Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Marina and The Diamonds are working on some new music, but Marina is being very secretive about it. Although the release has been delayed, she let’s us in on some secrets about the new album, and how alcohol changed her life.
If hearing “Jingle Bells” and “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree” makes you want to puke, well, you better get those barf bags out, because Chrsitmas music isn’t going anywhere.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, when U.S. radio stations began playing christmas music 24/7, they raked in $20.1 billion, up 8 per cent from last year. So, if you’re a total Scrooge about the holiday music, you better buy some metal CDs to have handy in your car.
“There’s no other programming tactic in radio history that consistently delivers ratings increases better than Christmas music,” says senior VP of Clear Channel, Darren Davis.
When radio stations go the festive route, there are more chances you may hear the same annoying holiday song more than once in the office. For example, KYXY-FM in San Diego, played Bing Crosby’s version of “White Christmas” six times in one day. Given that the young guy has four holiday singels already, I wonder how many times Justin Bieber will come up on the radio today.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, here are the six most popular Christmas songs on the radio:
1. John Lennon – “Happy Christmas (War is Over)”
2. Andy Williams – “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
3. Burl Ives – “Have a Holly Holly Christmas”
4. Mariah Carey – “All I Want For Christmas is You”
5. Nat King Cole – “The Christmas Song”
6. Jose Feliciano- ”Feliz Navidad”
Liam Gallagher, of Oasis and brotherly conduct fame, and his new band Beady Eye have released a cover of the Beatles’ “Across the Universe” to raise funds for the British Red Cross’s Japan Tsunami Appeal.
Profits from the single will be donated to help victims suffering from the earthquake and tsunami last month.
The single can be found on the band’s official website along with a statement: “The day before the charity event, during an eight-hour session, Beady Eye went into RAK studios to record and mix their version of the song from the Beatles’ ‘Let it Be’ album.”
It will be availably on their site for a limited time only at for $1.60, with a dollar from each sale going directly to the Red Cross.
Beady Eye debuted the song at a Japan benefit concert on Sunday night at London’s O2 Academy Brixton alongside Graham Coxon, the Coral, Paul Weller and Primal Scream. The show has so far raised over $242, 600 for Japan.
Needless to say, John Lennon would be proud. In fact, the original song was used for the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) charity album in 1969. The album itself was inspired after the song’s chorus: ‘No One’s Going to Change Our World’.
What is brother Noel Gallagher up to?
Even though Woodstock’s 40th anniversary concert never got off the ground last year, one of its creators is back with a big green bang.
The Imagine Music & Arts Festival, inspired by John Lennon’s song of the same name and his famous message of peace and love alongside 1969′s original Woodstock Festival, will be held at Toronto’s Downsview Park for three days this summer, reports CHARTattack.com.
The festival’s website describes the three-day celebration as “Woodstock for the Green Generation.” It is set to coincide with the Earthship Summit, an environmental meeting that plans on challenging the G8 summit this June and argue that world leaders are not doing enough to fix climate change and promote environmentally-friendly initiatives.
A 1968 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono that was never published in full has been unearthed, according to NME.com.
Keele University student Maurice Hindle, along with a friend, went to Lennon’s Surrey home to conduct the six-hour interview, which has now been published in the New Statesman.
Hindle explained that himself and his friend, who first contacted Lennon by writing to him through the Beatles Monthly fanzine, were picked up from Weybridge train station by the Beatle himself.
“Outside Weybridge station, a Mini Cooper with smoked-glass windows skidded to a halt, like something out of The Italian Job,” Hindle said. “In the driver’s seat was Lennon. We students crammed into the back of the Mini and John drove us up the bumpy private road that led to his house, Kenwood.”
Imagine all the stories…
A preview for the upcoming film about the Beatles’ John Lennon has been released, reports NME.com. The film, entitled “Nowhere boy,” is about Lennon’s childhood and adolescence. It features Kristin Scott Thomas and screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh.
The film is based on the book, “Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon” by Lennon’s half sister Julia Baird. The movie is also said to feature music from Goldfrapp.
“Nowhere boy” premieres tonight (Oct. 29) as part of the London Film Festival’s closing night. It has a general release date in the United Kingdom slated for Dec. 26.
For a generation of people who missed out on the 1960s and the advent of rock’n'roll, we sure are getting to be well-versed. Yet another biopic is slated for release this October, this time in the name of John Lennon.
Nowhere Boy is based on the book Imagine This: Growing Up with my Brother John Lennon by Lennon’s half sister Julia Baird, according to Pitchfork. The screenplay was written by Matt Greenhalgh, author of the Joy Division film Control. The film will focus more on Baird’s experience growing up with the rising star, perhaps offering a unique insight into what transformed Lennon into one of the most idyllic artists of our time.
On board to direct in his feature film debut is Sam Taylor Wood, whose repertoire includes the BAFTA-nominated punk short Love You More.
Visual artist Sam Taylor-Wood will bring the story of John Lennon’s early years to the big screen.
Taylor-Wood has signed on to direct the biopic “Nowhere Boy,” which will focus on the Beatle’s childhood and the influence his mother and aunt had on his subsequent career.
As previously announced, the movie is being scripted by Matt Greenhalgh, the same screenwriter behind the 2007 Ian Curtis biopic “Control.”
Casting for the major roles is underway, according to producer Ecosse Films.
Taylor-Wood, who will be making her feature directorial debut, is known for her contemporary art in video, photography and film. Her debut short “Love You More” was nominated for the short-film Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The artist-turned-director told ScreenDaily.com that “Nowhere Boy” was the film she had been looking to direct following her short.
“The story spoke to me on so many levels — both personal and artistic,” she said.
“The women in John’s early life truly shaped who he became and the strengths and weaknesses of their relationships are central to this film.”
The movie will begin shooting March 2009 in Lennon’s home city of Liverpool.
The early life of ex-Beatle John Lennon will be turned into a movie based on a controversial book by his half-sister.
Plans for the film “Nowhere Boy” were set into motion Thursday after it was awarded funding by the U.K. Film Council.
Matt Greenhalgh, who wrote the critically acclaimed Ian Curtis biopic “Control,” will pen the script based on “Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon” by Lennon’s half-sister Julia Baird.
Released in 2007, the book attracted controversy because of Baird’s portrayal of Mary (Mimi) Smith, the aunt who raised Lennon from the age of four, as a woman who was extremely jealous of her younger sister, Lennon and Baird’s mother.
Scriptwriter Greenhalgh told BBC News that the book took him “into a world that illuminated so much about this legendary genius. I could see the drama and film immediately – the women in his life, the men who weren’t, the birth of rock and roll, all imposing on a brilliantly complicated adolescent mind.”
He added, “Without this story we would never have heard The Beatles. Can you imagine that?”
It won’t be Greenhalgh’s first time adapting a book to film — he wrote “Control” based on “Touching From A Distance,” written by Curtis’ wife Debbie.
A Canadian is auctioning off his hand written copy of the lyrics to “Give Peace a Chance,” written by John Lennon himself.
The Globe and Mail reports that Gail Renard, a 55-year-old originally from Montreal, got the lyrics during Lennon’s bed-in for peace in 1969 at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth hotel.
Renard, then 16, snuck into the bed-in, where she says Lennon immediately took a liking to her and gave her the lyrics himself.
The lyrics will go on auction on July 10 and are expected to sell for close to half of a million dollars
Yoko Ono can’t forgive but she has no problem telling everybody else to.
Beatle John Lennon was murdered 26 years ago on Dec. 8, and Ono now wants the anniversary of her husband’s death to become a worldwide day of forgiveness.
Taking out full-page newspaper advertisements, Ono said, “Every year, let’s make December 8 the day to ask for forgiveness from those who suffered the insufferable
“To the people who have also lost loved ones without cause: forgive us for having been unable to stop the tragedy,” she continued.
Ono went on to thank well-wishers who write her every year on the anniversary of Lennon’sdeath but goes on to say that “As the widow of one who was killed by an act of violence, I don’t know if I am ready yet to forgive the one who pulled the trigger.
“I am sure all victims of violent crimes feel as I do. But healing is what is urgently needed now in the world.”
Obsessed Beatles fan Mark Chapman shot and killed Lennon, 40, outside his apartment in New York in 1980. Chapman is currently serving time in prison.
The Cure, Snow Patrol and the Postal Service are just some of the artists who will cover John Lennon tunes for ?Make Some Noise,? Amnesty International?s global project for human rights awareness.
Avril Lavigne and the Black Eyed Peas will also record songs by Lennon to raise funds for the organization.
The first four tracks will be released on Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day. The Cure?s rendition of ?Love,? Snow Patrol?s “Isolation,” the Postal Service’s “Grow Old With Me” and the Black Eyed Peas? “Power to the People” will be available for download at amnesty.org.
Lavigne?s cover and other songs will be released next year, said the human rights group Thursday.
A compilation album will also be released in 2006.
The campaign aims to ?bring an awareness of human rights to a new generation,? said Amnesty International secretary-general Irene Khan, according to MSNBC.
?After all, human rights are what make music possible ? we wouldn?t be able to create music, listen to it or dance to it without freedom of speech, expression and association,? Khan said.
Dec. 8 will mark the 25th anniversary of Lennon?s death. His widow, Yoko Ono, donated the rights to his solo songbook to Amnesty International in 2003.
