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The hot new musical instrument: Your smartphone
Often in the middle of the night, while his wife sleeps beside him, John Sheridan picks up his iPhone from the nightstand and shakes the device like it was a conductor’s wand on fire. Sometimes he goes on like this for more than an hour at a time
Forget the recession, live like a rock star in new hotel
London’s newest hotelier Mark Fuller is showing commendable bravado for someone about to open a luxury hotel during a global recession. “F*** the recession, let’s get on with it,” he says, while sitting on the roof terrace of the Sanctum Soho, a 30-room establishment dubbed the rock’n’roll hotel, as much for its “anything goes” service philosophy as the pedigree of its owners, which include the co-managers of heavy metal band Iron Maiden. “We do not recognize there is a credit crunch because we believe you should battle through it,” Fuller says, adding “If you get panicky and scary about things like this you’re no man at all.” Besides, he admits, three years ago when he started working on the concept of an ‘alluring haven of hedonism’ (as the hotel is described on its Web site), the credit crunch didn’t exist
Hollywood gives George Harrison his star
George Harrison’s closest friends and family gathered in Hollywood on Tuesday to dedicate the late Beatle’s star on the Walk of Fame. “There’s someone here from every important stage of George’s life and career,” Harrison’s widow, Olivia, said.
U2’s New Album: No Line on the Horizon
Shortly after the release of 2004’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, I asked Bono about U2’s place in contemporary music.