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The music promoter behind the campaign to get the anti-Margaret Thatcher song Ding Dong! the Witch is Dead to number one has received death threats, he claims.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 9 days ago)

The rapper had a number one hit with the song Jump in the 1990s
mirror.co.uk (23 days ago)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Dubai court has convicted an American businessman for fraud and sentenced him to 15 years' imprisonment after a nearly five-year legal battle that included a hunger strike and a failed attempt to flee.The case against Lebanese-born Zack Shahin also brought diplomatic tensions between the United Arab Emirates and the Unites States, which backed...
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Naomi Long, the Westminster MP for east Belfast, is very much a child of her constituency, born into its loyalist backstreets and a committed community worker. But she has received death threats from local extremists.
independent.co.uk (1 month and 23 days ago)
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean rapper Psy plans to follow his "Gangnam Style" YouTube megahit with a single called "Gentleman" and a new dance, but is playing coy about everything else ahead of the song's release, which was moved up a day to April 12.
reuters.com (1 month and 23 days ago)

Jay-Z’s “Open Letter” swipe at haters who bashed a recent anniversary trip he and wife Beyoncé took to Cuba has inspired a song that both educates and defends the rapper. The Miami-born Cuban-American rapper Pitbull riffs on Jay-Z’s instrumentals while supplying his own lyrics about the tumultuous relations between America and the Communist island nation.
nydailynews.com (1 month and 10 days ago)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A women's rights organization will protest outside Reebok's Manhattan store on Thursday, demanding the athletic goods retailer cut ties with rapper Rick Ross over a song whose lyrics it says boasts about drugging and raping a woman.
reuters.com (1 month and 21 days ago)

The man behind the campaign to promote anti-Margaret Thatcher song Ding Dong! the Witch is Dead has complained that he has received "shocking" death threats.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 9 days ago)
In defiance of U.S. threats of economic sanctions, Pakistan has joined with Iran to break ground on a new gas pipeline on its side of the border between the two neighbors. At a ceremony in the Iranian border city of Chah Bahar, right across the border from Pakistan’s Baluchistan province, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and this Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari,...
ibtimes.com (2 months and 16 days ago)
SEOUL (Reuters) - As South Korean rapper Psy readies what he hopes will be his next hit song, aiming for a repeat of the viral "Gangnam Style," retailers are keeping a close eye on what he wears, hoping another blockbuster will send sales surging.
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