The period-appropriate ‘80s pop hits assembled for Netflix’s “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” by veteran music supervisor Amanda Krieg Thomas provides a welcome contrast to Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ eerie, otherworldly and ominous score.
Thomas, who has worked with Ryan Murphy and his production head Alexis Martin Woodall on “Pose,” “American Horror Story: Apocalypse” and “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” as well as his first two Netflix projects, “Ratched” and “The Politician,” credits the writers for several of the notable needle drops. Over the course of the 10-part series, you hear cheery Top 40 radio fodder of the time like Kc and the Sunshine Band’s “Please Don’t Go,” Chris Rea’s “Fool” to Patrick Crowley’s “Menergy,” Sade’s “Hang on to Your Love” and Noel’s “Silent Morning.” She was even tasked with acquiring Laotian pop songs for an episode.
The music supervisor...
Thomas, who has worked with Ryan Murphy and his production head Alexis Martin Woodall on “Pose,” “American Horror Story: Apocalypse” and “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” as well as his first two Netflix projects, “Ratched” and “The Politician,” credits the writers for several of the notable needle drops. Over the course of the 10-part series, you hear cheery Top 40 radio fodder of the time like Kc and the Sunshine Band’s “Please Don’t Go,” Chris Rea’s “Fool” to Patrick Crowley’s “Menergy,” Sade’s “Hang on to Your Love” and Noel’s “Silent Morning.” She was even tasked with acquiring Laotian pop songs for an episode.
The music supervisor...
- 10/24/2022
- by Roy Trakin
- Variety Film + TV
Ryan Murphy’s “Dahmer” Netflix series just launched to some impressive premiere numbers, and considering how many people checked out the true crime limited series in its first week, its ’80s and ’90s-infused soundtrack is no doubt of interest.
Jeffrey Dahmer was one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. In the 1980s and early 1990s, he committed a series of brutal murders, often dismembering his victims and keeping body parts as souvenirs. His crimes horrified the nation and captivated the media.
The Netflix limited series “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” chronicles Dahmer’s childhood and early adulthood, leading up to the first of his murders in 1978. It explores the events that shaped him into a serial killer, and the police investigation that eventually led to his capture. It’s hard to believe that he evaded escape for so long, given the lack of complexity in planning and executing his crimes.
Jeffrey Dahmer was one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. In the 1980s and early 1990s, he committed a series of brutal murders, often dismembering his victims and keeping body parts as souvenirs. His crimes horrified the nation and captivated the media.
The Netflix limited series “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” chronicles Dahmer’s childhood and early adulthood, leading up to the first of his murders in 1978. It explores the events that shaped him into a serial killer, and the police investigation that eventually led to his capture. It’s hard to believe that he evaded escape for so long, given the lack of complexity in planning and executing his crimes.
- 9/27/2022
- by Tom Andrew
- The Wrap
Farhan Akhtar has released the new single, ‘Pain Or Pleasure, the latest track to be taken from his upcoming debut album Echoes, out April 12th. With his tuneful, universal debut album, this gifted musician is ready to speak to people in a fresh and cool new way.
Another new vibe from this amazing album, ‘Pain or Pleasure’ features brilliant vocals with a grungy, rough flavor, which is reminiscent of the likes of Chris Rea, Tom Petty and Marc Knopfler. This vibrantly wicked groove has a strong bassline punctuated with slick guitar licks.
Get a sneak listen here
The new single follows the release of ‘Seagull’, which was originally written as a poem 25 years ago, the song deals with the aftermath of a relationship that had reached a premature end.
Echoes is the story of Farhan’s life, a set of classic-sounding, self-written songs that reflect a childhood steeped in the...
Another new vibe from this amazing album, ‘Pain or Pleasure’ features brilliant vocals with a grungy, rough flavor, which is reminiscent of the likes of Chris Rea, Tom Petty and Marc Knopfler. This vibrantly wicked groove has a strong bassline punctuated with slick guitar licks.
Get a sneak listen here
The new single follows the release of ‘Seagull’, which was originally written as a poem 25 years ago, the song deals with the aftermath of a relationship that had reached a premature end.
Echoes is the story of Farhan’s life, a set of classic-sounding, self-written songs that reflect a childhood steeped in the...
- 4/8/2019
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Ever wondered what it would be like to visit an La porn theatre in the early 1970′s? Well, those lovely folks over at Vinegar Syndrome may have the release just for you. I’d usually set the scene and build up the excitement (I do actually do that right?), but we have over 12 hours of smut to get through so let’s get on with it!
Disc 1: 7 Pm – 11 Pm
Girl Acrobatics (19??, dir: unknown)
Our uninterrupted sleazefest starts off a little bit tame actually (as it is a purely simulated scene) and sees a too cool for school yuppie returning home to his wife after being away for a couple of days. Naturally, he wants a welcome home present and it’s not until he’s in that classic handstand position with his tiny pecker exposed in all its limp glory that he gets it. Just like his member, this segment is short and sweet.
Disc 1: 7 Pm – 11 Pm
Girl Acrobatics (19??, dir: unknown)
Our uninterrupted sleazefest starts off a little bit tame actually (as it is a purely simulated scene) and sees a too cool for school yuppie returning home to his wife after being away for a couple of days. Naturally, he wants a welcome home present and it’s not until he’s in that classic handstand position with his tiny pecker exposed in all its limp glory that he gets it. Just like his member, this segment is short and sweet.
- 1/26/2017
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
Jonathan Roy and Corey Hart have teamed up for a duet of Chris Rea’s 1988 holiday classic, “Driving Home For Christmas.” The two Canadian recording artists appear in a new music video for the song, produced and directed by Ben Knechtel in Bethany, Ontario. Showing off their brotherly bond, the video follows Roy as he hitches […]...
- 11/18/2016
- by Cat Williams
- ET Canada
Alex Carter Aug 2, 2016
Homes Under The Hammer is a comforting constant in an ever-changing world. Here's why it's your TV best friend...
Homes Under The Hammer is the adult equivalent of Teletubbies: every episode is exactly the same, there is only the vaguest semblance of peril, and every episode has a weird house in it.
I bloody love Homes Under The Hammer. It’s the kind of low-engagement programming that suits any time and any mood. I like nosing around people’s houses. I like the idea I could be a filthy capitalist if I could just stop ranting about Star Trek and do some plastering. The identikit nature of every episode is ideally suited to its 10am weekday timeslot, being watched exclusively by the unemployed, the ill and everyone’s dad. As a freelance writer with both a cold and a dad I absolutely understand that feeling of having a head filled with mush,...
Homes Under The Hammer is a comforting constant in an ever-changing world. Here's why it's your TV best friend...
Homes Under The Hammer is the adult equivalent of Teletubbies: every episode is exactly the same, there is only the vaguest semblance of peril, and every episode has a weird house in it.
I bloody love Homes Under The Hammer. It’s the kind of low-engagement programming that suits any time and any mood. I like nosing around people’s houses. I like the idea I could be a filthy capitalist if I could just stop ranting about Star Trek and do some plastering. The identikit nature of every episode is ideally suited to its 10am weekday timeslot, being watched exclusively by the unemployed, the ill and everyone’s dad. As a freelance writer with both a cold and a dad I absolutely understand that feeling of having a head filled with mush,...
- 7/23/2016
- Den of Geek
Alex's series looking back at the film careers of actors who've played the Doctor finishes with Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi...
Feature
Read the previous part in this series: the film careers of Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, here.
By 2009, the new version of Doctor Who had become not only an integral part of Saturday night television and a huge Christmas ratings winner but also an international success all over again. David Tennant, who had played the Time Lord since 2005 and was, arguably, more popular than any Doctor since the mighty Tom Baker hung up his scarf in 1981, had announced his resignation from the part he loved in October 2008. Many wondered how the incoming showrunner, Steven Moffat, would follow Tennant and what kind of show would emerge.
Tennant spent much of 2009 on stage in Hamlet and was only able to devote small amounts of time to Doctor Who. Occasional specials...
Feature
Read the previous part in this series: the film careers of Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, here.
By 2009, the new version of Doctor Who had become not only an integral part of Saturday night television and a huge Christmas ratings winner but also an international success all over again. David Tennant, who had played the Time Lord since 2005 and was, arguably, more popular than any Doctor since the mighty Tom Baker hung up his scarf in 1981, had announced his resignation from the part he loved in October 2008. Many wondered how the incoming showrunner, Steven Moffat, would follow Tennant and what kind of show would emerge.
Tennant spent much of 2009 on stage in Hamlet and was only able to devote small amounts of time to Doctor Who. Occasional specials...
- 6/4/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Feature Alex Westthorp 16 Apr 2014 - 07:00
Alex's trek through the film roles of actors who've played the Doctor reaches Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy...
Read the previous part in this series, Doctor Who: the film careers of Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker, here.
In March 1981, as he made his Doctor Who debut, Peter Davison was already one the best known faces on British television. Not only was he the star of both a BBC and an ITV sitcom - Sink Or Swim and Holding The Fort - but as the young and slightly reckless Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great And Small, about the often humorous cases of Yorkshire vet James Herriot and his colleagues, he had cemented his stardom. The part led, indirectly, to his casting as the venerable Time Lord.
The recently installed Doctor Who producer, John Nathan-Turner, had been the Production Unit Manager on...
Alex's trek through the film roles of actors who've played the Doctor reaches Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy...
Read the previous part in this series, Doctor Who: the film careers of Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker, here.
In March 1981, as he made his Doctor Who debut, Peter Davison was already one the best known faces on British television. Not only was he the star of both a BBC and an ITV sitcom - Sink Or Swim and Holding The Fort - but as the young and slightly reckless Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great And Small, about the often humorous cases of Yorkshire vet James Herriot and his colleagues, he had cemented his stardom. The part led, indirectly, to his casting as the venerable Time Lord.
The recently installed Doctor Who producer, John Nathan-Turner, had been the Production Unit Manager on...
- 4/15/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Anyone familiar with Ian McShane’s Golden Globe winning role as the profanity-spewing, hard drinking Al Swearengen on HBO’s "Deadwood" shouldn't be remotely surprised that intense, gritty characters have been Ian McShane’s bread and butter for quite some time. Surely his knack for bringing swarthy, murderous types to life has aided him in being cast as the embittered dwarf king Beith in "Snow White and the Huntsman" and his latest curmudgeonly role as King Brahmwell in "Jack the Giant Slayer."
However, a careful look at McShane's decades-long career reveals a few nuggets of evidence that it isn't quite all malevolence and danger behind those beady eyes. Could it be possible that all of these latter-day seething character roles are actually hiding the longing, romantic heart of a true ladies' man?
Perhaps the answer lies not in the man’s movies, but in his music. Make no mistake, the...
However, a careful look at McShane's decades-long career reveals a few nuggets of evidence that it isn't quite all malevolence and danger behind those beady eyes. Could it be possible that all of these latter-day seething character roles are actually hiding the longing, romantic heart of a true ladies' man?
Perhaps the answer lies not in the man’s movies, but in his music. Make no mistake, the...
- 2/21/2013
- by Nick DeSantis
- NextMovie
Sir Michael Parkinson and former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman were among the mourners at the funeral of film director Michael Winner today.
Winner, who made more than 30 films including the blockbuster 'Death Wish' series, died at home in Kensington, London, on Monday following a lengthy battle with liver disease.
A statement issued by his office said: "Michael Winner was buried today in a moving service at Willesden Jewish Cemetery, North London. If Michael had been alive to film it, he would have said, 'Perfect, darling, perfect'.
"A cold wind whipped a flurry of snowflakes across the cemetery - a film directors' dream.
"Among the mourners were many of Michael's friends from long ago as well as his widow Geraldine, his long term assistant Dinah May, Sir Michael Parkinson, Sir David Frost, Bill Wyman, Terry O'Neill, Don Black, Chris Rea and Henry Wyndham, chairman of Sotheby's.
The service was...
Winner, who made more than 30 films including the blockbuster 'Death Wish' series, died at home in Kensington, London, on Monday following a lengthy battle with liver disease.
A statement issued by his office said: "Michael Winner was buried today in a moving service at Willesden Jewish Cemetery, North London. If Michael had been alive to film it, he would have said, 'Perfect, darling, perfect'.
"A cold wind whipped a flurry of snowflakes across the cemetery - a film directors' dream.
"Among the mourners were many of Michael's friends from long ago as well as his widow Geraldine, his long term assistant Dinah May, Sir Michael Parkinson, Sir David Frost, Bill Wyman, Terry O'Neill, Don Black, Chris Rea and Henry Wyndham, chairman of Sotheby's.
The service was...
- 1/23/2013
- by PA
- Huffington Post
Death Wish: Michael Winner’s movie vs. original novel [See previous post: "Michael Winner Dies."] "The point of the novel Death Wish," adds author Brian Garfield, "is that vigilantism is an attractive fantasy but it only makes things worse in reality. By the end of the novel, the character (Paul) is gunning down unarmed teenagers because he doesn’t like their looks. The story is about an ordinary guy who descends into madness." (Photo: Death Wish Charles Bronson.) A few years ago, Sylvester Stallone had plans to remake Death Wish, which (probably not coincidentally) has elements in common with Stallone’s (perhaps even more brutal and more pro-vigilantism) Cobra (1985). Stallone’s Death Wish remake, however, never came to fruition. Early in 2012, The Grey‘s director Joe Carnahan stated that he was planning an updated version of Death Wish. Michael Winner’s other ’70s movies: Directing Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and more Charles Bronson Among Michael Winner...
- 1/22/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Andrew Pulver looks back through some of the key films of director Michael Winner, who has died aged 77
Play It Cool (1962)
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After a string of short films, Winner broke into features in the early 60s, with low budget thrillers and trendy pop musicals. Quite a few of them had "cool" in the title – including the nudie pic Some Like It Cool. The Billy Fury pic Play It Cool was considerably more commercially viable, no doubt inspired by the success of Cliff Richard's Young Ones film. Fury – in a real stretch – plays an up-and coming rocker called Billy Universe; Anna Palk the heiress who he might or might not get together with, and Dennis Price (!) as her overbearing dad.
The Cool Mikado (1962)
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Frankie Howerd led the line for Winner's followup, produced by Howard Baim,...
Play It Cool (1962)
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After a string of short films, Winner broke into features in the early 60s, with low budget thrillers and trendy pop musicals. Quite a few of them had "cool" in the title – including the nudie pic Some Like It Cool. The Billy Fury pic Play It Cool was considerably more commercially viable, no doubt inspired by the success of Cliff Richard's Young Ones film. Fury – in a real stretch – plays an up-and coming rocker called Billy Universe; Anna Palk the heiress who he might or might not get together with, and Dennis Price (!) as her overbearing dad.
The Cool Mikado (1962)
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Frankie Howerd led the line for Winner's followup, produced by Howard Baim,...
- 1/21/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Winner To Wed In Pyjamas
Filmmaker Michael Winner will be wearing his night clothes when he weds his longterm partner on Monday as he is determined to keep the ceremony casual.
The Death Wish director will marry for the first time at the age of 75 when he exchanges vows with girlfriend Geraldine Lynton-Edwards at Chelsea Old Town Hall in London.
Winner wants to keep the ceremony a low-key affair and has opted to cut the exchange of vows to just four minutes and have his friend Sir Michael Caine and his wife Shakira as the sole witnesses to the nuptials.
The director will also dress down for the occasion, in a pair of tartan pyjamas.
He tells Britain's The Independent, "It's still on, 1.30pm at the Chelsea Registry Office. I shall be wearing pyjama bottoms. They are handmade pyjama bottoms by Turnbull & Asser and they are very comfortable. They do actually look like nice tartan trousers.
"It's true that not many people get married in pyjama bottoms but then not many wait 50 years to get married. As Michael (Caine) told me, the important thing at our age is to wear whatever feels comfortable.
"There won't be dancing or speeches. We've chosen the shortest possible wedding version. I think we can cut it down to four minutes. Michael (Caine) wants to get home to Surrey. I want it to pass charmingly and sweetly.
"I don't have any nerves. I don't want my life to change in the slightest. I've known her for so many years. I'm a Scorpio and we hate change. I'm a recluse but Geraldine's more adventurous."
But Winner did hold a star-studded pre-wedding luncheon on Sunday in celebration of the impending nuptials, inviting "the people that really matter in my life - David Frost, Lord Lloyd-Webber, the photographer Terry O'Neill and the singer Chris Rea".
The Death Wish director will marry for the first time at the age of 75 when he exchanges vows with girlfriend Geraldine Lynton-Edwards at Chelsea Old Town Hall in London.
Winner wants to keep the ceremony a low-key affair and has opted to cut the exchange of vows to just four minutes and have his friend Sir Michael Caine and his wife Shakira as the sole witnesses to the nuptials.
The director will also dress down for the occasion, in a pair of tartan pyjamas.
He tells Britain's The Independent, "It's still on, 1.30pm at the Chelsea Registry Office. I shall be wearing pyjama bottoms. They are handmade pyjama bottoms by Turnbull & Asser and they are very comfortable. They do actually look like nice tartan trousers.
"It's true that not many people get married in pyjama bottoms but then not many wait 50 years to get married. As Michael (Caine) told me, the important thing at our age is to wear whatever feels comfortable.
"There won't be dancing or speeches. We've chosen the shortest possible wedding version. I think we can cut it down to four minutes. Michael (Caine) wants to get home to Surrey. I want it to pass charmingly and sweetly.
"I don't have any nerves. I don't want my life to change in the slightest. I've known her for so many years. I'm a Scorpio and we hate change. I'm a recluse but Geraldine's more adventurous."
But Winner did hold a star-studded pre-wedding luncheon on Sunday in celebration of the impending nuptials, inviting "the people that really matter in my life - David Frost, Lord Lloyd-Webber, the photographer Terry O'Neill and the singer Chris Rea".
- 9/19/2011
- WENN
Animal Kingdom; You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger; Ironclad; Battle: Los Angeles; Love's Kitchen
I struggle to remember a more oppressive portrayal of crime as a "family business" than that offered by the Australian thriller Animal Kingdom (2010, Optimum, 15). James Frecheville stars as Joshua "J" Cody, a misplaced youth who finds himself in the care of a tight-knit brood of sociopathic outlaws for whom the bank robbery business offers dwindling returns. Under constant surveillance from the police, and scornful of the allure of drug dealing and day trading, the Cody clan seem suicidally set on one last hurrah in which "J" must play a small but significant part. Will his pack loyalties outweigh his hard-learned survival instincts? Or will offers of a witness protection programme from paternal Sergeant Leckie (Guy Pearce) cause him to betray his violent brood?
Directed with sweaty intimacy by David Michôd, this gruellingly overwrought drama has...
I struggle to remember a more oppressive portrayal of crime as a "family business" than that offered by the Australian thriller Animal Kingdom (2010, Optimum, 15). James Frecheville stars as Joshua "J" Cody, a misplaced youth who finds himself in the care of a tight-knit brood of sociopathic outlaws for whom the bank robbery business offers dwindling returns. Under constant surveillance from the police, and scornful of the allure of drug dealing and day trading, the Cody clan seem suicidally set on one last hurrah in which "J" must play a small but significant part. Will his pack loyalties outweigh his hard-learned survival instincts? Or will offers of a witness protection programme from paternal Sergeant Leckie (Guy Pearce) cause him to betray his violent brood?
Directed with sweaty intimacy by David Michôd, this gruellingly overwrought drama has...
- 7/9/2011
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Collings has been labelled the Susan Boyle of 2011 and his return to Britain’s Got Talent tonight, was highly anticipated by viewers.
The 19 year old It engineer, turned up for his original audition for the ITV show dressed in a hoody and tracksuit bottoms but thankfully made more of an effort when he took to the stage this evening, to perform for Simon Cowell for the first time. He smartened up with a shirt and jeans and looked like he had lost a few pounds since his last TV appearance.
For the semi final, Michael sang Paul Weller’s You Do Something To Me tonight and despite the fact that he blew everyone away the first time round, tonight the new dad was distinctly under par. We didn’t love it…..which was very disappointing as he’d been a front runner to date.
However, the judges must have...
The 19 year old It engineer, turned up for his original audition for the ITV show dressed in a hoody and tracksuit bottoms but thankfully made more of an effort when he took to the stage this evening, to perform for Simon Cowell for the first time. He smartened up with a shirt and jeans and looked like he had lost a few pounds since his last TV appearance.
For the semi final, Michael sang Paul Weller’s You Do Something To Me tonight and despite the fact that he blew everyone away the first time round, tonight the new dad was distinctly under par. We didn’t love it…..which was very disappointing as he’d been a front runner to date.
However, the judges must have...
- 6/3/2011
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Jr Books, £16.99
Contrary to popular belief, which has me, in the minds of most people, as a petulant, pompous twit, I am actually very quiet in restaurants. It's only if I am not recognised, or the maitre d' refuses to seat me next to Ava Gardner that I make a fuss. My career as a critic began after I screamed at Terence Conran for failing to notice I had spilled my partridge over Sophia Loren while I was boasting to Charles Bronson. If you're not prepared to be a complete sycophant and willing to kick the riff-raff out when someone like me wants their table, then you're not suitable for the business.
I've rather run out of things to say now, as I recycled my columns last year. So let me tell you about some of the famous people I know. I met Warren Beatty once. "I like that chick,...
Contrary to popular belief, which has me, in the minds of most people, as a petulant, pompous twit, I am actually very quiet in restaurants. It's only if I am not recognised, or the maitre d' refuses to seat me next to Ava Gardner that I make a fuss. My career as a critic began after I screamed at Terence Conran for failing to notice I had spilled my partridge over Sophia Loren while I was boasting to Charles Bronson. If you're not prepared to be a complete sycophant and willing to kick the riff-raff out when someone like me wants their table, then you're not suitable for the business.
I've rather run out of things to say now, as I recycled my columns last year. So let me tell you about some of the famous people I know. I met Warren Beatty once. "I like that chick,...
- 12/7/2010
- by John Crace
- The Guardian - Film News
Chris Rea in concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall on March 9, 2010.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Chris Rea in concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall on March 9, 2010.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Chris Rea in concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall on March 9, 2010.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Chris Rea in concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall on March 9, 2010.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Chris Rea in concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall on March 9, 2010.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. 03/09/2010 - Chris Rea - Chris Rea in Concert at Birmingham Symphony Hall on March 9, 2010 - Birmingham Symphony Hall - Birmingham, UK ©...
- 3/15/2010
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
Barbra Streisand has notched up her sixth number one on the UK albums chart. Love Is The Answer, a collection of jazz standards produced by Diana Krall, climbs from four to the top spot in its second week on release. The album, the veteran singer's first studio set since 2005, is also number one in the Us this week. Behind Streisand, Madonna's Celebration compilation remains at two, while last week's best-seller, Brand New Eyes by Paramore, slips to three. New entries in the top ten come from Chris Rea and Andy Williams, who land at eight and ten respectively with 'Best Of' sets. The top ten albums in full (click where possible (more)...
- 10/11/2009
- by By Nick Levine
- Digital Spy
Jolie & Pitt's Rock 'N' Roll Castle
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are living in the middle of rock 'n' roll history - music legends including Pink Floyd, AC/DC, The Cure, Sting and Chris Rea have all recorded albums at the couple's French chateau.
The Hollywood couple moved in to Chateau Miraval in the tiny village of Brignol last summer to create a countryside retreat for their six kids.
The traditional French building has a hi-tech recording studio - named Studio Miraval - in its grounds, and a string of big names have passed through the doors.
British rockers Pink Floyd laid down tracks for their ground-breaking 1979 hit The Wall at Miraval, and AC/DC occupied the studio in 1986 for their album Blow Up Your Video - with the band admitting they chose the building for its "wonderful" rural location.
The Cure took up residence for their seventh studio album, 1987's Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, and moved into the outbuildings on the estate with their families until the record was completed. In a subsequent interview, frontman Robert Smith revealed he loved the peaceful and isolated location of the French mansion, "We recorded Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me in the Studio Miraval, during several weeks. It is in the middle of vineyards, in a pleasant place. We lived over there with our family, very relaxed, in three isolated and protected houses."
Sting, The Cranberries, Shirley Bassey, Chris Rea and German rock band Rammstein are among the other music greats to have recorded there.
The last big name to grace the studio was Courtney Love, who holed up at Chateau Miraval in 2003. Since then the studio has seen a decline in business and has reportedly sat empty since the current owners rented the estate to Pitt and Jolie.
The Hollywood couple has now reportedly agreed a deal to buy Chateau Miraval for $56 million (£35 million), with plans to spend a further $16 million (£10 million) on renovations including a gym, a bigger wine cellar and a motorbike track.
The Hollywood couple moved in to Chateau Miraval in the tiny village of Brignol last summer to create a countryside retreat for their six kids.
The traditional French building has a hi-tech recording studio - named Studio Miraval - in its grounds, and a string of big names have passed through the doors.
British rockers Pink Floyd laid down tracks for their ground-breaking 1979 hit The Wall at Miraval, and AC/DC occupied the studio in 1986 for their album Blow Up Your Video - with the band admitting they chose the building for its "wonderful" rural location.
The Cure took up residence for their seventh studio album, 1987's Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, and moved into the outbuildings on the estate with their families until the record was completed. In a subsequent interview, frontman Robert Smith revealed he loved the peaceful and isolated location of the French mansion, "We recorded Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me in the Studio Miraval, during several weeks. It is in the middle of vineyards, in a pleasant place. We lived over there with our family, very relaxed, in three isolated and protected houses."
Sting, The Cranberries, Shirley Bassey, Chris Rea and German rock band Rammstein are among the other music greats to have recorded there.
The last big name to grace the studio was Courtney Love, who holed up at Chateau Miraval in 2003. Since then the studio has seen a decline in business and has reportedly sat empty since the current owners rented the estate to Pitt and Jolie.
The Hollywood couple has now reportedly agreed a deal to buy Chateau Miraval for $56 million (£35 million), with plans to spend a further $16 million (£10 million) on renovations including a gym, a bigger wine cellar and a motorbike track.
- 8/25/2009
- WENN
Leonard Cohen - Live In London "About fourteen or fifteen years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream," cracks Cohen on his sensational live album that casts him alongside Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Simon as an intelligent, sophisticated music elder statesmen. He then says, "I've also studied deeply in the philosophies, but cheerfulness kept breaking through," and if you know absolutely any of Leonard Cohen's songs (everybody's covered them) or heard any of his recordings, then you get that "cheerful" makes his vocabulary by way of accident or miracle. With a voice as bottomless as a pit (like Chris Rea's, Jon Mark's, kind of Neil Diamond's, and sometimes Robbie Robertson's), Leonard Cohen emotes from an even deeper source as he gets real personal with the listener and his characters like "Suzanne" ("...and you...
- 3/30/2009
- by Mike Ragogna
- Huffington Post
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