Died in Ashford, who along with wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of the biggest Motown, in a hospital in New York City, Liz Rosenberg said the publicity, Ashford, who was a friend since a long time. And said he was suffering from throat cancer and underwent radiation treatment,

Although it has some of the biggest success of her Motown with classics such as “Is not no mountain high enough” and “Reach out and touch the hand a person” by Ross and “you all you need to get by” by Guy and Tammy Terrell, Ashford and Simpson also created anthems for others, such as “I’m all woman,” Khan (remade later by Whitney Houston). Ashford and Simpson also had success writing for themselves: Perhaps the best-known song that they sang the 1980s hit “Solid as a rock.”

“His music is unparalleled in terms of songwriting great,” said Verdine White of Earth, wind and fire after learning the death of his friend.

“They were magic and that’s what creates those wonderful visits, that’s magic,” added White. “Without those songs, these artists have not been able to move to the next level.”

Others in the music industry also mourned the loss. On Twitter, and Alicia Keys wrote, “I’m sad to the point that he went … and so many more greatests going to come from somewhere … a legacy of infectious music … man!”

Ashford and Simpson’s relationship spanned more than four decades. They met in 1964 at a church in New York City. The Ashford, a native of South Carolina, comes to town to practice the profession of dance. Simpson was a student of music, and after contact with them, and they decided to start writing songs together.

“They were always comfortable with each other, and they are all comfortable, because it was convenient,” said White.

Happened when the first major success came with “Let’s Go Get Stoned” for Ray Charles. Become a bluesy, gospel, tinged song, a great success for Charles, and soon, they came to the attention of the records, and began writing for Motown artists, their hits.

Began to write affectionate, and romantic works for binary Gay and Terrell to become an instant classic, like “Love is precious,” and “Is not nothin ‘like the real thing.” In fact, “Is not no mountain high enough” was originally a hit for them, so Ross rerecorded at a later time with the new arrangements sweeping grandeur and make it pop song signature.

May be greater than Moses Ross: It has to have some of the biggest songs and helped her career, to identify visits that would distinguish her solo away from the Supremes. Among the songs that were hits Ross “Reach Out and Touch” and “Boss,” “Betty,” and “Missing You”, in honor of the late Guy and others. It is also composed some music for “The Wiz,” musical film which starred Ross and Michael Jackson.

In an industry where marriages and partnerships are transient, and Ashford and Simpson stood the test of time.

“The thing is married and working together, and this is what was special about them. Impress everyone that,” White said.

Helped the duo, married 38 years ago, selling millions of records for several artists. They also have success in their entity’s, but despite the “solid as a rock”, and songs that dwarf those formulated by others. Continued in the formulation of hits, even in the new millennium: the book credited as joint and Amy Winehouse in “Tears dry on their own.”

“Amy was the daughter of one of the greatest family and friends you can have than ever before,” said her father, Mitch Winehouse, in a section of the eulogy issued by a spokesman for the family.

The singer joined the father, mother and brother, a close friend of Winehouse, and the band members and celebrities, including producer Mark Ronson for service in the cemetery Edgwarebury in north London. The Kelly Osbourne features of the media and one of the many women wear their hair piled high in the beehive style brands echo the singer.

Fans and photographers gathered outside the corridor, but the funeral had been for several hundred friends and family only.

And Mitch Winehouse said that the daughter of the late mourners had recently found love and beat her drug dependency, three years before her death, but admitted it is still struggling to control their drinking water after several weeks of abstinence.

“She said:” It was my parents do not have enough drinking water, and I can not stand to look at the faces of your family anymore. “Said Mitch Winehouse.

Amy told her they were playing drums and singing in the house the night before her death.

“But did not know the depression, knowing that he died, knowing that he died happy, it makes us all feel better,” he said, adding that he hoped the establishment of an Amy Winehouse that will help people to beat drug abuse.

Ended a taxi driver and jazz singer, who helped in promoting his daughter’s love of music, a eulogy to him with the phrase “goodnight, my angel, sleep tight. Mummy of the father and love you so much ever.”

Jewish rabbi presided over the service included prayers in English and Hebrew.

It ended with the delivery of Carole King “so far away,” one of Winehouse’s favorite songs.

“Mitch was funny, and some great stories from childhood about how stubborn she was, and is clearly recognized by family members, friends, stories and laughed along,” said spokesman Chris Goodman family.

“He stressed several times until it became a lot happier now than ever before and that he talked about her boyfriend and praised the many people in her life.”

A friend of the family two thousand Ezekiel (55 years), the service was “joyful” celebration of the life of the singer.

“Mitch gave a eulogy is very good and he managed to get through it very well, considering,” he said.

Go to the Holocaust, Golders Green, where the singer was burning – close family and friends – including her boyfriend Winehouse recently, Reg Traviss.

Seemed emotional as they left the Temple red brick, which saw the burning of thousands of London, ordinary, and many celebrities, including the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, Peter comedy – mourners several, including Ronson – who was involved in the production of the album Winehouse’s breakthrough “Back to black “vendors and drummer Keith Moon of the World Health Organization.

Then the family was scheduled to be held two days of Shiva, a traditional Jewish mourning period.

Found on the soul singer, who had battled with alcoholism and drug addiction for years, Saturday shot dead at her home in London for her. Was 27.

The failure of an autopsy, which was held Monday to determine the cause of her death. Police awaiting the results of toxicology tests, which will take 2-4 weeks.

Issued only two albums in her short Winehouse – who won five Grammy Awards for “Back to Black” – and often made the headlines because of drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders and destructive relationships and performance failure.

Since her death, her records have re-entered the album charts all over the world, and tributes poured in from fans and other musicians.

George Michael called her “the most affectionate and vocalist of this country ever,” and the spirit of the singer Adele said, “paved the way for artists like me and make people excited about British music again.”

Her daughter, Romina Power, says Christian, died Friday in Palm Desert after fighting colon cancer. Was 87.

The pursuit of Christian born in Mexico, and a career in Los Angeles and fell into a contract with MGM. She made for the first time along with her ​​film Danny Kaye in the 1944 musical comedy “Even in the weapons.”

A year later, appeared in 1948 in “Tarzan and the mermaids,” and married a Christian power, one of the leading men in Hollywood, the most popular. They divorced in 1956.

Curves led to the famous Christian Life magazine nickname her “anatomic bomb”.

In 1954 she starred as James Bond love interest in the television adaptation of the novel “Casino Royale.”

However, they survived by Romina Power, Power Taryn sister and her eight grandchildren.

“My family and I grieve for Lucian Freud, not only as one of the great painters of the twentieth century, but also a very dear friend,” said his long-time dealer William Acquavella in a written statement. “Before everything photographic artist of his generation, he imbued each of the portraits and landscapes with the drama of deep, insight and energy in the company was interesting, humble, warm and witty, and he lived to paint and painted until his death, away from the noise of the art world.”

In 2008, one of Freud’s work – brought $ 33.6 million during bidding at Christie’s auction in New York, and then put into the record for the work of living artist – the painting in 1995, “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping.”

Painting depicting Sue Tilley, director of the Center run by the Labour government in London, lying naked on her side on a worn couch with nothing to hide her folds of flesh.

Son of the architect Ernst Freud, the grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, was born in 1922 in Berlin, Lucien. One of eleven years later, and his family fled the Nazis as they were emerging, to London. There, he joined his brothers in the schools and English.

Served as a seaman in the Atlantic trade in 1941.

He studied briefly at the Central School of Art in London in school and Cedric Morris East Anglian Painting and Drawing in Dedham, according to a biography posted by the Tate Modern in London, where he was exposed.

But received little formal training in art, according to a statement issued by his propaganda, Bettina Prentice.

Freud was the first solo exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery in 1944.

In his 20s, was it thoroughly, and apply a thin oils in his paintings of people, animals and plants, which were presented in unusual juxtapositions. And his subjects was accurate, crisp and clean contoured.

But in the mid-1950s, replaced it with sable brushes, brushes made of boar bristles and use of more flexible blows freely portray his subjects.

It is during that decade that focused on the image, which became the focus of his work. In 1966, he painted a nude for the first time.

“I paint people,” he said. “Not because of what it is like, not exactly in spite of what it is like, but how that happens.”

Of the 1980s, Freud was the application of thick layers of paint to transfer the sense of tactile reality.

“I want to work in the paint flesh,” he told his biographer, Lawrence Gowing, in 1982. “As far as I am concerned the paint is the person, and I want to work for me, not the flesh.”

Throughout his life, he remained committed to realism.

Although he was drawing commissioned portraits for the likes of Lord Rothschild and the Queen of England, and most of his subjects was his lovers, relatives and friends – including artists Francis Bacon and David Hockney. They are usually painted in the daily meetings, which lasted six hours and spread over the months or weeks or years.

“The picture, in order to move us, and we must not only remind us of life, but must obtain a life of its own, specifically in order to reflect the life,” said Freud in a program broadcast by the BBC.

Presented the work of Freud in the George Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Irish Modern Art in Dublin, and the Correr Museum in Venice, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Tate Britain gallery Scottish National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Art Stadtisches Spendhaus Reutlingen in Germany , and fur Museum Kunst Modern, Frankfurt, Whitechapel Art in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, and the National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, and Los Angeles for the Fundacio Caixa in Barcelona, ​​the Museum and Sculpture Park Hirschhorn in Washington , the Setagaya Art Museum in Tokyo.

Ended his marriage to Kitty Garman in 1948 in divorce, as did his second marriage, to Lady Caroline Blackwood. “Behind many of the children from his first marriage and a series of emotional relationships,” said his publicity.

Fire and Winehouse to fame with the album “Back to Black”, which is a mix of jazz, soul, rock and pop classics was a blow to the world. He won it five Grammy and made Winehouse – with her beehive hairdo and tattoos black seas of old-fashioned – one of the most memorable music stars.

Police confirmed that the woman was 27, was shot dead in a house in North London Camden Square, and the cause of death was not immediately known. And ambulance services said in London, Winehouse had died before ambulance crews arrived that it was sent to the scene.

Could be considered an ambulance was parked under the trees outside the house in London has, and the street had been cordoned off by all the police tape. Officers kept onlookers away from the scene.

It’s been 14 years since MTV aired the final episode of the animated series “beavis and Pat Head,” but the title characters have not grown up since then. Not one little bit.

Last month, Winehouse canceled a European tour after his return they swayed and slurred her way through the barely recognizable songs in the premiere in the Serbian capital Belgrade. Flew booed and jeered off the stage, and household management and told her to take the time to recover.

“I was not looking for exit to be famous,” said Winehouse, The Associated Press when “Back to Black” was released. “I’m just a musician.”

But in the end, the music was overwhelmed by fame, Winehouse and demons. Wrapped in newspapers reach the stage of the manifestations of volatile, and fights drunk, stints in hospitals and clinics for rehabilitation. And now the performance shambling, stumbling wreck the train, users all over the world on the Internet.

Winehouse was born and grew in 1983 to a taxi driver Mitch Winehouse and his pharmacist wife Janice, and grew up in the suburbs of north London, was to be a career in showbiz from an early age. It is formed and a friend when she was 10, a rap group, pictures sweet ‘n’ – Photos Winehouse – which she described later as “Pepa ‘n’ little white Jewish Salt.”

Attended the young Sylvia Theatre School, and a factory for music British and moppets representation, and then went to a school Brett, a performing arts academy in the form of “fame”, and was originally signed to “Pop Idol” svengali Simon Fuller’s 19 Management.

But Winehouse was never a star in the teen and stuffing, and are always resisted classification.

Impact Jazz 2003 the first album “Frank” and the critic praised and sold well in Britain. Winehouse won the Ivor Novello Award for songwriting, and the two Brit nominations and a spot on the shortlist for the Mercury Music Prize.

But soon he and Winehouse were not satisfied with the disc, saying it was “only 80 percent behind” the album.

“Frank” followed by a retreat in which Winehouse broke up with her boyfriend, suffered for a long period of writer’s block, she said later, smoking a lot of marijuana.

“I have writer’s block for a very long time,” she said in 2007. “As a writer, based literally on your self the last thing you wrote … I thought,” What happened to me? “

“At one point if it was two years ago and the last record (record company) and told me, in fact, ‘Do you even want to make another record? You’re like,’ I swear it’s coming.” I told them: “Once you start writing I will write and write and write, but I have only to turn it on.”

The album was in the end it produces a sensation.

Was released in Britain in the autumn of 2006, “Back to Black” brought the world-renowned Winehouse. Working with producer Mark Ronson Remi, peace and soul-funk group Dap-Kings, Winehouse and fused soul, jazz, Doo Wop, and above all, the love of girl groups of the early 1960s with lyrical tales of romantic obsession and emotional excess.

“Back to Black” was released in the United States in March 2007 and went on to win five Grammy Awards, including song and record year for “Rehab”.

Attributed the music critic John Aizlewood her success across the Atlantic to the great sound and original sound indeed.

“There are a lot of British teams fail in America because it gives America what is the best thing the Americans – and this is why most British hip-hop has failed,” he said. “But they will not have anything that comes through Amy Winehouse’s just like.”

And helped by high Winehouse has a distinctive look – black hair cell, and thickly lined cat eyes, and tattoos girly – and tongue biting.

EXPRESS famous in the evaluation of their peers, describing the one-time Dido sound as “background music – the background to death” and saying of pop princess Kylie Minogue, “It’s not an artist … it’s a literal translation.”

The disintegration of the songs on “Black to Black,” a detailed and similar failures with candor. Lyrically, as in life, and Winehouse wore her heart on her sleeve.

“I listen to a lot of music ’60s, but society is different now,” said Winehouse in 2007. “I am a young woman, and I want to write about what I know.

Jessica Biel and once announced that being blessed with such beauty is the “real problem” when it comes to being considered for major roles, and Megan Fox also complained that he was tired of it just being a mere eye cndy.

However, the “modern family” star Sofia Vergara, who was shown on the Maxim “Hot 100″ list, and named one of the magazine of the people “most beautiful”, and comes away screaming from the top of the list of AskMen.com ‘s “most desirable woman” does not has no complaints when it comes to being accused of hot Hollywood property.

“I love it. Of course, it’s great at my age. It’s fantastic,” said Vergara column FOX411 pancakes pop in while promoting the flick of her family to come “, and the Smurfs.” “I think that all that is positive and good help out with your career. why not embrace it and benefit? “

Vergara, 39, French channels Odile cosmetics magnate in the highly-anticipated film, but in real life, she is looking superb with the establishment of a balanced approach.

“Everything in moderation. Not a lot of food, and exercise is not much, everything is not too much. Everything in moderation,” said Vergara, “and, of course,” wearing sun block, and do things that are dermatologist tells you to do-it helps in the process of aging.

This region of Brittany offers a dramatic rugged coastline with cliffs and excellent beaches.

Why not sample the culture and cuisine in Bretton near Quimper, the ancient capital of the city of Los Angeles Cornouaille and face the challenge of the trail Cornouaille apples.

As one of the regions of Brittany’s most traditional and distinctive, there is something for everyone to enjoy.

Was granted a divorce in a court in London on Wednesday. None of the parties was present, reports The Associated Press. In view of the grounds for divorce Nayar “unreasonable behavior.”

Married to actress (46 years) Now, Nayar in a civil ceremony in a castle in England in 2007 after dating since 2003. Has a son 9 years old, Damian, with Stephen Bing, a former, and the historian Hugh Grant for 13 years before that.

Hurley and Nayar season last year. In April, she was treated well with the divorce.

“We’re all very happy at the moment, and try to move forward,” she said.

“She got a bit in a coma,” said Prince Frederic von Anhalt.

Gabor was taken to Ronald Reagan on Tuesday, a medical center at the University of California, because the probe implanted in her stomach was “bleeding like a fountain …” said the spokesman.

She was released from the same hospital the day after being treated for pneumonia.

Von Anhalt said doctors have worked hard on Wednesday.

“It does not react, ” said Prince Frederic von Anhalt.

He said it was suffering from an inflammation of the stomach.

The Gabor, 94, and from the hospital many times in the past year. Underwent hip replacement surgery last summer and his leg amputated after a few months. She said she was unable to walk since a car accident in 2002.

Hungarian-born actress, the second of the three Gabor sisters celebrated, famous for her many marriages, and a strong personality.

Movies are more visible and John Houston in Toulouse Lautrec biopic “Moulin Rouge” in 1952, “A Tale of Three Loves” in 1953, “The Girl in the Kremlin” in 1957 and the classic Orson Welles’ 1958 cult, “Touch of Evil.