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WEDNESDAY, October 30th 2013
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Contemporary lifestyle and celebrity gossip
Singer, composer, poet and icon of the ´60s Lou Reed dies at the age of 71
No more walking on the wild side
… but we bet he’s still doing it with the angels in heaven or having a whale of a time down below! Despite undergoing a liver transplant in May this year, legendary singer, poet and songwriter Lou Reed died on Sunday morning in New York, aged 71. He lived in the Southampton area of New York with his wife of just five years, Laurie Anderson. Best known for his songs A Walk On The Wild Side, that was to be his only top 20 hit, and Satellite Of Love and being part of the band Velvet Underground along with Welsh musician John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen Tucker in the 60s, Lewis Allan “Lou” Reed was born in Brooklyn in 1942. He was the son of an accountant The band caught artist Andy Warhol's attention who used them in his Exploding Plastic Inevitable. "Andy would show his movies on us," Reed once said. "We wore black so you could see the movie. But we were all wearing black anyway." Many other songs became standards among his admirers, from Heroin and Sweet Jane to Pale Blue Eyes and All Tomorrow's Parties. Perfect Day went on to be covered by a host of stars for a charity single. He won a Grammy in 1999 for Best Long Form Music Video, had his writings
published in The New Yorker, and even performed at The White House. He moved to England to be a solo artist in the 1970s and worked with David Bowie among others. Another song Perfect Day - was covered by a host of stars for a charity single. In a tribute to the singer, Rolling Stone magazine said he "fused street-level urgency with elements of European avant-garde music, marrying beauty and noise, while bringing a whole new lyrical honesty to rock & roll poetry". During his career as a solo artist, from the 1970s into the 2010s, he was "chameleonic, thorny and unpredictable", it said, adding: "Glam, punk and alternative rock are all unthinkable without his revelatory example. 'One chord is fine,' he once said, alluding to his bare-bones guitar style. 'Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.'" He hated school, loved rock 'n' roll, fought with his parents and attacked them in song for forcing him to undergo electroshock therapy as a supposed "cure" for being bisexual. "Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry," he later wrote.
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Lennon house for sale Jackson Dr freed John Lennon’s childhood Newcastle Road, Liverpool, 3 bedroom home where he lived with his grandparents until the age of five went up for auction last night (Tuesday) at the famous Cavern Club. Auctioneers put a price tag on it of between £150,000 and £250,000 and said they had interest in the property, that is still visited by Beatles fans, from all around the world.
The house has two reception rooms and a kitchen downstairs and three bedrooms and a bathroom on the upper floor plus a walled “back yard” outside. The current owners had decided to sell it by auction as they had no idea, because of the property’s history, what to put it on the open market for.
Stephen Giddins from Entwistle Green estate agents said: "It's very difficult to put a price on a house like this because you don't know what
Conrad Murray has been released from jail two years after being convicted of causing Michael Jackson's death. The doctor, 60, left a jail in central Los Angeles shortly after midnight local time, the sheriff's office said.
someone who is a huge Beatles fan will be prepared to pay to live in John Lennon's former home. We've had interest from across the whole of the UK and we've got at least a couple of people wanting to bid from the United States over the telephone." Mr Giddins said among those he has shown round the house since it's been on the market was John Lennon's half-sister, Julia Baird. "She wasn't looking at the house with a view to buying it, she was just really keen to come and see the house to remind herself of the time that she lived here. She referred to the fact that the back bedroom was John's bedroom, her parents were in the room next door and her grandparents slept in the main front bedroom. She recalls there were always lots of children playing in the alley out the back of the house and how they made a swing in their backyard for all their friends to play on." The current owner told
the Liverpool Echo: "I'll be sad to leave John Lennon's first home but I am retired now and would really like a property with a bigger garden. I have made sure original features have been preserved so that they reflect the 1960s period, when the Beatles wowed the whole world with their rock and roll music. The main structure of the house and features, such as the original Victorian sliding sash windows, are as they were when John Lennon lived here with his parents and his grandparents from 1940 onwards."
"He was elated to be out of there," Murray's lawyer Valerie Wass said. Ms Wass said he plans to spend time with his girlfriend and children and to readjust to life outside prison.
Murray was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter in respect of 50-year-old Jackson's death in June 2009. The pop superstar died after receiving a lethal dose of the anaesthetic Propofol, which Murray was giving
him as a sleeping aid.
Murray was given a four-year sentence, but a change in California law to ease chronic overcrowding in the state's jails allowed him to be freed early. Murray's medical licences have been suspended or revoked in three states where he had previously practised medicine.
It has been reported he is seeking to hire a publicist and also have his medical licences reinstated.
News of his release is likely to upset Jackson's family and the star's multitude of fans around the world. Some of them waited at the prison but the doctor managed to elude them.
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