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thehelpmeplease is jonas johnsson, he lives in gothenburg, sweden and studies graphic design. if he could, he would much rather sit in a park or a pub, drinking cheap wine, smoke a couple of cigarettes and maybe pet som bumblebees. (oh! he might knack out a song or two as well :) but who would pay his rent then? i dunno... "thehelpmeplease has in some form existed since jonas bought his first guitar in 1997, when he was 19 years old. he is autodidactic and is one of those musicians that hardly even know the name of the chords he's...

To raise money for the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Simon Cowell organised a charity single. He chose "Everybody Hurts" as the song, PM Gordon Brown agreed to waive VAT on the single and R.E.M. agreed to waive all royalties. Proceeds from the single will be split between The Sun's Helping Haiti fund and the Disasters Emergency Committee. The song is performed by (in order of appearence): Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams. Leona Lewis, Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey, Cheryl Cole, Mika, Michael Bublé, Joe McElderry, Miley Cyrus, James Blunt, Take That, Jon Bon Jovi, James Morrison, Alexandra Burke, Susan Boyle,...

Joe Buck is the pseudonym of an American musician from Murray, Kentucky. He is a current member of Hank Williams III’s “Damn Band”, and a member of Williams’ punk-metal project Assjack. He is credited, along with Williams and Andy Gibson, with engineering and producing Williams’ most recent album, Straight to Hell. As a solo artist, he is a one-man band called Joe Buck Yourself. He is a former member of Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers and played all guitar, bass, and drums on their 2003 album Cock-A-Doodle-Dont. .

You can tell a lot about a band by how it performs offstage, as was my initial experience of Paris Suit Yourself on Thanksgiving last year. The three expatriate band members made a surprise visit to my Berlin apartment after hearing word of an American feast, hours after dinner and just in time for the vodka. Like the band's music, their behavior was as charming as it was abrasive. Drummer Joseph Heffernan, who hails from Arkansas and intentionally, if not performatively, assumes that anyone from north of the Mason-Dixon Line is from Connecticut, managed to rile up the majority of...