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The 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees list was just released this morning and the nominees are: Metallica Jeff Beck The Stooges Run DMC War Bobby Womack Wanda Jackson Little Anthony and The Imperials Skipped over again: Rush Boston Kiss Journey Yes Chicago Genesis Phil Collins The Moody Blues Kansas Alice Cooper Deep Purple Abba Neil Diamond Styx Thin Lizzy Heart Hall and Oates Cheap Trick ETC....ETC...

Belittling John McCain as a relic of the disco age, Democrat Barack Obama pushed his campaign Friday to a new level of counter-punching "on the issues that matter" and directed his running mate to be tougher on their Republican opponents. The changes come as national polls find McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, pulling ahead of Obama and Joe Biden, prompting some jittery Democrats to implore them to fight back harder, and Obama's camp to pledge "speed and ferocity" in that effort.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A group of children rocking out to kiddie tracks at a kindergarten disco party were told to turn down the tunes or face a shut down of their party by noise control officials who raided the soiree.

Musicians Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Nicks, Ted Nugent, Steve Winwood, Robert Plant, Kenny Loggins, Glenn Frey, Alice Cooper, Tony Iommi, Chris Squire, James Taylor, Todd Rundgren, Jackson Browne, Olivia Newton-John, Donna Summer, John Bonham (R.I.P.) & Rick James (R.I.P.)

Green light for Islamic 'disco' in Kelantan 16 Dec 2006 Syed Umar Ariff KOTA BARU: No alcohol served, no mingling or dancing between men and women, and no showing of aurat (body parts that must be covered). Welcome to Islamic disco, according to Pas. Kelantan Menteri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat has given the green light for the setting up of discos in the State, as long as Islamic rules - as stipulated by the Pas-led government - are adhered to. He said he was not opposed to dancing in discos but it must be between members of...

A short Pirates of the Caribbean spoof has made it all the way to the white house. A source says the short film, which can currently be seen on Yahoo videos, has been making the rounds on staff computers. The source won't say whether the President himself has seen the spoof, but says, without naming names, that some very powerful people have commented on it. http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?&ei=UTF-8&gid=g_af2533de687059f0dce14880e5ed20e5.af2533de687059f0dce14880e5ed20e5&b=0&vid=af2533de687059f0dce14880e5ed20e5.601451&rurl=video.yahoo.com&vdone=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fvideo%2Fgroup%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26gid%3Dg_af2533de687059f0dce14880e5ed20e5.af2533de687059f0dce14880e5ed20e5&vback=Channel

Obviously pirates are hot right now, but how far will Hollywood go to cash in on the craze? Are we going to have to endure Pirates the musical pretty soon? The link to this short video suggests perhaps we will. http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?&ei=UTF-8&gid=g_af2533de687059f0dce14880e5ed20e5.af2533de687059f0dce14880e5ed20e5&b=0&vid=af2533de687059f0dce14880e5ed20e5.601451&rurl=video.yahoo.com&vdone=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fvideo%2Fgroup%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26gid%3Dg_af2533de687059f0dce14880e5ed20e5.af2533de687059f0dce14880e5ed20e5&vback=Channel

Until now I never understood how Michael Medved could believe in Bigfoot. But seeing is believing. http://www.getdisco.com/getdiscoMain.html Click on the 2nd video on this site to see the irrefutable evidence.

It was a time of big hair and bad taste, the end of the Beatles and the birth of disco, the era of Donny and Marie, Mork and Mindy, Tony Orlando and Dawn; a "kidney stone of a decade," in the words of a Doonesbury character, that's remembered now for pet rocks, shag rugs, mood rings, leisure suits, water beds, beanbag chairs, smiley faces, avocado-colored refri-gerators, mirrored sunglasses, black light posters, wide ties and even wider lapels. Two new books look beyond the image of the 1970s promoted by That 70's Show and other exercises in nostalgia to focus on...

The time:  1979. The place:  Germany. The band:  Gschinghis Khan. The idea:  Perform traditional Russian songs to a disco beat.This fascinating video clip shows that some music is just a bad idea.. 

A man who helped make famous the songs "YMCA" and "In the Navy" will soon be featured on the television show "America's Most Wanted," after failing to appear in a San Mateo County courtroom for his sentencing in October, according to San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. (snip) Willis was found to be in possession of 3.23 grams of cocaine and a loaded .45-gauge, semi-automatic handgun, according to the district attorney's office... (snip) ...also charged with violating his probation from a 2003 incident in which he was found in possession of 4 grams of cocaine.

TEHRAN, Iran - (KRT) - Confetti littered a street throbbing with dance music. It was 10 p.m., and humid young men and women were packed together, shouting, dancing and wandering in unbridled celebration of a victory by the Iranian national soccer team. Very little of that scene last week was lawful in the Islamic Republic of Iran. But it's campaign season here, and candidates are aiming to please. Even the campaign office for the 70-year-old Muslim cleric and presidential front-runner, Hashemi Rafsanjani, lofted a disco ball above the road and teenage boys break-danced in its rainbow swirls of light. "Disco...

"NEW YORK -- For KC of KC and the Sunshine Band, falling off the stage during a concert is definitely not the way he likes it. Uh huh, uh huh.

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It looks like we can chalk up a genuine reformation on Libya's part to the Bush doctrine of armed diplomacy. Earlier, I had blogged on the fact that commercial relations seemed to be normalising between the USA and Libya, with Libya again becoming a supplier of crude petroleum to America. Now, Libya is engaged in talks to join the WTO.

BERLIN (AP) -- Libya agreed Tuesday to pay $35 million in compensation for victims of a 1986 bombing in Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen and a Turkish woman and injured 229 others, the Libyan ambassador to Germany said. The deal applies to Germans who were wounded in the April 5, 1986 attack on the LaBelle disco and the family of the slain Turkish woman, but not the families of two Americans, Ambassador Said Abdulaati told The Associated Press. It is the latest step in an effort by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to end his country's pariah status, following...

Like any organized religion, rock 'n' roll has its own dogma. Rolling Stone magazine is the gospel. Any male singer with big lips is worth glorifying. To be a true guitar player, one must learn the intro to "Stairway to Heaven." Elvis Presley was, is and always will be king. With those tenets come a slew of albums as holy as the Bible. "Born in the U.S.A.," "Tommy," "The Dark Side of the Moon" and - amen, hallelujah - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." But it's time, says a restless group of music critics, to look those canons straight...

The itinerary for that night was so simple and unsuspecting. So orderly. ''Thursday, July 12, 1979,'' it says at the top of the page. ''WLUP Disco Demolition.'' The Sox had a doubleheader at old Comiskey Park against Detroit. They had one planned, anyway. It says so right there on the itinerary. ''Between Games. Total Time: 30 Minutes.'' Yes, that's all. Just a half-hour. Fans were to bring disco albums to the park, turn them over at the gate and get a ticket for 98 cents -- a promotional discount based on the WLUP frequency (97.9-FM). Between games, Steve Dahl, the...

25 Years Later: 'Disco Still Sucks' DISCO DEMOLITION DISC JOCKEY STEVE DAHL IN 1979 Disc jockey Steve Dahl in 1979. (PRNewsFoto)[RV] CHICAGO, IL USA 07/08/2004 Disco Demolition Anniversary Celebrates 'The Day Disco Died' CHICAGO, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Monday, July 12 marks the 25th anniversary of "The Day Disco Died," when nearly 90,000 people showed up at Chicago's Comiskey Park to participate in radio disc jockey Steve Dahl's Disco Demolition. The "Disco Sucks" demonstration is widely credited for causing the official demise of disco, and 25 years later, Dahl is sending a message to the world again: "Disco Still Sucks."...

John Kerry wants us all to FEEL his surge. In his quest for the nomination, he has accomplished something no one at Warner Brothers Records could possibly duplicate. Thanks to Senator Kerry, disco has returned from the dead. It happened because a golden oldie has once more succeeded in teaching us all a thing or two about doing The Hustle. Kerry was helped, of course, when his fiercest competitor, Howard Dean, performed an amusing rendition of The Electric Slide. John Kerry is The Lounge Lizard Candidate. He probably considered it a point honor to never leave a bar without a...

The Boys of Summer This summer, a handful of young, ambitious, Manhattan-bred guys has cornered the market on nightlife in the Hamptons. They make sure Tara Reid is in the house, everyone’s drinking $400 bottles of Perrier-Jouët, and, in return, they get one big payoff: the chance to become boldfaced names themselves. By Vanessa Grigoriadis & Deborah Schoeneman Life of the Party: Noah Tepperberg and Jason Strauss at Jet East, one of the spots they promote, with actress-scenester Tara Reid. (Photo credit: Nathaniel Welch) Deep in the woods of Southampton, up a steep driveway, a hulking nine-bedroom house rises from...

Partying Daughter Grounded, Foot Nailed to Floor Wed Nov 27, 8:52 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian mother took drastic measures to stop her party-loving 13-year-old daughter from going at out night -- she nailed her foot to the floor, officials said on Wednesday. Mao Savoeun, 36, from Kompong Thom province in central Cambodia, told police she was angry with her daughter for going to a party at a local pagoda during last week's Water Festival, the annual knees-up in the war-ravaged southeast Asian nation. On the girl's return,...

Don't expect to see last month's Nobel Peace Prize winner, ex-President Jimmy Carter, campaigning for his old VP Walter Mondale in a bid to help save the Senate for the Democrats. When Carter volunteered to help, Mondale's people reportedly told him, thanks but no thanks. "As a matter of fact, Jimmy did offer to come," former Carter campaign veteran, now editor of the Hotline, Craig Crawford revealed Friday night to WABC's John Batchelor and Paul Alexander. "He wanted to come (to Minnesota) to campaign. But they found a polite way to decline his offer." "They rejected a Nobel Peace Prize...

Do the ketchup Las Ketchup ... starting a new dance craze Also in today's Bizarre • Noel's minders roughed me up • Hayley: I am gone on Gareth • Madeley's makeover IT’S a dance craze you can’t have missed if you were on holiday in Europe this summer – now it’s on its way here too. The Ketchup Song by LAS KETCHUP is, dare I say it, the new Macarena. Sung in Spanglish, it could turn into the most irritating hit of the year – which is saying something with the current charts.La Ketchup are three sort-of-gorgeous sisters (think...

Police in Austria have arrested two Kosovo Albanian suspects in connection with a grenade attack last month on a disco in Linz that left 27 people injured. Although the X-Large disco was frequented by young Serb and Croat immigrants, police say they have ruled out ethnic tensions as a motive for the attack. As many as 60 people were inside the nightclub when a grenade exploded near the DJ booth in the early morning hours of July 27. Of the 27 people hurt, four had serious injuries. Police did not release the names of the two unemployed suspects, but said...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. LONDON (AP) — The government on Monday reprimanded scientists who plied mice with drugs and loud dance music to study the effect on their brains. The Home Office said it was taking ``infringement action'' against Cambridge University researchers who injected mice with the stimulant methamphetamine and subjected them to loud music, including tracks by dance act The Prodigy. Several mice died and others suffered brain damage in the experiment, whose results were published in the journal NeuroReport last year. Animal rights activists condemned the experiment. The British Union for the Abolition...

Austria disco attack claimed A previously unknown group has said it carried out last weekend's attack on an Austrian disco in the city of Linz, police say. The claim - from a group calling itself the "Bosnian Cobras" - was in an e-mail sent to the daily newspaper Kronen Zeitung. The e-mail also included death threats against two of those wounded in the attack. Twenty-seven people were injured early on Saturday when an attacker rolled a hand grenade onto the crowded dance floor of a club popular with teenage Balkan immigrants. A transcript of the e-mail published on the...

<p>March 5, 2002 -- JERUSALEM - When the bullets started flying at the Seafood Market disco in Tel Aviv, shoe salesman William Hazan’s first instinct was to duck under a table.</p> <p>His second was to open his wife’s purse and grab a gun to confront the attacker - a move that probably saved many lives.</p>

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - A fire sparked by a barman's pyrotechnic stunt ripped though a disco packed with rich young partygoers in the Peruvian capital on Saturday, killing up to 26 people and a lion and tiger at a fatal "zoo party." Tulio Nicolini, head of Peru's volunteer firefighting force, said the blaze that devastated the Utopia disco appeared to have been sparked by a barman "doing demonstrations with fire and pyrotechnics" that swiftly got out of hand. He told Reuters an apparent miscalculation by the barman had set the ceiling on fire. That sparked a blaze that choked some...