Carpenter's background imformation

Origin Los Angeles, California,
United States
Genres Pop, soft rock, adult contemporary
Years active 1969–1983
Labels A&M
Associated acts Karen Carpenter
Richard Carpenter
The Richard Carpenter Trio


The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter. Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s.[1] Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the definite article.[2] During a period in the 1970s when louder and wilder rock was in great demand, Richard and Karen produced a distinctively soft musical style that made them one of the best-selling music artists of all time.[1][3]

The Carpenters' melodic pop produced a record-breaking run of hit recordings on the American Top 40 and Adult Contemporary charts, and they became leading sellers in the soft rock, easy listening and adult contemporary genres. Carpenters had three #1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and fifteen #1 hits on the Adult Contemporary Chart (see the Carpenters discography). In addition, they had twelve top 10 singles (including their #1 hits). To date, Carpenters' album and single sales total more than 100 million units.[1]

After spending Christmas at home, gaining a significant amount of weight and talking about going back into the studio, Karen and Richard had a major row in late January, 1983. Richard told his sister she simply did not look well and needed to go back into treatment. Karen was furious at the accusation and harbored a depression for the remainder of the week. On Thursday, February 3, 1983 Karen came down to her parents' house in Downey to be near her mother, who after a prolonged conversation Thursday night called Richard the following morning of Friday, February 4, telling him that Karen was upstairs and depressed and he needed to come down as well. By the time Richard had arrived in Downey, tears coursing down his face, Karen had already been loaded in the ambulance.

Richard is quoted as saying that his hope at the time was that this was merely a scare, that she'd just passed out or something, enough to teach her a lesson that she was NOT well and needed to go back into treatment, just as he'd told her ten days earlier, but it was not to be. Banner headlines the following morning screamed the tragedy "POP SINGER DEAD AT 32".

Karen Carpenter did not die from anorexia itself, but from its effects, as said by her brother on many an occasion. Her heart could not take the strain of not eating properly and then eating a great deal. On the morning of Friday, February 4, 1983, at the age of 32, Karen suffered cardiac arrest at her parents' home in Downey and was taken to Downey Community Hospital,[45] where she was pronounced dead 20 minutes later. She was scheduled to sign her divorce papers on the day she died.

The autopsy stated that Karen's death was due to emetine cardiotoxicity resulting from anorexia nervosa. Under the anatomical summary, the first item was heart failure, with anorexia as second. The third finding was cachexia, which is extremely low weight and weakness and general body decline associated with chronic disease. Emetine cardiotoxicity suggests that Karen abused Syrup of Ipecac, or Ipecacuana Wine, used medically to induce vomiting in patients who have ingested poison. Ipecac was easily obtained at the time, but there is no definite evidence that Karen abused it.[46]

Her funeral service took place on Tuesday, February 8, 1983, at the Downey United Methodist Church. Karen Carpenter lay in an open white casket, dressed in pink, as a thousand mourners paid their last respects, among them her friends Dorothy Hamill, Olivia Newton-John, Petula Clark, and Dionne Warwick. Karen's estranged husband appeared at her funeral, and took off his wedding band and threw it in the casket (according to the Ray Coleman Book The Carpenters: the Untold Story).{citation}

On October 12, 1983, the Carpenters received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a few yards from the Kodak Theater. Richard, Harold, and Agnes Carpenter attended the inauguration, as did many fans.[47]

Karen's death brought lasting media attention to anorexia nervosa and also to bulimia. Karen's death encouraged celebrities to go public about their eating disorders, among them Tracey Gold and, later, Diana, Princess of Wales. Medical centres and hospitals began receiving increased contacts from people with these disorders. The general public had little knowledge of anorexia and bulimia prior to her death, making the conditions difficult to identify and treat.

In December 2003, the remains of Karen and her parents were exhumed from Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress, California and reinterred in Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California.

Lily Allen' s background information

Birth name Lily Rose Beatrice Allen
Born 2 May 1985 (1985-05-02) (age 24)
Hammersmith, London, England
Genres Pop, pop rock, ska, electropop, grime
Occupations Singer, songwriter, Talk show host
Instruments Vocals, glockenspiel, guitar[1]
Years active 2005–2009 (on hiatus)
Labels Regal Recordings (2006–present)


Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English recording artist, talk show host, and actress. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her teenage years comprised her evolution in musical tastes, from glam rock to alternative. She ran away from home to attend the Glastonbury Festival at the age of fourteen. A year later, Allen abandoned school and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. Afterwards, she created several demo songs, and near the end of 2005, she created a profile on MySpace, where she made some of her recordings public.
Allen was born in Hammersmith, west London, daughter of Welsh-born comedian and actor Keith Allen and English, Portsmouth-born, film producer Alison Owen.

2th song review

"The Fear" is a rant about materialism sung in the voice of a would-be starlet. Allen's rich-bitch protagonist just wants to wear "fuck loads of diamonds"; the chorus is meant to be where Allen drives home her big point: "I don't know what's right and what's real anymore/I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore." In fact, "The Fear" is one gigantic cliché, made worse by the sneer with which Allen delivers it.

The Fear is the first single from Lily Allen’s second album It‘s Not Me, It’s You.
Unlike most of the guff out in chart land Lily Allen has made a simple but catchy pop song. The big bold sounds of tracks like Smile and LDN aren’t present on The Fear. There could have been potential problems here with this toned down return to the music world, but it works and will probably dive bomb into the number one spot on Sunday.
Unlike other pop puppets such as Katy Perry and Rihanna, you do get the feeling that Lily is in charge of what she’s doing in terms of her musical career and won’t be exploited by dressing as Bo Peep and herding sheep round a field. We doubt that their management would let them have blog wars with all sorts of people. Go free speech!
Though we do have to be picky and question the lyrics. Opening line “I want to be rich and I want lots of money” is fair enough, as most people desire for one of the two. However, the method of getting fame and money leaves us scratching our heads. Lily says, “I’ll take my clothes off and it will be shameless, cause everyone knows that’s how you get famous”.
We all know that she’s never done such a thing and we’ve only seen her boobies when the paparazzi like to harass her. However, we do have to mention that some people get rich and famous through their family connections. Having a semi-famous father in Keith Allen would always help her up the career ladder and mean she wouldn’t be frying up chips at 2am to hungry punters after kicking out time.
Hooray for family connections, it also explains how Jamie Winstone, the daughter of hardnut Ray Winstone gained fame and fortune. Maybe we shouldn’t have said that. Our limbs may be smashed off by the end of the day.
But we do like the song! The video has been carefully planned as her record label appears to be throwing a lot of promotional weight behind her return. Dancing boxes, nice looking cakes and coloured smoke is something that keeps us happy and incorporating all of this in to a video get multiple ticks from us.
Its a million miles better than the awful single Keane put out a while ago.

1st Song Review

1st Song Review

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, dancer, and entertainer. Referred to as the King of Pop, he is the most commercially successful entertainer of all time and one of the most influential. His unique contributions to music, dance, and fashion,[1] along with a highly publicized personal life, made him a prominent global figure in popular culture for over four decades.

I like the song"Heal the World". This is a song which tell us to protect the earth. This song was sung by Micheal Jackson. He was a very famous singer. Sadly though, he died so early.

I love this song because of its rhythm. This song is teach us to became a better person.

When i listen to this song, i feel relaxed. When i am angry, i listening to this song will calm me down. This song is very good. I hope that all of you would like this song.

Myself.

My name is Zheng Jingjing. I was born on 26th of January, so today is my birthday!

My ambition is to be a teacher and thus be happily engaged in a good profession similar to my school teachers.

My family consists of four members. My father, mother, my dog and I. We live happily.

I have many friends. We often study and play together. When we have problems, we will discuss with one another and solve it together.

During English lessons, our teacher, Miss Goh teaches us how to become better individuals. She once taught us about Cyber Wellness and the risks of the Internet.

Miss Goh encourages us to improve our English grammar. She asked us to find our favourite songs and write the introduction about them. She also taught us how to use the blog to do our English assignments.

She allows us to listen to music and then answer questions about the songs thus making the lessons more interesting.

I am fortunate and appreciative to have such a good teacher!