Amy Winehouse, 27, found dead at her London flat

Amy Winehouse [27] has been found dead at her home in London, it has been reported.
The Back To Black singer was apparently found at 4pm and her death is believed to be unexplained.


The curse of ' 27 Club 'strikes again ...... Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain.

The 27 Club, also occasionally known as the Forever 27 Club or Club 27, is a name for a group of influential rock musicians who have all died at the age of 27. The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll details the history of the phenomenon. Amy Winehouse joined the group on July 23, 2011 when she was found dead in her London home.

RIP

WHAT WAS NO.1 ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN ?

Click here to find yours -- > http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1

WHAT A TRANS-FORMATION

A contestant on Thailand's Got Talent left everyone surprised when she switched from her female voice to a male voice while singing a song, and the video of her performance has increased her popularity worldwide.

Although she didn't win the talent show, the exposure she received from her appearance has resulted in her becoming much more widely known around the world.



She now has about 25,000 fans on her Facebook page.

" ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR VULCAN MIND ? "

EUROVISION 2011

What started out as something of a bad joke has somehow turned this duo into one of the longest lasting comedy events since Tommy Tiernan set the Guinness World Record for the longest Stand-Up Comedy Show by an individual by a staggering 36 hours and 15 minutes.

JEDWARD will embark on a monster tour in Europe, win or lose in tonight's Eurovision final showdown.

The Herald can reveal how twins John and Edward Grimes (19) have been offered a string of big gigs after winning over the European media with their charm offensive.

As they take to the stage in Dusseldorf tonight in front of 125m viewers to perform Lipstick, manager Louis Walsh promised this won't be the last that mainland Europe sees of the popular pair.

He has the quiff-haired twins fully booked up until next year -- with plans to include some new European dates in their schedule, including 5,000-capacity arenas.

Their high-energy routines, eye-catching costumes and entertaining antics have seen them installed as firm favourites among Eurovision pundits.



CAN'T SING. CAN'T DANCE ... THEY WILL GO A LONG WAY .... UNFORTUNATELY 

Amazon beats Apple and Google with cloud music launch

Amazon has beaten both Apple and Google with a surprise launch of a new cloud music service, Cloud Player, which allows people to store their entire music collection online and access it from multiple devices.

The launch of cloud-based music storage system has been long expected from either Apple or Google. However, Amazon has stolen both technology giants’ respective thunder by rolling out its Cloud Player streaming and storage service in the US.

The online retailer has unveiled the service, which allows users to upload their existing music library and thousands of other songs purchased through all online stores, including Apple’s iTunes, and listen to them via Cloud Player on any Android smartphone or computer.

"Our customers have told us they don't want to download music to their work computers or phones because they find it hard to move music around to different devices," said Bill Carr, vice president of Music and Movies at Amazon. "Now, whether at work, home, or on the go, customers can buy music from Amazon MP3, store it in the cloud and play it anywhere."

Cloud Player is free of charge to Amazon account holders and currently only available in the US – with a UK launch date unknown.

Amazon account holders start with 5 GB of ‘Cloud Drive’ storage space (the equivalent of approximately 1,000 songs) to upload their digital music library and those who purchase an Amazon MP3 album will be upgraded to 20 GB space. New Amazon MP3 purchases saved directly to Cloud Drive are stored for free and do not count against a customer's storage quota. Additional storage plans start at $20 a year.

Disco icon Loleatta Holloway dies at 64

Soul icon and disco legend Loleatta Holloway has died of heart failure, aged 64. The disco diva sang lead vocals on Black Box's 1989 hit Ride On Time. It spent six weeks at number one in the UK charts.





Ride on Time was a dance-floor classic and her strong, powerful voice continues to keep the disco hit a club classic. She made a total of six studio albums and enjoyed two solo hits with Only You in 1978 and Love Sensation, a year later. However, Italian outfit Black Box sampled her voice on the hit Ride on Time and failed to credit Holloway's contribution. She eventually took out a successful law suit on the band. Model, Catherine Quinol, fronted Black Box during their chart success and the band used her to lip-synch Holloway's powerful soul tones.

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PROPER COUNTRY MUSIC

Pop singer Bobby Farrell dies on tour in Russia

Performer Bobby Farrell, of the 1970s European chart-topping group Boney M, was found dead in his hotel bed Thursday while on tour in Russia, his agent said. He was 61.

Farrell appeared as scheduled in St. Petersburg Wednesday night, but complained of breathing problems before and after his show, said the agent, John Seine. He had been due to fly to Rome Thursday for a television show.

The frontman died in St Petersburg yesterday on same date and in the exact same town as mad Russian monk Rasputin - who was the subject of the band's 1978 top three single.

Farrell, who lived in Amsterdam, was more a dancer and showman than singer when he fronted Boney M in the 1970s and '80s. The group, based in Germany, broke into the charts with "Daddy Cool" and "Sunny" in 1976. Two years later their version of "By the Rivers of Babylon" sold nearly 2 million records in Britain alone, keeping it No. 1 for five weeks.

He was chosen in 1974 to front the Caribbean group Boney M, put together by German singer and songwriter Frank Farian, who did much of the recorded singing. Boney M had 38 top-10 hits, including 15 number ones in Germany. They included "Brown Girl in the Ring" and "Mary's Boychild."

MUSIC OF THE GODS

The Testimony of Patience Kershaw


The Unthanks (previously called Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, until 2009) are an English folk group from Northumberland.