Friday, 17 June 2011
Elton John in Concert - BBC Performances 1971
01. Your Song
02. Border Song
03. Sixty Years On
04. Take Me To The Pilot
05. The Greatest Discovery
06. I Need You To Turn To
07. Burn Down The Mission
Ex-Spy Alleges Bush White House Sought to Discredit Critic
Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush, said the White House at least twice asked intelligence officials to gather sensitive information on Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor who writes an influential blog that criticized the war.
In an interview, Mr. Carle said his supervisor at the National Intelligence Council told him in 2005 that White House officials wanted “to get” Professor Cole, and made clear that he wanted Mr. Carle to collect information about him, an effort Mr. Carle rebuffed. Months later, Mr. Carle said, he confronted a C.I.A. official after learning of another attempt to collect information about Professor Cole. Mr. Carle said he contended at the time that such actions would have been unlawful...
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Metallica and Lou Reed Record Album Together
Here's one nobody was expecting: Metallica and Lou Reed have gotten together and recorded an entire collaborative full-length album, Metallica announced on their website yesterday. The LP doesn't have a title or a release date yet, but they finished recording it last week, and it's 10 songs long.
According to the Metallica website, the idea for the album came after the band performed with Reed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th Anniversary Concert, which went down at Madison Square Garden in 2009. Eventually, Reed came to Metallica's San Francisco home studio to record. Late-period Metallica are notorious for spending years on albums, but they bashed this one out over a few months.
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