From Channel 4 Teletext:

A source from The Mail On Sunday said the world is going to be "shocked" by their next album giveaway in a few months time.

"I can't say who it is yet - but he's a superstar who's long overdue a comeback".

it could be ''MILLI' from 'MILLI VANILLI' ?

peppeken said:

Billie Joel

Or, knowing the tricks the Mail on Sunday can scoop, could it be...

axel rose ? aah just kidding.
im just not taking this serious because in the past there where discriptions of michael before. about him performing,releasing an album , appearing etc so i dont hold my breath yet. although i did saw a vid of mike calling some fan party saying its comming sooner then they think

Michael Jackson would never do this.

He would consider it beneath him.

I love Mike, but when it comes to his career, the man has a big ego. Giving his album away with a tabloid would be too low-key for Mike.

No.

Michael Jackson can't possibly be finished with his album yet.

NEVER. MJ would never consider this.

probably prince.

I heard Repetition, Life On Mars, favourite melodies...

David Bowie is the subject of an upcoming Mail On Sunday cover-mount CD in the UK. But, rather than follow the usual format, David decided to select twelve of his own favourite Bowie recordings.

Called iSELECTBOWIE, (see above) the twelve track CD contains a brand new re-recording of Time Will Crawl. Here's what DB says about this new version of the track which was originally a 1987 single release from Never Let Me Down...

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Time Will Crawl (MM Remix)
Produced by David Bowie.
Recorded & mixed by Mario J McNulty.
String arrangements by Gregor Kitziz.
String Quartet: Martha Mooke/Krista Bennion Feeney/Robert
Chausow/Matthew Goeke.
Drums: Sterling Campbell.

"There are a host of songs that I’ve recorded over the years that for one reason or another (clenched teeth) I’ve often wanted to re-record some time in the future. This track from ‘Never Let Me Down’ is one of those. I’ve replaced the drum machine with true drums and added some crickety strings and remixed. I’m very fond of this new version with its Neil Young of Shortlands accents. Oh, to redo the rest of that album.

One Saturday afternoon in April 1986, along with some other musicians I was taking a break from recording at Montreux studios in Switzerland. It was a beautiful day and we were outside on a small piece of lawn facing the Alps and the lake. Our engineer, who had been listening to the radio, shot out of the studio door and shouted, ‘There’s a whole lot of shit going on in Russia.’ The Swiss news had picked up a Norwegian radio station that was screaming for anyone who would listen that huge billowing clouds were moving over from the Motherland and they weren’t rain clouds. This was the first news in Europe of the satanic Chernobyl.

I phoned a writer friend of mine in London but he hadn’t heard anything about it. It wasn’t for many more hours that the story started trickling out as major news. For those first few moments it felt sort of claustrophobic to know that you are one of only a few witnesses to something of this magnitude. Over the next couple of months a complicated crucible of impressions collected in my head prompted by this insanity any one of which could have become a song. I stuck them all in ‘Time Will Crawl’. That last sentence rhymes." - David Bowie 2008

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We'll post one or two more of David's song annotations ahead of the Sunday 29th June publication date, when you will be able to read his comments on all twelve of the following tracks which make up iSELECTBOWIE.

01 - Life On Mars?
02 - Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing
03 - The Bewlay Brothers
04 - Lady Grinning Soul
05 - Win
06 - Some Are
07 - Teenage Wildlife
08 - Repetition
09 - Fantastic Voyage
10 - Loving The Alien
11 - Time Will Crawl (MM Remix)
12 - Hang On To Yourself (From David Bowie - Live Santa Monica '72)

That's what I call an impressive introduction to David Bowie's music. Then again, DB has always had remarkably good taste when it comes to other people's stuff, so why not his own?

This coming Sunday, a week before the Mail On Sunday publishes iSELECTBOWIE, there will be a Bowie feature in the Mail On Sunday Live magazine.

if anyone on the other side of the pond feels like hooking an american bowie fan up, orgnote me.

SoulAlive said:

we're on the same wavelength