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NEW YORK: Collectors who want to own a piece of music history - Fender, Gibson and Guild guitars used by the likes of Tom Petty, Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix - will have to be ready to put up some serious cash next month in New York City.
\r\nThat is when Guernsey’s auction house, on Dec. 2 at Bohemian Hall, will put up for sale guitars, saxophones, session tapes and other music memorabilia associated with some of the most famous musicians of the 20th century. The auction follows Guernsey’s sale of Jerry Garcia’s “Wolf” guitar in May for $1.9 million.
\r\nIncluded in the sale is a red, sticker-covered Guild guitar used by Hendrix in 1968 at a Miami, Florida, hotel after a music festival got rained out.
\r\n“He and other musicians and as many fans could pack into the neighboring hotel jammed into there for what amounted to a jam session, and this is the guitar he played,” said Guernsey president Arlan Ettinger.
\r\nAlso up for auction is a 1953 “Goldtop” Gibson Les Paul used by Paul McCartney as recently as 2012, according to Ettinger.
\r\nBruce Springsteen’s bass guitar that he used on his first album will also be on sale, as well as a black Gibson Les Paul Madonna used on tours in 2001 and 2008, when “she was going to come out and show the world that she could play.”
\r\nMaster recordings of James Brown and Elvis Presley, and recorded live performances of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and others will be included in the sale.
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\r\nItems once owned by The Beatles, Kurt Cobain, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, Madonna comprise the lots up the Icons and Idols Auction taking place in Los Angeles.
\r\nItems include the MTV Moonman from the Video Music Awards that was presented to Kurt Cobain for best new artist for \\\"Smells Like Teen Spirit\\\", two jackets and a rhinestone glove that were worn by Michael Jackson on his triumph tour, and a Cloud electric guitar belonging to Prince.
\r\nAmong the more peculiar items is an x-ray taken of Elvis Presley's wrist. Julian's Auctions is behind the Icons and Idols Rock-N-Roll auction.
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\r\nThe clip, produced by Beyoncé and Salma Hayek’s Chime for Change initiative and The Global Goals, delivers some upsetting statistics over images of the young girls: 71% of human trafficking victims are girls, while 130 million girls are out of school.
\r\nViewers can visit The Global Goals’ #FreedomForGirls page to support one of the many organizations aiding young girls around the world.
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\r\nBorn on October 7, 1914, she was a renowned Indian singer of Ghazal, Dadra, and Thumri genres of Hindustani classical music.
\r\nHer journey in the world of music began in a salon in Lucknow as a young teenager - put up by her mother Mushtari bai, also a tawaif and soon within a short span of time, she became an artiste to reckon with. She became so famous for her musical prowess that only the distinguished were allowed entry to her mehfils.
\r\n\r\nAt a tender age, she dabbled with many creative career options right from acting in theatre in the 1920s in Kolkata, to having a short stint in films as a songstress and an actor. She later on went in for a socially accepted life, when she tied the knot with barrister Ishtiaq Ahmed Abbasi, following which she went onto, becomes the Mallika-e-Ghazal we all know her as, today.
\r\nShe was the pioneer of this genre and paved the way for many eminent artistes to follow such as Jigar Moradabadi, Kaifi Azmi and Shakeel Badayuni.
\r\nBegum Akhtar passed away in Ahmedabad on 30 October, 1974. She was in the city for a concert and fell ill while staging a performace. The Legendary classical singer was awarded Padma Shri, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and Padma Bhushan.
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\r\nPetty suffered cardiac arrest and was found unconscious at his home in Malibu early on Monday morning and was taken to UCLA Medical Center but could not be revived, his long-time manager Tony Dimitriades said in a statement.
\r\n“We are devastated to announce the untimely death of our father, husband, brother, leader and friend Tom Petty,” Dimitriades said on behalf of the family.
\r\nHe died peacefully at 8:40 p.m. local time (0340 GMT Tuesday) surrounded by family, his bandmates and friends.
\r\nBob Dylan called his death “shocking, crushing news” in a statement to Rolling Stone magazine.
\r\nPetty, best known for his roots-infused rock music, carved a career as a solo artist as well as with his band The Heartbreakers and as part of supergroup The Traveling Wilburys.
\r\nPetty and The Heartbreakers embarked on a 40th anniversary tour of the United States this year and last played three dates in late September at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The band was scheduled to perform two dates in New York in November.
\r\nPetty formed The Heartbreakers in the mid 1970s, but it wasn’t until the band’s third album “Damn the Torpedoes” in 1979 that their music really took off, with hits such as “Refugee” and “Don’t Do Me Like That.”
\r\nHe and the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, when they were described by organizers as “the quintessential American individualists”, capturing the voice of the American everyman.
\r\n“Music, as far as I have seen in the world so far, is the only real magic that I know,” Petty once said during an interview with CNN. “There is something really honest and clean and pure and it touches you in your heart.”
\r\nPetty also co-founded the 1980s supergroup The Traveling Wilburys with Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison and Jeff Lynne, penning hits such as “End of the Line” and “She’s My Baby.”
\r\nDylan said in his statement that Petty was “a great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I’ll never forget him.”
\r\nEx-Beatle Ringo Starr wrote on Twitter: “God bless Tom Petty peace and love to his family I‘m sure going to miss you Tom.”
\r\nPetty was born on Oct. 20, 1950 in Florida. He had a rough childhood and did not do well in school, according to the New York Times. He caught the rock‘n‘roll bug after he was introduced by his uncle to Elvis Presley, who was shooting the picture “Follow That Dream” on location in Florida in 1960.
\r\n
Tom Petty and his wife Dana YorkHe got his first guitar in 1962 and was influenced by the Beatles, growing his hair long and switching to electric guitar. In the mid-1960s, he joined his first band, the Sundowners.
Petty dropped out of high school when he was 17 and joined Mudcrutch, a band with which he moved to Los Angeles in 1970.
\r\nThe band broke up and Petty drifted from band to band before joining back up with his bandmates from Mudcrutch in 1975. The group became Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in 1976, according to Allmusic.com.
\r\nThe band, which recorded 16 albums, culled “the best parts of the British Invasion, American garage rock, and Dylanesque singer/songwriters to create a distinctively American hybrid that recalled the past without being indebted to it,” the site said.
\r\nAmid his successes, Petty also suffered dark periods during a career spanning five decades.
\r\nA 2015 biography of the singer, “Petty: The Biography,” revealed for the first time the rocker’s heroin addiction in the 1990s.
\r\nAuthor Warren Zanes said in an interview with The Washington Post that Petty had succumbed to the drug because he “had had encounters with people who did heroin, and he hit a point in his life when he did not know what to do with the pain he was feeling”.
\r\n\r\n
Petty also suffered from depression, channeling his pain into 1999’s “Echo,” during which he was also dealing with a divorce. In 2002, he married Dana York and told Reuters that he had been in therapy for six years to deal with depression.
\r\n“It’s a funny disease because it takes you a long time to really come to terms with the fact that you’re sick - medically sick, you’re not just suddenly going out of your mind,” he said at the time.
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\r\n\\\"This is the only sitar by the Beatles that's ever been released to auction and it's the first sitar that George Harrison likely ever owned. So it's kind of ground zero for Beatles memorabilia and also sort of the great sitar explosion of the 60s.\\\"
\r\nThe Beatles' passion for the instrument generated interest in India too.
\r\n\\\"Harrison bought this in 1965 and with the release of 'Norwegian Wood' shortly thereafter which he recorded on this, kind of created the great sort of sitar explosion and the interest in India, in Hinduism and it became sort of a life-changing course for George Harrison, so this particular incident really changed the course of his life and music.\\\"
\r\nThe Indian instrument is expected to fetch between $50,000 - $100,000. Harrison's interest in the sitar remained throughout his life - he studied extensively with musician Ravi Shankar until his death in 2001.
\r\n\\\"It was just a great excuse to be able to surround myself with these great musicians and these great words that have been said in Sanskrit because it was a kind of blessing, really. It’s a spiritual experience and it's all down to the individual, what you can manifest within yourself as to the value of anything.\\\"
\r\nThe sitar is being sold by George Drummond, a friend of Harrison's first wife, Pattie Boyd. Drummond reportedly received the sitar from Harrison as a gift for hosting the couple on their Barbados honeymoon in 1966.
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\r\nTwain, 52, will release her first studio album in 15 years this week after a long struggle with Lyme disease and a devastating divorce.
\r\n“The album is really about a place that I’ve come to, and I’ve been for longer than I’d like in a transition period,” Twain said in an interview.
\r\n“I‘m just so relieved that I‘m finally here now on the other side of that ... so I thought it was really fitting to call the album ‘Now’ as this is where I’ve landed.”
\r\nWith hit songs like “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” and the romantic “You’re Still the One,” Twain won four Grammys for her 1997 best-selling album “Come on Over.”
\r\nBut in 2004, her vocal chords were damaged by Lyme disease, which also afflicts people with lethargy and joint pains. Four years later she split with her husband and musical partner Robert Lange, alleging he had cheated on her with her best friend.
\r\nTwain said she has worked hard to overcome the vocal damage.
\r\n“There’s a lot I can do about regaining my vocal competency, my vocal ability and I’ve gone through all of that, so I‘m really grateful about that,” she said. “But I’ll never be able to remove the problem. It’s a permanent injury.”
\r\nTwain, who remarried in 2011, said she now aims to balance her career and personal life.
\r\n”I’ve been through a marriage already and I don’t ever want to be divorced again so I‘m invested in my relationship in a different way now.
\r\n“I have to spread myself out and organize my mental energy and my physical time differently and I can’t just be only working on my career all of the time,” she said.
\r\nAlthough Twain spent two years doing a nightly show in Las Vegas from 2012-2014 and toured North America in 2015, “Now” is her first album of new music since “Up!” in 2002. It goes on sale on Friday.
\r\nTwain is also filming a race car movie with John Travolta that is due for release in 2018.
\r\n“This has all just come out of just a phase that was a transition for me. So hey! I‘m feeling good,” she said.
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\r\n\r\n
Jann Wenner -- who started Rolling Stone in 1967 as a hippie student in Berkeley, California and now runs it with his son Gus -- told The New York Times that the future looked tough for a family-run publisher.
\r\n\\\"There´s a level of ambition that we can´t achieve alone,\\\" Gus Wenner told the newspaper in an interview published late Sunday.
\r\n\\\"So we are being proactive and want to get ahead of the curve,\\\" he said.
\r\n\r\nOne of the most influential magazines covering rock music, Rolling Stone has also been a home for experimental writers such as the gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
\r\nBut the magazine´s reputation -- and finances -- were badly damaged when it retracted a 2014 story about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia, with a review finding that Rolling Stone did not undertake basic journalistic procedures to verify the facts.
\r\n\r\nRolling Stone last year sold a 49 percent stake to a Singaporean music and technology start-up, BandLab Technologies, which is headed by Kuok Meng Ru, the scion of one of Asia´s richest families.
\r\nIt was not immediately known if Kuok would want to take a controling stake in Rolling Stone.
\r\n\r\nThe Wenner family earlier this year sold its other two titles -- celebrity magazine US Weekly and lifestyle monthly Men´s Journal -- to American Media, Inc., a publisher of supermarket tabloids including The National Enquirer.
\r\nIf American Media, Inc., were interested in Rolling Stone, it would mark a sharp change in owners´ ideologies.
\r\n\r\nThe tabloid empire is led by David Pecker, an ardent ally of President Donald Trump, while Rolling Stone tilts strongly to the left and has featured lengthy interviews with Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
\r\nJann Wenner, 71, who is also a key force behind the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, said that he hoped to keep an editorial role at Rolling Stone but that the decision would be up to its new owner.
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\r\nYouTube said on Tuesday it was the biggest debut of any video in YouTube history, beating the 36-million mark set by South Korean singer Psy’s “Gentleman” for that time frame in 2013.
\r\n“Look What You Made Me Do,” in which Swift takes aim at those who have attacked her professionally and personally in the last 10 years, has been heavily scrutinized by fans and entertainment media since it was premiered at the MTV Video Music Awards show on Sunday.
\r\nSwift, 27, who has been absent from award shows and red carpet events in 2017 after highly publicized feuds with Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry, did not attend the ceremony.
\r\nYouTube said the video averaged over 30,000 views per minute in its first 24 hours, with hourly views reaching over 3 million. By Tuesday, YouTube views had surpassed the 53 million mark.
\r\nThe music video starts with Swift crawling out of a grave and declaring her old self dead, portraying a hard-edged artist with nothing left to lose.
\r\nIt ends with the singer reviving all the personas of her music career - from gawky, guitar-playing 16-year-old to poised Grammy winner - and having them bicker with each other for being fake, pretending to be nice and playing the victim.
\r\nThe rapping, techno-beat single is the first from a new Swift album due for release in November called “Reputation.”
\r\nSwift has some way to go before breaking the all-time YouTube music video, which is held by Latin singer Luis Fonsi’s 2017 global hit “Despacito,” which surpassed the 3 billion mark in early August.
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\r\nZoheb and Nazia Hassan rose to heights of unparalleled fame in early 80’s when the duo released their first album and soon afterwards Disco Deewane became anthem for millions in Pakistan and India – making the siblings South-Asian sub-continent's first pop icons.
\r\nNow settled in London as a successful businessman, Zoheb Hassan is set to release his solo album “Signature”. He promises that this album has many surprises for his fans and hopes that his songs will set a new benchmark for Pakistan’s music industry. Zoheb lives in London with his Cambridge educated wife Gina, two daughters Allyana and Mia and 8 years old son, Azmere.
\r\nZoheb Hassan shared that it took him over ten years to complete this music album as he was bogged down with many other responsibilities aside from music.
\r\nHe relocated to Pakistan in1993 with his family and started working for the Government of Sindh “to promote positive image of Sindh province”.
\r\nZoheb Hassan worked as Honorary Advisor to Governor Sindh for eight years in which period he successfully initiated landmark events such as Sindh Festival, Sindh Sea Festival, Media & Entertainment Expo, Pakistan UK Connect to name a few. For his outstanding contribution he was awarded the United Nations Associations Award and later an award from Oxford University.
\r\n\r\n\r\nZoheb and Nazia were born in London but spent their childhood in Karachi until they came to England to study first in Manchester and then later moved to London in the mid 70s with their parents.
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It was just at the tender age of 13 and 14 years when the duo sang their first song for the Indian film \\\"Qurbani\\\" and burst onto the international music scene in the manner never seen before. Their hits became anthems for millions in India, Pakistan and abroad. Nazia and Zoheb are infact credited for introducing pop music to the sub-continent. Some of their biggest hits were Disco Dewane, Boom Boom, Chehra, Teray Quadmo ko and Dosti.
\r\nIt was in 1999 when Nazia Hassan was diagnosed with cancer. At the same time she underwent a heart-breaking split with her husband but Zoheb and rest of the family stood by Nazia throughout. Nazia Hassan sadly lost her battle to cancer in 2000 leaving behind a son, Arez, who now studies in a London college and resides with his Zoheb.
\r\nZoheb Hassan didn’t work on music for many years after Nazia Hassan died but picked up his guitar again in 2016 and then went on to do a song for Coke Studio which has been watched by millions online and reminded Pakistanis after a long time what they had been missing: the charm that the duo cast on the nation with their super hits.
\r\nZoheb Hassan returned to London from Karachi in 2008 and ever since he has been concentrating on his property portfolio. Today, Zoheb Hasan is a successful business entrepreneur and owns properties at prized locations in London.
\r\nHe laughs and accepts that people can’t just accept that he is actually in property business on full time basis. “Generally people think that I must be singing all the time, in bathroom, outside, in my car and wherever I go. That’s not the case. I am actually a certified businessman besides being a singer, composer, producer and musician.
\r\n\r\n\r\n\\\"Focusing on my business has helped me immensely as today I am more experienced and in a better position to help give back to the Pakistan music industry. I feel that any artist who has had success has an obligation to help our ailing music industry not just think about their own personal gain. If there is no industry tomorrow then we won't be there either. We have to collectively lobby with the government to give music the status of an industry and avail all benefits in the way that many industries get. We need tax breaks, lower import duty of equipments, more intellectual property protection and so on.”
\r\n
Zoheb Hassan says he is excited about the launch of his album. “Well there are quite a few interesting things planned but I can’t give them away at the moment.\\\"
\r\nNazia and Zoheb have not only provided Pakistanis joy for the past 3 decades but to tens of millions around the world. They are truly the pride of our nation - something that we shall always cherish and treasure.
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