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Placebo: Black Market Music

Black Market Music

On October 9, 2000, “Hut” label released “Black Market Music”, the third Placebo studio album. It was recorded 1999  – 2000, at the “Olympic Studios”, “Townhouse Studios” and “Moody Studios” in London, and was produced by Paul Corkett.

  • Brian Molko– vocals, guitar, keyboards, 6-string bass
  • Stefan Olsdal– bass, guitar, 6-string bass, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Steve Hewitt– drums, percussion
  • Bill Lloyd – bass
  • Justin Warfield– rapping vocals
  • Severe Loren – backing vocals
  • Dimitri Tikovoï– string programming
  • Rob Ellis – string arrangements

Track listing:

All tracks by Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal, Steve Hewitt, Rob Ellis, and Bill Lloyd.

  1. Taste in Men
  2. Days Before You Came
  3. Special K
  4. Spite & Malice –  Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal, Steve Hewitt, Rob Ellis, Bill Lloyd, Justin Warfield
  5. Passive Aggressive
  6. Black-Eyed
  7. Blue American
  8. Slave to the Wage – Kannberg, Malkmus, Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal, Steve Hewitt, Rob Ellis, Bill Lloyd
  9. Commercial for Levi
  10. Hemoglobin
  11. Narcoleptic
  12. Peeping Tom

Michael Jackson

On June 25, 2009, Michael Joseph Jackson died aged 50.  He was singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor,  named the “King of Pop” and regarded as one of the most important artists in the history of the popular music and culture. His 1982 album “Thriller” is the best-selling album of all time and the video clips for his songs “Beat It”, “Billie Jean” and “Thriller” turned down the racial barriers and transformed the music videos into an art form. Jackson is the most awarded artists in the history of the modern music – he was inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”, he was inducted into the “Songwriters Hall of Fame” and in to the “Dance Hall of Fame” as the first and only dancer from pop and rock music. He is multiple winner of “Guinness World Records”, he won thirteen “Grammy Awards”, the “Grammy Legend Award”, the “Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award”, twenty six “American Music Awards”, he was voted the “Artist of the Century” and “Artist of the 1980s”. In his solo career, Jackson had thirteen number-one singles in the US, he is the only artist to have top ten singles in the “Billboard Hot 100” and sold more than four hundred millions records worldwide. For his humanitarian job and activities, in 2000, Jackson was recognized by the “Guinness World Records” as the most humanitarian entertainer in the history, supporting 39 various charities.

Tito Puente

On June 1, 2000, Ernesto Antonio “Tito” Puente died aged 77.  He was musician (timbales, vibraphone, drums, sax, piano, bass, bongos, congas) and composer, Puente is credited as “The Musical Pope”, “The King of the timbales” and “The King of Latin music”. In his 50-year career he has performed with many famous musicians, such as Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Cella Cruze and Eddie Palmieri and has recorded as a leader more than forty albums. Puente is author of big number of Latin standards, including the world famous “Oye Como Va”.