PARENTHESE DIVAS

SHEENA EASTON dans un clip bizarre et  MARIAH CAREY en bombasse .... Madonna en super forme .. Céline Dion sur le départ ... 

 

 

 

PARENTHESE

MARIAH CAREY célèbre les 30 ans de son album emblématique DAYDREAM.... en publiant quelques chansons inédites ainsi que des remixes.

 

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Le célèbre BETTE DAVIS EYES de KIM CARNES décliné en 6 remixes !! Un joli exercice de style !! Ils ne sont pas tous très bons ... mais y en a pour tout les gouts !! 

 

MC 

Le duo avant le massacre de la post production ... 

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MC a dévoilé récemment le tracklisting de son nouvel album qui sort le 26 septembre via PIAS .... 

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UN BOUT DE PARADIS

2ème single extrait du nouvel album de VANESSA .. sous la houlette d'Etienne Daho ! 

UN JOUR EN OCTOBRE

 

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Le label indépendant PIAS distribuera en France  les albums de MARIAH CAREY et d'OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN le 10 octobre 2025 ! 

Celui de Mariah est déjà en préco sur tous les sites ou presque ... celui d'ONJ .. "comment dire" ... plus tard !! 

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COUPURE DE PRESSE

DANS LES BACS

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Bon ... 2025 sera une année sans OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN ... son dernier label n'a pas fêté comme il se doit les 50 ans de l'album HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW et passe à la trappe les 45 ans de XANADU ! Il ne faut vraiment plus rien espérer  de correct pour SOUL KISS ou CLEARLY LOVE ... ONJ s'est planté quand elle a signé avec PWR ! 

SHEENA EASTON, elle, a plus de chance avec le label anglais CHERRY RED ! Le 2ème volume du Complete EMI Recording est prévu pour octobre 2025 ! Pour celui qui aime l'artiste, et c'est mon cas, c'est une bien jolie nouvelle ! J'ai le premier coffret et c'est vraiment du beau boulot ! Je suis attristé qu'ONJ n'ait pas la même considération d'un label indépendant ! 

 

 

Mariah Carey annonce la sortie d’un nouvel album : 'Here For It All' sort cet automne ... le 26 septembre !! 

J'adore ANDERSON PAAK .. et il serait le producteur exécutif de ce nouveau projet ! 

 

Une semaine avant MC, c'est la newyorkaise KENDRA MORRIS qui sort son nouvel opus intitulé NEXT ! 

j'adore sa musique et le personnage un peu en dehors des clous !! 

 

 

SUR MA PLATINE

... des chansons tristes ..  

 

PARENTHESE 

KYLIE : j’ai malheureusement succombé à une infection virale (bonjour la laryngite). J’ai fait de mon mieux pour récupérer rapidement pour commencer notre prochaine série de spectacles lundi, mais j’ai peur qu’il me faille quelques jours pour être assez bien pour remonter sur scène et vous donner le meilleur de moi-même.

La chanteuse s’est excusée en écrivant : "Je suis tellement, TELLEMENT désolée ! Je n’ai pas d’autre choix que de reporter les spectacles de Berlin, Lodz, Kaunas et Tallinn comme prévu.

Souhaitons lui bon rétablissement  ... et j'ai une pensée spéciale pour tout ceux qui ont organisés leur voyage en conséquence .... 

Kylie Minogue took to Instagram on Friday night to share the upsetting news that she has "succumbed" to illness, and as a result, has had to postpone a run of her European show dates.

The 57-year-old, who celebrated her birthday last month, took to Instagram to share the upsetting news of her ill-health, apologising profusely to her dedicated fans. 

Writing on Instagram Stories, Kylie explained: "Hi lovers, as some of you may know, a week ago we finished the UK leg of The Tension Tour.

"I made it over the finish line (yay), but unfortunately have succumbed to a viral infection (hello laryngitis). I've tried my best to recover fast to start our next run of shows on Monday, but I'm afraid it will take me some days to be well enough to get back on stage and perform my best for you."

The singer apologised, writing: "I'm so, SO sorry! I have no choice but to postpone the shows in Berlin, Lodz, Kaunas and Tallinn as scheduled."

 

MARIAH 

Son nouveau clip est arrivé .. et elle me fait toujours bien rire .. souvent allongée quelque part ... ici sur le sol .. elle ne bouge vraiment plus ! 

 

BELINDA 

Celui de BELINDA CARLISLE aussi est arrivé sur YOUTUBE !! Plus flou tu meurs ... j'ai d'abord pensé que c'était les réglages de mon ordi qui avaient clapotés ...mais non .. c'est un effet de style .. ! mais c'est naze ! 

PARENTHESE CHANTEUSES

Le retour de Vanessa Paradis !! La chanson a été écrite par Doriand et composée par Etienne Daho et Jean Louis Pierot.

MARIAH CAREY de nouveau en piste avec un nouveau titre .. pas vraiment dangereuse .... 

BELINDA CARLISLE avec une reprise qu'on connait bien !!  Elle se frotte au THE AIR THAT I BREATHE des légendaire THE HOLLIES ! C'est casse-gueule mais sa version est très intéressante !

LA STREISAND avec la chanteuse en vogue du moment LAUFEY .. et c'est très jolie .. 

LA PARENTHESE CAREY

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Jolie "ré edit" pour célébrer les 20 ans de l'album EMANCIPATION OF MIMI !! Coffret de 5 vinyles incluant remixes et inédits ... mais pas de version CD ... 

Jamais, au grand jamais nous aurons une version de la sorte pour un quelconque anniversaire d'un album d'ONJ ! ça coute ... et PWR n'investira jamais un "kopeck" dans ce genre de projet ... 

Voir cette publication sur Instagram

Une publication partagée par Mariah Carey (@mariahcarey)

 

 

LA STREISAND 

2 grands de la chanson pour un joli duo ! Pourquoi attendre d'être âgé pour faire un projet de la sorte ...  

 

Sans Barbra .. 

LA PARENTHESE CAREY

... parce ce que c'est MARIAH ... tout les artistes ne sont pas traités de la même manière .. 

20 ans déjà ! 

 

 

EN BREF 

Frankie Valli fête ses 91 ans !! C'est beau !! 

 

Parce que c'est ABBA !!! On célèbre les 50 ans de l'album éponyme du groupe, retrouvez les incontournables "Mamma Mia", "SOS" et "I do, I do, I do, I do, I do

 

 

Parce que c'est BARBRA ..

C'EST MARIAH QUI L'A DIT !!

IT'S TIME ... 

PREMIERE

 Lovin' You Ain't Easy (Clunk Click, February 9th 1974) disponible le 19 janvier à 17h ! 

 

LA NEWS DE LA SEMAINE DERNIERE

 ... dont tout le monde parle !! Est apparue le 12 janvier la playlist "10 SONGS FOR YOU" sur le label G STARS (???).. et sur toutes les plateformes numériques .. ou presque ! Playlist orientée Country Music ! 

C'est cool !! par contre  c'est compliqué de ne pas écraser la tête d'Olivia sur le visuel  ? et comme d'hab on te balance un truc sans savoir le pourquoi du comment  !!! Cela fait une semaine .. tout de même ! 

    

Olivia Newton-John · Ten songs for you

 

 

LA CAREY PARENTHESE

 .. y a pas photo !! ça c'est de la célébration d'anniversaire pour les 30 ans d'un album emblématique ! Faut se donner les moyens pour réaliser un bel objet ! 

Désolé d'en remettre un couche mais les 45 ans de TOTALLY HOT c'était vraiment du cheap dans la catégorie "nice price"  !! .. et puis tant qu'il n'y aura personne pour s'intéresser à et valoriser l'œuvre d'ONJ chez PWR ... on aura de la "daube" ! 

PARENTHESE

Elle fait rêver cette édition 30eme anniversaire du 3ème album de Mariah Carey .. et c'est triste de penser qu'on n'aura jamais ce genre de jolie chose concernant Olivia Newton-John ! Chez ONJ .... y a jamais de bonus ! De Mariah Carey à Barbra Streisand .. elles partagent pléthore de matériaux inédits .. mais pas Olivia ... c'était pas son truc ni John Farrar d'ailleurs ! 

 

SOOTHING 

J'aime toujours bien l'ambiance créée par CLOUD 10 .. un petit coté nostalgique .. et ça calme les esprits .. 

NEWS EN VRAC

Legendary Nine Entertainment reporter Richard Wilkins has paid tribute to Olivia Newton-John ahead of her memorial service in Melbourne. 

 Dickie caught up with Ben to spin some yarns about why he called her “Aunty Olivia”, the kid she used to babysit and the night a ghost showed up!

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Music royalty, celebs to speak at Olivia memorial

Some of the biggest names in music will appear at the memorial for Olivia Newton-John, and will share intimate moments of their time with the Aussie superstar. Elton John, Pink, Mariah Carey to speak at Hamer Hall service !

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Olivia Newton-John’s daughter Chloe Lattanzi and husband John Easterling have paid a visit to a Melbourne garden that had a very special place in the star’s heart.

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A Remarkable Friendship – Fleur Thiemeyer’s Journey with Olivia Newton-John

As Australia pauses to remember the life and career of Olivia Newton-John, Fleur Thiemeyer has more memories to summon than most, more tears to shed and more laughs to remember. Her friendship with the star spanned half a century, and was the spark for a story that has never really been told.

“I think for me, more than anything, I felt like her protector, because I was the tough kid,” Thiemeyer says of the woman she met in Los Angeles in 1973, when these two Melbourne girls were in their mid-20s and on the verge of conquering Hollywood.

“No one could get near her. We gelled so well. I looked at her as being a soulmate, a protector. She was the person who would confide in me if she wasn’t sure about something. The silly stuff. I love the photos where we’re laughing.”

Thiemeyer is sharing her story — and her astonishing photo album — in honour of her friend, and to properly tell the tale of how her own star rose in tandem with Newton-John’s — but behind the scenes.

Newton-John was Thiemeyer’s fashion muse, the superstar who turbocharged her nascent fashion career and helped forge a remarkable rise as designer for an eye-popping Rolodex of music legends.

Even more remarkably, she got there with almost no one knowing who she was, even in her native Australia. “I didn’t really want it,” says Thiemeyer of the fame that might have accompanied her rise. “I never had a manager. I never had an agent.”

What she did have was a reservoir of nerve and determination forged growing up in postwar Melbourne. A tomboy who preferred surfing and athletics, she stumbled into the burgeoning Australian music scene of the late 1960s, moved to London and then Los Angeles with her pop star boyfriend, and fell into the world of Hollywood fashion design. 

You could put her name at the centre of a wheel whose spokes reach out to include local pop pioneers such as Zoot and The Easybeats, through her big break dressing ONJ from 1973 onwards, and then Liza Minnelli, Dolly Parton, Bette Midler, Fleetwood Mac, Rod Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne, KISS, Motley Crue, Pat Benatar, KC and the Sunshine Band, Dusty Springfield and more. 

She put ONJ in that iconic Physical leotard and headband; Rod Stewart in Spandex pants; she made Minnelli dazzle in her legendary Liza with a Z show; and it was Thiemeyer who Midler called on to dress her for a career-flipping Beast Of Burden video with Mick Jagger in 1984.

How did it all happen? It’s tempting to use a word like “fairytale”, but Fleur Thiemeyer is too down-to-earth for that. She recalls her life matter-of-factly and with many a wry laugh.

“I’m growing up in the ’50s. I’m probably the only child whose mother isn’t home at lunchtime, so there’s an independence that you get. Always a rebel. I think if you could be expelled at eight years old, I would have been.” 

She was no shrinking violet, but there were no signs early on that she would one day make her mark as a master of the frills and fads of the fashion world. She was athletic (she remembers racing future Olympian Raelene Boyle’s behind around the track) and took a shine to surfing: “You’re out there with 20 guys and you’re the only girl. I preferred always to be hanging out with guys just for the fun of it. And from there it extended to going out to clubs, and the only people I really related to were the people on stage.” 

Thiemeyer was present at the creation of dozens of celebrated music careers. She was going to clubs in her mid-teens, and her first big-name friendship was with The Easybeats, Australia’s answer to The Beatles. Indeed, it is her unusual first name that graces their 1966 song Sorry:

Had a date at seven

With a girl named Fleur

Then I just remembered, had a date with her

At a club she met singer Lynne Randell, resulting in an unlikely shift in focus: Thiemeyer started to dabble in modelling.

Her elder sister was dating Phillip Frazer, founder of the iconic pop magazine Go-Set; her sister was also friends with a young music nut named Ian Meldrum, trying his hand at music writing. Thiemeyer found herself in the pages of Go-Set as a model. She met Zoot, a band that included Darryl Cotton and Rick Springfield. She met a young Bon Scott, then in a band called The Valentines. Roger Davies was around, about to hit the big time managing a band named Sherbet. “It’s all six degrees of separation,” says Thiemeyer. 

Fast-forward to 1973. Thiemeyer and her partner Darryl Cotton, who she had dressed along with his Zoot bandmates in all-pink in her first foray into high-impact design, had moved to London for a time. Then they joined the burgeoning Australian presence trying to crack the US market. She enrolled in a fashion course, more as a way of getting a visa than from any larger ambition.

Several of what would later become known as “the Gumleaf Mafia” lived in the same block: “The apartments overlooked the swimming pool and over to Sunset Boulevard and Tower Records.”

Where better to launch a storied Hollywood career?  

One day, a musician from Moonee Ponds — John Farrar, of The Strangers — came over to the apartments to visit Steve Kipner, a young musician from Brisbane who lived upstairs. Farrar brought with him a friend from his Melbourne TV days on programs like Bandstand - Olivia Newton-John, a close friend and singing partner of his wife, Pat.

Farrar and Kipner later wrote some of Newton-John’s biggest hits. But in 1973, she had just cracked the US market with her first country songs and was about to embark on a first Vegas stint. One of the Gumleaf brigade said to her: “You’re going to need dresses. Fleur does dresses. You should meet Fleur.” 

The rest is music and fashion history.

Thiemeyer and Newton-John forged an instant bond. They were the same age, from the same town, with the same sense of humour, and — at the same height and with blonde hair — they even looked alike. Vegas shows and foreign tours followed as Newton-John became one of the planet’s biggest stars.

On the road, it could feel like a prison of endless shows and little escape from Newton-John’s celebrity, but they would find ways to break the grind. In Japan, they once slipped out without security but had to flee to the hotel when Newton-John was recognised. In Vegas, they’d make surreptitious late-night visits to a drug store and try on makeup and laugh at the silliness of it all.

“I look at a photo of us now and it’s just two Aussie girls, and that was the great part of always being with her.”

In the second half of the 1970s, Thiemeyer dressed her friend for tours and multiple US TV specials, which Newton-John did yearly with big-name guests such as ABBA, Elton John and Tina Turner. Then in 1978, Newton-John’s star shot into the stratosphere with Grease. And while it wasn’t Thiemeyer who put her in those famous black leather pants, this was a fashion theme she applied more broadly to Newton-John’s videos and performances that drove a pop music trend. Her distinct style, and Newton-John’s effortless natural flair in wearing it, had Hollywood taking notice.

The phone started ringing.

It might be: “Liza Minnelli would like to meet with you, would you be available tomorrow morning? She’s at the Beverly Hills Hotel.”

Or: “Can you meet with Dolly Parton?”

Thiemeyer recalls that meeting: “We went to her closet and went through her stuff and Dolly said ‘You can do anything you want with me except for this or this or this’, like her trademarks, the long fingernails and so on.”

She embarked on long working relationships with Rod Stewart and Pat Benatar. Then there was an unlikely detour when she started dressing the big-hair, big-noise, big-everything bands of the 1980s. She is friends to this day with those heavy rockers — Motley Crue in particular — a sharp design departure from her most famous early client. 

Now 73, and living in Melbourne where she has raised her son for the last 20 years, those ties are often the cause of sadness. Celebrity deaths these days form a melancholy path through her own life and career. A few days after our interview she gets the news that Raquel Welch, a client for decades, has died. A few weeks earlier, it was Jeff Beck. In November, it was Christine McVie, the Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter who Thiemeyer dressed for Bill Clinton’s first inauguration concert in 1992.

“I can call up pictures now and I’m the only person still alive.”

La suite sur How Olivia Newton-John got her look (smh.com.au)

Par Neil McMahon

Fleur’s famous looks

Fleur Thiemeyer laughs at her part in music fashion in the 1980s, the early days of MTV: “Probably 80 per cent of the bad taste is from me!”

Let’s get Physical: One of the most iconic fashion moments of the era: ONJ in leotard and headband. The outfit was built in real time, with Thiemeyer dyeing a white leotard pink. “Bad taste is timeless,” she laughs. “We put the white T-shirt on and cut the neck out. The neckband of the shirt became the hairband because her hair wouldn’t stay right. And the turquoise I put on as a wrap-around because I didn’t like the overall shape. And then there were the leggings.”

MEURAHIA CURRI

  "Mariah était adorable, incroyable et hilarante, elle avait une personne spécifique pour la suivre avec une serviette de table afin que lorsqu’elle était assise dans sa petite robe courte, elle était modestement protégée. Je jure que c’est vrai, Olivia et moi avons ri d’incrédulité "..... ( et moi j'ai bien vu MC en mode promo à Paris avoir une assistante qui lui tenait la paille de son soda !! sans doute pour ne pas se casser un ongle !)

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HOMMAGES

On peut voir sur les réseaux tous ces messages d'amour de la part des amis d'Olivia, de ses fans ou de ceux qui croisé son chemin furtivement à travers les années ... mais on s'accorde tous à dire qu'elle était exceptionnelle et partie bien trop jeune ! 

We lost a beautiful sole today. Olivia Newton-John was not only a great musical talent but she was so down-to-earth and one of the nicest people I had ever known. I had the pleasure of working with her on several projects; this one was the last music video she had done and I had the pleasure of directing it. I included some behind the scene footage from a 3 day shoot on her ranch in California.

Robert Lynden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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