German Singles: Sunday Business: MPs call for eine kleine more music
GERMAN politicians and musicians seem to have found a way to crank up the domestic music businesses: force the locals listen to German acts. Top-ranking politicians are calling for an airplay quota to boost the exposure of German-based bands, but artists are split on the issue and members of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's administration are loath to set standards for the nation's airtime.According to recent reports, German bands get less than 2% of domestic radio...
German Singles: BECKER JOINS CURREN IN LONG-SHOTS' FINAL
WIMBLEDON, England - If you bet on Clay against Liston in 1964, or on the Mets in 1969, or on the Jets against the Colts in Super Bowl III, then no doubt you were expecting a Wimbledon final between eighth-seeded Kevin Curren and an unseeded 17-year-old named Boris Becker.Today's long-shot final (8 a.m. on NBC, Ch. 3) will produce a first-time winner of the most famous tournament in tennis - either Curren, 27, a South African who recently became an American citizen and also...
German Singles: China Daily:
Beijing welcomes Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli is coming to China for the third time. The visually-impaired Italian tenor has become a world phenomenon over the last few years, bringing the house down with each concert finale whether he performs in his home country, Italy, or elsewhere.Bocelli made his Chinese debut last December with a sell-out concert in Shanghai, where the audience demanded three encores. Tickets for his Hong Kong concert in May were the most expensive the city had ever known for a concert. Now it is...
German Singles: Only the LONELY
Looking for companionship at home but can't be bothered with a live-in partner? There are other ways to make you feel wanted. For harried singles sick of coming home to a cold, lonely house, human substitutes are close at hand.Sure, they might not be real people, but with a combination of pets, robots and peopled wallpaper, you might just fool yourself into believing you've come home to someone who cares.THE AMAZING INSTANT MATE This CD - in male and female...
German Singles: Sour Krauts
Even the stuffed boar's head that for 10 years welcomed German tourists to Heinz Krane's bar on the Costa Brava has lost its natural grin. Krane stops just short of calling it an omen: ``Her teeth fell out, so I replaced them with plastic ones. But then there's not much for any of us to smile about at the moment."German expatriate landlords along the Spanish costas once clogged by Mercedes and camper-vans from the Rhine and the Ruhr are...
