See the first teaser trailer for the 24th James Bond adventure SPECTRE. A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE. Starring: Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, David Bautista and Andrew Scott, and Directed By Sam Mendes.
‘The Sandlot’ Just Got Even Better Thanks To The New Yankees Recreating It
Members of the 2015 Yankees recreate a memorable scene from the classic movie, “The Sandlot”
Ricky Gervais Couldn’t Care Less About Being the Spokesman for Netflix Australia
This is the greatest ad for Netflix I’ve ever watched. I think. No, no, I’m sure about this.
Strange Portable Music Inventions Of The Past
The original portable boombox was a beanbag with a transistor radio
The first ever Walkman?
Tupac Shakur’s movie debut in Dan Aykroyd’s Nothing but Trouble
Dan Aykroyd’s Nothing but Trouble might be a forgotten film, but it’s notable for one key scene for music fans. Aykroyd decided that Oakland hip-hop group Digital Underground should be in it. That means a cameo by a young Tupac Shakur, making his big-screen debut.
https://youtu.be/jGVZISx-oWs
Girls Say Yes To Boys Who Say No, 1968
The poster features the celebrated U.S folk singer and political activist Joan Baez, along with her sisters Pauline and Mimi. They sit together on a couch, above which a slogan reads “Girls Say Yes To Boys Who Say No”.
Canadian Arts/Media Job Posts For March 27, 2015
Bob Dylan On The Color Barrier in Music
Early on, before rock ’n’ roll, I listened to big band music: Harry James, Russ Columbo, Glenn Miller. But up north, at night, you could find these radio stations that played pre-rock ’n’ roll things — country blues. You could hear Jimmy Reed.
Then there was a station out of Chicago, played all hillbilly stuff. We also heard the Grand Ole Opry. I heard Hank Williams way early, when he was still alive. One night, I remember listening to the Staple Singers, “Uncloudy Day.” And it was the most mysterious thing I’d ever heard. It was like the fog rolling in. What was that? How do you make that? It just went through me.
I managed to get an LP, and I’m like, “Man!” I looked at the cover, and I knew who Mavis was without having to be told. She looked to be about the same age as me. Her singing just knocked me out. This was before folk music had ever entered my life. I was still an aspiring rock ’n’ roller. The descendant, if you will, of the first generation of guys who played rock ’n’ roll — who were thrown down. Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis. They played this type of music that was black and white. Extremely incendiary. Your clothes could catch fire.
When I first heard Chuck Berry, I didn’t consider that he was black. I thought he was a white hillbilly. Little did I know, he was a great poet, too. And there must have been some elitist power that had to get rid of all these guys, to strike down rock ’n’ roll for what it was and what it represented — not least of all it being a black-and-white thing. – Bob Dylan, AARP magazine
The Top 10 Best Selling Albums In The US Of All Time
In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Certification is not automatic; for an award to be made, the record label must request certification and pay a fee to have the sales of the recording audited. The audit is conducted against net shipments after returns (most often an artist’s royalty statement is used), which includes albums sold directly to retailers and one-stops, direct-to-consumer sales (music clubs and mail order) and other outlets.
Catalog product, specifically pre-1972 album releases, are eligible for certification by meeting either the unit shipment or manufacturer’s dollar requirement for each award level. The purpose of this rule is to make certain exceptions for older albums that have very little supporting documentation substantiating that they meet both the unit requirement and the dollar requirement. Without the rule, these titles would potentially be unable to meet the dollar requirement based on the limited documentation available from sales that occurred decades ago.
Multi-disc albums are counted once for each disc within the album if it is over 100 minutes in length or is from the vinyl era. For example, each copy of The Smashing Pumpkins’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (running time of 121:39), OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (running time of 134:56), and Shania Twain’s Up! (145:44), all double albums, were counted twice, meaning each album was certified diamond after 5 million copies were shipped. Pink Floyd’s The Wall and The Beatles’ White Album, both vinyl-era, are also counted double even though their running times are under the minimum requirement.
#/Millions Title Artist Label
29 EAGLES/THEIR GREATEST HITS 1971 – 1975 EAGLES ELEKTRA
29 THRILLER MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC/LEGACY
23 LED ZEPPELIN IV LED ZEPPELIN ATLANTIC
23 THE WALL PINK FLOYD COLUMBIA
23 GREATEST HITS VOLUME I & VOLUME II BILLY JOEL COLUMBIA
22 BACK IN BLACK AC/DC EPIC
21 DOUBLE LIVE GARTH BROOKS CAPITOL NASHVILLE
20 COME ON OVER SHANIA TWAIN MERCURY NASHVILLE
20 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC WARNER BROS.
19 THE BEATLES THE BEATLES APPLE
