October 20, 2008

Music: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away by The Beatles



Here I stand head in hand.......Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on.............Feelin' two-foot small

The Beatles are one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music, selling over a billion records internationally. Controversy: In an interview with British reporter John Lennon had offered his opinion that Christianity was dying and that The Beatles were "more popular than Jesus now...

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September 27, 2008

Japanese Music: Kitaro - Sand



Kitarō taught himself how to play guitar. He says of teaching himself, "I never had education in music, I just learned to trust my ears and my feelings." He gives credit for his creations to a power beyond himself. "This music is not from my mind," he said. "It is from heaven, going through my body and out my fingers through composing. Sometimes I wonder. I never practice. I don't read or write music, but my fingers move. I wonder, 'Who's song is this?' I write my songs, but they are not my songs.

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Music: How Deep Is Your Love by Bee Gees


I know your eyes in the morning sun, ......... I feel you touch me in the pouring rain,
And the moment that you wander far from me........ I wanna feel you in my arms again


Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb were born on the Isle of Man to English parents. They sang three-part tight harmonies that were instantly recognizable; as brothers, their voices blended perfectly. They co-wrote most of their hits, and they said that they felt like they became 'one person' when they were writing. It has been estimated that the Bee Gees' record sales total more than 220 million, easily making them one of the best-selling music artists of all-time. Foremost stars of the disco music era in the late 1970s.

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September 03, 2008

Music: You Know I'm No Good by Amy Winehouse


Meet you downstairs in the bar and hurt, ..... Your rolled up sleeves in your skull t-shirt,
You say “what did you do with him today?”........ And sniffed me out like I was Tanqueray,
’Cause you're my fella, my guy, ........................................ Hand me your stella and fly,
By the time I'm out the door, ............................You tear men down like Roger Moore,


Amy Winehouse is the first British singer to win five Grammys, including three of the "Big Four": Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year. On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist.

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July 25, 2008

Music: Marion Coutillard as Édith Piaf singing Non, je ne regrette rien


Non, je ne regrette rien ..................... No, I don't regret anything at all
Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait ...................... Nor the good that was given me
ni le mal, Tout ça m'est bien égal ............ Nor the evil. They’re all the same


Édith Piaf (1915— 1963) was a French singer and cultural icon who "is almost universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer." Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being the ballads. Although she was denied a funeral mass by the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris because of her lifestyle, her funeral procession drew tens of thousands of mourners onto the streets of Paris and the ceremony at the cemetery was attended by more than 100,000 fans.

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July 16, 2008

Music: La Maza (The Mallet) by Mercedes Sosa


si no creyera en mi camino....If i didn’t believe in my road
si no creyera en mi sonido ....If i didn’t believe in my sound
si no creyera en mi silencio.....If i didn’t believe in my silence


Mercedes Sosa (born 1935) is an Argentine singer immensely popular throughout Latin America. She is best known as the voice of the "voiceless ones". Sosa and her first husband, Manuel Oscar Matus, were key players in the mid-60s nueva canción movement. Sosa is UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Latin America and the Caribbean. She has won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album in 2000 , 2003 and 2006.

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July 12, 2008

Music: Wild World by Cat Stevens - يوسف اسلام



Wild World

Yusuf Islam best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and prominent convert to Islam. As 'Cat Stevens', he has sold over 60 million albums around the world since the late 1960s. He has been given several awards for his work in promoting peace in the world, including the 2004 Man for Peace award and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace. In March 2006, Yusuf Islam finished recording his first all-new pop album since 1978 The album, An Other Cup. On CBS Sunday Morning in December 2006, Yusuf Islam said, "You know, the cup is there to be filled ... with whatever you want to fill it with..."

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July 03, 2008

Algerian Music: Ya Rayah (Oh Emigrant) by Rachid Taha - رشيد طه



يا رايح - Oh Emigrant

Rachid Taha is an Algerian-French musician. Politically-engaged, he has always stood up to defend democracy, tolerance and altruism against racism, fundamentalism and discrimination.

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June 30, 2008

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June 27, 2008

Music: Pretty Woman by Shahrukh Khan - شاہ رخ خان



Dekho Dekho Na Pretty Woman

Bollywood is commonly referred to as Hindustani cinema. Shahrukh Khan, شاہ رخ خان, born 2 November 1965, is a highly acclaimed Indian actor who works in Bollywood films, as well as film producer and television host. He made his film debut with the commercially successful Deewana (1992). Khan's statue is in Madame Tussauds wax museum, London. Khan has been chosen for the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of the Arts and Literature) award of the French government for his exceptional career.

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June 16, 2008

Arabic Music: Nour El Ain by Amr Diab - عمرو دياب


Habibi ya nour el-ain .................................. My darling, you are the glow in my eyes
Ya sakin khayali ..........................You live in my imagination.
A’ashek bakali sneen wala ghayrak bibali ............ I adored you for years. No one else is in my mind

Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab (عمرو دياب‎) (born October 11, 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of jeel music. Diab has become one of the highest selling Middle Eastern artists of all time, as he was awarded "The World Music Award" 3 times; 1998, 2002 & 2007, as being the best selling Middle Eastern singer .

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June 15, 2008

Music: Singing in the Rain by Gene Kelly


... Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place ...

Published in 1929, but the song is best known today as the centerpiece of the 1952 musical film Singin' in the Rain. Its listed as number 3 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs. The film offers a comic depiction of Hollywood's transition from silent films. Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) is a popular silent film star with humble roots as a singer, dancer and stunt man...

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June 12, 2008

Music: Shirinjan by Gul Yaru from Xinjiang/Uyghur region


Shirinjan (Sweet heart)

The Uyghurs are one of the 56 official nationalities in China, and Uyghur is an official language of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. ئۇيغۇر people are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Uyghur neighborhoods can be found in major Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai. Uyghur Religion is Sunni Islam.

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June 08, 2008

Music: Donya by Arash - آرش

OhO! Didi Didi Donya ... Maro dast andakhti!

Arash has been top of the charts in Poland, Serbia, Hungary, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Israel, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Sweden, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and the Czech Republic. He has gone gold in 5 countries: Germany, Russia, Slovenia and Greece for his album, Arash, and in Sweden for "Boro Boro".

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Music: Mack the Knife by Louis Armstrong


Oh, the shark, has, pretty teeth, dear....and he shows them, pearly white...

Armstrong grew up at the bottom of the social ladder, in a highly segregated city, but one which lived in a constant fervor of music, which was generally called “ragtime”, and not yet “jazz”. Despite the hard early days, Armstrong seldom looked back at his youth as the worst of times but instead drew inspiration from it, “Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine—I look right in the heart of good old New Orleans...It has given me something to live for

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Music: Love story (Where do I begin) by Miss Shirley Bassey




Bassey has accumulated 20 silver discs for sales in Britain, Holland and France, and some fifty-plus gold discs for international record sales.

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Music: Aşkım Baksana Bana by Nazan Öncel



Nazan Öncel (born February 6, 1956) is one of Turkey's most successful and famous pop music singers/songwriters. She writes her own songs, does the arrangements for most of them and has also written songs for many famous singers


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June 07, 2008

Music: Rasputin by Boney M

RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
And so they shot him till he was dead

Boney M., with their bubble-gum infectious tunes, became one of the few Western groups at that time to become well-known in places such as Africa, the Arab countries, China, Iran, Southeast Asia, and the Soviet Union. To this day, along with Swedish pop group ABBA, they are among the most widely known 1970s Western music acts in these regions.

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June 06, 2008

Tajik Music: Dar kanorat man by Iqbol Group

در کنارت من دریای سیر --- آب چشم من با خود بگیر

дар канорат ман дарё е сир --- оби чашмай ман бо худ бигир


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Music: Those Were The Days by Mary Hopkin



English lyrics to the Russian song. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism.

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June 04, 2008

Music: Fernando by ABBA



The name "ABBA" is an acronym formed from the first letters of each of the group member's given name (Agnetha, Björn, Benny, Anni-Frid). They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s...having sold more than 370 million records world wide. they still sell two to three million records a year...

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Music: Ever and Forever by Demis Roussos



Demis was born in Egypt to ethnic Greek parents George and Olga, and raised in Alexandria. His parents lost everything and moved to Greece after the Suez Crisis...

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June 02, 2008

Music: New Soul by Yael Naïm - יעל נעים


I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit 'bout how to give and take



First Israeli solo artist to ever have a top ten hit in the United States.

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May 31, 2008

Film: The Slap by Ehsan Amani



A soldier, a young woman, a colonel, and an old woman board a train. Nobody, but one of them, can explain what happens next...

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May 29, 2008

Music: Imagine by John Lennon



In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine voted "Imagine" the third greatest song of all time. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter said, "In many countries around the world — my wife and I have visited about 125 countries — you hear John Lennon's song 'Imagine' used almost equally with national anthems."

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Music: The words "I Love you" by Chris De Burgh & Arian Band



so come, with any language
you also sing
sing with love beside me
and cry out to say that "I love you"!

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May 27, 2008

Uzbek Music: Dekaramtu by Ziyoda Parvona - دگرم تو


Ziyoda Parvona from Uzbekistan singing a Persian song

Az sehr negahat yar از سحر نگاه تو
Jon bar del o tan amad جان بر دل و تن آمد
Majnooni degar amad مجنونی دگر آمد
Maftooni degar amad مفتونی دگر آمد

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Payvand's 2002 to 2007 Popular Books

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May 25, 2008

Collection of music or films from Amazon

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May 23, 2008

Uzbek Music: Assalomu Alaykum by Shahzoda - شاھزادە

Uzbek belongs to the Qarluq family of Turkic languages, and consequently its lexicon and grammar are most closely linked to the Uyghur language, while other influences rose from Persian, Arabic and Russian.

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Pakistan Music: Anarkali by Shabnam Majeed and Iman Ali - اناركلى - ایمان علی

تا قیامت شکر گویم کردگار خویش را

آہ گر من باز بینم روئ یار خویش را

Anarkali - "pomegranate blossom" - was a legendary slave girl from Lahore (Pakistan) during the Mughal period. She was supposedly ordered to be buried alive by Mughal emperor Akbar for having an illicit relationship with Prince Nuruddin Salim later to become Emperor Jahangir. Iman Ali is a popular Pakistan-based model and actress.

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American Music: Blowing The Wind by Peter, Paul and Mary

Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan, and released on his 1963 album . Although it has been described as a 'protest song', the song poses a series of philosophical questions about peace, war, and freedom, without supplying concrete answers.

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Arabic music: Oof Oof by Nelly Makdessy - نيللي مقدسي

Nelly Makdessy is a Lebanese singer, songwriter, record producer, instrumentalist and Model. Oof Oof is based on a Turkish song by GÜLSEN.

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May 15, 2008

Film: Omid Djalili casting in Pride and Racial Prejudice

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May 14, 2008

Music: Souvenir by Farzaneh - فرزانه

رفتی عشقم چه غمگینم

بی تو تنها و پریشانم

باتو لبریز از می عشق و سرورم

بی تو اشک غم میریزم حلقه شبرنگ تنهایی

در گلو پیچیده کی آیی

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Music: Time To Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman

When Im alone..................................I dream on the horizon

And words fail;......................Yes, I know there is no light

In a room....................Where the sun is not there

If you are not with me.

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