected Lewis was by his World War I experiences, and the fact that World War II is raging right on the other side of the wardrobe. There is, however, the sight of Swinton, with a sword in each hand, striking poses more fit for an avant-garde fashion runway than the battlefield – either a great camp moment or something painful to behold, depending on your disposition.
In Lewis’ hands, Narnia was a loosely-sketched thing, a small country that one could comfortably walk across in a few days, never fully described with the same cartographic intensity of Tolkien. The books left plenty of holes for one’s imagination, in between the cheeky talking otters and suspicious trees there was an entire world to conjure up in one’s head. Once it leaves the snowy wood, Adamson’s film makes the indescribable all too real, sadly. There’s no hideous beast or CGI landscape rendered here that can compare with what lurks in the mind of even the dullest, least imaginative child.
The exhaustive DVD set includes two discs: a blooper reel, a commentary track with the kids and director, a filmmaker's commentary, plus countless making-of featurettes that fill the entire second DVD.
Or... consider the even more exhaustive four-disc set, including an extended cut of the film, gag reel, and all the making-of stuff on the prior DVD release. Plus two more discs with featurettes and documentaries about C.S. Lewis (disc three) and more making-of footage (disc four).
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Wednesday 28 May 2008
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Artist: John Krovoza Matthew Bellamy Matthew - Howard, Dom
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String Quartet Tribute to Muse
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Monday 26 May 2008
Dari Sana
Artist: Dari Sana
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Changes
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
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I almost died from superbug says Burke
Actress Kathy Burke has revealed that she nearly died after contracting a superbug in hospital.
The 43-year-old comedienne-turned-theatre-director caught Clostridium difficile last year when she was being treated for abdominal problems and a glandular condition.
Burke - famed for her role as Waynetta Slob in the Harry Enfield series on TV - contracted the stomach bug at a hospital in London following an operation.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Burke revealed: "I got quite ill last year with loads of stuff," she said. "It all happened at once, really.
"I had three near-death experiences [but] I didn't see any white light or nuns or anything.
"I had that C.difficile hospital bug that everyone is going on about. It was an experience. There's not much they can do. They just let you get on with it. It's a breakdown of the whole immune system.
Burke, who made a cameo appearance on 'The Catherine Tate show' over Christmas, also lost around two stone due to the bug.
The 43-year-old comedienne-turned-theatre-director caught Clostridium difficile last year when she was being treated for abdominal problems and a glandular condition.
Burke - famed for her role as Waynetta Slob in the Harry Enfield series on TV - contracted the stomach bug at a hospital in London following an operation.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Burke revealed: "I got quite ill last year with loads of stuff," she said. "It all happened at once, really.
"I had three near-death experiences [but] I didn't see any white light or nuns or anything.
"I had that C.difficile hospital bug that everyone is going on about. It was an experience. There's not much they can do. They just let you get on with it. It's a breakdown of the whole immune system.
Burke, who made a cameo appearance on 'The Catherine Tate show' over Christmas, also lost around two stone due to the bug.
Newman back in theatre as director
Paul Newman will be back in the theatre again this autumn, directing a production of a stage classic.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the 83-year-old will direct a production of John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut.
The play runs from 7 to 25 October.
Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, is Co-Artistic Director at the Westport Country Playhouse.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the 83-year-old will direct a production of John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut.
The play runs from 7 to 25 October.
Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, is Co-Artistic Director at the Westport Country Playhouse.
Gangsta Pat
Artist: Gangsta Pat
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Greatest Hits (His Deadliest Verses)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
Deadly Verses
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
One of the number one Memphis rappers to make the major-label jump, Gangsta Pat never attained the hail or success of swain Memphis pioneers Three 6 Mafia and Eightball & MJG, heretofore he still remains notable for his trailblazing. Pat's career began promisingly when Atlantic gestural him at the dawn of the gangsta rap earned run average and released #1 Suspect (1991) as well as two incidental singles, "I'm tha Gangsta" and "Gangsta's Need Love 2." Like most of Atlantic's other rap releases from the time, Pat's debut made small impact, cursorily going out of print and going the rapper without a transcription contract before long after. Pat returned to the metro the adjacent twelvemonth with Wrap Records, a transitory indie label distributed by Ichiban. Wrap released deuce Pat albums, All About Comin' Up (1992) and Sex, Money & Murder (1994), as well as two several singles, "Gangsta Boogie" and "That Type of Gangsta." Once once again, Pat base small achiever beyond the Atlanta-Memphis axis and hence packed his bags, moving to Power Records for Virulent Verses (1995) and Murderous Lifestyle (1997). These 2 albums showcased a more introspective and mature dash, as Pat sped up his flow à la Bone and darkened his themes à la Three 6 Mafia. Regardless, disdain the cult following he began to earn with these two highly regarded albums, he couldn't render the financial support into national gross revenue, and he touched on to til now some other label, Red Rum. He remained thither for quite a while, cathartic a string of albums commencement with The Story of My Life (1997) that tended to emulate the trends of their various eras. Perhaps as a plea for much-needed promotional material, Pat targeted Three 6 Mafia on his 1999 record album, Tear Yo Club Down, with a pointed dis track.
Redford Engaged To Long-time Girlfriend
Veteran actor/director Robert Redford is set to wed his long-time girlfriend Sibylle Szaggars. The Lions For Lambs star announced his engagement to Szaggars in an interview with German magazine Bunte, but despite his advancing years, insists the pair is in no rush to arrange a date for the ceremony. He tells the publication, "We are engaged and very happy with that. She is my fiancee and that says everything, doesn't it?" The pair have been dating since 1996, and German artist Szaggars, 52, lives with the 71-year-old at his eco-friendly Sundance Resort in Utah. Redford and his first wife Lola Van Wagenen divorced in 1985. They have three children; Shauna, 48, Jamie, 46, and Amy, 38.See Also
Colgate-Palmolive and Gospel Stars Mary Mary Team Up for a Mother's Day Promotion Featuring the Tribute Song 'A Mother's Smile'
'Send Her A Colgate Smile!' Website Allows Visitors to Create and Share
Musical E-Cards
NEW YORK, May 5 -- Colgate-Palmolive announced plans for a
unique Mother's Day online promotion featuring the music of Grammy(R)
award-winning Gospel duo, Mary Mary. By participating in the "Send Her A
Colgate Smile!" promotion, consumers can honor the "Mothers" in their lives
with a musical E-card featuring a verse from A Mother's Smile -- an
inspirational Mother's Day tribute song written and performed by Mary Mary
exclusively for Colgate-Palmolive.
The E-cards can be previewed and downloaded FREE of charge at
http://www.colgate.com/mothersday . The full song can be downloaded by the first
50,000 people entering two UPC codes from participating Colgate-Palmolive
products. The "Send Her A Colgate Smile!" musical E-card promotion
concludes May 13, 2008.
Historically, women who fill the role of "Mother" have been at the core
of the African American experience. Many African Americans have various
women in their lives acting in a "motherly" way: their biological mother,
stepmother, grandmother, godmother, church mother, and aunts that are more
like mothers. The "Send Her A Colgate Smile!" Mother's Day promotion is
designed to give African American consumers a rich, interactive online
experience, while allowing them to pay special tribute to their "Mothers"
with this one-of-kind musical E-card.
"Colgate-Palmolive is excited to partner with Mary Mary to offer
African American consumers this opportunity to continue the longstanding
tradition of recognizing the great women in their lives," said Cheryl
Stallworth-Hooper, Vice President/General Manager MultiCultural Marketing,
Colgate-Palmolive. "We're offering an innovative way to spread smiles this
Mother's Day through the power of music and the Internet."
The "Send Her A Colgate Smile!" website portal can be accessed by
visiting http://www.colgate.com/mothersday . Consumers can select from two
versions of the "Send Her A Colgate Smile!" E-Card and include personal
messages. UPC codes required to download the full version of Mary Mary's
Mother's Day tribute song, A Mother's Smile, can be found on
Colgate-Palmolive products such as Colgate(R) toothpaste, Palmolive(R)
dishwashing liquid, Softsoap(R) brand body wash and more.
For more information on the "Send Her a Colgate Smile!" Mother's Day
online promotion visit http://www.colgate.com/mothersday .
Musical E-Cards
NEW YORK, May 5 -- Colgate-Palmolive announced plans for a
unique Mother's Day online promotion featuring the music of Grammy(R)
award-winning Gospel duo, Mary Mary. By participating in the "Send Her A
Colgate Smile!" promotion, consumers can honor the "Mothers" in their lives
with a musical E-card featuring a verse from A Mother's Smile -- an
inspirational Mother's Day tribute song written and performed by Mary Mary
exclusively for Colgate-Palmolive.
The E-cards can be previewed and downloaded FREE of charge at
http://www.colgate.com/mothersday . The full song can be downloaded by the first
50,000 people entering two UPC codes from participating Colgate-Palmolive
products. The "Send Her A Colgate Smile!" musical E-card promotion
concludes May 13, 2008.
Historically, women who fill the role of "Mother" have been at the core
of the African American experience. Many African Americans have various
women in their lives acting in a "motherly" way: their biological mother,
stepmother, grandmother, godmother, church mother, and aunts that are more
like mothers. The "Send Her A Colgate Smile!" Mother's Day promotion is
designed to give African American consumers a rich, interactive online
experience, while allowing them to pay special tribute to their "Mothers"
with this one-of-kind musical E-card.
"Colgate-Palmolive is excited to partner with Mary Mary to offer
African American consumers this opportunity to continue the longstanding
tradition of recognizing the great women in their lives," said Cheryl
Stallworth-Hooper, Vice President/General Manager MultiCultural Marketing,
Colgate-Palmolive. "We're offering an innovative way to spread smiles this
Mother's Day through the power of music and the Internet."
The "Send Her A Colgate Smile!" website portal can be accessed by
visiting http://www.colgate.com/mothersday . Consumers can select from two
versions of the "Send Her A Colgate Smile!" E-Card and include personal
messages. UPC codes required to download the full version of Mary Mary's
Mother's Day tribute song, A Mother's Smile, can be found on
Colgate-Palmolive products such as Colgate(R) toothpaste, Palmolive(R)
dishwashing liquid, Softsoap(R) brand body wash and more.
For more information on the "Send Her a Colgate Smile!" Mother's Day
online promotion visit http://www.colgate.com/mothersday .
From Hastings pier to Pop Idol: Fuller named Britain's most successful music manager
He may have started out in the time-honoured fashion of promoting gigs on the pier in his hometown, Hastings. Yet yesterday, Simon Fuller, the man who quit East Sussex to bring the world the commercial glories of the Spice Girls, S Club 7 and Pop Idol – revolutionising the global music industry – was named the most successful British pop music manager of all time.
In the research carried out by Billboard magazine, Fuller easily outstripped his great inspiration, the "fifth Beatle" Brian Epstein, as well as the patron saint of British rock management, Led Zeppelin's Peter Grant, outscoring them both on the number of albums and singles he has sold in his career to date.
According to the magazine, Fuller's artists have dispatched 116 million records, 10 million more than The Beatles' boss before his untimely death in 1967, and six million more than Grant's money-making behemoths Led Zeppelin and Bad Company.
Now he must overtake just two other men to achieve the number one global position – a slot occupied with astonishing regularity by so many of the artists he has discovered – a roll call of stars from Amy Winehouse to Paul Hardcastle.
Only the West Coast music mogul Irving Azoff, the controlling force behind The Eagles, Stevie Nicks and Christina Aguilera, on 122.5 million units, and the grand old daddy of them all, Elvis Presley's legendary manager Colonel Tom Parker, with 148 million sold, stand in his way. Fuller boasts a personal fortune of £450m making him the fourth richest British music star behind the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Mark Sutherland, the global editor of Billboard, said the research, certified by the RIAA, revealed the debt of gratitude the music industry owed Fuller as he helped it battle declining sales volumes and rampant digital theft.
"He makes a lot of money but he is very creative in the way he does business. Without Pop Idol and American Idol I don't know what the record business would have done without him. The artists that have come through his programmes have sold so many millions of records," he said.
His critics will claim Fuller's artistic legacy is scarcely on a par with that of the runner-up British managers, among them Steve O'Rourke, who guided the fortunes of Pink Floyd after 1968, and the only other Briton to make it on to the top 10 global list, Tony Smith, who oversaw Genesis and then the solo career of Phil Collins.
But according to Sutherland, Fuller, who was honoured by the industry last week when he picked up the Peter Grant Award at a glitzy London ceremony, has the undisputed knack of taking talented stars and turning them into mega stars.
"Talent will get you a long way but without the right people behind you it is hard to move on to that next level," he said. "Fuller made the Spice Girls a truly global branding phenomenon. It is hard to think of the old school traditional rock manager being able to do that at that time."
The other managers to make the global top 10 include Madonna's manager, Freddy DeMann, with 82.5 million records sold, Barbra Streisand's Martin Ehrlichman, on 76.5 million, and Erv Woolsey (71 million) whose clients include George Strait, Lee Ann Womack and Dierks Bentley. Bruce Springsteen's manager, Jon Landau, came 10th with 66 million records sold.
The top five managers worldwide
Colonel Tom Parker: 148 million records sold
Dutch-born Svengali who masterminded the career of Elvis Presley from 1955 onwards after persuading RCA to buy out the King's record deal with Sun. He was instrumental in every major move in Elvis's career, especially his controversial decision to concentrate on making films rather than music after leaving the army.
Irving Azoff: 122.5 million records sold
Along with David Geffen, Azoff, pictured third from left with The Eagles, was the biggest noise in the West Coast music scene throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s. He began promoting bands while still at the University of Illinois, including The Eagles, Steely Dan, REO Speedwagon, Stevie Nicks, Van Halen, Guns N' Roses and later Christina Aguilera.
Simon Fuller: 116 million records sold
Started out promoting gigs on Hastings Pier before joining Chrysalis where he made his name signing Paul Hardcastle, whose Vietnam-inspired single "19" sold three million copies worldwide. Despite long-time associations with Cathy Dennis and Annie Lennox, it was as manager of the Spice Girls, below left, and then creator of the television talent show Pop Idol and later American Idol for which he is best known.
Bob Doyle: 116 million records sold
Fired by an impassioned belief in the American Dream, the former music business executive mortgaged his home to promote the career of the then unknown country singer Garth Brooks. It was a gamble that paid off handsomely as Brooks became one of the biggest selling US recording artists of all time. Doyle served with the Tennessee Air National Guard during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
Peter Grant: 110.5 million records sold
Former sheet metal worker and bit part actor, Grant, pictured left with Led Zeppelin, was shrewd and ruthless in equal measure. His first break came with the Yardbirds, later charting the fortunes of Led Zeppelin. He worked tirelessly to safeguard the financial interests of his charges, retiring from the scene following their split in 1980.
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