Only a few hours before John Lennon’s grisly murder on Dec. 8, 1980, photographer Annie Leibovitz captured the cool Beatle and his icy wife, Yoko Ono, in an oddly seductive pose. Yesterday, the American Society of Magazine Editors named it the greatest magazine cover [http://www.news24.com/News24/…
Andrea Bocelli, an Italian classical artist, performed a solo composition a few years back titled “Con Te Partiro” (Time to Say Goodbye). The story goes that Sarah Brightman, another renowned classical artist, was so enchanted when she heard the solo version in a restaurant that she asked staff about it.…
Now this one’s on my Christmas shopping list 😉 The new “pencil thin” iPod nano [http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/] (I guess it’s a replacement to the mini). The 1.5 ounces (42 grams) device will feature 500 song/2GB and 1,000 song/4GB capacities, 14 hours battery…
Winamp 5.1 [http://www.winamp.com/player/index.php] released with Surround [http://www.tuner2.com/ismp.html].…
Ever since I saw the first Old Spice Ad years back I was curious about its background music which sounded very gregorian. The same score (but different lyrics) is played in the recent Carlton Draught Big Ad [http://www.bigad.com.au] and I was finally able to trace the…
The credit to help me develop a taste for Urdu poetry and Ghazals goes to my dear buddies-since-school Horil and Moses. These guys introduced me to the world of Jagjit Singh. It all seemed so vague and over-board at first but Horil being a great singer himself has a way…
“All the ‘shayari’ in the song Kajrare kajrare is taken from the messages written at the back of trucks” shares Gulzar, further on us not loving our Independence [http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1462200,00110003.htm] … “Humlog sirf independence nibha rahe hain … We celebrate progress only an on individual…
Did Microsoft Invent The iPod? “According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent applications that cover much of the technology associated with the iPod were submitted by Microsoft” [more … [http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/13/0346232]]…