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CALGARY HERALD Thursday, May 3, 2007 D7 Perfection Has Its Price, figi ENTERTAINMENT aar Calgary's Top 10 Music Source: SoundScan Last week 1 2 3 5 4 6 8 7 Country Alternative Current Hard Rock This Last This Last ms, t. Last j. week National Artist week week National Artist week weck National Artist week National Artist 1 1 Carrie Underwood 4 1 1 AvrilLavigne 1 1 1 1 1 1 Nine Inch Nails Some Hearts Best Damn Thing Best Damn Thing Year Zero 2 2 Tim McGraw 12 2 Nine Inch Nails 2 2 3 Nine Inch Nails 2 2 3 Finger Eleven Letltgo Year Zero Year Zero Them Vs. You Vs. Me 3 4 Martina McBride 2 3 3 Arctic Monkeys I 3 4 Arctic Monkeys 3 2 Daughtry Waking Up Laughing Favourite Worst Nightmare Favourite Worst Nightmare Daughtry 4 3 Dixie Chicks 5 4 6 Finger Eleven 3 ,4 6 Timbaland 347 Rise Against Taking The Long Way Them Vs.

You Vs. Me Timbaland Presents Shock Value Sufferer The Witness 5 8 Johnny Reid 3 5 10 Modest Mouse 5 5 9 Hilary Duff 555 Billy Talent Kicking Stones We Were Dead Before The Ship Dignity Billy Talent II 6 6 Alison Krauss 8 6 4 Daughtry 4 6 8 Nelly Furtado 6 6 9 Buckcherry Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection Daughtry Loose 15 7 9 Keith Urban 9 7 5 GwenStefani 6 7 22 Carrie Underwood 15 7 6 Three Days Grace Love Pain A The Whole Crazy Thing I Sweet Escape Some Hearts One-X 8 5 Rascal Flatts 7 8 11 John Mayer 10 8 18 Finger Eleven 7 8 4 Nickelback Continuum Them Vs. You Vs. Me All The Right Reasons 9 12 StrahVBuffett 6 9 20 Hinder 9 9 11 Justin Timberlake 10 9 8 Dimmu Borgir Live At Texas Stadium Extreme Behaviour FuturesexAovesounds In Sort Diaboli 10 7 Various Artists 10 10 9 Arcade Fire 10 20 IIDivo 4 10 11 Hell Yeah More Country Heat 2007 Neon Bible I Siempre Hell Yeah This week National Artist Last week 1 1 Timbaland 1 Timbaland Presents Shock Value 2 2 Justin Timberlake 3 FuturesexLove Sounds Akon Konvicted Joss Stone Introducing Joss Stone Amy Winehouse Back To Black Young Buck Buck The World Christina Aguilera Back To Basics Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae Beyonce B'Day Fergie Dutchess 10 10 Musical code hidden in Da Vinci chapel BEN MCCONVILLE Associated Press ROSLIN, SCOTLAND Like a plot from The Da Vinci Code, a team of code breakers claims to have found music hidden for 500 years in intricate carvings at the church where author Dan Brown set the climax of the bestselling book. Father and son team Thomas and Stuart Mitchell say they deciphered a musical code hewn into stone cubes on the ribs supporting the ceiling of Rosslyn Chapel in the village of Roslin, near Edinburgh.

"Breaking the code was a true eureka moment. It's like we have been given a compact disc from the past," said Stuart Mitchell, 41, a music teacher from Edinburgh. "But unlike the fiction of The Da Vinci Code, this is a tangible link to the past." The music has been recorded, and will get its official premiere in the chapel May 18. Musical experts reserved judgment, but did not dismiss the Mitchells' theory. "We have 213 cubes (at Rosslyn) and the possibility that they have something to say is by no means implausible," said Warwick Edwards, an expert on early Scottish music at Glasgow University.

More research is needed, he said. Gordon Munro, an expert on Scottish church music from 1500 to 1700 at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, said, "I have heard the music and it is not impossible, but it can only be a reconstruction that is open to interpretation." "There is a series of shapes they are using, but I could not say if they would read the notes on the chapel ceiling from left to right or up and down," Munro added. The 15th-century chapel, 16 kilometres from Edinburgh, was built by Sir Gilbert Haye and Sir William Sinclair and is steeped in the traditions of the Knights Templar and Freemasonry. The elaborate decoration and the mysterious symbolism have inspired many legends, among them that the building is a replica of Solomon's Temple and that it is the resting place of the Holy Grail, the Ark of the Covenant or even the mummified head of Jesus Christ. Brown's novel, based on the theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and founded a dynastic line which survives today, climaxes at Rosslyn Chapel "Symbology heaven," Brown called it The Mitchells' research centred on the ribs of a ceiling in the Lady ChapeL Rows of carved angels play instruments above the columns of cubes.

The elder Mitchell, 75, who was a code breaker for the Royal Air Force during the Korean War, said he spent 25 years working at the puzzle. "Many of the angels had musical instruments and some were arranged as a choir, but there was one angel we couldn't work out," he said. "Then we realized she was carrying a musical stave, the lined blueprint for musical composition, and therefore we were looking at a coded piece of music." si B.B. King says his tours are getting MUSIC Dion passes Vegas torch to Midler RYAN NAKASHIMA The Associated Press Bette Midler will replace Celine Dion as the headliner at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, officials announced Thursday, answering the lingering question of who would be chosen to step into some big shoes and the Colosseum, which Dion virtually sold out for what will be a nearly five-year run by December. Dion's A New Day has grossed more than $500 million US since it began in March 2003, producers said.

The Grammy award-winning singer announced in January she would end her run at the end of the year in the $95-million theatre. Midler said the venue was intimidating but exciting. "I'm looking forward to it, but also I'm terrified because it's huge," she told The Associated Press by telephone. "That's giving me the vapours. "At the same time, they also give you a lot of toys to play with.

They give you the lifts and you can fly people in, you can fly them out. There's all this wing space and hydraulics and stuff, and the dressing rooms are staggering. It should be an opera house somewhere in the Black Forest." Midler, 61, said she agreed to a two-year contract to work 100 shows a year, performing five nights a week for 20 weeks beginning Feb. 20. The schedule is less gruelling than Dion's, who performed 160 shows per year.

"That's really what made me decide it was going to be fun," Midler said. "I have a child in school and I have a lot of commitments here in New York City. I like the idea of being able to come and go." With Elton John continuing his 50 shows a year through 2008, there will be room for a third Colosseum performer, said John Meglen, the president of Concerts West, an AEG Live company that books talent for Caesars. "We will probably have one additional artist, which we'll announce later," Meglen said. He would not comment on widespread speculation that Cher also will be signed to perform Meglen said the Colosseum will go dark after Dion's last show Dec.

15 until Midler begins. ft Herald Archive, Associated Press Bette Midler will take over from Celine Dion as headliner at Caesars in Las Vegas. 1. 1 i 1 No farewell for this King Canadian Press Archive, Associated Press fans in person. This year marks his 60th anniversary of performing live, and he says he can't imagine a day when he'll stop.

"Just to see a few faces smiling and weaving and bobbing," he says of what drives him these days. "And sometimes now we have people from 14 to maybe 80 or so, and sometimes that includes smaller children and I just like that. I like to see families out together." A lot has changed since the musical phenom, born Riley B. King on a Mississippi plantation, first hit the road in his 20s. Those were the days when King and his band hauled across country in old station wagons and vans.

And as more time passed, hitting the stage was not always marked by thrill and glory, he says. King blames long stretches away from home as a big reason why his two marriages collapsed. And on more than one occasion, financial trouble and income tax woes forced him out longer than he would have liked. "I've had to travel so much, not always because I wanted to," he notes. King's most staggering run came in 1946, when he staged 342 one-nighters.

It's a feat he proudly brings up these days. However, his current Canadian tour which runs until May 19 in Saint John, N.B. is a much tamer affair. King says his only woman now is a six-string called Lucille, and his cross-country ride is a luxury, leather-lined tour bus he bought in Canada. shorter, but he has no firm plans to retire.

now left to the past King's current tours generally run two to three weeks and are followed by a respite at his Las Vegas home. "I notice I'm getting older," says King, whose 1970 crossover single The Thrill Is Gone remains his biggest hit. "Maybe my steps are a little shorter than they once were." He's also been "a little sickly" of late. In January, a fever put him in hospital for a spell. "I really was in bad shape," says a soft-spoken King, who has also lived with diabetes for nearly 30 years.

"But the third day I started flirting with the nurses so they threw me out." Nevertheless, the drive to perform persists, says King, who opened the Canadian leg of his North American tour with a two-hour show in Victoria last Thursday. The show reportedly saw him mug for the audience while seated in a chair throughout his performance, tossing banter and gold-coloured chains to an adoring crowd. Reminiscing about his career, King admits he's become a bit weary of farewells himself, lamenting that several talented contemporaries have recently died, such as friend and fellow blues guitarist Robert Lockwood Jr. "I see so many of my friends and acquaintances and people that I don't know that are dropping out now. Losing so many, it seems to me at this time that I'm about the oldest one that's still out here," he says.

"They're all leaving me, it seems like." Still, King says he gets a thrill from touring and meeting with devoted Blues icon, 81, not ready to hang up guitar CASSANDRA SZKLARSKI The Canadian Press Blues legend B.B. King says he's not one for goodbyes. But as the guitar great embarks on an extensive Canadian tour, it seems that King's retirement is all that people around him seem to be talking about. "Every time I play some place, people are saying it's my last time," King says by phone from PREVIEW Vancouver in the B.B. King early days of a performs Friday 16-city cross-at the Jubilee Canada tour.

Auditorium. "I feel fine, but maybe they know something I don't." If Canuck fans are worried, it's only because the 8i-year-old has been on a bit of a farewell tour of late overseas. Last year, King declared a trip to Europe as likely his last and similarly suggested a visit to Brazil would stand as his send-off to South America. Now that he's begun one of the biggest Canadian tours of his lengthy career which arrives in Calgary on Friday can he fault Canadian fans for fearing this could be their last chance to see the legend perform live? Touring has become a bit more difficult in his old age, King admits. It's the reason long stints on the road are An Investment That Appreciates With Every Sip..