"Stairway to Heaven" Led Zeppelin as the best ballad

Led Zeppelin

Song of Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven" was the best ballad by the readers of Rolling Stone.
Throughout the week the publication polled readers. As a result, has accumulated a number of options that the magazine decided to make than the traditional top ten, and a list of 12 items. Most often, readers have mentioned the song is Led Zeppelin. Eight-track "Stairway to Heaven" was a fourth studio album. This album without a title goes on sale in 1971.

"Stairway to Heaven" is often included in various lists of the best tracks. In particular, in 2004, the same Rolling Stone magazine included it in the list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." Then track Led Zeppelin took the 31-th place.

Full list of the best ballads, compiled in a survey of readers of Rolling Stone, looks like this:

Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"
George Harrison - "Something"
The Rolling Stones - "Wild Horses"
 Guns N 'Roses - "November Rain"
The Beatles - "Let It Be"
Prince - "Purple Rain"
Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"
Marvin Gaye - "Let's Get It On"
Pearl Jam - "Black"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Freebird"
The Beatles - "Hey Jude"
U2 - "With Or Without You"

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The number of subscribers twitter Lady Gaga exceeded 10 million

The number of subscribers twitter Lady Gaga exceeded 10 million

The number of subscribers twitter Lady Gaga has exceeded 10 million. On this she wrote in her microblog on Twitter .
"10 million, monsters! - Enthusiastically appealed to fans of Lady Gaga. - I have no words, we did it! Painful love you. Leaving London, smiling. "

With more than 10 million followers singer is the most popular author on Twitter. The closest pursuer Gaga Canadian Justin Bieber is a little less than 9.7 million subscribers.

Through its microblogging Gaga detail inform fans about the upcoming release of new album, "Born This Way", which is scheduled for May 20 in Ireland and on 23 May in the rest of the world. The next single from the album should be the song "Hair", the singer called on twitter favorite of most people who heard the album.

Lady Gaga's debut album "The Fame", was released in 2008, sold around the world in the amount of more than 12 million copies. Released as a continuation of the mini-album "The Fame Monster" won first place in the charts in the UK, Germany, Ireland, Australia and other countries.

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The best album covers named

Dark Side of the Moon

Internet publication about music Music Radar has published a list of the best album covers of all time. Rating, which fell 50 records have been compiled on the basis of the corresponding online voting on the website of the magazine.
First place in the survey ranked the album cover Pink Floyd "Dark Side Of The Moon" in 1973 edition. In the design of the plate was used by Pink Floyd clear demonstration of the phenomenon of dispersion - the expansion of light in the spectrum as it passes through a prism.

The second place ranking was the cover drive Nirvana "Nevermind" featuring a baby, floating the dollar. The third position in the list of albums with the best design went to record The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" , where you can see the band members surrounded by cardboard figures of various cultural, entertainment and sports.

Top ten list of best album covers of all time is as follows:

"Dark Side Of The Moon" (1973) - Pink Floyd
"Nevermind" (1991) - Nirvana
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) - The Beatles
"London Calling" (1979) - The Clash
"Rage Against The Machine" (1992) - Rage Against The Machine
"The Number Of The Beast" (1982) - Iron Maiden
"The Beatles" ("White Album", 1968) - The Beatles
"Unknown Pleasures" (1979) - Joy Division
"In The Court Of The Crimson King" (1969) - King Crimson
"Animals" (1977) - Pink Floyd
The top 50 best covers of mostly featured registration plates issued in 60-70-XX century. The ranking includes only a few albums, which was released after the year 2000. Among them, in particular, were: "Is This It" (2001) The Strokes, which got 42 of the position, "Mirrored" Battles (2007), located at 18 th place, as well as "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" (2010) Kanye West got on the 34 th line. For a complete list of the best covers available here .

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Adel bypassed Beastie Boys in the Billboard 200

Adel bypassed Beastie Boys in the Billboard 200

The new album Beastie Boys "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" debuted on the second line of Billboard 200.
The record went on sale in the USA May 3, 2011, and last week sold out run of 128,000 copies. During the same period, Americans bought 155,000 copies of the CD "21," the singer Adele. As a result the British singer was on the first line of the hit parade.

"Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" - the eighth studio album by Beastie Boys. Previous work group, the album "The Mix-Up", went on sale in 2007. Unlike other albums, this disc was completely instrumental. Plate "The Mix-Up" debuted only at the 15 th row Billboard 200, but was later awarded with the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album. "

The album "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" became the sixth record Beastie Boys, who managed to enter the top ten Billboard 200.

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Participants of the classic Pink Floyd reunited on stage



Performing Comfortably Numb


David Gilmour took part in the concert of Roger Waters, held at the site of the O2 Arena in London on May 12, 2011
In recent years, former colleagues of Pink Floyd performed at the same stage only twice. In 2005, Waters and Gilmour gave a concert at the charity event Live 8. This show has become a full-fledged reunion of Pink Floyd - attended by Richard Wright (who died in 2008) and Nick Mason. In addition, in July 2010, Waters and Gilmour took part in the charity event organized by the Foundation HOPING (Hope and Optimism for Palestinians in the Next Generation).

After a concert in support of the fund HOPING Waters wrote on his page on Facebook , that in the near future, Gilmore will speak with him again. However, at the same time, Roger told that this event will be a surprise, and call it a date in advance musicians do not plan to.

During the concert on 12 May Waters and Gilmour sang together "Comfortably Numb" . In addition, the performance of the song "Outside the Wall" was also attended by Nick Mason. In other words, reunited on stage all the surviving members of the classic Pink Floyd.

Currently, Roger Waters gives concerts in the round of The Wall Live, based on the album Pink Floyd in 1979 "The Wall". April 23 musicians performed in Moscow, April 25 - at St. Petersburg. At the London O2 Arena site planned for a total of six concerts, two of which have already taken place.

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