That’s just music

Ex-leader of Blur, The Good, and The Bad And The Queen frontman (also one of the members of Gorillaz) Damon Albarn is planning to record the solo album, which may involve 130 musicians.  This recored has no name yet, but one of the Damon’s helpers may include the Chinese choir consisted of one hundred men, said Gigwise.

Albarn promised “to put all efforts and his passion into this new task”.   A musicians didn’t tell other details about this project, except jokes that the album is going to be recorded in Chinese.

The new Damon Albarn’s album shall be ready for July this year.

John Lennon’s hand written text of the song “Give Peace a Chance” is going to be sold (July 10) at the Christie’s auction in London, said BBC News.

Following the words of a Christie’s representative this text belongs to the writer Gail Renard right now.  In 1969 she met with Lennon and Yoko Ono in Montreal at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where a couple was making it’s famous “bed-in” protest after not getting an access to the US.  Renard’s reason for visiting them was an interview that eventually ended up in a long and interesting relationship.

The song “Give Peace a Chance” was written and recorded by Lennon in the hotel mentioned above.  Everybody took their part in the process of recording, including Gail Renard who was singing a little bit.

Christie’s is planning to sell some rare photographs that are also belong to Renard’s collection.  Whole lot is expected to make up to three hundred thousand pounds.