Alan Jackson - www.memory

Alan Jackson - www. memory

Jesus Christ, this is happening to me just right now, I fell in love w/my bigman only through the msn, then I met him and now I'm crazy about him, but I'm sure he's leaving me now :(

In Flames - Starforsaken

Whipped in the eye by the sand
Malicious have light of day obscured
The sun has burned my skin
Open wounds are licked by sand

To be punished by this vortex of scorn

Wrists and ankles are chained upon this land
Drawn through the desert to be their sacrifice

So this is my golgatha, so this is my grave
The thieves, the liars, the hypocrite scum
I'd slay them if only I could

The endless sand, the blackest land
A cyclone of spinecrushing anger
Meant for me

The overlords of the desert
Not one was meant to be
All human force now flee
Rules of anatomy lost
Rage into the extreme

Amy presents...

By Ian YoungsMusic reporter, BBC News

Amy Winehouse has made her 13-year-old goddaughter the first signing to her new record label. With her backing singers and a schoolfriend set to follow, will it just be a vanity venture?

Amy Winehouse sings backing vocals on Dionne Bromfield's first single

Winehouse may not have released any new material since the 10 million-selling Back To Black three years ago, but she is making herself heard on the music scene again after setting up Lioness Records.

Her first release is the debut album by Dionne Bromfield, who sounds like a sweeter, more youthful Winehouse with a collection of 1960s soul and girl group covers.

One of Winehouse's long-time backing singers Zalon Thompson is also expected to join the label after recording a solo album with Back To Black co-producer Mark Ronson.

Winehouse's manager Raye Cosbert recently said Zalon's brother and fellow backing vocalist - and former X Factor hopeful - Heshima would follow.

He has also mentioned the name Juliette, likely referring to Winehouse's close friend Juliette Ashby, who was the other half of rap duo Sweet 'n' Sour with Winehouse when they were 10 years old.

Winehouse wanted to set up a label to "bring through the talent around her", according to Darcus Beese, co-president of Island Records, who signed the singer in 2003.

Zalon (left) and Heshima Thompson celebrated the Grammys win with Amy

Lioness is an imprint of Island, with Mr Beese helping to run the label with the singer and her manager.

"I didn't want it to be just a vanity project for her," he says. "It had to follow that the talent was just as inspiring and as exciting as she is."

Referring to Winehouse's suggestion to sign her goddaughter, Mr Beese says: "I could have been as cynical as the next person.

"But when I heard the voice and the potential talent, I knew that we were doing the deal for all the right reasons, and it wasn't the fact that she was Amy's goddaughter."

Bromfield has "got much more of a pop ear than Amy did" when she was first signed, Mr Beese adds. "But that's because of her youthfulness."

Bromfield's mother is a friend of the Winehouse family and the two singers now claim to be as close as sisters. The 13-year-old describes shopping trips, getting nails done and watching Comedy Central with Winehouse as if they were two normal girls.

But when the Grammy winner heard her young friend's potential, she was able to pay for singing lessons, teach her guitar and put her into the recording studio to record demos with her band.

She has a mother who brought Dionne up very well... Amy doesn't have the same duties as her motherDarcus Beese

Island Records

Bromfield recalls: "Eventually she said, 'Dionne you're on my label,' and I said OK! I wasn't going to say no."

The youngster says she does not mind comparisons with her mentor. "A lot of people have said you sound like Amy, and to me that's a compliment. I try to be myself but when you've grown up with Amy and sing together, you both click and sound the same."

But some people will feel unease at the thought of a 13-year-old girl being guided so closely by the volatile Winehouse.

"She has a mother who brought Dionne up very well," Mr Beese responds. "She's a well brought up intelligent young girl. Amy doesn't have the same duties as her mother.

"Guiding her career there's a manager, there's the label, which is me, and there's Amy. There's a team of people guiding Dionne."

They're very manipulative, the papers - Amy's just loving, she's funDionne Bromfield

Winehouse does not deserve her bad reputation, Bromfield insists. "What people read in the newspapers - when you know Amy how I do - that's not what Amy's like.

"They're very manipulative, the papers. Amy's just loving. She's fun. She's not what you hear about in the newspapers."

Winehouse's next album will come out on Lioness and she may also sign artists from outside her clique, if they fit in with her "vision".

Big stars setting up their own labels is nothing new. The Beatles had Apple, Sir Elton John had Rocket, Prince had Paisley Park, U2 had Mother and Frank Zappa had Barking Pumpkin.

Madonna's Maverick was one of the biggest successes, signing Alanis Morrissette and The Deftones.

Frank Sinatra founded Reprise to release records by his Rat Pack pals and Led Zeppelin's Swan Song signed chart-topping hard rockers Bad Company. And in hip-hop, you're nobody unless you have a label.

But most artists' labels have struggled to survive once the novelty has worn off.

Doomed labels

Noel Gallagher's Sour Mash failed to make an impact with indie band Proud Mary, while George Michael's Aegean faded fast after he asked new bands to send demos over the internet in 1997 and "revolutionise the entertainment business" in the process.

Mariah Carey's Crave label lasted less than a year, while Paula Abdul's Captive released her own material plus The Adventures of MC Skat Kat and the Stray Mob, featuring the cartoon sidekick from her Opposites Attract video.

"A lot of artists started up labels that never even happened or put out a record," Mr Beese admits.

But Lioness, he insists, will be more than an ego-stroking gesture.

"It's nothing else than a label for talent," he says.

"Whether we're sitting here in a year's time breaking open a bottle of champagne or licking our wounds I don't know, but I know no-one could ever tell us it was never about the talent."

Beatles crossing

Forty years ago on Saturday, one of the pop world's most infamous and imitated album covers was shot in an ordinary-looking street in north London.

The idea for the cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road album was initially to call it Everest, after the favourite brand of cigarettes smoked by their engineer Geoff Emerik.

Then the thought of doing a Himalayan cover helped kill the idea, and instead they considered doing the shoot closer to home.

"There's a sketch Paul McCartney did with four little stick men crossing the Zebra," says Brian Southall, author of the history of Abbey Road Studios.

"It gave a pretty good idea of what they wanted."

On the 8 August 1969 that the Fab Four walked out of No 3 Abbey Road, having finished basic work on what would be their penultimate album.

A policeman held up the traffic, the band walked back and forth a few times and that was thatBrian Southall

The photographer who took the famous cover shot was the late Iain Macmillan, a close friend of Brian Southall's, who knew the Beatles through working with Yoko Ono.

"He was given about 15 minutes," says Mr Southall.

"He stood up a stepladder while a policeman held up the traffic, the band walked back and forth a few times and that was that."

He only took seven or eight pictures, now in the Apple archive, but they're fascinating for their difference to the end product we all know.

Conspiracy theories

Most striking is the one of the band walking in the opposite direction (right to left), caught mid-stride in different poses.

It looks all wrong of course, and draws attention to the accidental symmetry - despite Paul being out of step - of the final cover shot with its pattern of four firm inverted V shapes.

In one of the alternative takes Paul McCartney is wearing sandals he kicked off during the shoot.

This matters if you remember how the album cover was taken as evidence for the conspiracy theories that "Paul is Dead."

Conspiracy theories abounded following Paul's barefoot appearance on the cover

Barefooted, out of step, the car number plate behind him referring to his age - 28 if he'd lived - the Beatles forming a funeral procession for him.

George was cast as the gravedigger, Ringo the undertaker, and John the priest.

Years later in 1993, the very much alive Paul McCartney would spoof the cover and the rumours for his "Paul is Live" concert album.

A lesser noted curiosity is that the album cover has no writing on it and is just the picture.

That is thanks to John Kosh, who at the time, was creative director at Apple.

"I insisted we didn't need to write the band's name on the cover," he says.

"They were the most famous band in the world after all - EMI said they'd never sell any albums if we didn't say who the band was, but I got my way, and got away with it."

Zebra stripes

And it is hard to think of an album cover that has been so thoroughly repeated.

Dozens of bands have put stripes on their cover, like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, but of course the biggest tribute comes from the thousands of fans and tourists who go to leafy north London every year.

I come here all the time and its always been the same... all they're doing is posing on the crossingRon, taxi driver

If you want to check the crossing now, there's a webcam.

Watch it for a while and you will see scampering fans snatching at a gap in the traffic to recreate the shoot - much to the annoyance of local drivers.

One black taxi cabbie, Ron, who also used to drive a bus down Abbey Road, told the BBC World Service: "I come here all the time and its always been the same - it really does annoy you."

"All they're doing is posing on the crossing. Someone's going to get mown down one of these days there's no doubt about it."

Here's hoping Ron avoids the crossing on Saturday morning when Beatles fans will stage a mass crossing in honour of the photo shoot.

It is not known how many of those fans are injured on the crossing every year.

But the council have to repaint the wall next to the crossing every three months to cover over fans' graffiti.

And the Abbey Road street sign has now been mounted out of reach up a wall, so often has it been defaced or stolen.

If there was a way to steal the stripes off the zebra you can bet Beatles fans would have taken them too.

Or maybe they haven't thanks to the rumour that the famous crossing you now see isn't actually the original and has been moved for safety reasons.

And who would want to steal the wrong zebra crossing?

Ice T - Sex

Sex I the morning,sex at night,sex in the afternoon's alright
Ain't a man on earth,that can stay alive
Without a .....sex drive

Sex [x4]

I was in a contest to rock the world
First prize was a virgin young girl
For four days I was up on the mic
All sucker MC's were on the bite
Bittin' my rhymes,stealin' my style
I rocked so hard,it wasn't true
I won the virgin girl,and her MAMA too

Sex [x4]

When I'm upon the microphone
All the fly young ladies want a take me home
When the party's over,take me to their house
Throw me in the bed,know what we're talkin' about?
Then they say,"Ice-T you are the best
I love your eyes
Your things,your chest
You put all my lovers to shame
I can't remember my boyfriends name
You made me feel all hot and wet
The way you move I can't forget
I came,I came,I came again it felt so good I told my friends
You can have my cars,my jewels,my wealth
I love you more than I love myself
After tonight fulfilled I'll be
No hundred men could match ICE-T

Sex [x4]

Then she turn out the lights,throw back the sheets
And then our two hot bodies meet
And all at once she felt the thrill
The caress of the best,the Ice-T chill
Start with her tongue upon the back of my leg
She didn't stop till I hollered screamed and begged
Then she rolled me over,took me to the stage
Like in the nasty book where you tore out the page

Sex [x4]

I put it in their blouse
In their brain their little panties that their boyfriend saw
I put it in their mini skirt and up their thigh
Deep,deep girls,I wanna make you cry
I move it in and out,know what I'm talkin' about
Then around your neck until you show respect
Then on your cheek until I reach my peak
Then in your mouth girl,no joke,I'll take it out
Don't want to see you choke
I'll run it down your back,might cause a heart attack
I'll put it in your butt until I get enough
And then I'll take it out and put it in my pants
'Cause I fuck with the beat,the only way to dance

Sex [x4]

The Doobie Brothers - Takin' It To The Streets

You don't know me but I'm your brother
I was raised here in this living hell
You don't know my kind in your world
Fairly soon the time will tell

You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me
I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see

Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets

Take this message to my brother
You will find him everywhere
Wherever people live together
Tied in poverty's despair

You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me
I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see

Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets
Takin' it to the streets

Holger Czukay - Michy

Holger Czukay - Das Massen-medium