What are you listening to right now?
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Ok Ludlow,I know I cannot not always get it right,but I can count on you to point it out,what more do I need,thanks!
Maybe you would like to give me some lessons
I'm listening to my wife contradict everything I'm saying.
That will teach me. Keep my dirty man mouth shut.
That will teach me. Keep my dirty man mouth shut.
Kenny Rogers retiring in 2017
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First posted: Monday, September 26, 2016 10:11 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, September 26, 2016 10:18 PM EDT
Country legend Kenny Rogers is retiring from music when he wraps up his current tour.
The Coward of the County singer retired from international touring a few years ago and earlier this year he talked about quitting life on the road for good - and now he has decided he has made all the music he’s ever going to make, and he wants to spend more time at home with his family.
“I’ve done everything I set out to do,” he told Billboard during a press conference on Monday. “Every goal I’ve set, I’ve done that, and there’s a point where you have to say, ‘I’ve had my turn. Let someone else have it’, and that’s kind of where I am.
“It’s not that I dislike music; it’s just that I can’t keep doing this and do what I want to do, which is spend time with my family.”
He wants to spend more time with his 12-year-old twin sons and his fifth wife Wanda Miller, who he wed in 1997.
“I have two older boys and I didn’t get to spend this time with my older boys, and I resent it because it’s a very special time in a kid’s age,” he said. “My boys are playing football this year, and we went to watch a game and they were so excited about us being there, and that’s the kind of thing that as a parent you want to be part of as much as you can.”
Rogers, 78, has shows booked up until April, 2017, including a run of traditional holiday shows set for Christmas, and then he’ll be done.
And he hopes a few special guests will join him on the road for his swansong dates, adding, “I’ve had a lot of people who said, ‘Can I come out and do something with you?’ Don Henley said, ‘Kenny, I’ll join you out there and we’ll do Desperado or something.’ And I know that’s a huge commitment; it’s easy to commit and hard to live up to. So I just finally said, ‘Don, if you get out there I’d love to see ya, and we’ll find something to sing. But don’t feel obligated or committed to come out.’”
Kenny Rogers retiring in 2017 | Music | Entertainment | Toronto Sun
WENN.com
First posted: Monday, September 26, 2016 10:11 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, September 26, 2016 10:18 PM EDT
Country legend Kenny Rogers is retiring from music when he wraps up his current tour.
The Coward of the County singer retired from international touring a few years ago and earlier this year he talked about quitting life on the road for good - and now he has decided he has made all the music he’s ever going to make, and he wants to spend more time at home with his family.
“I’ve done everything I set out to do,” he told Billboard during a press conference on Monday. “Every goal I’ve set, I’ve done that, and there’s a point where you have to say, ‘I’ve had my turn. Let someone else have it’, and that’s kind of where I am.
“It’s not that I dislike music; it’s just that I can’t keep doing this and do what I want to do, which is spend time with my family.”
He wants to spend more time with his 12-year-old twin sons and his fifth wife Wanda Miller, who he wed in 1997.
“I have two older boys and I didn’t get to spend this time with my older boys, and I resent it because it’s a very special time in a kid’s age,” he said. “My boys are playing football this year, and we went to watch a game and they were so excited about us being there, and that’s the kind of thing that as a parent you want to be part of as much as you can.”
Rogers, 78, has shows booked up until April, 2017, including a run of traditional holiday shows set for Christmas, and then he’ll be done.
And he hopes a few special guests will join him on the road for his swansong dates, adding, “I’ve had a lot of people who said, ‘Can I come out and do something with you?’ Don Henley said, ‘Kenny, I’ll join you out there and we’ll do Desperado or something.’ And I know that’s a huge commitment; it’s easy to commit and hard to live up to. So I just finally said, ‘Don, if you get out there I’d love to see ya, and we’ll find something to sing. But don’t feel obligated or committed to come out.’”
Kenny Rogers retiring in 2017 | Music | Entertainment | Toronto Sun
'Thriller’ songwriter Rod Temperton dies in London at 66
Gregory Katz, The Associated Press
First posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 01:11 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 01:21 PM EDT
LONDON — Rod Temperton, a British-born musician and songwriter with a singular knack for pop-funk who wrote the Michael Jackson classics “Thriller,” ”Rock With You“ and many other hits, has died of cancer in London at 66.
His music publisher said in a statement Wednesday that Temperton had died last week of an “aggressive” cancer. No other details were provided.
Jon Platt of Warner/Chappell said Temperton was the sole writer of “Thriller,” ”Off the Wall,“ ”Rock with You“ and other major songs.
Temperton started his career in the disco band Heatwave and collaborated with Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, Anita Baker and many others.
He was best known as a songwriter and worked closely with producer Quincy Jones on groundbreaking tracks for Jackson’s mega-selling “Off the Wall” and “Thriller” albums.
Platt said Temperton was sometimes known as “the invisible man” for his behind-the-scenes role.
Temperton was a native of the seaside town of Cleethorpes, 180 miles (290 kilometres) north of London. He had been working in a frozen fish factory in the mid-1970s when he responded to an ad and joined Heatwave, an international group for whom he played keyboards and wrote two major hits, the disco favourite “Boogie Nights” and the ballad “Always and Forever.”
“Always and Forever” attracted wide attention and was later covered by Luther Vandross, among others.
His work with Heatwave attracted the attention of Jones, who was then working with Jackson.
Temperton revealed a gift for both fast and slow numbers, whether the easygoing “Rock with You” or the sci-fi funk of the title track from “Thriller.”
In a 2009 interview with The Telegraph, Temperton said “Thriller” was originally called “Starlight” until Jones asked him to find a new title.
“I went back to the hotel, wrote two or three hundred titles and came up with ’Midnight Man,”’ he recalled. “The next morning I woke up and I just said this word (thriller). Something in my head just said, ’This is the title’. ”You could visualize it at the top of the Billboard charts. You could see the merchandising for this one word, how it jumped off the page as ’Thriller”’.
His success went beyond the worldwide smash that “Thriller” became. Numerous other artists would have hits with his work, including George Benson with “Give Me the Night” and Donna Summer with “Love Is in Control (finger on the Trigger).”
Temperton also received an Oscar nomination as a co-writer of “Miss Celie’s Blues (Sister),” from the soundtrack of “The Color Purple,” and contributed several songs to the Billy Crystal-Gregory Hines comedy “Running Scared.”
In 2009, The Guardian newspaper described Temperton as a “reclusive, Grammy-winning genius who has always shunned the spotlight.” The newspaper said he was rarely seen in public and rarely photographed.
Templeton once told BBC radio he had been lulled to sleep as a baby by the sound of music on a transistor radio placed in his crib.
Platt said Temperton’s family is “devastated” and is planning a private funeral. He said they are requesting privacy at “the saddest of sad times.”
In this March 29, 2012 file photo, songwriter Rod Temperton and his wife Kathy attending a Teenage Cancer Trust concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Songwriter Rod Temperton has died of cancer in London. He was 66. His music publisher said Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 in a statement that the man who wrote Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and other hits had died last week. It did not say exactly when. (Yui Mok/PA via AP, File)
'Thriller’ songwriter Rod Temperton dies in London at 66 | Music | Entertainment
Gregory Katz, The Associated Press
First posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 01:11 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 01:21 PM EDT
LONDON — Rod Temperton, a British-born musician and songwriter with a singular knack for pop-funk who wrote the Michael Jackson classics “Thriller,” ”Rock With You“ and many other hits, has died of cancer in London at 66.
His music publisher said in a statement Wednesday that Temperton had died last week of an “aggressive” cancer. No other details were provided.
Jon Platt of Warner/Chappell said Temperton was the sole writer of “Thriller,” ”Off the Wall,“ ”Rock with You“ and other major songs.
Temperton started his career in the disco band Heatwave and collaborated with Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, Anita Baker and many others.
He was best known as a songwriter and worked closely with producer Quincy Jones on groundbreaking tracks for Jackson’s mega-selling “Off the Wall” and “Thriller” albums.
Platt said Temperton was sometimes known as “the invisible man” for his behind-the-scenes role.
Temperton was a native of the seaside town of Cleethorpes, 180 miles (290 kilometres) north of London. He had been working in a frozen fish factory in the mid-1970s when he responded to an ad and joined Heatwave, an international group for whom he played keyboards and wrote two major hits, the disco favourite “Boogie Nights” and the ballad “Always and Forever.”
“Always and Forever” attracted wide attention and was later covered by Luther Vandross, among others.
His work with Heatwave attracted the attention of Jones, who was then working with Jackson.
Temperton revealed a gift for both fast and slow numbers, whether the easygoing “Rock with You” or the sci-fi funk of the title track from “Thriller.”
In a 2009 interview with The Telegraph, Temperton said “Thriller” was originally called “Starlight” until Jones asked him to find a new title.
“I went back to the hotel, wrote two or three hundred titles and came up with ’Midnight Man,”’ he recalled. “The next morning I woke up and I just said this word (thriller). Something in my head just said, ’This is the title’. ”You could visualize it at the top of the Billboard charts. You could see the merchandising for this one word, how it jumped off the page as ’Thriller”’.
His success went beyond the worldwide smash that “Thriller” became. Numerous other artists would have hits with his work, including George Benson with “Give Me the Night” and Donna Summer with “Love Is in Control (finger on the Trigger).”
Temperton also received an Oscar nomination as a co-writer of “Miss Celie’s Blues (Sister),” from the soundtrack of “The Color Purple,” and contributed several songs to the Billy Crystal-Gregory Hines comedy “Running Scared.”
In 2009, The Guardian newspaper described Temperton as a “reclusive, Grammy-winning genius who has always shunned the spotlight.” The newspaper said he was rarely seen in public and rarely photographed.
Templeton once told BBC radio he had been lulled to sleep as a baby by the sound of music on a transistor radio placed in his crib.
Platt said Temperton’s family is “devastated” and is planning a private funeral. He said they are requesting privacy at “the saddest of sad times.”
In this March 29, 2012 file photo, songwriter Rod Temperton and his wife Kathy attending a Teenage Cancer Trust concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Songwriter Rod Temperton has died of cancer in London. He was 66. His music publisher said Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 in a statement that the man who wrote Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and other hits had died last week. It did not say exactly when. (Yui Mok/PA via AP, File)
'Thriller’ songwriter Rod Temperton dies in London at 66 | Music | Entertainment
I just got through watching and listening to Peter Mansbridge interviewing Gord Downie. Poor Gord, he's putting up a good fight and is quite up beat but he's having a lot of problems with words. It's a terrible disease.
Never heard of any of those back alley tin can beaters blackloafUB40 - "Come Back Darling" 1998
Embrace - "My Weakness Is None Of Your Business" 1998
The Prodigy - "World's on Fire" 2009
