Miley hits Number One

Miley Cyrus new album "Breakout" has gone straight to Number One on Billboard Top 200. Although this is the second album of hers to reach Number One, this is the first time without her (life-imitates-art) Disney character Hannah Montana - this time Miley does it all on her own. "Breakout" sold 371,000 copies in its first week.

Miley's not on the road at the moment, but her good friends the Jonas Brothers are...tickets are available here...

Neil Diamond returns in triumph

There are some truly legendary performers, and Neil Diamond is one of them. And he is showing no signs of slowing down. Be warned, tickets to his upcoming shows are already available and his legion of supporters are snapping them up. He is immensely popular to both young and old in the audience. It would be best to get your Neil Diamond tickets as soon as possible.

Born January 24, 1941, Neil Leslie Diamond first played guitar at age 16 and immediately realized what he wanted to be. He developed a love of singing and was already exploring the option of becoming a life-long musician singing in a choir with the then unknown Barbra Streisand. However, after graduating from high school, Neil Diamond decided instead to go to college and pursue a pre-med course. However the thrill of music and the offer of $50 a week to write songs did he realize that he wanted a musician’s life instead of a doctor’s.

His first recording venture was not very successful. He also wrote songs for other artists until he signed with Bang Records where he got his first hit, “Solitary Man”. He also wrote and recorded during this period “Cherry, Cherry”, “Do It” and “Kentucky Woman”. But his ambition went beyond what Bang Records could offer so he signed with MCA Records in the late 1960s.

Neil Diamond’s first number 1 with “Song Sung Blue”. He also produced great hits such as “Sweet Caroline” (written for Caroline Kennedy), “Cracklin Rosie” and “Holly Holy”. Neil Diamond also starred in movies such as the remake of The Jazz Singer. He has written and sung numerous soundtracks for films. He didn’t produce hit songs during the 1980s to the 1990s but his shows still commanded great billing and huge crowds. His concerts were sold-out and he was 1986’s “most profitable solo performer”.

Neil Diamond continued to be very busy through the last two decades, producing albums as well as cover many of the classics. “Sweet Caroline” continues to be a favorite song and Michael Dukkakis made “America” his presidential campaign theme song. He has become a pop culture icon with many of his songs being covered by other artists such as a highly successful reggae cover of “Red Red Wine” and Smash Mouth’s version of “I’m a Believer”.

His ongoing concert tours are selling tickets like hotcakes with fans from all over the country still coming out to see him. Neil Diamond is a living legend, and one of those “must see” acts’. There are concert tours and his shows will run in St. Paul, Sioux City, Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Cleveland, Washington, Hartford, Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh and Albany, among others.

Madonna tickets Denver - some still available

The mighty material girl continues to reinvent and surprise. Madonna's latest album, Hard Candy, debuted at number one across the globe and has been dominating the charts since it's release on April 25, 2008. But why should we be surprised? She has been doing this since the early 1980's.

Always in touch with the current "state-of-the-art" (or should we say leading it?), the Queen of Pop’s album features vocal appearances by today's hottest pop artists such as Justin Timberlake and Kanye West. The producers of the album are the highly respected Timbaland and Pharrell Williams who receive both performance and production credits on the album.

Madonna’s 2008 Sticky and Sweet tour is on its european leg, and packing out stadiums wherever she goes. All this in readiness for her tour that will be unleashed here in October. Her shows have been selling well, and many shows are near sell-outs. In Denver, her only show is scheduled for Tuesday 11th November 2008, and if you act quickly you can snare some tickets at reasonable prices. The show in Denver will be held at the Pepsi Center

And what are we to expect in Denver? It will be the usual stunning array of music, stage antics, dancing and a song list that goes back to 1984!! During her Paris show earlier this year, always the one to stir up a bit of controversy, Madonna tried a bit of push-it-to-the-edge sexual antics by kissing one of the female dancers, or one of the female audience members. Swigging champagne bottle she yelled at the crowd “Who do you love more, me or the Rolling Stones?”

The Material Girl always puts on an amazing concert, and this is one show not to be missed. Her current single with Justin Timberlake has hit the top of the charts all around the world. It seems the world can’t get enough of this amazing lady, half way through her third decade of constantly reinventing herself and of being a superstar. And her catalogue of songs is awesome including “Like a Prayer”, “Vogue”, “Get into the Groove” and “Holiday”.

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Tina Turner: It’s a long way from Nutbush, Tennessee

Tina Turner’s shows have been described as “electrifying”, “awesome” and a “once in a lifetime experience”. This cannot be described as an overstatement. Tina Turner concerts are indeed all these and more. There are numerous reasons s to why she puts in such great performances. Or it could be because of her personality as a strong, willful and passionate woman.

Born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, Tina Turner first performed in Ike Turner’s shows in St. Louis. Ike changed her name to Tina after Sheena: Queen of the Jungle and they became The Ike & Tina Turner Revue. She married Ike in 1962. Working a heavy touring circuit, they rose to fame during the 1960s and 1970s, recording songs like “A Fool in Love”, “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine” and “River Deep, Mountain High”.

Tina Turner’s tumultuous marriage life continued well into the 70s. Tina’s husband was a cocaine user who mismanaged the band and he produced Tina’s first solo album. It did not do well commercially. In 1976, over the Fourth of July weekend, Tina Turner finally left Ike Turner when he beat her before a Dallas show. She had nothing but thirty-six cents in her wallet. She left behind her abusive marriage as well as breached contracts.
She lived rough and appeared in TV shows to supplement her income. She finally got a divorce from Ike in 1976 and with trepidation commenced in earnest her solo career. She finally got the recognition she craved for in 1984 when she released her fifth album, Private Dancer. The album earned her three top ten singles in the United States, topped the charts in Europe UK and Australia and established her as a rock diva. She earned Record of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Record of the Year all in the 1985 Grammys.

The unstoppable Ms Turner also made forays into film appearing in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, sung numerous soundtracks for movies, wrote her autobiography I, Tina and toured in Europe, the US and Latin America. In the latter, she performed for 184,000 fans and entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the single performer to have performed to the largest paying crowd in history.

For most people with a lifetime of achievements, time to settle back and reflect on life would be in order. But not this lady, as she is coming out of 8 years of retirement. She probably never did retire. She is set to tour again in October kicking off in Kansas City. She will continue to tour until November and you can get Tina Turner tickets in registered ticket sellers. Tina Turner tickets are already available for her shows in Chicago, Minneapolis, Rosemont, Los Angeles, among others.

The Jonas Brothers are the next big thing!

Ok, ok....the Jonas Brothers ARE are the next big thing NOW (or is that the current big thing!) Although still very much popular in the US and Europe, their upbeat music appeals to the 10 to 14-year-old girl market. Seen in Nickelodeon and Disney Channel shows like Zooey 101 and Hannah Montana, the Jonas Brothers have staged their own revolution in the pop music scene.

The Jonas Brothers as a band began with the youngest in the group, Nicholas Jonas who had his first role in a Broadway show at age seven. He was originally signed as a single act and released a self-titled album with songs like “When You Look me in the Eye”, “Dear God” and “Time For me to Fly”. Around about the same time brother Joseph also performed in Broadway’s La Boheme.

Columbia Records president Greenberg decided to sign the brothers and they started 2005 touring with Jesse McCartney, the Backstreet Boys, Kelly Clarkson, the Cheetah Girls and the Click Five. The Jonas Brothers released their debut single “Mandy” the same year and had several of their songs featured in shows like Zooey 101, Disney Mania 4 and American Dragon Jake Long.

The group was dropped by Columbia but signed on with Hollywood records in 2007. They released their album self-titled Jonas Brothers and entered the Billboard Hot 200 in the fifth spot. They continued on making television appearances in Hannah Montana and performed at the Miss Teen USA. In January of this year, the Jonas Brothers jumpstarted their Look Me in The Eyes Tour with a show in Tucson, Arizona.

This year has been an exciting one for young trio, with sellout shows around the country and the release of the third album. The Jonas Brothers played some of their A Little Bit Longer songs in their tour, as well as opening acts for Avril Lavigne. The Disney Channel has also aired their reality series Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream and has just wrapped up the Disney Original Movie Camp Rock. Come summer 2008, a massive tour is planned, and they will start touring to promote their latest album.

The Jonas Brothers has been consistently compared to the Hanson Brothers who achieved considerable fame in the 1990s. But unlike Hanson, the Jonas Brothers have more attitude when it comes to their melodies. Their subject revolves around contemporary teen issues such as school, love and hope for the future. Their influences range from the Backstreet Boys to Weird Al Yankovic.

The Jonas Brothers will perform in Raleigh, Scranton, Saratoga, Baltimore, New York, Bethel, Buffalo, Washington, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, among others. Jonas Brothers tickets are already available and can now be purchased online.

Coldplay: La Vida and death

Coldplay has been compared to bands like U2 and Oasis, both of which come from the UK. The comparison is easy to understand since the music and subject matter can be similar. Coldplay shares the same political convictions of Bono and the rest of U2 and the melodic and hauntingly abrasive rock songs of Oasis.

Coldplay got the world’s attention with the release of their first album in 2000 titled Parachutes which shot through the top of the Albums Chart in the UK. It was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize and earned the Best Alternative Music Album award in the 2002 Grammys. It bore their most recognized single “Yellow”.

The second album, A Rush of Cold Blood to the Head was released two years after in August 2002. It won 2003 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album and the single “Clocks” was named Record of the Year. Coldplay’s second album was both critically and commercially acclaimed and was full of passionate themes of love and longing.

It opens with the thoroughly political song “Politik” written in response to the 9/11 New York bombings. It follows with the hauntingly sad “In My Place”, “Scientist” and “Clocks”. Although the songs can be very vague in terms of what they want to tell their listeners, the melody helps in delivering the message.

Now recognized as a serious band that can sell out shows as well as records, in 2005 Coldplay released X&Y which become the best-selling album of the year. Itchalked up almost 4 million record sales worldwide and debuted in the number 1 spot in 22 countries. The single “Fix You” became the theme song for the hopelessly in love while “Speed of Sound”, with its upbeat tempo was a commercial success.

The current album, titled Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends was released April of 2008. Coldplay continues to dominate the charts and record sales with the album selling 302,000 copies in three days. It has since been tagged as one of the “fastest-selling records in UK history”. Its carrier single, “Violet Hill” earned a place in UK’s Top 10 and the US Top 40. “Viva la Vida”, based on download sales alone became the UK number 1.

Coldplay are about to tour UK, Europe and North America this year to promote their latest album. A number of fans were able to win free Coldplay tickets for their free shows in New York and London. Coldplay are set to perform in more than 90 shows this year and Coldplay tickets for July to September shows in the US and Canada are already available online.


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