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LIFESTYLE37 TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2014 FEATURES Sweet dream: Eurythmics uniting at Beatles tribute he Eurythmics are reuniting - to pay tribute Ehrlich wouldn’t say which Beatles tune the to the Beatles. The Recording Academy British duo would perform, but John Mayer and Tannounced yesterday that Annie Lennox and Keith Urban will pair up to perform “Don’t Let Me Dave Stewart will perform as a duo for “The Night Down,” while Alicia Keys and John Legend will per- That Changed America: A Grammy Salute To The form a duet on “Let It Be.” Maroon 5 also will hit the Beatles.” The event will be taped at the Los stage. The special will air on CBS on Feb 9 - exactly Angeles Convention Center on Jan 27, a day after 50 years after the Beatles made their US debut on the Grammy Awards. Longtime Grammys produc- “The Ed Sullivan Show.” An estimated 73 million er Ken Ehrlich, who is also producing the Beatles viewers tuned in to watch the event, which has special, thought the Eurythmics would be ideal to become one of the world’s top cultural moments. honor the iconic group. “They really did change people’s lives, so what “When it came around to booking this show, I’m hoping this show ... gets across is the message what I felt was important was to try and find those that occasionally in history we are touched by cer- artists who not only would be able to interpret tain artists who have a profound effect on us Beatles songs, but would also have an ... under- beyond just the music that they make,” Ehrlich said. standing of what they meant,” he said in an inter- Ehrlich wouldn’t confirm if Paul McCartney or Ringo view. The Eurythmics, who sold millions of albums Starr would attend the event, although the Beatles and whose hits include “Sweet Dreams (Are Made will be honored with a lifetime achievement award of These),” released their debut in 1981. Ehrlich two days earlier at the Recording Academy’s Special said Lennox and Stewart, who have launched suc- Merit Awards in Los Angeles. The special will include cessful solo careers, are thrilled to perform in trib- File photo shows Annie Lennox, left, and Dave Stewart as the Eurythmics performing on stage at the about a dozen performances, Ehrlich said. More per- ute to the Beatles. Rock at the Ring three-day music festival at the Nuerburgring race circuit in Nuerburg, Germany. — AP formers will be announced at a later date. — AP New Bruce Springsteen album ‘High Hopes’ goes online ruce Springsteen’s 18th studio album “High Hopes” went online Sunday in the United BStates, nine days before its general release- and on the 41st anniversary of The Boss’s debut outing. Television network CBS had announced it would host the Internet-only pre-release at www.cbs.com/shows/the_good_wife/springsteen after the conclusion of this week’s episode of “The Good Wife” at around 10:00 pm (0300 GMT Monday) in a unique tie-in with the top-rated legal drama. But American fans of the New Jersey-born rock ‘n’ roll voice of blue-collar America - whose first album “Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ.” came From left to right, British actor Will Poulter, French actress Lea Seydoux and British out on January 5, 1973, two years before “Born to actor George MacKay, pose for photographers, at the BAFTA (British Academy of Film Run” established him as a musical powerhouse - and Television Arts) press conference, to announce them as three of five nominees for were delighted to discover the audio stream unex- the EE rising star award 2014, at the BAFTA building in central London yesterday. —AP pectedly going online earlier in the evening. Initial reviews were upbeat. “Once again, Springsteen is the minister in the chapel, offering Nyong’o, Seydoux, up for guidance, sympathy and, occasionally, a raised fist of solidarity with the dispossessed,” wrote pop music critic Tris McCall of the Star-Ledger newspa- rising star film award per in Springsteen’s home state. “By the time that enyan actress Lupita Nyong’o and track draws to its haunting conclusion, you’ll likely “Blue is the Warmest Color” actress find that despite the rocky start, the album’s famil- KLea Seydoux are among nominees iar themes of hope, redemption and love’s ability to for the British film academy’s Rising Star trump adversity have worked their magic the way award. Nyong’o made an acclaimed fea- they do on any good Springsteen release,” added ture film debut in slavery epic “12 Years a Pete Chianca at Blogness on the Edge of Town, a Slave,” while Seydoux plays half of a blog devoted to the 64-year-old rock icon. young French lesbian couple in the As a CBS spokeswoman told AFP this week, the Cannes festival prize-winner. online stream is available only in the United States, Other finalists announced yesterday ahead of the general release of “High Hopes” on include American actor Dane DeHaan, January 14. In Paris, only the title track-released in who plays a troubled poetic muse in Beat November as a video-could be heard on the web- Generation saga “Kill Your Darlings.” Two site; the other 11 songs came up as “currently not Eagerly anticipated, “High Hopes” is a mix of cover Clemons, the much-loved E Street Band saxophon- British actors round out the list - George available.” Cryptically, Springsteen’s Twitter feed versions, studio outtakes and re-recordings that ist who died in 2011 at the age of 69. MacKay, who stars in Proclaimers musical said Sunday: “More advance album streams to be Springsteen - who has concerts upcoming in South “Down in the Hole” has Springsteen’s children “Sunshine on Leith,” and Will Poulter of announced soon.” Some lucky fans already have Africa, Australia and New Zealand - has called on backing vocals-including his youngest Sam, comedy “We’re the Millers.” The winner “High Hopes”-Springsteen’s first album since “music I always felt needed to be released,” who turned 20 on Sunday. Springsteen’s visit to the will be decided by public vote and Lupita Nyong’o arrives at the Palm Springs “Wrecking Ball” in 2012 - on their personal digital although he’s already played many of the numbers Vietnam war memorial in Washington inspired “The announced during the British Academy International Film Festival Awards Gala at players after it briefly leaked out on Amazon.com live. Three songs will feature on next week’s episode Wall,” while “American Skin (41 Shots)” recalls the Film Awards - Britain’s equivalent to the the Palm Springs Convention Center on as an MP3 download last weekend. No explanation of “The Good Wife,” after Sunday’s program-which now virtually forgotten killing of a 23-year-old Oscars - on Feb 16. —AP Saturday. —AP has been given for the apparent snafu. ran in the same time slot as the season premiere of unarmed immigrant from Guinea, Amadou Bailo Springsteen’s label is Columbia Records, a Sony “Downton Abbey” on public television-ended with Diallo, by New York police officers in 1999. Among Music Entertainment subsidiary formerly owned by an invitation to viewers to log on to the audio the three cover versions, Springsteen takes CBS that was behind the surprise online release of stream. Nine tracks on “High Hopes” feature Rage Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream” and makes it so Beyonce’s eponymous fifth album on December 13. Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, who stood in much his own, it’s hardly recognizable from the That record remains on top of the Billboard 200 for guitarist Steve Van Zandt on Springsteen’s tour minimalist original released in 1980 by the seminal chart, having sold more than 1.3 million copies. of Australia last year, and two include Clarence New York electropunk duo. — AFP Armani new men’s collection 2014 rom research into new materials and manu- In this Dec 4, 2013 photos, Aaron Pritchard replaces grass after laying a head- facturing techniques a new collection has stone on the previously unmarked grave of blues musician Aaron Sparks in Fbeen created, which suggests a different Crestwood, Mo. —AP way of dressing - a look that is basic, pure, mod- ern and visual. Graphic effects obtained with a high-definition technique offer playful geometric shapes on Grave marker project clothes, bags and shoes; the hexagon, at times in relief, is a recurring theme. Material that is the helps bury the blues result of the complex processing of wool, jersey and lined leather features small laser-cut holes lues guitarist Tommy Bankhead whose own search for his musical idols lasered at a high frequency to create patterns rubbed shoulders with some of the began with a detour to the Chicago area reminiscent of digital codes. Bgenre’s royalty, from Howlin’ Wolf and while en route to the New Orleans Jazz and Elmore James to Albert King and Sonny Boy Heritage Festival. After stopping at the Williamson. But visitors to the overgrown St graves of McKinley Morganfield, better Louis cemetery where Bankhead was buried known as Muddy Waters, and Chester more than a decade ago would never know Burnett (aka Howlin’ Wolf), Salter found an his musical legacy. Or his name. Be it neg- unmarked grave for blues pianist Otis Shape lect, inattention or hard times, Bankhead’s Spann. A letter bemoaning Spann’s fate to Shapes empty out and become lightweight. family never added a grave marker to his a blues magazine ignited a successful Linings and buttons disappear, the latter burial plot. That will soon change thanks to fundraiser and convinced Salter to launch replaced by zippers and press-studs.