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The First Covers Of Famous Magazines
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Credit: Mark Kauffman
Ed Sheeran Gives Great Speech on Stuttering: “Embrace Your Weirdness”
Ed Sheeran gave a speech worth checking out this week. He was being honored at the American Institute for Stuttering’s Freeing Voices Changing Lives Benefit Gala on Monday. The musician was commended at the New York City fundraiser for his openness about overcoming his stutter.
“I was a very, very weird child. I had a port-wine stain birthmark on my face that I got lasered off when I was very young; one day, they forgot to put the anesthetic on, and ever since then, I had a stutter. I also had very big, blue NHS glasses — NHS is the National Health Service, one day I hope you’ll have the same! And I lacked an eardrum on one side of my ear, so stuttering was actually the least of my problems!”
“But it was still quite a difficult thing. The thing I found most difficult was knowing what to say but not really being able to express it the right way,” he continued. Though speech therapy and homeopathy didn’t work, rap music became an effective remedy. “My Uncle Jim told my dad that Eminem was the next Bob Dylan — it’s pretty similar, it’s all just storytelling — so my dad bought me The Marshall Mathers LP when I was nine years old, not knowing what was on it. I learned every word of it, back to front, by the time I was ten. He raps very fast and melodically and percussively, and it helped me get rid of the stutter.”
“Stuttering is not a thing you have to be worried about at all. Even if you have quirks and weirdness, you shouldn’t be worried about that,” he told the younger attendees. “The people I went to school with that were the most normal and were the coolest when we grew up — I was telling Emily earlier that one of the cool kids from school now does my plumbing! That’s a fact!”
“I wanted to not necessarily to shed light on stuttering or make it a thing, but stress to kids in general to just be yourself, because there’s no one in the world that can be a better you than you,” he continued onstage at the The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers. “If you try to be the cool kid in class, you’ll end up very boring and doing plumbing for someone who apparently wasn’t that cool. Be yourself. Embrace your quirks. Being weird is a wonderful thing.… I have a f—ing football team now, that’s pretty cool!”
“Embrace your weirdness. From a stuttering point of view, don’t treat it as an issue. Work through it and get the treatment you want to get, but don’t ever see it as a plight on your life. Carry on pushing forward.”
Disney Released “Zootopia” Trailer. It’s like nothing you’ve seen be-fur
Like nothing you’ve seen be-fur… Zootopia.
The modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest shrew, you can be anything. But when optimistic Officer Judy Hopps arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking, scam-artist fox, Nick Wilde, to solve the mystery. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Zootopia,” a comedy-adventure directed by Byron Howard (“Tangled,” “Bolt”) and Rich Moore (“Wreck-It Ralph,” “The Simpsons”) and co-directed by Jared Bush (“Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero”), opens in theaters on March 4, 2016.
A Deadly Adoption Trailer Starring Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig Is Here
Inspired by a true story, “A Deadly Adoption” is a high-stakes dramatic thriller about a successful couple (Ferrell and Wiig) who house and care for a pregnant woman (Jessica Lowndes, “90210”) during the final months of her pregnancy with the hopes of adopting her unborn child. The Lifetime Original Movie starring comedians and former Saturday Night Live stars Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig.
https://youtu.be/luB3-1abCeo
Official Biggest Selling Albums of the decade in the UK revealed
Adele’s 21 is the biggest selling album of the decade to date, the Official Charts Company can reveal. The singer-songwriter’s second studio album – which spent a massive 23 weeks at Number 1 – has sold just over 4,751,000 copies in the UK.
Take That’s Progress earns the Number 2 spot with sales of over 2,374,000 since its 2010 release. The former Official Albums Chart Number 1 shifted an impressive 519,000 copies in its opening week and spawned three Top 40 singles: The Flood, Kidz and Love Love.
In at Number 3 is Michael Buble’s festive album Christmas, which counts 2,216,000 sales this decade. The album spent three weeks at the Official Albums Chart summit and has entered the Top 10 every year since its 2011 release. To date, the LP has racked up 31 weeks in the Top 40.
The fourth best-selling album since 2010 is Emeli Sande’s debut Our Version Of Events. The record, which has sold 2,208,000 copies since its 2012 release, features six singles including Top 10 hits Heaven (Number 2), Next To Me (2), Read All About It Pt 3 (3) and Clown (4). The album also holds the title for the longest reign in the Top 10 of any debut album, surpassing The Beatles’ debut Please Please Me.
Rounding out the Top 5 is Ed Sheeran’s second album X. The chart-topping LP has now shifted 2,134,000copies since its release last July and was the biggest selling album of 2014. His 2011 debut, +, is just behind at 6 on sales of 1,958,000.
Notable additions further down the Top 40 list include Ellie Goulding, whose album Halcyon has passed one million sales and is the 23rd best-seller of the decade so far, while One Direction and Olly Murs each claim three of the decade’s 40 best sellers.
Meanwhile, Rihanna, Pink, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and Michael Buble each have two albums on the list.
The Official Biggest Selling Artist Albums of the decade so far are:
| 1 | 21 | ADELE |
| 2 | PROGRESS | TAKE THAT |
| 3 | CHRISTMAS | MICHAEL BUBLE |
| 4 | OUR VERSION OF EVENTS | EMELI SANDE |
| 5 | X | ED SHEERAN |
| 6 | + | ED SHEERAN |
| 7 | LOUD | RIHANNA |
| 8 | CRAZY LOVE | MICHAEL BUBLE |
| 9 | IN THE LONELY HOUR | SAM SMITH |
| 10 | DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS | BRUNO MARS |
| 11 | 19 | ADELE |
| 12 | THE FAME | LADY GAGA |
| 13 | MYLO XYLOTO | COLDPLAY |
| 14 | SIGH NO MORE | MUMFORD & SONS |
| 15 | THE DEFAMATION OF STRICKLAND BANKS | PLAN B |
| 16 | RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME | OLLY MURS |
| 17 | WHO YOU ARE | JESSIE J |
| 18 | TEENAGE DREAM | KATY PERRY |
| 19 | LUNGS | FLORENCE & THE MACHINE |
| 20 | UP ALL NIGHT | ONE DIRECTION |
| 21 | IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW | OLLY MURS |
| 22 | BABEL | MUMFORD & SONS |
| 23 | HALCYON | ELLIE GOULDING |
| 24 | TALK THAT TALK | RIHANNA |
| 25 | WANTED ON VOYAGE | GEORGE EZRA |
| 26 | SUNNY SIDE UP | PAOLO NUTINI |
| 27 | BORN TO DIE | LANA DEL REY |
| 28 | TAKE ME HOME | ONE DIRECTION |
| 29 | BORN THIS WAY | LADY GAGA |
| 30 | UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX | BRUNO MARS |
| 31 | GREATEST HITS | BON JOVI |
| 32 | RECOVERY | EMINEM |
| 33 | COME AROUND SUNDOWN | KINGS OF LEON |
| 34 | THE ELEMENT OF FREEDOM | ALICIA KEYS |
| 35 | GREATEST HITS – SO FAR | PINK |
| 36 | MIDNIGHT MEMORIES | ONE DIRECTION |
| 37 | THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE | PINK |
| 38 | 18 MONTHS | CALVIN HARRIS |
| 39 | LIONESS – HIDDEN TREASURES | AMY WINEHOUSE |
| 40 | OLLY MURS | OLLY MURS |
Watch: Kendrick Lamar Goes Head To Head With Tupac In This New Video
Kendrick Lamar versus Tupac Shakur by konbini
On ‘Mortal Man‘, the closing track of To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar transforms a vintage Tupac interview into a spliced-up fictional interview between ‘Pac and himself.
It makes sense: both rappers pushed forward a distinctive West Coast sound, years ahead of their time. Both rep similar spiritual principles and the same Compton background. At one point, K Dot even claimed to have dreamt that Tupac came to him, telling him to carry on his name.
So Konbini decided to get the two musicians in dialogue with each other, using classic ‘Pac archival footage and an exclusive interview with the ‘King Kunta’ rappers. For the first time, Tupac and Kendrick come face to face on issues like self-respect, women, and hip-hop’s social responsibility. Check out the 15-minute interview above.
Via Konbini
How saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman’s music revolutionised the language of jazz
The appearance of Ornette Coleman, who has died aged 85, at the Barbican in London in 2001, with a supporting cast of rappers, dancers, video artists, sufi vocalists, opera singers and Chinese traditional musicians, spectacularly symbolised this self-taught musician’s lifelong conviction that all good music is one. Back in London eight years later as the curator of the Meltdown festival, the dynamic Coleman did it again (this time with the singer-poet Patti Smith, the Senegalese griot Baaba Maal, guitarist Bill Frisell and a Moroccan drum choir), and found himself mobbed by fans crowding down the aisles of the Royal Festival Hall to shake his hand, long after the concert’s last chord had faded. It was a spontaneous display of gratitude for a gently indomitable vision that had radically changed the music of the previous half-century not just by revolutionising the intonation, phrasing and shared languages of jazz bands and soloists, but also by offering new ways for contemporary musicians in all genres to communicate with each other.
These triumphant performances were a long way from the world he knew in the early 1960s, when Coleman is reputed to have sat for long stretches in his New York apartment by a silent telephone. His radical ideas had stirred furious controversy and made him a risky proposition for promoters – some critics and musicians, offended by his pitch-bending tone and cavalier attitude to harmony, went as far as to call him a charlatan. Coleman was incensed by the racial and cultural inequalities that sidelined African Americans from classical music at the time, and often made black jazz artists the economic victims of a white-run music industry. He took to demanding that either he was paid the same fees as a classical concert artist or he would not show up. Time proved Coleman right, and from the 1980s onwards his music began to be performed in the world’s great concert halls. Lou Reed said of him: “When you talk about someone speaking through their instrument, that’s Ornette. He changed everything.”
https://youtu.be/HjVURhB4bsE
Via The Guardian
Kids Are Shown Photos Of Bruce And Caitlyn Jenner. Here’s Their Inspiring Reaction.
Kids were presented with two pictures, one of Bruce Jenner and one of Caitlyn Jenner, and their reactions will both surprise you and inspire you.
Bill Murray’s ROCK THE KASBAH Trailer Is Out!
“Rock the Kasbah” is the story of Richie Lanz, a rock manager with a golden ear and a taste for talent, who has seen better times. When he takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan, she gets cold feet and leaves him penniless and without his passport in Kabul. While trying to find his way home, Richie befriends a band of misfits and discovers a young girl with an extraordinary voice. Against all odds, Richie will take his last shot at creating an unlikely superstar.
Bill Murray stars, along with Kate Hudson, Zooey Deschanel, Danny McBride, Scott Caan, Bruce Willis, Leem Lubany, and directed by Barry Levinson. It’s out in theatres on October 23rd, 2015
https://youtu.be/3pjHGkstXMA