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Keith Richards of performs at the Staples Center launching of their ‘50 & Counting’ tour on May 03, 2013

in , Perry Katy California. —AFP he Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards hit 70 yesterday with another tour on the Perry’s ‘Roar’ lip-sync performance: horizon, and probably a smirk for everyone who would not have bet he Twould make it this far in a life of excess. The unmatched guitar legend isn’t just hitting 70 — like did in August. He is also celebrating his 30th wedding anniversary with former model Patti Hanson, with whom he has two daughters. He also has three children with the Italian actress . NRJ music awards take the blame With his trademark bandana tied around his head, open shirt and face wrin- kled by years of hard partying and struggles with addiction, Richards’ image f you hear that “Roar” loud and clear, it might taking over the live performance of Katy at the can restart. We had a little problem with the sound.” incarnates pure, undiluted rock and roll. His low voice sounds otherworldly, actually be a backing track. Katy Perry’s mouth beginning of the delivery tube of the ‘Roar,’” a state- We’ll say. while his virtuosity on the guitar has turned even his critics into grudging fans. Iwas moving, but the (correct) words were just ment read, translated from French to English by “I’m sorry to stop all your energy - I prefer you to Along with the Beatles, the Stones revolutionized popular music in the 1960s. not coming out as the pop star performed her hit Google Translate. “TF1 and NRJ present their apolo- be the best,” the man added. The performance-crash- Richards hits the road with fellow bandmates Mick Jagger, and single at the 15th annual NRJ music awards in gies to Katy Perry ... for this technical problem er (who may have been the awards show host, he was plus special guest , who played with the group from Cannes on Saturday. The lip movements and the beyond our control.” dressed nicely and had a microphone) then counted 1969 to 1974, on its “14 on Fire” tour that debuts February 21 in . In lyrics were not even close to being in sync - Perry’s Previously, Katy Perry’s reps did not respond to Perry down for another go at it, which she uncomfort- the run up to the two milestones Richards’ web site is urging fans to send him mouth was a few full seconds away from the play- TheWrap’s requests for comment. Unfortunately for ably complied with. But this time she definitely sang commentaries that will be presented to him as a gift. back, creating an incredibly awkward performance. Perry but fortunately for internet trolls, the whole live - and while it may have looked better, it surely “People say ‘why don’t you give it up?’ I don’t think they quite understand. Updated: On Tuesday, after the video of the inci- thing was caught on videotape and is currently didn’t sound like an improvement. “Roar” is Grammy- I’m not doing it just for the money, or for you. I’m doing it for me,” Richards said dent went viral, the NRJ Awards shouldered the making the viral rounds. At around the 52-second nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo in “Life”, his autobiography, published in 2010. Much has happened since blame: “Katy Perry sang live during the NRJ Music mark of the below clip, a smooth French guy hops Performance. Perry performed the hit single at the Richards left Dartford, a town on the outskirts of London where he lived with Awards in Cannes on Saturday night, but unfortu- on stage, awkwardly halting the performance, kiss- American Music Awards, where she drew some criti- his working class family, met Jagger on a train and with him formed in 1962 nately a bad soundtrack was accidentally launched, ing Perry’s hand and saying, “If you don’t mind, we cism for dressing as a geisha. — Reuters what is today regarded by many as the world’s greatest rock and roll band. The Stones in the 1960s drew on the work of black American rhythm and blues and maestros like Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. Richards’ guitar riffs are among the most emblematic in the history of rock, etched in the memory of millions with tunes like “Satisfaction”, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, “” “Brown Sugar”, “Let’s Spend the Night Together” and “”. Besides their musical wizardry, Richards and Jagger gained Swift, U2, Coldplay and Jay-Z will fame as womanizing boozers and drug users who were “anti-establishment” in a country steeped in tradition. Their excesses in the 1960s and 70s brought scan- dal, trials and jail stints and in 1969 the founding Stones guitar player, , drowned in a swimming pool. —AFP compete for Best Song Oscar

aylor Swift, U2, Coldplay, Jay-Z and the Kings have three each. of Leon could all end up performing on the Incidentally, there’s no guarantee that any of the The list TAcademy Awards next year, if Oscar voters nominated songs will actually be performed on the choose them from the list of 75 eligible songs Oscar show. The show’s producers, Neil Meron and “Amen” from “All Is Lost” released by the Academy on Friday. All of those Craig Zadan, also produced the last Oscars, at “Alone Yet Not Alone” from “Alone Yet Not Alone”

Bella Hardy pop stars perform songs that qualified in the which two of the nominated songs were per- “Doby” from “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” “Last Mile Home” from “August: Osage County” much-maligned Best Original Song category, which formed in full, a third was given a 40-second ver- “Austenland” from “Austenland” over the last three years has ranged from a low of sion as part of a medley, and two others were dis- “Comic Books” from “Austenland” 39 in 2011 to a high of 75 in 2012 and now 2013. pensed with through film clips. “L.O.V.E.D.A.R.C.Y” from “Austenland” U2’s “Ordinary Love” and Coldplay’s “Atlas” are And for the first time, the Academy is holding a “What Up” from “Austenland” featured in the films “Mandela: Long Walk to concert at UCLA’s Royce Hall three days before the “He Loves Me Still” from “Black Nativity” Freedom” and “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” Oscars, at which all the nominated composers and “Hush Child (Get You Through This Silent Night)” from respectively. Swift performs the song “Sweeter artists will be invited to perform. Although the “Black Nativity” Than Fiction” from “One Chance,” Jay-Z “Test Of Faith” from “Black Nativity” “Forgiveness” from “Brave Miss World” does “100$ Bill” from “The Great Gatsby” “Lullaby Song” from “Cleaver’s Destiny” A minute with and the Kings of Leon do “Last Mile “Shine Your Way” from “The Croods” Home” from “August: Osage County.” “Happy” from “Despicable Me 2 Of course, Oscar Music Branch voters “Gonna Be Alright” from “Epic” British folk singer Hardy have never courted pop stars quite as “Rise Up” from “Epic” avidly as the Golden Globe voters, who “What Matters Most” from “Escape from Planet Earth” on delving into the past last week opted for a lineup that includ- “Bones” from “For No Good Reason” ed Swift, U2, Coldplay and Justin “Going Nowhere” from “For No Good Reason” “Gonzo” from “For No Good Reason” iddle player and songwriter Bella Hardy has been in the vanguard of the Timberlake (with “Please Mr Kennedy,” a “The Courage To Believe” from “Free : The Courage to FBritish folk revival of the last few years, with six albums under her belt and song from “Inside Llewyn Davis” that Believe” numerous award nominations, including BBC Radio 2’s Folk Singer of the Year. isn’t eligible for the Oscars). So the stars “Let It Go” from “Frozen” Hardy has been hailed as a talent to watch since her 2007 debut album “Night on the list will have stiff competition “100$ Bill” from “The Great Gatsby” Visiting”, and in 2012 she won BBC Radio 2’s Folk Award for Best Original Song from the likes of “Let It Go,” the power “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)” from “The for “The Herring Girl”. ballad from Disney’s “Frozen” that could Great Gatsby” Far from resting on her laurels, however, she is planning a tour of her 30 potentially give its co-writer Robert “Over The Love” from “The Great Gatsby” favorite venues to mark her 30th birthday next year and celebrate her work to Lopez the last leg of the Emmy- “Together” from “The Great Gatsby” “Young and Beautiful” from “The Great Gatsby” date before beginning afresh. “I’ve always been the youngest in all the things Grammy-Oscar-Tony grand slam known I’ve done,” she told Reuters by phone from a Stafford churchyard while on her “The Moon Song” from “Her” as the EGOT. Academy has not commented, many Oscar-watch- “I See Fire” from “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Christmas tour. “As a teenager I was the youngest in a band called The Pack. My Other songs on the list include a number from ers have speculated that the concert, which is not nickname was ‘Baby Pack’.” “Bite Of Our Lives” from “How Sweet It Is” animated films, including Pharrell’s “Happy” from expected to be televised, is a way to move the “Try” from “How Sweet It Is” Turning 30 seemed like a good time to take stock with a tour that would “Despicable Me 2,” Snoop Dogg’s “Let the Bass Go” nominated music off the Oscar show. “Atlas” from “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” allow her to revisit old material, she said. “I’ll just pick some of my favorite songs from “Turbo” and Owl City’s “Shine Your Way” from Members of the AMPAS Music Branch will now “Better You, Better Me” from “The Inevitable Defeat of and tie a ribbon round them. Then I can look to what’s coming next.” Her Folk Mister & Pete” Singer of the Year nomination comes on the back of her well-received album “The Croods.” Also in the mix are songs from six- view DVDs that contain all the eligible songs in the time nominee Diane Warren (“Unfinished Songs,” scenes in which they are used in their films. The sys- “Bring It On” from “Jewtopia” “Battleplan” with her self-penned works growing in confidence and emotional “Aygiri Nadani” from “Kamasutra 3D” depth. And although Hardy has no plans to release an album next year, she is performed by Celine Dion in “Unfinished Song”), tem, which has been in place for eight years, typi- “Har Har Mahadeva” from “Kamasutra 3D” already relishing writing new material. Lana Del Rey (“Young and Beautiful” from “The cally favors songs that are performed onscreen “I Felt” from “Kamasutra 3D” “I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting with different sounds and different Great Gatsby”) and Karen O (“The Moon Song” from (such as “Let It Go”) over ones that are used in the “Of The Soil” from “Kamasutra 3D” approaches to the way I make my music. It’s lovely just to have the freedom and “Her”). end credits (such as “I See Fire” from “The Hobbit” or “Sawariya” from “Kamasutra 3D” time to develop.” Hardy works with a changing lineup of musicians to create a Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant version of “The “Amen” from “All Is Lost”). Of the 32 songs that have “In The Middle Of The Night” from “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” different feel and tone for her arrangements, from the stripped-back minimalism Great Gatsby” and the Indian film “Kamasutra 3D” been nominated under the current system, 20 of “You And I Ain’t Nothin’ No More” from “Lee Daniels’ The of some earlier work to recording and performing with a full backing band, The have the most entries of any film, with five each. them have been performed live by onscreen char- Butler” Midnight Watch. “Austenland” has four, while “Black Nativity,” “For No acters, and only one has played over a straight roll “Let’s Take A Trip” from “Live at the Foxes Den” She is on tour with long-time collaborator Scottish guitarist Anna Massie and “Pour Me Another Dream” from “Live at the Foxes Den” Good Reason,” “Live at the Foxes Den” and “Turbo” of end credits. —Reuters “The Time Of My Life” from “Live at the Foxes Den” Chris Sherburn on concertina. In March, Hardy will join seven other musicians “Ordinary Love” from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” for the Elizabethan Session, a joint commission between Folk by the Oak, an “Monsters University” from “Monsters University” annual music festival at Elizabeth I’s childhood home Hatfield House, and the “When The Darkness Comes” from “The Mortal English Folk and Song Society. Cyrus, Macklemore & Lewis Instruments: City of Bones” “We’ll have a 10-day period in a house together and write a collaborative set “Sacrifice (I Am Here)” from “Murph: The Protector” of music,” said Hardy. “I don’t think we’ll come out of it with a set of madrigals. “The Muslims Are Coming” from “The Muslims Are We’ll probably have a huge mix of different things.” The group won’t get to stay Coming!” at Hatfield House, but Hardy is working on ways to get into the mood: “I really set for New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ “Oblivion” from “Oblivion” like cooking so I will have a little delve into the history of Elizabethan food and I “Sweeter Than Fiction” from “One Chance” have half a plan to spend 10 days cooking and baking. Maybe I’ll come out of it “Nothing Can Stop Me Now” from “Planes” with a recipe book!” iley Cyrus, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” this year. The artists are “We Both Know” from “Safe Haven” Blondie and Icona Pop will help Ryan set to perform live from ’s Times “Get Used To Me” from “The Sapphires” Here’s what else she had to say about the influences on her song writing and Seacrest and co-host Jenny McCarthy Square, while Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie is “Stay Alive” from “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” M  how her work has evolved. ring in the new year during ABC’s “Dick Clark’s hosting the West Coast feed, which will include “So You Know What It’s Like” from “Short Term 12 Q: You grew up in the village of Edale, Derbyshire. How did that inform performances from Capital Cities, Daughtry, “There’s No Black Or White” from “Somm” “Cut Me Some Slack” from “Sound City” your song writing? Ariana Grande, The Fray, Robin Thicke, Jennifer “You Can’t Fix This” from “Sound City” A: I’m from the Dark Peak in the Peak District. My second record was called Hudson, Jason Derulo, Fall Out Boy and Enrique “Let It Go” from “Spark: A Burning Man Story” “In the Shadow of Mountains”, which refers to the location as I lived right under- Iglesias. “We Ride” from “Spark: A Burning Man Story” neath Kinder Scout. But it was also about some of the shadows we live under in The long-running holiday special kicks off at 8 “Becomes The Color” from “Stoker” our lives. I’m very much influenced by the hills and valleys around me and the pm ET on ABC with “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve “Younger Every Day” from “3 Geezers!” skyline I love, and that does come across very heavily in my earlier music. Presents The 30 Greatest Women In Music.” The “Here It Comes” from “Trance” Q: “Battleplan” is a mixture of traditional songs like “Yellow countdown for 2014 will begin 30 minutes “Let The Bass Go” from “Turbo” Handkerchief” and your own compositions like “Maybe You Might”. How before midnight. “There’s nothing like New Year’s “The Snail Is Fast” from “Turbo” did you go about assembling the material for that? Eve in New York with the energy and excitement “Speedin’” from “Turbo” “My Lord Sunshine (Sunrise)” from “12 Years a Slave” A: I have a handbag full of notebooks and I write things down as I go. Then from all of the people that gather throughout when it comes to making the record I go through my notebooks and find a “Make It Love” from “Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro” Times Square,” McCarthy said in a statement. theme that ties it together. It’s very much like jigsaw puzzles and Agatha “One Life” from “The Ultimate Life” Christie. I try not to see a difference between my own material and the tradition- “You never know what’s going to happen and, as “Unfinished Songs” from “Unfinished Song” al songs. All those songs have been written by somebody, it’s just they’ve had the saying goes, what happens in Times Square... “For The Time Being” from “The Way, Way Back” years to evolve and round off the sharp edges, which is what makes them so is seen by millions of people around the world, “Go Where The Love Is” from “The Way, Way Back” “Bleed For Love” from “Winnie Mandela” —Reuters strong. —Reuters so you better keep it classy. Or so they keep Macklemore & Ryan Lewis telling me.” — Reuters