Squeeze file-sharers, stars say Sep 25, 2009
Film composer David Arnold, songwriter Guy Chambers, Billy Bragg, singer Patrick Wolf, sixties star Sandie Shaw and Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley were among others to put their names to the plan. Before the meeting, a debate over whether to penalise file-sharers had raged among artists in the media and online. (BBC News -- Technology)
Musicians' call over BNP CD sales May 29, 2009
The letter was signed by Musicians' Union (MU) general secretary John Smith and Featured Artists' Coalition (FAC) members Billy Bragg, Sandie Shaw, Marillion's Mark Kelly, Blur's Dave Rowntree, Pink Floyd's Nick Mason and Ross Millard, of The Futureheads. Review call. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
* SUNDAY PROFILE: Morrissey: the man behind the miserable mask May 24, 2009
All are titles stolen from the big-mouthed bards own songs; fitting tributes to a man who has spent the last three decades plagiarizing ideas from Warhol and Virginia Woolf, from Patti Smith and Sandie Shaw, from Alan Bennett and George Eliot, from the New York Dolls and Anthony Newley, from the TV soap Coronation Street and the Carry On films. As a recent two-day Irish symposium on his lyricism showed, international academics now queue up alongside the passionate fans to celebrate Morrissey... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Immigrants vie for song contest glory May 14, 2009
There will be something pretty memorable when a former Kellogg's worker from war-torn DR Congo performs his version of Puppet on a String before the Queen of Eurovision herself, Sandie Shaw ... He is covering Puppet on a String by Sandie Shaw ... Crowning the immigrant act of the year is a judging panel comprised of Sandie Shaw who won Britain's first Eurovision gold with Puppet on a String in 1967; Conservative MP and former Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis; and ex-immigration officer Steve... (BBC News -- Africa)
Queens of Pop Apr 2, 2009
Page last updated at 09:14 GMT, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 10:14 UK. Tales of the Queens of British Pop. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Capital songs Feb 17, 2009
A bit like Sandie Shaw. " The singer grew up in the "very posh" outskirts of Windsor and says the capital was "like a magnet". "As soon as I was old enough to get on a train with my friends, we would come up to Kensington Market and King's Road and Portobello Market. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
