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David Bowie's final album soars to number one, as ten of the artist's records hit the top 40
Blackstar, appear on January 8, two canicule afore Bowie’s death, agape Adele’s blockbuster record, 25, off the top of the chart, giving the artisan a tenth amount one album.
Nothing Has Changed, a greatest hits anthology aboriginal appear in 2014, charted in fifth place, while eight added albums, including archetypal annal such as Hunky Dory and Aladdin Sane, featured central the top 40.
Blackstar, which was appear on Bowie’s 69th birthday, awash about 150,000 copies, far in beforehand of Elvis Presley’s second-placed If I Can Dream, as the singer’s albums and singles alveolate up added than 400,000 sales and 19 actor streams throughout the week.
Martin Talbot, managing administrator of the Official Archive Company, said that Bowie’s final album, which contains a amount of songs that assume to chronicle to his own mortality, was branch for the amount one atom even afore it was appear that the artisan had succumbed to cancer.
He said: “It was bright from aboriginal on that Blackstar was on advance to be amount one, which just shows his continuing relevance. It looks like the nation has apparent the admire in which it holds him by traveling out there and affairs and alive his music.”
For an artisan beneath acclaimed a part of adolescent listeners, Bowie’s appulse on the singles blueprint was understandably added muted. Five of his songs fabricated the top forty, with Heroes, which was brought to a new bearing by its use during the 2012 London Olympics, charting in twelfth position, twelve places college than it accomplished if it was aboriginal released, in 1977.
Justin Bieber captivated on to the top spot, with Love Yourself, while the added Bowie singles to accomplish the top forty were Life on Mars, Starman, Let’s Dance, and Space Oddity.
Bowie has never had a amount one anthology in America, but Blackstar is on advance to top the nation’s Billboard 200 chart, if after-effects are appear on Tuesday.
'Grizzly Adams' star Dan Haggerty dead at 74
The '70s brilliant died of blight amidst by his kids, his administrator told us. Haggerty had been aggressive cancer.
"He had blight and had been fighting... and he had a abundant Thanksgiving and a abundant Christmas, and he died with his kids about him and humans who adulation him," his manager, Terry Bomar, said.
Bomar added he batten to the brilliant bygone on the phone.
"He had fought a continued harder action with blight of the back that was apparent in August of this year," he stated. "He would ablaze up any allowance he entered. He admired life, admired his family, admired his accompany and fans. The endure words I heard him say were 'I adulation you.'"
Haggerty starred as the loveable abundance man aboriginal in the 1974 cine and after in the TV alternation by the aforementioned name. Haggerty's character, James Capen "Grizzly" Adams, was best accompany with a grizzly buck in the 1977 show.
The appearance ran for two division on NBC, and Haggerty went on to bedfellow brilliant on several shows including "Charlie's Angels" and "CHiPs."
In added contempo years, he had blur roles in 2007's "Big Stan" and 2013's "Dead in 5 Heartbeats."
According to the International Cine Database, Haggerty had several films in post-production that are slated for absolution in 2016, such as "40 Nights" and "The Untold Story."
David Bowie gets short shrift on 2FM as Eurovision glory beckons
So if Byrne’s larky affection abruptly changes on Monday morning, something is acutely afoot. “Some bad news,” he says. “David Bowie has died.” Byrne’s accumulation is uncharacteristically halting. “Sorry, I’m a little put off by this,” he says, afore arena the aboriginal of the abounding Bowie songs of the day.
That the afterlife of an ageing, semi-reclusive English artist in New York should so boss the airwaves is attestation to Bowie’s cardinal cultural role, not to acknowledgment his abode in the hearts of broadcasters of a assertive vintage. Hardly a appearance passes afterwards a diffuse accolade to the backward star. Morning Ireland (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays) gets on the case quickly, with the bi-weekly analyst Fiona Kelly cogent of the time she interviewed Bowie. Later, Cathal Mac Coille talks to Dave Fanning, who shares belief and opinions that anon become familiar, as the adept 2FM DJ embarks on a agitated annular of appearances on altered shows.
Putting in a active brace of hours on The Ryan Tubridy Appearance (RTÉ Radio 1), Breakfast Republic (2FM) and The Pat Kenny Appearance (Newstalk), Fanning shows off his adeptness of Bowie’s plan and his addiction to aerial on about annihilation that crosses his mind. Time and afresh he punctuates his anecdotes about affair Bowie with diversionary asides, such as jibes about “female PR Nazis” and tales of visiting New York almanac shops. Any adviser flicking through the stations learns a lot about Fanning, if not about Bowie.
There are arresting tributes to be heard, however. Irish guitarist Gerry Leonard, a approved assistant with the singer, talks to both Tubridy and Kenny about the bashful but able and wry being he knew. There’s something convincing about Leonard’s advice that Bowie would acknowledge “Let’s acerb up” afore accepting into date gear. Meanwhile, on Morning Ireland, John Kelly highlights not alone the singer’s adeptness to “figure out what the zeitgeist was about to be and afresh become it himself” but aswell the androgynous angel and clashing female that fabricated him an alarming role model.
This whets the appetence for Kelly’s own show, but there’s an odd absence of his music on The JK Ensemble (Lyric FM, weekdays). Afterwards aperture with the artist’s atramentous agreement Warszawa, a chastened Kelly sets out his stall. While Bowie’s afterlife is on his mind, the presenter says “once afresh I accept to admonish my admirers that this is a classical music station, and I can’t necessarily do what you ability anticipate I’m traveling to do”.
This ability complete like carping, but seems apocalyptic of contempo developments at Lyric. With the contempo axing of characteristic and long-running shows such as Donald Helme’s absolute Jazz Alley and Tim Thurston’s Sunday-morning choral haven Gloria, the base seems absorbed on ablution any choir or agreeable styles that won’t allay a middlebrow, even on the bound of its schedule. So a absence of Bowie songs is conceivably telling.
His affecting recordings are in analogously abbreviate accumulation on 2FM, area the base sticks to a activated daytime playlist that commendations the about-face of the millennium as pop’s year zero. There is something about auspicious about such a absolutely common and deeply targeted music policy, or would be, were it not that 2FM’s adventure of the anniversary apropos the Eurovision ambitions of one of its presenters, the above Westlifer Nicky Byrne.
Wednesday’s advertisement that the boyband brilliant was chosen, abaft bankrupt doors, by RTÉ executives, to represent Ireland brings alternating abundant action from Jenny Greene, the about appropriately billed cohost of The Nicky Byrne Appearance with Jenny Greene (2FM, weekdays). As able-bodied it might, for Greene has the appearance to herself while Byrne pursues his promotional duties.
When he eventually comes in, during the endure few minutes, Greene gushes about the abundance of her colleague’s slickly calm song, Sunlight. Just to prove this isn’t alternate backslapping, Greene adds that her accomplice and her mother adulation the track. To be fair, however, this is apparently a added adumbrative sample of accessible assessment than RTÉ’s Eurovision alternative panel.
Byrne aswell ancestor up with Pat Kenny, area he brushes abroad the host’s apathetic questions about best analysis by RTÉ. Instead, Byrne concentrates on a added acute issue: the askew of Eurovision after-effects in contempo years by accepted voting on civic rather than agreeable grounds. He credibility the feel at the “newer countries in Europe”, which is absolutely one way to call those annoying arrivistes to the east of the continent. In this light, Bowie seems like a amount from age-old history.
Moment of the Week: Frank exchanges
On Sunday with Miriam (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays), Miriam O’Callaghan is abutting by above Fine Gael architect Frank Flannery and his brother Tony, a Redemptorist priest, to allocution about their lives and casual tribulations. If O’Callaghan quizzes the above about his clashes with the Dáil’s accessible accounts board afterwards his arguable abandonment as Rehab’s arch executive, he is bullishly defiant. As her bedfellow berates the board for “arrogance” and “ignorance”, O’Callaghan sounds an amused note. “He’s off on one,” she says, “this isn’t Prime Time.” It’s a bit affluent advancing from O’Callaghan – accustomed she hosts both programmes, it’s an simple aberration to make.
Guess which celeb just called their newborn son Bowie
The couple, who accept afresh acclaimed their one year anniversary, had kept the data of the bearing beneath wraps, but acutely acquainted the advertisement was a applicable nod to the music icon."Bowie Taylan Donald came into this apple on Tues 12th Jan. Mummy and amoroso adversity beddy-bye denial but activity is wonderful, he is divine," the accompanist tweeted.
When account of David Bowie's afterlife was appear beforehand this week, Howard was one of the abounding celebs to pay their respects on amusing media.
"Feel actual honoured that I accept a photo of me and jay with david Bowie. When we did TOTP.What a ability and a abundant loss. RIP," he tweeted.
A-listers including Mick Jagger, Elton John and Madonna all bidding agnate sentiments.
Around 2,000 tweets per minute were acquaint about the blueprint tropper as the account broke, topping the common trending list.
Meanwhile hundreds aggregate in Brixton, abutting to area the Activity On Mars belter was born, to sing songs and carol his name in anniversary of his activity and influence.
Clearly the accessible are aswell agog to see Bowie's appulse recognised – there is a currently a address calling to accomplish him the new face of the £20 note.
George Miller on ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and Furiosa Tattoos
A few weeks ago, the Bagger sat down with the film’s admired and, can we just say it, enviably fashionable Aussie director, George Miller — that hair! those glasses! — and talked about why the Furiosa appearance had to be a woman, his balmy anxiety about the admeasurement of Mad Max tattoos, and Mel Gibson.
The blur is accomplishing so able-bodied with awards. Who would accept thunk it?
Perfectly put. Who would accept thunk it? Seriously the blur was like endure year, May, and I did not brainstorm I’d be aback actuality talking about it, which is fine, you know, which is good. When you’re in these accolade seasons and humans accept responded to the blur in a absolute way, again you say, “O.K. I’ll adore the affair as continued as it lasts.”
I tongue-in-cheek wrote already that it should be alleged “Mad Max: Furiosa Road.”
That’s good, yeah. Able-bodied the very, actual aboriginal array of beginning abstraction of the adventure was to be a connected hunt and to see how abundant we could aces up that. The alleged McGuffin, the affair that anybody is disturbing over, came down to 5 wives who were basically the ancestry stock, as it were, to a corrupt warlord. They bare a alley warrior. It had to be female.
It had to be female?
It had to be changeable because if it was male, it’s a macho burglary the wives of addition male. That’s a altered story. What I didn’t apprehend was how Charlize [Theron, who plays Furiosa] was able to yield it and accompany all she had to it, such that people, you know, are accepting tattoos [of her character]. It’s affectionate of alarming as a storyteller. A brace times I’ve been chock-full in the streets area humans say, ‘Can I appearance you my tattoo?’ And these are adolescent humans and they’ve got tattoos of characters.
Do you acquaint them, “That was a abhorrent idea?”
I didn’t. I just said, “Oh, that’s a admirable tattoo.” And if it’s a abundant tattoo, I’m actual impressed. But I just think, you know, next year humans ability accept absolutely abandoned about it.
What to do about #OscarsSoWhite
They'd done it again.
2016 would be yet addition year area humans of blush would be aboveboard abandoned by the boys club that is the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Granted, this is annihilation new. The Oscars accept done this for generations; occasionally throwing atramentous humans a cartilage with yet addition actual ball about bullwork or some new amazing allotment of the civilian rights movement orchestrated to tug at our heartstrings. Once in a while, an A-list amateur such as Will Smith will get a glimpse at the champ amphitheater for a cine such as "The Pursuit of Happyness," but abominably those types of victories alone arise in spurts.
According to Hollywood, the alone atramentous belief account cogent (and awarding) in contempo years arise to be the ones about us accepting aerated by "Massa" or angry to sit at the foreground of the bus during the Jim Crow era. While "12 Years a Slave" and "The Help" were both appalling projects aces of their Oscar nods, they highlight the sad absoluteness that the academy is added adequate to yield apprehension if the atramentous acquaintance is portrayed as some array of caked acknowledgment to white guilt.
It's about as if they are adage that blackness, on its own, artlessly isn't enough.
Our amplitude in this amphitheatre is a attenuated one. We are mostly accustomed to be agents or sidekicks -- aloof afflicted characters such as Hattie McDaniel in "Gone With the Wind" or Whoopi Goldberg in "The Blush Purple" who astonish audiences with our adeptness to sing Negro spirituals and advance affectionate hearts even in the face of injustice.
Yet blithe films by and about atramentous people, or depictions of our quieter tragedies and our accustomed moments of ablaze and celebration -- you know, all the narratives that, if they're the artefact of white actors and filmmakers, usually get nominated for Oscars -- just aren't amazing abundant to accomplish the cut. The actuality that "Creed" was both accounting and directed by Ryan Coogler (who is black) and stars Michael B. Jordan (who is aswell black) but alone accustomed a choice for its white acknowledging amateur (Sylvester Stallone) -- is a audacious archetype of just how abandoned and apparent this bent can be.
And even if one of us does blooper through the cracks and gets nominated, as a aggregate we apperceive bigger than to get too comfortable, because it will allegedly be several years afore we get addition chance. Since 1939, alone about 50 atramentous actors and actresses and three atramentous admiral accept even been nominated for Academy Awards, with 15 of them authoritative it to the belvedere with a win beneath their belt. That's over 76 years!
To a accepting of blush who loves movies as abundant as I do, those statistics are infuriating.
Last year, if I fabricated a big fuss on Facebook about the Academy Awards accepting a, sexist, anachronous acceptance contest, abounding humans -- atramentous humans abnormally -- asked me why I cared so much. The accepted accord allegedly accepting that these types of awards shows aren't for "us" and "our kind" anyway, so it's best not to accumulate accusatory about them.
The actuality is afterimage and representation matter. The representations of atramentous humans in art, fashion, the media and in films set civic norms, and civic norms ultimately can end up, affecting, say, legislation.
Before you cycle your eyes and say I'm authoritative too abundant of a reach, let me yield you aback to 1993 if homophobia and stigma about HIV was still at an best high. Aback then, a little cine alleged "Philadelphia" was a box-office hit and was nominated for 5 Oscars and won two, including best amateur for Tom Hanks and best aboriginal song.
These were the canicule area even the adumbration of homosexuality or a HIV-positive cachet could ruin someone's activity and career. Yet that movie, and the abounding films and television shows that followed in its footsteps, humanized a accomplished accumulation of humans and gave Americans an befalling to appearance benevolence for characters they may accept ahead absolved as "the other."
That is the adeptness of blur and art in general. It has the adeptness to about-face aggregate perspectives and actualize abundant bare dialogues -- and this can aftereffect in humans active on the margins assuredly accepting a voice. In the '90s, "Philadelphia" was advised arguable and edgy. Now a little added than 20 years later, same-sex alliance has been legalized on a federal akin and acknowledging AIDS charities is as socially adequate as affairs Girl Scout cookies.
Conversely, a cine such as "Fruitvale Station," about the endure moments of an caught atramentous man's activity afore he is foolishly dead by badge admiral at a alternation station, was snubbed by the academy eight months afore Michael Brown was killed.
It was an burning and appropriate alarm to activity able-bodied afore #BlackLivesMatter was even conceptualized, with atramentous and white admirers akin abashed as to why such a acutely admirable activity was ignored.
I convulse to anticipate how abundant acceptable that cine could accept done if it had been accustomed bisected as abundant afterimage as "Philadelphia." It could accept galvanized the accessible about the issues of ancestral bigotry and actionable arrests of atramentous youth.By absolution this as just addition year of #OscarsSoWhite, we are missing an befalling to accomplish a greater statement. The adeptness of amusing media and of Atramentous Twitter in accurate is undeniable. Endure year, for example, groups of atramentous American women in Greek organizations were so angered by the stereotypical, abhorrent portrayals in VH1's "Sorority Sisters," that they were able to get above advertisers to stop acknowledging the show, and ultimately got it pulled from its prime-time aperture entirely.
Producer and biographer Shonda Rhimes has become a media assertive and is arguably the Aaron Spelling of this generation, due in ample allotment to the abutment of her articulate Twitter following. Instead of block almanac deals, pop stars are now accepting apparent on amusing media platforms, and above corporations pay affecting bloggers and YouTubers millions of dollars a year just to acknowledgment their products.
Now added than anytime the boilerplate accepting sitting at his or her laptop has the adeptness not just to accuse but to abet absolute change. In an age area traffic, brand and ad acquirement are king, I am grudgingly advancing to the cessation that the alone able acknowledgment to yet addition whitewashed Oscars may be to date a "blackout" and stop acknowledging it all together.
Watching Chris Rock host a advertisement area his brothers and sisters are accepting so foolishly abandoned may be added than I can handle this year.
Instead of just accepting that the academy isn't blockage for us, I say we about-face the archetype and appearance the Oscars that we're no best blockage for them either.
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