Cliff Richard follows 'The Young Ones' onto Internet
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Veteran pop star Cliff Richard is to follow younger acts such as Radiohead by letting fans decide the price of his new album over the Internet, his website announced Tuesday.
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Blog: Taking a look at a new entrant into the online music scene.
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The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area.
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YouTube is now playing host to &quot;The Royal Channel&quot;, billed as the official channel of the British monarchy.Introduced 50 years after Queen Elizabeth II&#39;s first television broadcast to her subjects, the channel showcases the Queen&#39;s Christmas messages past and present, and includes documentary footage about the monarchy.&quot;One of the features of growing old is a heightened awareness of change,&quot; said the Queen, now aged 81, in the 2007 Christmas message featured on the YouTube channel.In her lifetime, the British monarchy has steadily adopted new technologies in an effort to reach a wider public.Her grandfather, King George V, made his first Christmas radio broadcast to the nation in 1932.The Queen introduced her 1957 Christmas message , recorded in black and white, by saying she hoped the technology would bring her closer to her subjects.&quot;I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct,&quot; she said then.Since then, much has changed in the world of broadcast technology, including the spread of color television, satellite transmissions and high-definition images. Alongside that other electronic formats have developed to take advantage of the Internet as a transmission medium, including podcasts and video-sharing sites such as YouTube.The official Web site of the British Monarchy opened in 1997, and began offering a podcast of the Queen&#39;s Christmas messages in 2006.The Queen&#39;s Christmas message is traditionally broadcast at 3 p.m. U.K. time on Dec. 25. By midday Wednesday, the 2007 message had attracted over 300,000 viewers on YouTube, while the 1957 message, which has been online since Sunday, had attracted almost 800,000, according to YouTube.While staff at Buckingham Palace are hoping to reach out to younger subjects with the new YouTube channel, statistics supplied by YouTube show that its audience has geekier things on its mind. The Royal Channel is number two in the site&#39;s rankings of the most subscribed channel rankings this month, behind &quot;Household Hacker,&quot; a guide to hacking household electronic devices such as robot vacuum cleaners and garage door openers.When the European Commission launched EUtube, a YouTube channel to explain the workings of the European Union to the citizens of its 27 member sites, it adopted a more sure-fire way to attract viewers: sex. One of the first videos on its channel was a montage of erotic scenes from films made in the European Union, under the title &quot;Film lovers will love this!&quot; In the six months since the channel launched, the clip has attracted 5.1 million viewers.&#160;
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UTV has decided to re-release the first hit of 2006...
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England has a new king. Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n' Roll, has been putting in more public appearances than anyone in the royal family in Britain recently as a host of advertisers - from Internet ...
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Yahoo! is turning to old school media to get noticed these days.
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BACHELOR BOY TRIBUTE A TRIBUTE to Sir Cliff Richard and The Shadows will be staged at a Douglas theatre on Friday.
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By DAVID SINCLAIR  Roger Daltrey joined the Ageing Rockers' Hall of Infamy last week when - like Sir Cliff Richard and Status Quo before him - he ranted about the state of modern pop radio. "It's very hard for bands in our position to get airplay these days," the singer of The Who moaned.
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Under a youthful media-savvy   leader, Britain's once-staid opposition Conservatives are   turning to blogs to grab the attention -- and they hope the   votes -- of the younger generation.
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By Anonymous  BBC Music Interactive is to unveil a 'music discovery' service as part of the BBC's plans to boost its online presence for the 'web 2.0' age. This will apply to supporting sites for its entire musical and programming output.
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Leonard Bernstein introduced a generation to music in televised 'Young Peoples Concerts' in the 1950s.
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By LYNNE KELLEHER  AN Irish rock chick is set for internet stardom - after being voted top local artist on a leading website.   Leanne Harte, 20, has become an overnight success on teenage cult website Bebo, with 52,000 fans signing on to her site in the past six months.
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The Easyjet founder teams up with UK download service Wippit to enter the online music market.
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Sir Cliff Richard plans to cut the price of his new album if enough fans order it ahead of its download release.
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Record label Decca will release an album by Sir Cliff Richard - 46 years after they turned him down.
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If you want to get rid of troublemaking  youths, play them some Cliff Richard songs, a funfair has  found.