September 2011
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Premier League New Boys: Transfers (2011/12)
This is the definitive guide of the biggest Premier League transfers in the summer run up to the 2011/12 season. Below are the transfers and transfer summaries for each club, plus major movements for the big European clubs. I’ve highlighted my key signings! ARSENAL The Gunners have had an extremely interesting transfer summer, much to the dismay of the fans. Arsenal sold their two...
August 2011
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Accordrnig to a reschearch at cmabrigde...
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Lupe Fiasco
Interviewer: By approaching music as an outsider, as someone with non-mainstream ideas about politics and music, did that affect your relations with Atlantic while making “L.A.S.E.R.S.”?
Lupe Fiasco: Definitely. On a technical side I’m hamstrung, because I’m not a 360 artist (signed to a deal where the label gets income from touring and merchandise as well as sales of recorded music). That put me on a different priority list, a different budget to record the album, a different level of promotion. I’m not on the “A” list at Atlantic Records. There was a certain level of disbelief in the project. I was told “The Cool” wasn’t a success. Like what planet are you on to say it wasn’t a success? An album that sold 700,000 and got four Grammy nominations? That wasn’t success? So what is a success? A No. 1 smash on the radio, I was told. But I don’t know how to make those. I don’t think anybody knows what that is. So now I get into breaking the cardinal rule, which Jay-Z told me early on was, “Don’t chase radio.” You fast forward to 2011 and it’s let’s chase radio. It becomes an interesting hypocrisy that affects how you write your songs, who you hire to sing hooks, who you hire to produce. I was literally told for “The Show Goes On” that I shouldn’t rap too deep. I shouldn’t be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don’t need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down. It was better to paint the Upper West Side lady and her poodle so everyone could look at it right away and understand what was going on. I felt like I was painting poodles. It’s why in the first line of “The Show Goes On” I paraphrase Johnny Rotten at the Sex pistols’ final show: “Have you ever had the feeling that you were being cheated.”
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Oscar Pistorius
South African 400m sprinter Oscar Pistorius has qualified for his first major Athletics World Championship, but the remarkable thing is, he doesn’t have any legs. Born without the fibula bone in both his left and right leg, he is set to make history as he’ll be the first Paralympian to compete with ‘able-bodied’ athletes. Amazing, if he was to win medals at the Paralympic,...
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