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Top Ten Music DVD Holiday Gift Ideas

Find the top ten music holiday gift ideas right here. With the holidays upon us finding great music for the holiday gift is paramount when you have a music lover or music fan to buy for. We found a nifty collection of great gift ideas for the music fan at a place called Rick’s Music Archives.

These special gifts for the musicologist are lost concerts recently brought back from the post punk music era and represent a broad spectrum of musical tastes from a variety of countries and venues.

The Russian band Pussy Riot has made the news when they took the stage at the main cathedral in Moscow to perform an anti Putin song. Without judging the band by quality of music or message it seems a very small jail term for invading a religious building in the midst of their religious service. While hate speech is one-thing hate crimes are another and invading a building and taking it over for your own purpose is a crime in almost every nation.

Whitney Houston, 4 times Grammy Winner and known drug and drinks addict has died in a Hollywood hotel after night of partying.

Tweets abound praising the most famous drug user in Music:

“She was kind, sweet, wonderful, amazing, beautiful. A voice, a talent & spirit that will forever remain incomparable,” Lady Gaga wrote in her Twitter feed.

“This's maybe a sign to people who struggling with drug addiction. Hopefully it'd NOT take the life of another talent,” Gaga added.

“Sad & tragic. Much prayer for her family,” Sting tweeted.

Back in the 1980's someone had a very bad idea and had Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones and David Bowie come together to make a music video. The Jagger Swagger with the dynamics of Bowie just makes for an incredibly outrageous video. Were they really serious?



I am not sure why they did this. Bowie was an incredible creative and this video just does nothing creatively and surely does not promote a song they might have done together.

Imelda May is top of the charts in our books. She has the look, the talent, the voice, the rhythm, and the backup to rock the charts. If Boom Boom does not rock you out of the chair you really have to check out your pulse.

Screaming guitars, a rocking stand up bass solo and some of the best hooks heard in years make Imelda May a solid top in rock and rockabilly. From modest beginnings from Ireland this girls desire and talent have paved the way to the top.

Peter Andre is back and bad, so the question is what will Katie do and who really cares?

Peter Andre may be back but whom is he kidding? Like a typical battle of broken marriages Andre insists on using his children to further his career and endear himself to potential fans. I mean really, does he have any fans other than the idiots that create these insipid TV shows in the UK?

Mackenzie Phillips. Daughter of John Phillips, leader and one of the founding members of the Mamas and Papas claims John Phillips had committed insest having sexual relationships with her from 1979 to 1989. Mackenzie Phillips recent disclosure on the Oprah Winfrey Show comes as no surprise to those who know this family. Poor Mackenzie has been caught using harder drugs many times in her troubled life and it looks like she wants to clean up her closet.

The Music Industry has backed off it’s Royalty demands by 40 percent after killing off most small Internet streaming sites. The obscene royalties demanded by the rights organizations like ASCAP, PAMRA, and BMI, along with the 4 major recording companies took precedence with SoundExchange whose attempted royalty collection closed most small and intermediate sized Internet sites trying to make it with streaming. This leaves only the major players in control of legal streaming, like Pandora, Blip.fm and CBS owned Last.fm securing the monopolistic practices of the big 4 recording companies.

Sweden judge Tomas Norstrom, who convicted the owners of the Pirate Bay file sharing service for copyright infringement - ordering them to jail, has been found to belong to several copyright protection groups including one with the representative of the film and movie industry who participated in the trial against the defendants. The judge and the prosecution were in bed together before, during and after the trial.

Rock impresario Phil Spector, creator of the famous Philadelphia wall of sound has been convicted of murder in his second trial after the first deadlocked. Spector was convicted of putting a gun into a B-Grade movie stars mouth in his front foyer and pulling the trigger taking the young life of the woman.

Into the light of day came the long history of abuse Spector has heaped on woman throughout his life. A troubled musical genius whose riches and fame shrouded his intense problems until drugs, ego, and emotions took the best of him away.