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I don’t know that you could call Live8 an unqualified success…

…but, apparently, it mended some fences that are staying mended…at least for a little while, anyway.

Oh, and did I mention the report was in Spanish?

I translated it to English via BabelFish, but, um, it wasn’t what you’d call precise. But, below, you can still get the idea:

The legendary British band Pink Floyd announced today that after surpassing differences that maintained them separated by 20 years, will return to touch together offering at least two concerts in the city of joint Londres.El made up of Roger Waters (under), David Gilmour (guitar), Nick Mason (battery) and Rick Wright (keyboards), it accepted to live touch in the traditional Royal Albert Hall of the British capital, in two concerts programmed for aims of 2006.Desde the successful meeting of the band in his brief live appearance in the London concert of “Live 8”, in last July, was going up to around the doubt if a tour were possible that reviviera the best years of grupo.Si of tours it has well still not been spoken, Pink Floyd indicated that yes it will meet to touch again in next November. “Live 8 felt like a crucial point in the race of the group. They are very contentments to return to touch again in a scene “, declared a source near banda.Además, informed that in a moment the 7,000 entrances available for both conciertos.Pink Floyd will be put on sale achieved a success without precedents with their album” Dark Side Of The Moon “, that from 1973 stayed 27 years in the lists of sold discs more in the United States. Another one of its successful works was “The Wall”, of 1981, that sold more than 23 million copies in the world.

Faces: “Bad ‘N’ Ruin”

Originally released on the band’s 1971 album, Long Player, I first heard this song during an especially violent episode of “The Sopranos.” I believe it was when Steve Buscemi’s character deviated from his “going it straight” lifestyle to kill a man that had wronged him in the past.

The song made for a perfect soundtrack, with its lyrics “Mother don’t you recognize your son? / coming home, ’cause I failed you mother” sung by a not-yet-castrated Rod Stewart. (Stewart had loads of good rock in the early ’70s.) The song is all about falling from grace, and anyone who likes the Rolling Stones’ bluesy stuff from the late ’60s/early ’70s will probably enjoy this tune.

Listen to a song clip here.

Oprah invades last remaining Oprah-free media zone

Continuing her quest for world domination, benevolent billionaire media tyrant Oprah Winfrey has signed a $55 million deal to produce a new satellite channel for XM Radio. Since Her Oprahness will undoubtedly be far too busy managing her TV shows, book club, magazine, web site, and Broadway play to produce much actual satellite radio content herself, the channel will rely on the Oprah JV Squad (e.g., interior designer Nate Berkus, diet guru Bob Greene) for the majority of its programming.

However, Oprah has not ruled out the possibility of an on-air smackdown in which she and Dr. Phil gang up on XM bad boys Opie and Anthony to demand that the young upstarts clean up their act, put some clothes on the ladies, and start giving back to society.

Stones pissed at censorship

Mick Jagger and the boys are not happy with their songs be tinkered with during the Super Bowl halftime performance. However, I am completely amused by how journalists reporting this story have to figure out ways to describe what was censored, especially for “Start Me Up.” Personally, I don’t give a damn. If you don’t know the songs by now and can’t sing the “offensive bits” on your own, then quit complaining. Fer chrissakes, it was the Super Bowl, what did anyone expect? And really, The Stones ceased to be interesting back when they were playing for King Tut. But as Bob Seger once sang to our offended ears, “rock and roll never forgets.” I wish it would sometimes.

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