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(Updated on Dec 31st)
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It's a picture of Celine reheasing yesterday for tonight's concert.
Rumour says that both CBS and NBC will air part of the Celine's tonight
concert. For NBC, it says it'll be around 10:00pm~11:00pm. Please
check your local listing.
I would like to wish all of you a HAPPY MILLENNIUM! Have a happy, fun,
and safe year! Live the fullest of your life, and most important, healthy!
And we all know, Celine's music will go on for the next millennium,
so are our support toward her!
(Updated on Dec 30th)
Julie Snyder and Gregory Charles will be hosting tomorrow Celine's
farewell concert in Montreal. As some of you may know, the concert
won't entirely perform by Celine. I think the first two hours maily
perform by the cast of "Notre Dame de Paris", and the last two hours
will be for Celine. Bryan Adams will also be one of the guests. The show
will start at 9:00pm(ET), and ends at 1:00am(ET). TVA will boardcast
the show live from Molson Centre. And it looks like that they will also
air the show online, so you may want to check at www.tva.ca tomorrow.
Rumours saying that the video of the concert will be available in the
Spring of 2000. And if you want a copy of the concert, you may try
the "Celine tape tree project" http://welcome.to/tapetree
(Updated on Dec 29th)
I'm back! Okay, let's first start with ATW's chart positions around
the world in this week. In the US, despite the fact that it sold more
than 640,000 copies, it's #2 behind a rapper album. Usually, rap album
debuts big, and goes down quickly, hope ATW will be back at #1 next
week! Here's the chart position around the world:
#1:Australia, Finland, Norway, Austria, France, Ireland, Switzerland,
Euro Chart.
#2:Belgium, US
#3:Sweden, Denmark, Spain, NewZealand, Canada
#5:Japan, UK, Brazil
#6:Italy
Barnes&Noble.com has announced its customers' Top 100 "Picks of the
Century," an online vote of their favorite books and music over the
last 100 years. Although ATW is only around 2 months old, it ranks
#6 on the Century's Music chart! =) Indeed, ATW is an very excellent.
1. Abbey Road - The Beatles
2. Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin
3. The White Album - The Beatles
4. With The Beatles - The Beatles
5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
6. All the Way: A Decade of Song - Celine Dion
7. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
8. Rubber Soul - The Beatles
9. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
10. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
As mentioned before, Celine is the favourite female singer among
Espanic American. Here's the details.
ALL-TIME FAVORITE SONG IN ENGLISH:
1. My Way
2. Yesterday
3. Lady in Red
4. My Heart Will Go On
5. Unchained Melody
ALL-TIME FAVORITE FEMALE SINGER:
1. Celine Dion
2. Lucero
3. Ana Gabriel
4. Shakira
5. Gloria Estefan
6. Jennifer Lopez
7. Whitney Houston
8. Olga Tanon
9. Thalia
10. Madonna
ALL-TIME FAVORITE FEMALE SINGER:(Hispanic Men)
1. Jennifer Lopez
2. Lucero
3. Celine Dion
(Hispanic Women)
1. Celine Dion
2. Whitney Houston
3. Lucero
(Under 35)
1. Celine Dion
2. Ana Gabriel
3. Madonna
(Over 35)
1. Olga Tanon
2. Lucero
3. Celine Dion
(West Coast)
1. Celine Dion
2. Lucero
3. Gloria Estefan
(Updated on Dec 26th)
Wish everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Well, I'll be out of town today,
and I'll be back on the 29th. Therefore, I won't be able to update the site
for 3~4 days. Sorry for the inconveinience! =)
(Updated on Dec 24th)
What a big joke?! A person who said himself is a concert promoter for
Celine, and called to ask about using the performing Arts Center at
Grosse Pointe Woods school. People thought it's true, and they even
had the school choir rehearse to prepare for a performance with Celine.
It turns out that it's not true. And spokesperson for Celine says she
knows nothing about it. Police say that they won't press any charge
on the person who called the school.
Due to overwhelming demand, 500 extra seats have been added to Celine's
farewell concert, after details of the stage placement were finalized
with the production manager. This setup has a capacity of 18,500 seats.
If you still wanna buy the remaining tickets, you can try calling this
number, 1-800-361-4595.
I read this from an article, and I think it's quite funny. It says
"Santa Claus is coming to town, and it looks like he's bringing a bag
full of CDs, particularly Celine Dion's compilation album All The Way -
A Decade of Songs.." haha~ Looking at the global sales of ATW this few
weeks, it's really true that many Celine's albums will be in the stocking,
and under the Christmas tree! I would like to wish you all a Merry
Christmas! =)
(Updated on Dec 23rd)
Jessica Simpson, who is currently having a #3 single on Billboard Hot
100, is a huge Celine fan. Unfortunately, she is sick recently, and
she has just released from Hospital on the 20th. And this is what she
has written in the diary on her own official website:
"Okay i must tell you the best thing about being in the hospital....
I got a "get well" phone call from the one and only Celine Dion...she
is my all-time favorite and I was almost speechless when she said,
"Hello, Jessica...this is Celine." I cannot believe she took time out
of her busy schedule to call me....she is so sweet and sincere...I only
hope I can be half as awesome as she is!!!"
As mentioned yesterday, ATW is #1 on Billboard Top 200, with sales of
537,000 copies last week. And it is #2 on the internet sales chart.
On the Pop Catelog Chart, TAST is still #1. TTWII rises from #30 to
#17 this week on Hot 100! =)
(Updated on Dec 22nd)
ATW regains the #1 spot on Billboard Top 200, by selling more than a
half a million copies last week! We'll have more information on other
Billboard charts tomorrow.
An follow-up for the auction of Celine's boots. It sold at somewhere
at $7,000!!! And the last time I checked, the auction for Celine's
autographed album along with Rosie's autographed Christmas album,
the highest bid was more than $2,000!
(Updated on Dec 21st)
Well, this does not have so much thing related to Celine.
Few weeks ago "Saturday Night Live" aired a skit called "And so this
is Hanukkah" featured impersonators of Britney Spears, Celine Dion and
Mariah Carey. After the show being aired, the skit drew complaints of
racist. After some dicussion, SNL decided in the future re-run of the
show, they will still leave the skit there, without any edition. If
you wanna know more, you may click here
For Australian fans:
Celine will be on Oprah on Tuesday Dec 21st. Channel 10 at 2:30 pm.
Celine will also be on the "And So This Is Christmas" on Wednesday Dec
22nd Channel 7 at 7:30pm.
For UK fans:
Dec 22nd 11:10pm-12:00am BBC1 - "All the Way"
Dec 25th 9:40-10:20pm BBC1 - "Before They Were Famous"
Dec 27th 6:30-7:30pm ITV - "Des O'Connor Tonight"
Jan 2nd 1:30-3:30am Sky1 - "1999 Billboard Music Awards"
Jan 3rd 1:15-2:15pm ITV - "This is Celine Dion"
(Updated on Dec 20th)
Although in Canada this week, ATW's #1 in many big cities such as
Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec, and Ottawa, it's still #3 overall
on the National chart, behind the two compilation albums released from
the National music video station. Hope ATW will regain #1 in Canada
very soon! Here's this week ATW chart position around the world! It's
still going strong! =)
#1:Australia, Finland, Norway, Austria, France, Ireland, Switzerland,
Euro chart.
#2:Belgium
#3:Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Canada.
#4:UK
#5:Italy
#6:New Zealand
(Updated on Dec 19th)
Celine and Rene celebrated their anniversary in New York. A Celine fan
said that she met Celine and Rene outside her hotel. They were holding
hands, and they said they celebrated themselves this year. The fan
congrajulated them, and Celine said something like "It's great so far,
and it'll get better tonight". Kinda meaning...you know, Celine like
to share her sex live experience with us... =)
(Updated on Dec 17th)
5 years ago today, there was a big event happened in Quebec, Canada.
There was a "royal wedding" happening, and tens of thousands of people
across the country witnessed this memorable moment. Celine Dion and
Rene Angelil were announced as "husband and wife" for the first time!
Happy 5th Anniversary to Celine and Rene! And we know there will be
many more 5 years for your marriage!
These are the pics from yesterday's special event in New York, organized
by Sony Music, to present Celine the commemorative award, honouring her
incredible album sales around the world. She has sold more than 100
million copies of albums around the world. And she's named "the best
selling singer of the decade". Well deserve, Celine!
Thank you Karla for sending me these great pics! =) You can click on
those pics for full size.
One more pic from Celine's performance on the Billboard Awards.
(Updated on Dec 16th)
These are the pics from both honouring events for Celine yesterday.
Celine not only received the hornour for UN Artist of Peace yesterday,
she also received the key to the city from the Mayor of Montreal. And
they'll even erect a plant sculpture in the park across the city hall
to honour her. If you wanna know more both events, you can click here.
And rumour says that Sony will also honour Celine in New York today.
As mentioned, ATW is #2 this week on Billboard, but ATW is still #1 on
the Internet sales chart. And TAST is still #1 on Pop Catelog, and #5
on Christmas album chart. TTWII is #30 on Hot 100.
(Updated on Dec 15th)
Celine received "UNESCO Artist for Peace" honour today in Qubec, Canada.
She wore a similar(or maybe the same) outfit that she wore on Jay Leno.
Celine's parents were also there.
ATW will appear on #2 on this week's Billboard albums chart, although
it sold more than 414,000 copies last week. The biggest one week sales
for Celine in the US. Maybe the fabulous Billboard performance boosted
up the sales.
"All The Way..." TV special will be on Australia's Channel 7 this
Saturday night at 7:30pm. Please check your local listing.
Celine will be featured on this year's edition of "Before They Were Famous"
on BBC1. The programme will be broadcast on Christmas Day, 9:40~10:20pm GMT.
Celine will be on MTV's TRL tomorrow. You can vote for TTWII now, by
going to http://trl.mtv.com
On an Autralia online cd store, they are giving 2 Celine ATW album.
The contest is open to everyone in the world. So if you want to enter
the contest, go to here and then click on "CD Giveaway".
(Updated on Dec 14th)
Do you know the highest bid for Celine's boots on Ebay right now? It's
$4175 already! Unbelievable!!! Btw, talking about Ebay, I was surfing
around and saw various Celine's items being auction on Ebay. And I would
like to warn everyone that don't always believe what the seller says.
Especially on those "Celine autographed items". Most of them aren't
really autographed by Celine, instead, the seller autographed him/herself,
and try their best to make it look like a Celine autograph. Be careful!
In Malaysia, ATW rises to #5 from #10.
(Updated on Dec 13th)
Celine was on Rosie today. She performed TTWII, and she chatted with Rosie
afterward. At the end of the performance, Celine broke the heel of
her boots. You know how she stomp her feet when she sings "When you want
it the most....When you ready to go...", that's how she broke the heel.
And Rosie suggested to put the boots on ebay for auction. And they'll
donate the money. Right now, you can bid for the Celine autographed
broken boots at ebay. And a Rosie autographed "A Rosie Christmas" cd
is also included in this auction. And guess what? Right now, the highest
bid is $1925 already!!!!! If you want to bid for it, you may go to www.ebay.com
and search for "Celine Dion's boots". On the show, Celine's voice
sounds a bit raspy. Maybe she has a cold. She also told Rosie about
her remarry again with Rene. She'll be wearing a gold, metal like
dress,with a scarf covering half of her face(like an Arabic style).
Rosie also told Celine that she really thinks that Celine and Rene
are a very truely lovely couple.
This week, ATW is #1 in many countries!
#1:Japan, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, France, Ireland, Switzerland,
Holland, and Europe.
#2:Australia, Belgium, Spain.
#3:Canada
#4:UK
#5:Portugal, Malaysia
#6:New Zealand
#7:Italy
(Updated on Dec 11th)
I would like to share my happiness with you guys! I have just won a
framed autographed Celine picture!!! As you know, Sony is currently
running a contest for all Celine Dion fans who have a Celine site. And
they randomly pick a winner each week til the mid of Januarary. This
week, my name was randomly picked!!! Bravo!!! =)
"Then you look at me" is the theme song for the movie "Bicentennial Man".
Throughout the movie, you can hear the melody from time to time, and
you can hear Celine singing the song at the end of the movie, while the
credits roll up. Kind of similar to what they did with MHWGO in Titanic.
Celine and Rene are still in Las Vegas today. They'll present Andre-
Philippe Gagnon at C2K, the showroom inside The Venetian Resort-Hotel-
Casino in Las Vegas. This very special evening, which includes a cocktail
reception at 7 p.m., followed by Andre-Philippe's performance, will serve
as the official Grand Opening of C2K and the kick-off of Andre-Philippe's
40-week schedule at The Venetian showroom.
Reminder:Celine will be on Rosie on Monday!
Celine will be on MTV's Total Request Live(TRL) on Thursday!
(Updated on Dec 10th)
As we know, ATW is #1 on Billboard Top 200(albums), and TTWII is #1
on Hot Adult Contemporary. Besides that, ATW is also #1 on Internet
sales chart, and TAST is also #1 on Pop Catelog chart. On the Christmas
album chart, TAST is #6. And on Hot 100(singles), TTWII jumps 10 spots
to #34.
On Jay Leno, Celine performed "All The Way" live, and she talked a bit
with Jay afterward. She said that at the wedding ceremony on Jan 5th,
since Rene's origin is Arabic, all of them(all family members and friends)
will wear same colour and type of clothes, and they'll be sitting on the
floor and eat some Arabic food at the party. Sounds cool!
A follow-up for the Nickels investigation:
The following is taken from a Quebec's newspaper "Journal de Montreal",
and translated into English by Altavista translator.
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Mr. Angelil revealed, yesterday, that him and the famous singer had
yielded their shares in Nickels for approximately two years. "We gave
our shares to my cousin", said the husband and manager of Celine Dion.
It is the first time that the Angelil-Dion couple makes state publicly
its withdrawal of the Nickels chain of which they were shareholders
since his creation, nine years ago.
It affirms that celebrates it couple was only shareholder of the company
of restoration. We never had role of administrator, says it. We were
never mixed with the daily operations. We did nothing wrong..
Celine and I, add it, we are a little bit like everyone in Quebec, we are
anxious to find out what had happened in all this business.The fame
of Celine Dion was used to foam the businesses of the chain of restaurants
misant on the nostalgia of the Fifties.
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(Updated on Dec 9th)
This week in the US, Celine remains #1 by selling 327,600 units. In 3
weeks, it has already sold 1.06 million copies. Btw, it also archieved
4xPlatinum(4 million copies shipped to record stores) in the US. Not
only that, TTWII has also reached #1 on the Hot AC chart.
On the Billboard Awards, Celine performed TTWII. Although she lip-sync
it, it was a fabulous performance. Celine looked amazing, young and
pretty. She had a black top with spaghetti strap, and a plastic pants
with brown colour at the top, and gradually changing into light-green
at the bottom. It's one of the best Celine look we've ever seen. And
what made the performance more incredible, was there were around 20+
dancers dancing on the stage. Of course, Celine didn't do much dancing
herself, but the performance was upbeat, with all those dancers. Celine
wasn't nominated this year, therefore, she didn't receive any award.
Nickels, the chained franchized restaurants founded by Celine, Rene and
few other people, is suspected by Revenu Quebec of having obtained royalties
on amounts of money reaching $13,000,000 hidden with the tax department by
seventeen of the restaurants of the chain in Quebec. 150 inspectors of
the tax department québécois, assisted police officers, carried out
yesterday, a series of 26 searchings mainly in the area of Montreal in
various restaurants and to the residence of certain administrators of
the chain and of franchized. The persons in charge of these Nickels
restaurants are suspected of having dissimulated in Revenu Quebec more
than $2,000,000 in various taxes perceived on their not declared sales.
According to the Newspaper from Montreal, neither Celine nor Rene were
directly aimed by the searchings of yesterday. However, in an official
statement diffused yesterday, Revenu Quebec indicates that the
administrators of the companies concerned are liable to sorrow a two
years to prison and fines being able to reach the double of the defrauded
money sums. Non of the the spokeperson of the restaurants have comment
on this.
Reminder: Celine will appear on Jay Leno tonight(Thursday).
(Updated on Dec 8th)
Celine will appear on today's Billboard Awards.
Celine will perform on UK Top Of The Pops on this Friday(pre-recorded).
Celine's ATW video is going to release around the world on Dec 13th.
In Canada, rumour says that its release date is Dec 7th, which was
yesterday.
(Updated on Dec 7th)
On CBS's "And so this is Christmas" special, Celine was the first guest
to perform. At first, she was sitting on a couch in a living room. She
talked about how her family celebrate Christmas, and how happy about
the "I met an angel(on Christmas day)". Then she was in a studio with
decoration with the 60s theme. She was dressing in a sparking short
black dress. One of the shortest dress we've even seen, which shows
Celine's beautiful legs. Celine was singing(lip-sync) and dancing
around. The funny thing was that the 3 back-up singers at the back
were also Celine. One in a long blond wig, another one with a red wig,
and one with black wig. It was hilarious! For Canadian, if you missed
it, don't worry, cuz they'll re-air it on Dec 24th(9:00pm) on CTV.
In Finland, Celine's ATW album has gone GOLD, selling more than 20,000
copies already. In some other countries, 20,000 copies isn't a big number.
But in Finland, it's a big success, cuz they only have 5 million population.
In a poll in Canada for newsmaker of the century, Celine ranks #19.
(Updated on Dec 6th)
This week's ATW chart position around the world:
#1:Austria, France, Switzerland, Eurochart.
#2:Canada, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Belgium.
#3:Australia, Japan, UK, Finland, Spain.
#6:New Zealand(debuted), Italy.
#10:Malaysia(debuted).
This week, the album isn't on the #1 spot in as many countries as last
week, but in many other countries, the album is rising.
For UK Celine fans, the ATW special will be shown on BBC1 on Wednesday
Dec 22nd at 11:10pm~12 midnight GMT. And Celine will appear on Des
O'Connor show on ITV on Monday Dec 27th at 6:30~7:30pm. Please check
your local listing.
(Updated on Dec 5th)
On Rosie's special today, Rosie opened the show with Celine singing
the song "The magic of Christmas day". Celine was in a jean-jacket,
and a light brown pant. When they sang the 2nd chorus, some kids came
out to sing with them. Then after a few seconds, some more younger kids
came out too. Btw, the performance was live.
Reminder:Celine will be on the CBS special tomorrow at 10:00pm(CBS/CTV)
She will also appear on the Billboard Awards this Wednesday.
And she will appear on Jay Leno this Thursday.
A new Hong Kong singer called Joey Yung, covered Celine's "S'il suffisait
d'aimer". If you want to listen to the cantonese version, you may click
here
(Updated on Dec 4th)
Celine will be on "A Rosie's Christmas special" tomorrow (ABC/CTV).
And Celine will also be on "And so this is Christmas" on Monday(CBS/CTV).
Please check your local listing.
In Japan, on the daily ranking Oricon Chart(compile from sales figures),
ATW finally reaches #1!
Celine is nominated for Favourite female singer for People's Choice
Award, againsting Shania Twain, and Britney Spear. Celine received this
award last year.
In a poll complied recently, Celine is also the favourite female artist
among hispanic American.
There's an quite interesting/informative article on Celine on Nationalpost.
You can read the article clicking here. You can find out more about
the hispanic American poll there.
(Updated on Dec 3rd)
In Europe, ATW remains #1, and TTWII debut at #8!
Looks like that the webcast for Celine's millenium concert has been
cancelled due to inconfident to garantee having a perfect quality
video and audio. But video for the concert will probably come out
around Feb 2000.
There's an article of Celine on French ParisMatch magazine. You can
read the article by clicking here
(Updated on Dec 2nd)
Celine goes all the way to the top of Billboard Top 200 album chart
(w/ATW), and Top Pop Catelog album chart(w/These are special times).
On the Christmas album chart, These are special times is #6, selling
more than 80,000copies last week. Lask week, including the sales of ATW,
Celine sold nearly half a million copies of album in one single week
in the US! TTWII moves up to #44 from #49 on Hot 100 singles. It's not
a bad position for a song which hasn't been released in cd singles.
Vh1 is going to have a "Behind the music" special with Celine. No date
set yet.
(Updated on Dec 1st)
Celine did it! US Celine fans did it! ATW is #1 this week in the US!!
394,000 copies were sold last week! It's the third #1 album for Celine
in the US.
Rumors saying that Celine is up for an hornour for "Artist of the decade"
on the Billboard Awards with some other artists.
Celine is listed on the 2000 Guiness book, as the highest earning music
stars in 1998(55.5million). And MHWGO is also the most requested video
on The Box(a mtv channel which can be view world wide). Since the release
on the video, to July 1999, it had 60,474 requests.
Celine is one of the candidates on Dotmusic for MissPopWorld, representing
Canada. Please go and vote for her! Click here to vote!
(Updated on Nov 30th)
Found these pics from the Celineonline conversation. Whoever own these
pics, if you don't want them to be here, just email me. Thanks! =)
ATW has archieved platinum in Autralia, and 2xplatinum in the UK. I'm
sure that it has some other platinum archievements around the world,
but these are the only two I know.
There's an article about Celine on National Enquirer(US tabloid). It's
about Celine's plan of having a baby and adoption. Click here to
read it.
For those are who interested in ATW's TV special rating, it ranks #3
for Wednesday night, behind "Who wants to be a millionair", and "Laws
and order", which is not bad at all!
(updated on Nov 29th)
This week's ATW chart position around the world:
This week, ATW debuted #1 in Canada, Norway, Germany, Austria, France,
and Switzerland. It also debuted #1 on Eurochart(chart for the entire
Europe.) It's #2 in Japan this week. It's #3 in UK, Sweden(debut),and
Ireland(#3 from #7). It moves up to #4 from #13 in Finland. In Belgium,
it jumps to #5 from #41 and debuted #5 in Australia. In Italy, it debuted
at #7. In Denmark, it moves up to #11 from #26. And in Portugal, it debuted
on #14. Way to go! Hope ATW will reach #1 in all countries and stay there
as long as possible!
On Dec 6th, CBS is going to have a Christmas special called "And so
this is Christmas" which will include guests like Ricky Martin, Gloria,
and of course Celine. On the commercial, it says you'll see Celine like
you've never seen her before. It also shows clips of her dancing around
and as a backup singer. Looks interesting! =)
(Updated on Nov 25th)
On Billboard's Pop Catelog chart, "These are special times" is #1!
This chart is for albums that are 2-year-old titles that have fallen
below No. 100 on The Billboard 200 or reissues of older albums. And in
Top 200 albums chart, as said before, ATW is #3. TTWII is #49 on ACTop40,
it's not that bad because Sony hasn't release cd singles for this song.
Celine and Rene will make a appearance at two Nickels restaurant in
Florida. On Monday November 29, at 5:00 p.m., Celine and Rene will
visit the Nickels restaurant in Fort Lauderdale at 1800 North Federal
Highway. At 7:00 p.m. they will stop by at the Nickels restaurant in
Pompano at 2341 North Federal Highway.
On Celine's "All The Way" special, Celine sang "Love can move mountains",
"To love you more", "That's the way it is"(w/Nsync), "All the way",
"The first time ever I saw your face", a song of Gloria, and "Conga".
In addition, Gloria sang "Because you loved me" and her duet with Nsync
"Music of my heart". Celine was in 4 different outfits, and she looked
happy and great. At the end, she said she would love to leave us with
some lyrics of the song "All the way". She said "Who knows where the
road will lead us, only a fool would say. But if you'll let me love
you, it's for sure, I'm gonna love you all the way. Thank you very much!
Good night" And Celine's voice broke there. I think it must've been
quite emotional for her.
(Updated on Nov 24th)
ATW will debut on #3 on the Billboard! #1 is Korn(574,000 units sold),
#2 is Dr Dre(516,000 units sold). ATW sold 303,000 copies, the 2nd
highest first week sales in the US in Celine's career. LTAL sold
334,000 units in its first week. So far, ATW is #1 in the UK, and
Germany, #2 in Japan, and #3 in the US. Let's hope it will be #1 around
the world soon! =)
(Updated on Nov 23rd)
Celine was on Larry King Live yesterday. She talked about Rene's illness,
how they found out, what was their reaction...etc. Celine said when she
first heard Rene's really having cancer at the hotel, her whole body
was shaking, but she didn't cry. And she didn't know why, but she felt
strong, and she put on her clothes as fast as she could and she couldn't
wait to get to the hospital to comfort Rene, because she knows he needs
her. Celine said, in the past, she needs Rene. And now, Rene needs
her, and she's going to make a different in his life, and it feels great.
Larry asked Celine is she still planning to have a baby, and Celine said
yes, of course, after all her projects are done(after dec 31), and Larry
asked, "why not now?" Celine replied in a funny way "...(looked at Rene)
okay, let's go!(meaning do it NOW in the studio)". She explained she's
a very stressful person, and she doesn't want to have a baby when she's
busy working. When she's at work, she wants to give 100%, the same case
when she's a mother, she also wants to give her 100% to the child. So
she wait till the break is here. And she also said that Rene had frozen
his sperm before he had the chemotherapy. So that babies are there waiting
for her, and she can't wait to put them in her body. They also received
calls from Celine's fans, asking Celine questions. Celine looked great,
and she did a good job in answering questions. She also mentioned that
her sister Pauline, called her few weeks ago, asking Celine and Rene
whether they want to be the godmother and godfather for her new born
baby.
Reminder:"All The Way" special is going to be on CTV TONIGHT!
(Updated on Nov 22nd)
Celine's TV special will be on CTV TOMORROW at 8pm, and Wednesday
on CBS. Don't forget to watch it! =)
(Updated on Nov 21st)
ATW~ADOS debuted #1 on the UK chart!! In Japan, on Oricon daily album
chart, it's #2. The Oricon's weekly chart will come out these few days.
Reminder, Celine will be on "The today show" and "Larry King Live"
tomorrow.
(Updated on Nov 20th)
Celine performed TTWII on Top Of The Pop in Germany(recorded last week),
and you can watch it here! And I'm sure you know why! Because Frank
made the performance into realaudio! Here you go! Top of the pop(TTWII)
Enjoy!
(Updated on Nov 19th)
If you missed Celine's TTWII performance on the Germany's Bambi Award,
you can watch it here in RealAudioG2. Frank did this for us once again!!
Click here to watch it:Bambi Awards(TTWII)
If you haven't download the realaudio file of Celine's performance on
Watten Dess singing "The first time ever I saw you face", click here
to download it, cuz I'll delete this file in the weekend!
Celine was on the cover of a Montreal's newspaper. The article was about
Celine's announcement of remarrying Rene again on Jan 5 2000 in Las Vegas.
The picture was taken in Paris.
According to Billboard, Celine will appear on the Billboard Music Award
on Dec 8th. But I don't know whether she'll perform or not. I don't
even know whether it'll be live appearance, or a pre-recorded one. We'll
just have to wait and see.
Btw, I was searching around the online music stores, and I found out that
on amazon.com ATW is currently #1 for top sellers, and on cdplus.com
it's #3.
(Updated on Nov 18th)
Here are some of the quotes from the Oprah show:
Oprah:Are you really leaving showbizz?
Celine:She's outta here!!
Crowd:No No No
Celine:I don't want people to get bored of hearing me, seeing me!
Crowd:Never Never Never
Celine:But I would love leave right now with a gold medal, instead of
leaving when my career is going downward and then I cry myself
I should've left before.
Celine:During the European concert when Rene couldn't be with me because
he had to stay at home resting, I had earplugs on my ear at the
concert, and Rene could actually talk to me through those earplugs.
And our signal is that, when I receive his message(hear him),
I would touch my nose.(And you can see that on ACDS video.)
And at the end of the show, I had no foundation left on my nose.
Celine:During the two months we spent in our home everyday, one time
Rene hold my head with his hands and said "Celine, I need you."
It's the first time I felt really needed. If felt great!(her voice
trembled here)
Peabo Byson:I'm very fortunate to have worked with many incredible
female vocalist, and in ability and range, Celine is by far
the best....and it(the world) will be there for her when
she comes back. And if she's not coming back, then I'll
write a song which is so good, so good that she'll have to
come back and sing it with me.
Nsync:Celine, you'll be my all time favourite female singer...and you'll
be missed. And we're glad that you're going, cuz...we really want
to have number one! As long as you're around....SIGH...
Oprah:We've all come away with a deeper respect for you Celine, not just
as a singer, but as a woman, for having the courage to truely
living the life of your dream, what I think it's really all about.
...living the life that you choose to live, it's all worth it!
(Updated on Nov 17th)
Celine was on Oprah today, and it was a fabulous show!! It started
with Celine came out on a staircase in the middle of the stage, singing
a medley of "I'm Your Angel", "The first time ever I saw your face",
and "My heart will go on". Thank god Celine only sang the last chorus
of MHWGO. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the song, but if she
sings the entire song again.... Anyway, then both Celine and Rene were
sitting on a sofa, and Oprah interviewed them. Asking Celine whether
she's really retiring, cuz when someone's retiring, it means the person
is gone, and won't come back. Celine explained that she is going to take
a break, and she doesn't know how long it will takes, but at least 2
years. But it may be 3 or 5...etc. And Celine said how much she loves
to really meet the life, and meet Rene as the husband. Oprah also asked
Rene how he deal with cancer. And how they went through together. Throughout
the show, they also showed clips of various artists saying how much they
love Celine, and they'll miss her so much. Those artists included Peabo
Bryson, R.Kelly, and Nsync. They also showed come clips of Celine's concert
at Stade de France, her last concert in the US(Florida), the CBS special...etc.
During the show, they also told a little story about a person who had
cancer and how much Celine's songs had help him. That person and his
wife were also in the audience, and they were apparently big Celine fans.
They had tears in their eyes, and Celine hugged them, so did Rene and Oprah.
Oprah also gave them a suprise by telling them they are going to Celine's
Montreal concert. Celine also sang "That's the way it is". Btw, all her
performances were live today, and she sounded great. Well, the show was
just excellent and very emotional! After the show, I kept hearing my
mind telling myself that I didn't choose a wrong idol. She's just the
greatest!!! And Oprah also looked very impressed with Celine, and she
said that right now she respects Celine even more for her bright attitude
towards life.
(Updated on Nov 16th)
A picture of Celine receiving the Bambi award in Germany
"All the way~A decade of songs" hits stores around the world today, and
10 million copies of the album have already been shipped to record
stores around the world!!! The FIRST time ever an album has this large
demand in history! Bravo! Today, Celine's promoting in Paris.
My tip for "ATW", listen few more times for the new songs before you
judge them, they'll grow on you!! =) You better love them, cuz they'll
be the last songs from Celine for a long long time! =)
Celine has just said this on a Paris radio! She's going to have another
wedding!!! With Rene of course! They'll do that on Jan 5th 2000 in Las
Vegas, for their 5th wedding anniversary. But...why would she want to
have another wedding?? Anyway, Celine...YOU GO GIRL! ;)
(Updated on Nov 15th)
Celine's on the cover of this week's TVGuide(US). They have a great
5 pages article on Celine. Click here to read the entire article.
At Germany's Bambi award, Celine won an media award for MHWGO for being
the biggest single in the past 50 years in Germany.
Tomorrow is the big day we all have been waiting for! ATW will release
tomorrow. If you wanna help to Celine to debut #1 on album charts around
the world, remember to buy the album at big record stores where Soundscan
counts their sales figures! And in Australia, the TTWII single is released
today, and the album will come out next week. Let's hope the album will
do great!! =)
(Updated on Nov 14th)
Watch out, Italian Celine fans!! Celine willl perform on the Italian
Lottery TV show "Carramba che fortuna" on RAIUNO starting at 20.45 CET
She'll probably perform TTWII!!! Incase you are a Mariah fan too, it'll
be a double treat, cuz she'll probably perform on the show too, although
it's not confirmed yet.
Celine was spoofed on SNL yesterday night again! It was the skit of a
long commercial for an epic movie "Smurf". Nearly at the end, the announcer
said something like "And the academy winning singer Celine Dion performing
the sensational theme song for this magnificent movie...", and Anna Gastyer
once again imitated Celine, with the straight long blonde hair, dressed
in a classy gown, singing the theme song of the "Smurf". It was actually
funny, and kinda beautiful. It wasn't something very stupid or offensive.
(Updated on Nov 13th)
Celine performed "The first time ever I saw your face" on the Germany
game show called "Watten Dass" today. You missed it? No problem, cuz
Frank did it ONCE AGAIN!! Frank sent me another realmovie file for me to
upload it here! Thank you Frank one more time! =) Here you go, the
realvideo of Celine's performance on the show! "The first time..."video
(Updated on Nov 12th)
Celine is currently working on a book which will be named "S'il Suffisait
D'aimer", which will come out in September 2000. This book is in a diary
style, which Celine writes herself, talking about her life, her career
...etc. And she's working this project with George-Hebert Germain, who
wrote her official biography. Celine said that he's the only person she
wants to work with because she doesn't want to start from scratch with
somebody else. And Rene told George that she's either working with him,
or they won't go on with this project. George and Celine became good
friends, when George followed Celine touring around the world, as the
preparation for Celine's biography. George said that Celine is transparant,
which means one can ask her any question, and she'll answer it. The book
will be translated into 6 different languages and distributed around the
world. The English title for the book will be "All The Way". The proceeds
from this book will donate to some cancer-related societies.
It's confirmed that Celine will be on Oprah on the 17th(Wed), not 16th
(Tues). You can read more info about the show here
Celine will be on Mama Dion's cooking on Nov 18th(10:00am). Please
check your local listing.
According to a Toronto newspaper, Celine refuted the case, filed by her
ex-drummer last month, in court this week. She claimed that the ex-drummer
was revaluated while her career started to kick off internationally.
And Peter Bardeau couldn't read music, which's one of the problem. And
his talent was below to accompany with the rest of the band, especially
when Celine's career is getting more busy, and her music is getting more
complexity.
Few days ago, we were talking about the finals of AccessHollywoood
millenium polls for favourite female singer, and favourite song. So
far, Celine's leading by a big margin! She's leading in the female singer
category with 59.7% of the votes. Modonna is second with 14.5%, while
Mariah is 10.2% at the third.(10129 people voted so far.) In the favourite
song, Celine(MHWGO) is also leading with 38.8%, infront of "American
Pie"(22.5%), and Hey Jude(14.4%).(6888 people voted so far). You go, Celine!
If you haven't voted yet, you can still go and vote for Celine at
AccessHollywood.com
(Updated on Nov 11th)
In Ireland, HMV has already put the new album on shelves!! And heard that
in SOntario, some future shops have also already put the album on shelves!
Jessica Simpson, a new singer, was on Rosie's show yesterday. When Rosie
asked her is she influenced by any other singer, Jessica immediately
said "Celine Dion!" She said she loves her, and "She's....she is..(sigh)
the best!" She also told Rosie that she loves Celine as Rosie loves
Barbra! And she's jealous of Rosie because Rosie did a duet with Celine.
TTWII moves to #8 from #10 on Billboard AC chart, which is compiled
by airplay.
(Updated on Nov 10th)
I'm very happy to present you.........THE VIDEO OF TTWII REAL VIDEO!
Frank, a fellow Celine fan, sent me a file for me to upload it here.
So everyone, let's say THANK YOU together to Frank! Thank you! =)
So, here you go, watch the video yourself! TTWII VIDEO
You need Real Player G2(which is free) to view the file! =)
The Colour Of My Love has been certified 6 times platinum and These are
special times for 4 times platinum in the US! Congratulations!
German Celine fans and whoever receive VIVA channel, if you want to
watch the video on TV, check it out at these following times! Good luck!
Nov 11 19.00~20.00 CET
Nov 12 9.00~10.00 & 17.00~18.00 CET
(got this from the newsgroup)
(Updated on Nov 9th)
Good news for the German and Canadian fans!!! In Germany, a channel
called Viva premiered the new video in Interaktiv yesterday already!!
And in Canada, MuchMoreMusic also premiered the video yesterday night!!!
I also happened to catch it today. And I think MuchMusic will play it
soon too! In addition, my description of the video below, isn't totally
the same as the video. But not a big difference.
The new Celineonline is launched today. You can see some new Celine
pics there. And rumors saying that the new booklet of the new album
will have 16 pages, lyrics of course, and with Celine's opinion on each
of the new songs, and a letter from Celine. Also, a letter from Celine
to Rene, and some thank you notes. And a couple of new pics. Actually,
I think you can already find the letter, and those pics on Celineonline.
Hope there'll be more new pics besides the ones there! =)
And also, please vote for Celine at www.accesshollywood.com for favourite
female singer, and favourite song!!!!
One last thing, just wanna remind you to remember to email Rosie asking her to have
Celine stay for the whole show!!! Email Rosie
(Updated on Nov 8th)
Since I'm living in Canada, I couldn't watch the premier of the TTWII
video. This is what I gathered from the net about the video. First of
all, many Celine fans love this video a lot!! Some of them say that
it's their favourite. And they think Celine looks great, and very happy
in the video. Well, I don't want to say too much about the video since
I don't want to spoil everything. But I also know that some Celine fans
may not be able to watch this video ever due to the place they are living
in. So now, I think I better to write all I know(from what I get from
the net). And if you don't want to be spoiled, and want to wait til you
watch it yourself, you better stop right here. Okay, here we go. Celine's
wearing a black top(down to the peak of her belly), and a white pant(flare).
So it shows some of Celine's belly. Celine also has a black wrist band.
She looks healthy, not too thin, just right. Young, happy, and fresh too!
And of course beautiful. It starts off by lights off, and showing some
fishes. Then lights start to turn bright, and Celine is dancing around
in a big white room with a black furniture, and black floor. She starts
singing, and the next scene showing Celine spining and singing on a chair.
And there's also some scenes showing different people doing different
things while watching or listening to the song. They all become very
happy, and some of them dancing around. Here are some examples of what
those people are doing. Two people sitting closer and closer to each other.
And a girl in a car bouncing her head with the song, and a cute guy saw
her bouncing so hard, and the girl starts cracking up. There's also one
shot of Celine turning the camera to those other people. And everyone
was very happy and dancing with the song and getting the message of the
song.Overall, it's a very cool, excellent, and freshing video. According
to Celineonline, MTV will probably starts playing this video on Nov 15th.
I think that will also be about the same time for Muchmusic and MuchMoreMusic
to play the video. Well, that's all I know. Can't wait to watch it myself!! =)
According to Billboard online, the debut track from Celine's new album
is being previewed for free on America Online. "All The Way," the virtual
duet with the late Frank Sinatra, will be streamed to AOL members beginning
today. The song will be available to all AOL.com visitors from Wednesday
until Nov. 16. The track can be heard by using Spinner.com's SpinnerLite
player.
An UK TV station channel 4 along with HMV record shops and Classic FM
had a poll in the UK to find out who are public's favourite musical
performers and composers of the millennium. The results were listed in
yesterday's "Independent on Sunday" newspaper. Celine is #3! Bravo!
BEST FEMALE SINGER
1 Madonna
2 Aretha Franklin
3 Celine Dion
4 Ella Fitzgerald
5 Mariah Carey
6 Whitney Houston
7 Alanis Morrisette
8 Annie Lennox
9 Kate Bush
10 Bjork
Reminder:Video of TTWII premiers tonight at 8:00pm(ET), 5:00pm(PT)on VH1
Celineonline will have a new fresh look on Nov 9th!
(Updated on Nov 7th)
Want to make a correction. The premier of TTWII will be on Nov 8(Mon)
on VH1 at 8:00pm(ET), NOT 8:00am.
(Updated on Nov 6th)
LTAL is certified 10 times platinum(10 million copies=diamond) in the
US! It's the second Celine album after FIY to be certified diamond in
the US.
More about the poll of top 20 beautiful woman as mentioned yesterday.
They will put the pictures of the top 20 beautiful women in a time
capsule, as one of the things telling the people in the future that
these are the things from this millenium.
(Updated on Nov 5th)
Celineonline will have a fresh new look on Nov 9th(Tuesday) for Celine's
last album of the millenium.
On the National Enquirer TV show, it says that Barbra Streisand wants
to hook up Celine using satellite during Barbra's Millenium concert,
for them to sing "Tell him" together. However, Celine is upset about
this, because Barbra only wants the performance to be viewed by her
audiences at her concert only, not including Celine's audiences at
Molson Center.(Remember National Enquirer is a tabloid!)
(taken from Destin)
The British beauty company Beautiko has polled 3,000 UK men and women aged
between 20 and 40 to find out who is considered to be the world's most
beautiful women. Here's the Top 20 with Celine just coming inside at
no.19:
1. Sophia Loren
2. Elizabeth Hurley
3. Cindy Crawford
4. Julia Roberts
5. Joanna Lumley
6. Michelle Pfeiffer
7. Caprice
8. Raquel Welch
9. Catherine Zeta Jones
10. Gwyneth Paltrow
11. Ulrika Jonsson
12. Pamela Anderson
13. Claudia Schiffer
14. Naomi Campbell
15. Dolly Parton
16. Madonna
17. Carol Vorderman
18. Tracy Shaw
19. Celine Dion
20. Queen Noor of Jordan
(Updated on Nov 4th)
Video of TTWII will make its premier on VH1 on "New Music Monday" at
8:00am, November 8.
And TTWII is already #10 on the Billboard AC chart!
(Updated on Nov 3rd)
It's interesting to see what other artists has to say about Celine.
Here's what Dan Hill has written for Celine, and the song "Seduces me",
and the song "Wishful Thinking(duet with Celine)" in the booklet in his
greatest hits album which has been released in Canada.
Seduces me:I wrote the first draft of this song on piano. A few months
later John Sheard and I were demoing the song. Halfway through the song
we realized the melody needed to build. John did a wonderful job helping
me re-adjust the melody so now it soars in all the right places. A
couple of years later, Céline Dion recorded the song for her 'Falling
into you' CD. Listening to her singing the song at the Hit Factory in
N.Y.C. was one of the musical highlights of my life...
Wishful Thinking:I sang a lot with Celine Dion in the summer of '87.
She was wonderful to work with. Although she wasn't yet known around
the world or in english Canada, she'd been a star in Quebec since
childhood. None-theless, I found her completely unpretentious and I
had never met anyone who could pick up a melody so quickly and make it
her own. Singing with Céline is kind of like playing hockey on a line
with Wayne Gretzky. Her greatness just kind of sweeps you along until
you find yourself singing at a higher level.
Thank you notes:My life changed when Céline recorded 'Seduces me' in
1996. Singers suddenly wanted to record my songs. Without Dave Platell's
belief in "Seduces me" and without Céline and René agreeing to let me
( along with Rick Hahn and John Jones ) produce the song, my career as
a songwriter might have never take off.
(Updated on Nov 2nd)
We love to see Celine on Rosie right? And we all know that Celine always
very funny on Rosie right? You know, there's a possibility that we can
help make Celine to stay on the Rosie show for the entire hour!! We've
already known that Celine will appear on Rosie in Dec. And what we can
do is to email Rosie, and tell her about this. Because Rosie recently
has said that they are going to make an entire show for the Nsync since
she receives lots of emails and calls from the people saying that they
want to see more Nsync on Rosie. So, why can't we do the same thing for
Celine? Especially since Celine is a good friend of Rosie, and Celine
will be leaving us at the end of the year!! Let's email Rosie now!
You can find the Billboard's article on the Billboard site! Click here.
(Updated on Nov 1st)
Celine won another felix award(Quebec's Grammy). She won for "The most
successful singer singing in a language other than French". Celine didn't
attend the ceremony.
Celine and Rene opened another restaurant called "Firegrill". It's a
steak house. And they say they'll just open one first, and see how it
goes. If it's successful, then they may open more.
Celine will be inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame today
in Quebec, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters announced Monday.
Celine's induction takes place during the CAB Gold Ribbon Awards Gala
at Broadcasting '99 in Montréal, but she is not scheduled to attend.
Celine is the 3rd member in the category honouring Canadian music stars
after Anne Murray, and Bryan Adams.
The issue of Billboard magazine with a long Celine article will probably
hits stores this Wednesday.
(Updated on Oct 30th)
On Rosie's official site, you can find sound clips of her dueting with
her friends in her Christmas album. And of course, that includes her
duet with Celine on "The Magic Of Christmas Day". A Rosie Christmas
SRC will air the Maurice Richard special on Nov 14th, and 21st. Celine
will be narrating a part in the special.
Celine will be promoting her up-coming album in the mid of November in
Europe, and then in Japan.
Celine will be performing at the Bambi Awards in Berlin, Germany on
Nov 13th(The show will be broadcast on Nov 19th). On the same day(13th),
she's also scheduled to appear on WEtten Dass.
(Updated on Oct 28th)
Rumors saying that Sony will release a Celine video in Dec. It may includes
Celine's greatest hits videos. Rumors also saying that Sony will release
a DVD in early 2000 for "All The Way~A decade of songs". It may includes
some new videos from of the new songs in the greatest hits album.
Rumors also saying that Sony is planning to make 4 new videos for Celine.
And they are "That's the way it is"(already completed shooting), "If
walls could talk", "I want you to need me", and "Live". It sounds strange
that if Sony won't make a video for "Then you look at me". Anyway,
these are all rumors. As soon as I get some confirmed info, I'll post
them here!
(Updated on Oct 26th)
I was wrong yesterday. Actually, Celine and Rene did went on stage to
present a special puck to the hockey player Richard. (Thank you Karla
for the info)
As some of you may find out that those real audio links below aren't
working. It's already expired. I think Andre only wanted to put it for
one day.
I mentioned that Sony UK pushed back the release date for "TTWII", the
reason may because they want to single to the #1 during the week of
Christmas. It's been a tradition in the UK that it's kinda special and
important for an album or single to be #1 during the week of Christmas.
(Updated on Oct 25th)
The are two versions of the TTWII single:
Version 1:
That's The Way It Is
I Met An Angel(On Christmas Day)
Version 2:
That's The Way It Is
I Met An Angel(On Christmas Day)
My Heart Will Go On(Live)
Tonight, Celine and Rene attended a special ceremony dedicated to an
old Montreal hockey team player at Molson Center. I believe Celine didn't
perform. I doubt that she even went on stage too. She and Rene were just
audiences this time.(I don't know much about this event cuz I don't know
French. If anyone knows more about this, feel free to email me! =])
Sony UK is going to push back the release of "That's the way it is" until
the end of November. Sounds weird, but Sony probably has their reason.
In Dan Hill's latest greatest hits album(+new songs), it includes
"Wishful Thinking", a duet with Celine, and a Dan Hill's version of
"Seduces Me". Dan Hill originally wanted to release "Seduces me" himself
on his last album in 96, but the song got picked by Celine for her FIY
album, so he waits till now to put his version on his greatest hits album.
(Updated on Oct 24th)
Reports saying that Celine will be working on a book in French. The
book will be about the story of Rene's cancer and how they went through
the whole matter. All the proceeds from the book will be donated to help
cancer research. Rumours saying that Oprah Winfrey will write the preface
for the book. Therefore, probably the book will also be translated into
English.
(Updated on Oct 23rd)
Heard that in Netherland, there will be a big promotion for "All The Way".
The biggest promotion ever for a Sony's album in Netherland.
In North America, of course there are many plans for the album. I got
these following info from Tony, a member of destin.
The video of TTWII was shot on Oct 12-14. The video will premiere on
CBS and VH1, but no date set yet. Sony has made some posters, some stand-up
product holders, and window clings to send to record stores for the promotion
of the album. Of course, there will also be promotion on TV. As mentioned
before, Celine will appear on the Today Show, CBS This morning, The
Tonight show, Oprah(to be taped on Nov 10th, airing on Nov 16th), and
Rosie, and Celine's own CBS special. In addition, Celine will also be
appearing on Rosie's Christmas special in December. For online fans,
Celine will have an internet/satellite press conference online, through
celineonline, as what she did for LTAL in 97. One last thing, a video
news reel will be created for press/internet purposes featuring historical
footage.(I'm not sure what this last thing mean, but I'm sure it's interesting.)
(Updated on Oct 22nd)
Celine will be on the cover of the coming issue of Billboard magazine.
It will go on sale next Saturday. Hopefully, we'll get a lots more info
on the new album.
According to celine-dion.net, "That's the way it is" will be released
in single around the world except US. Sony's doing this probably because
they want to help the selling for the new album, and don't want the public
to be overloaded with Celine before the movie theme song "Then you look
at me" being released.
Today I was searching through the ADISQ site(Quebec's Grammy), and I
believe Celine has been nominated for "The most successful artist outside
Quebec". It's quite suprising that it's the only nomination for Celine.
The awards will be handed out next week on Oct 30th.
(Updated on Oct 21st)
Found this pic from http://listen.to/celine-dion , and it looks like
that this will be the cover for "All The Way~A decade of songs". hmm...
I think it will look better if it has more colours. And do you notice that
Celine's cheek in this pic looks fuller. It's kinda cute! =)
(Updated on Oct 20th)
Found this pic on the net. This may end up being the cover pic for the
TTWII single. This pic is for the cd promo ad for the music business
people(not for sale). And I also heard that the cover for the Celine's
"All The Way~A decade of song" album, maybe a red background with a white
Celine's logo in the middle. Quite simple aye? Hope it's not the real
cover for the album. And also, Muchmusic and MuchMoreMusic replied me
saying that they haven't received the video for "That's the way it is"
yet. So, if you've been trying to catch the video on these 2 channels,
you can have a rest right now. I am not even sure whether they have
shoot the video yet.
Rosie O'Donell is going to release a Christmas album called "A Rosie
Christmas" on Nov 2nd, which will donate the proceeds to charity. It's
an album of duet of Rosie and other singers. Since Celine and Rosie are
buddy, of because Celine is on the list. They are singing "The Magic of
Christmas Day(God Bless Us Everyone)" on the album!
(Updated on Oct 18th)
Here's are the tracklistings that probably will turn out for the Aisan
and European edition of "All The Way".
European Edition(not official yet): Asian Edition(not official yet):
1- The Power Of Love 1-The Power Of Love
2- Think Twice. 2-Beauty And The Beast
3- Because You Loved Me. 3-Because You Loved Me
4- It's All Coming Back To Me Now. 4-It's All Coming Back To Me Now
5- Immortality. 5-Love Can Move Mountains
6- To Love You More. 6-To Love You More
7- My Heart Will Go On. 7-My Heart Will Go On
8- I'm Your Angel. 8-Be The Man
9- That's The Way It Is. 9-I'm Your Angel
10- If Walls Could Talk. 10-That's The Way It Is
11- The First Time. 11-If Walls Could Talk
12- All The Way. 12-The First Time...
13- Then You Look At Me. 13-All The Way
14- I Want You To Need Me. 14-Then You Look At Me
15- Live 15-I Want You To Need Me
16-Live
For UK, the single of "That's the way it is" is going to release on Nov 2nd.
And in Nov, Celine is going to make an appearance on her mother's cooking
show on TVA.
(Updated on Oct 17th)
Celine recorded a new Christmas song? A new Christmas CD from Target
Store called "And so this is Christmas" includes a track from Celine,
called "I Met An Angel(On Christmas Day)." So, it looks like that we've
one more Christmas song to listen to this Christmas.
(Updated on Oct 14th)
Found this interesting pic of Celine and Rene on the net. I believe it's
from the September issue of Gala magazine. Btw, Celine also has a unique
pic in Nov issue of Marie Clarie.
(Updated on Oct 13th Afternoon)
Here's the real audio of That's The Way It Is And you can find the lyrics here.
Thank you Tony for all your help! =) Hope all of you enjoy this great
up-tempo song!! And hope it'll become another huge hit for Celine!
(Updated on Oct 13th)(early morning)
Just heard the premier of "That's the way it is"! It's a cool and happy
song. It's the kind of song that will get into your mind after hearing it
once. And it's the first mid or fast-tempo song from Celine in North
America and some other places in the world for a long time. If you
didn't catch the premier, hope you'll be able to catch it at a later
time!
Celine will fight back the lawsuit of Peter Barbeau. Celine said in a
statement "The way it was said makes it sound like I'm not singing
live at my shows, which is not true," adding "In the past, we've used
instrumentation and voice samples on the up-tempo numbers. This just
gives the dance tracks a bit more punch to enhance the live performance,
but I think that's normal." She also denied being involved in handling
the publishing rights of the song, but said that "the people who take
care of my business have assured me that Peter has 100 percent control
of his interest in the song."
(Updated on Oct 12th)
Some radio stations are already playing "That's the way it is". I am
sure many fans are dying to hear the new song. Well, you can actually
listen to the song online. I found this out from a person called Andre,
from destin list. A radio station in France, which you can listen online,
is going to play the song today or tomorrow(depends on where you live).
And here are the times, when you may hear the song being play on the
radio through real-player. And the radio station is Cherie France
France time for Wed Oct 13 1999
- 08:30
- 13:00
- 17:00
London time Wednesday Oct 13:
- 07:30
- 12:00
- 16:00
Sydney, Australia time
- 16:30 (4:30 pm) Wednesday Oct 13
- 21:00 (9:00 pm) Wednesday Oct 13
- 01:00 (1:00 am) Thursday Oct 14
Los Angeles & westcoast time:
- 23:30 (11:30 pm) Tuesday Oct 12
- 04:00 (4:00 am) Wednesday Oct 13
- 08:00 (8:00 am) Wednesday Oct 13
New York, Montreal, Toronto & eastern time Wednesday Oct 13:
- 02:30 (2:30 am)
- 07:00 (7:00 am)
- 11:00 (11:00 am)
Chicago & central time Wednesday Oct 13
- 01:30 (1:30 am)
- 06:00 (6:00 am)
- 10:00 (10:00 am)
Denver & mountain time Wednesday Oct 13
- 00:30 (12:30 am)
- 05:00 (5:00 am)
- 09:00 (9:00 am)
(Updated on Oct 9th)
Celine is being sued again! This time by her former drummer Peter Barbeau,
for wrongful dismissal and infringement of copyright. And alleges that
Celine lip-synchs some of her songs during concert which gave him extra
pressure. He joined Celine's touring band in 1989 and was fired about
five years later. He is seeking up to $5-million in damages.
The copyright allegation centres on the song, Dreaming of You, from FIY.
He said he composed the song with a partner, and retains 40-per-cent of
the rights, title and interest to it through his company, Bow River Music
Inc. He also added that he accepted "lower wages than would normally be
expected for providing similar services to any other artist of Dion's
stature in the entertainment industry." He said in the summer of 1995,
he was dumped by band leader Claude Lemay "without reason, cause, explanation
or settlement."
My personal idea on this is, why didn't he file this earlier? Why
wait so long? And he said that "he accepted lower wages than would normally
be expected for providing similar services to any other artist of Dion's
stature..", but by 1995, Celine didn't have a very high stature in the
international music industry yet. And no one forced him to work for
Celine, if he wasn't satisfy with the pay. He should've quit. And just
assume that what he said about the lip-sync(Celine pre-recorded her voice
on a hard disk, and they mix it with the instructments later in the
concert) thing is true, again, no one forced him to tour with Celine.
If he thought the working environment was too stressful for him, he
couldn've quit too. Actually, we can divided this case into two things,
one is "Wrongful dismissal", and the other is "Copy Right". But what are
the things about stressful, and lip-sync have to do with these two things.
Why did he bring up all these unrelated info into the case? And again,
what took him so long to file the case? And about the copyright thing,
I have no comment, since we can't really know who's telling the truth
by now. Once again, these are only my personal opinion!=)Let's hope the
justice will do the fair.
(Updated on Oct 8th)
Here's a pic of Celine's Bryan Adams' book called "Made In Canada". You
can click on the pic for a larger view.
Celine recorded her CBS special yesterday at Radio City Music Hall. Celine
started the show with "Love can move mountains" on the balcony outside
the Music Hall with some kids, and back-up singers behind her(which was
recorded the night before), and Celine continued the song on stage in
the music hall. Celine had a few outfit changes throughout the night.
Rene was also there. And as mentioned before, N-Sync, and Gloria Estefan
were also there. Here are some of the songs that Celine performed:
Love Can Move Mountains, To Love You More, That's the way it is(w/Nsync),
I'm Your Angel, All the way, The first time ever I saw your face, a
Gloria's song(and Gloria sang Celine's Because you love me), Conga(w/Gloria
and Miami sound). People who went there said that the show was amazing.
So remember to catch the special on Nov 24th(CBS)!
Celine was on ET last night. They showed an interview of her which was
pre-recorded. The interviewer first asked Celine how did it(Rene's illness)
happen? Did Rene or did the doctor told her about the cancer, or did
she discover a lump or something. Celine said "It happened so quick",
and started to cry and she apologized and took a kleanex to wipe her
tears. Then she continued, and said that she was shocked and then she
also felt strong right away, because she knows Rene needs her now. And
it may be the first time ever that Rene needs her, and for all the things
that Rene did for her, it's time Celine to do something back to her.
The interviewer also asked her whether the radiation does affect their
desire of wanting a baby. Celine said yes, but fortunately there are
many new technologies, and people will take a look at them closely to
find a way for them to realize their dream. Celine added that they will
start making a baby on the first day of her break.
(Updated on Oct 7th)
Gotta keep your VCR in top shape, cuz it will be very busy starting from
today! Celine will be on ET tonight, talking about Rene! Don't miss it.
Also more TV appearance to catch!
Oct 9~Motown live(MuchMoreMusic Canada)
Nov 16(All The Way release)~Oprah Winfrey Show
Nov 21~Today Show(NBC)
Nov 24~Celine CBS special
Dec 9~Tonight show with Jay Leno
Dec 13~Rosie O'Donnell
Dec 31~Celine's farewell concert(TVA Canada)
Nsync and Gloria Estefen were on MTV yesterday night, and they said it's
very exciting for them to be in the taping of Celine's special. The crowd
also applaused when they said that. By the way, Celine actually started
the taping of the special yesterday evening, and they will continue tonight.
Celine's brand new single "That's the way it is" will hit radio stations
next Wednesday. So don't forget to listen to your radio on that day!!
Video of the song will probably come the day after.(Thank you Peter!)
TVA is receiving high bids for commercials times for Celine's farewell
concert.
And just to make clear, Celine will NOT perform at the NetAid concert.
(Updated on Oct 6th)
MuchMoreMusic will air Motownlive this Saturday with Celine performing.
It's a pre-recorded show. I am sure that it has been aired in the US.
But I am not sure whether it's the firt time to air in Canada. Please
check your local listing.
(Updated on Oct 4th)
Bravo!! In the poll at www.accesshollywood.com, Celine's the winner
for favourite female artist of the 90s. Among 13831 respondents, Celine
got 28% of the votes, leading Mariah Carey with 22.6% at the second,
and Shania Twain with 15.9% at the third.
(Updated on Oct 3rd)
Celine is such as nice singer. As some of you may know, Celine had
a special performance for the atheletes of Ryder Cup(golf) last week.
And Celine even donated all her earning from that performance to the
Ryder Cup for the atheletes. Not only that, Celine has also donated all
her earning from her Denver concert on last Friday, to the Columbine
suvivors.(school shooting) And Celine also paid a tribute to them during
her concert. Celine told them "Your pain and suffering was felt around
the world. Everyone grieved with you, everyone prayed for you, everyone
wanted to comfort you and everyone cared, and they still do."
VCD for "Au Coeur Du Stade" has already been released in Hong Kong. And
they will also hit stores in Taiwan soon.
As some of you may know, a book called "Made In Canada" by Bryan Adams,
features beautiful pictures of some beautiful female Canadian. And Celine
was one of them. Some of these pictures(including Celine's) are featured
in the October issue of Flare magazine. If you want to order Bryan's
book, you may go to www.flare.com
(Updated on Oct 1st)
It's now confirmed that Celine's Millennium farewell concert will
boarcast by TVA across Canada from 9:00pm-1:00am(ET) And TVA will
use a new technology for the first time in Canada in order to have a
clearer and better quality for TV.
(Updated on Sept 30th)
This is a picture of Celine's latest MHWGO gown in her concert. The pic
was taken by a Celine fan in Destin list.
Right now Access Hollywood is
having a millennium poll for favourite musician. Please go and vote for
Celine to be the favourite female singer of the 90s.
(Updated on Sept 27th)
Celine's "Au Coeur Du Stade" is entering the Canadian chart at #15, which
is quite unusual, despite the fact that it is #1 in Quebec City, and #3
in Montreal. Celine's last few albums all reached, or debuted at #1. If
ACDS doesn't reach top 10, it will be the first Celine's album to not crack
the top 10. And there are few reasons why this album isn't selling that many.
First, lack of promotion.(Maybe Sony doesn't want to have a big promotion
on this album, since "All The Way" is releasing soon.) And it's a limited
edition. Sony hasn't manufactured many copies for this album in Canada.
They just want to release this album for Celine's fans, not for record
breaking.
(Updated on Sept 24th)
It's confirmed that Celine's upcoming album is titled "All The Way~A
Decade Of Songs". And the first single in North America will be
"That's the way it is"(complete with a video), a fast tempo song written
by Max Martin. And here's the tracklisting for the North America version
of the album.
Power Of Love
If You Asked Me To
Beauty And The Beast
Because You Loved Me
It's All Coming Back To Me Now
Love Can Move Mountains
To Love You More
My Heart Will Go On
I'm Your Angel
That's The Way It Is
If Walls Could Talk
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
All The Way
Then You Look At Me
I Want You To Need Me
Live
As you can see, they've omitted "Would I know", and "Run like a river"
which were written by Diane Warren. We have no idea why Sony decided
to omitt those songs. But I am sure that Sony has their reason. Maybe
those songs aren't as good as other Celine previous songs. No one knows.
Hope Sony made the right decision. And probably "Then you look at me"
is the theme song for the movie "Bicentennial Man".
(Updated on Sept 22nd)
Do you know that Celine almost sing the Millennium song for Canada?
The heritage minister of Canada wanted to have an official song to mark
the new millennium. However, the federal Millennium Bureau, rejected the
idea. However, the heritage minister was still going on for the project,
and tried to change the federal Millennium Bureau's mind with the song.
Sony Music Canada was behind the project and had agreed to ensure Celine
Dion and David Foster would also be involved. The song is called "Give",
was written by Francisco Lobato, an unknown young Montreal songwriter,
and embellished in the studio by Aldo Nova.
Later on, Michel Lafond, vice-president of special projects for BCP,
says the demo has been made but Celine won't be involved because of her
much-publicized hiatus beginning at the end of this year. The search is
on for a replacement. Lafond said "The song is talking to adults about
the importance of children and about how the future belongs to our children."
(info taken from National Post)
(Updated on Sept 21st)
Incase you didn't know. Celine did something so embarassing during the
Walk of fame ceremony. During the ceremony, the chairman of walk of fame
gave a speech after the master of ceremony. And when the chairman
finished talking, Celine jumped up from her seat and walked to the
microphone, and set the microphone to her height. When she was just
about to open her mouth, she found out that it was not yet her turn to
talk. So, Celine embarassingly walked back to her seat, and burried her
head in Rene's shoulder. The crowd laughed at Celine's mistake. And
when it was really Celine's turn to speak, Celine went up to the mic,
and said "Can I talk now?" Celine really loves to talk!
(Updated on Sept 20th)
Celine Dion, James Horner, and Will Jennings brought "My heart will go on"
to the top of the charts around the world. Are they going to do it again
this year? It's confirmed that they have already recorded another romantic
ballad for the movie "Bicentennial Man," which stars Robin Williams and
due in theaters on Christmas Day. The track will be the only song on an
otherwise instrumental, Horner-composed score and album (to be released by
Sony Classics.). The song will also be included on Celine's upcoming
Greatest hits album. "Bicentennial Man" is a story as Williams--playing
a robot who yearns to become human. The movie is based on a story by
Isaac Asimov, produced by Disney, the budget was $120 million. At first,
it was planned to release the movie in the summer of 2000, but now it's
moved up to Dec 17th. Sounds like Celine has enough new songs to release
a new album, instead of Great-hits.
"Au Coeur Du Stade" is #1 in France, Belgium, and Switzerland this week.
Bravo!!
(Updated on Sept 18th)
(you can click on the pic for a larger view)
Celine's star was unveiled yesterday. For a full report, you may go
to Walk Of Fame
For a concert review of Celine's last night performance in Toronto,you
may go to Jam Music
On Celine's CBS special, it's pretty sure that Celine will have a duet
with Nsync, and Gloria Estefan may also be one of the special guests.
It's so interesting to see Celine dueting with a young boy group Nsync.
Jean-Jacques Goldman is in court! Goldman is being sued by Danielle
Benhaim for stealing the melody of her song "Fond d'horizon" in the song
"S'il suffisait d'aimer". She claimed that she wrote the song in 1988
and sent to Goldman in 1994.
(Updated on Sept 17th)
Celine is in this issue of "Hello" magazine(UK), and National Enquirer(US).
Celine's star on walk of fame has been revealed today.
"All the way" will have 4 different versions due to Celine's hits varies
around the world. Such as "Think Twice" was a huge hit in England, but
not in North America. Rumors saying that the versions are North America,
South America, Europe, and Japan(Asia).
(Updated on Sept 17th)
Celine is in this issue of "Hello" magazine(UK), and National Enquirer(US).
Celine's star on walk of fame has been revealed today.
"All the way" will have 4 different versions due to Celine's hits varies
around the world. Such as "Think Twice" was a huge hit in England, but
not in North America. Rumors saying that the versions are North America,
South America, Europe, and Japan(Asia).
(Updated on Sept 16th)
Two more song titles that may appear on "All the way". They are "Love
is Alive" and "If walls can talk". Rumors saying that "The first time
I ever saw your face" may also appear on the album.
(Updated on Sept 14th)
"Au Coeur Du Stade" hits stores in Canada today. And it's already #1
in France, #2 in Sweden, and #3 in Belgium. Celineonline has also put
the album online already. Right now, song clips and lyrics are available
there.
(Updated on Sept 13th)
Real audio of "All the way" available on this site Celine site
Click on the link, then scroll down a little bit, then you'll find a
link for "All the way" real audio (1 minute). No idea how that webmaster
got the song.
On Saturday in Quebec City Coliseum, Celine was named UNESCO's artist
for peace, by Canadian representative of the UN Educational, Scentific,
Cultural organization.
(Updated on Sept 12th)
Thank you Karla!
Some people said that they went to a screening party for "All th way"
to choose which song to be the first single. They heard Max Martin's
(who wrote songs for Backstreet Boys, Nsync, Britney Spear) song
"That's the way it is", which is a dance song, and they love it so very
much, and they believe that it'll be a huge hit. And there was also a suprise,
a song written by Shania Twain's husband Mutt Lang. In the press conference,
a reporter asked Celine whether it'll be a duet with Shania, and Celine
said "Anything is possible!" The people who went to the screening party
said that Shania also did some part in the song. They also got to hear
songs such as "All the way", and "The first time", which were also good,
but they love "That's the way it is", and Mutt Lang's song more.
Four days after the sales for the tickets of Celine's farewell concert,
90% of the tickets has already gone. Congrajulations to all those who
are lucky enough to get themselves a ticket. And to all those who can't
get a ticket like me, hope that more countries will be able to boardcast
the show.
(Updated on Sept 10th)
Right now, it's pretty sure that the greatest hit album is going to be
called "All the way", and there will be 8 new songs. So, right now let's
guess what are the 8 new songs.
1)All the way (duet with Frank Sinatra)
2)I want you to need me (written by Diane Warren)
3)Live (English theme for "Notre Dame De Paris")
4)That's the way it is (written by Max Martin)
5)The first time (produced by David Foster)
6)Would I know (produced by David Foster)
7)Run like a river (produced by David Foster)
8)??????(a song written by the songwriter who wrote Cher's "Believe")
Remember these are not official, so don't blame me if it turns out none
of them right! ;)
(Updated on Sept 9th)
Rene is winning the battling of cancer! Yeah! Thank God! And Celine
confirms that she will take at least two year break. "All the way",
a new duet of Celine and Frank Sinatra, will be the theme of the new
album. Celine and Rene love this song very much, and it describes will
how they do things, "we do it all the way!" They asked Frank Sinatra's
wife for permission doing the song, and his wife was very pleased with
the new version of the song. All the way, maybe the new title of the
greatest hit album. For more articles, you can go to
Montreal Gazette
(Updated on Sept 8th)
Celine and Rene held a press conference in French today at Molson Centre.
It was boardcasted by RDI channel. However, I wasn't able to watch it,
and here are some of the info that I got from the net about the press
conference. Rene sounds different, and he looks well. Celine looks a
bit tired. Info about "Then & Again". There will be 8 new songs, and
around 8 old songs. One of the song will be "All the way", a duet of
Celine and Frank Sinatra. Another duet that produces by modern technology.
Hope it'll turn out good. As mentioned before, she has recorded the song
"Live" for the French musical "Notre Dame De Paris" in English. Max Martin,
a foreign songwriter specially wrote a song "That's the way it is" for
Celine, and Celine has just finished recording it few days ago in Canada.
Celine has also confirmed that she declined to be part of the English
version of the "Notre Dame" musical. And Mama Dion is going to have her
own cook show. And special guest for Celine's Dec 31st concert are
Bryan Adams, cast of "Notre Dame", and a Quebec singer. CBS will boardcast
30 mins of the concert, and TF1 has contract for the concert. There's
still no plan for a live Canada boardcast.(how sad!) That's all I know
for now. When I get more info, I'll post them here as soon as possible.
Here are some more info that I got from Karla. Thank you Karla! =)
There will be a new french compilation with 3 new songs, done with
Jean-Jacques Goldman.
About the Millenium show: 1,000,000 will be given to 10 local charities
100,000,000 each ).
A special programm will be given to all the people who will attend the
concert. There will be duets with Bruno Pelletier, Bryan Adams among
others....
Tickets are considered to be the cheapest in North America for a major
star( compared to 2,500 for Streisand and 1,500 for Estefan etc... )
The show is going to be given 'In the round' as Céline said she really
appreciate giving a show this way.
The January 1rst concert in Vegas is a private concert given for family
and friends. In a private room. They are flying 260 members of their
family and friend for the event. 500 hundreds person will attend.
This is a private concert, and not a public one.
About René: He had his last treatment on june 25. Got a full check up
on July 28: no trace of cancer. But he will have to be checked up every
3 months. He does look good, but his voice is a little raspy. He said
that things happened really quick. One day, in Dallas, he notices a bump
on the side of his throat. They thought it was an infection. But very
soon, they diagnosed cancer, they said they could operate him one week
later, but René insisted to have it done much quicker. All this happened
during a period of 2 days, where decisions had to me made quick. He
had it done in Dallas, because that is where he was at the time. René
was touched by the thousand of letters from all around the world, he
got from people who gave him their support. Céline found a new strength
in him, as well as a 'fragility', not a weakness, but she was proud
that he had the courage to admit he was scared, and how proud she is
the way he fought. They want children more than ever. They live for
the moment. The decision for the break was done long before they
discovered René had cancer.
Celine's walk of fame will be revealed next Tuesday. So far, 21 Canadians
have his/her own walk of fame.
(Updated on Sept 7th)
It's now confirmed that "Au Coeur Du Stade" will release in Canada on
Sept 14th. The tracklisting is the same as the one which released in
Europe in August.
(Updated on Sept 4th)
On next Wednesday, there will be a press conference of Celine and Rene,
few hours before Celine's first of the two concerts in Montreal's Molson
centre. It will be the first public appearance of Rene since his
notification of illness. During that conference, they may also reveal
the guests list for Celine's last concert on Dec 31, 1999. Tickets'
prices are range from $69 to $499.
According to the French version of Celineonline, the video of "Au Coeur
Du Stade" contains 22 songs, and it's 2h30mins long. So I think probably
the video includes all other English songs. Sounds great!!
(Updated on Sept 2nd)
These pictures are from Frank. They are the pictures in the cd booklet.
You can click on them for a larger view. Thank you to all those Celine
fans who sent me the pictures of the cd! Thank you! =)Aren't Celine fans
great or what!
Here are two bigger versions of the covers' pictures. You can click on
them to have a larger view. Thank you Tatiana for these pictures! =)
(Updated on Sept 1st)
For this year Muchmusic Award, Celine is nominated for MuchMoreMusic Artist,
up against Bryan Adams, Deborah Cox,Sarah McLachlan, Shania Twain. In
case you don't know what does "MuchMoreMusic" mean, MuchMusic is a music
video channel in Canada, and MuchMoreMusic is their sister channel which
focuses on adult contemporary songs. So, don't wait and go to vote for
Celine now!! Much Music Award
Please note that they vote for different categories each week, but I'm
not sure when it's time to vote for Celine's category. I only know it's
not this week.
Canadian singer songwriter will be sharing the stage with Celine. For
all of Celine's upcoming Canadian concerts, Corey Hart who wrote "Miles
to go before I sleep" and "Where is the love", will be the special guest.
These are the pictures of the cover of the album and video of "Au Coeur
Du Stade". The tracklisting for the cd is as below:
64 minutes and 29 seconds.
1: Let's Talk About Love (with beautiful intro with the music of Titanic)
2: Dans Un Autre Monde
3: Je Sais Pas (with a very good guitar-sound)
4: Je Crois Toi
5: Terre
6: J'irai Où Tu Iras
7: S'Il Suffisait D'Aimer
8: On Ne Change Pas
9: Medley Acoustique (acoustic medley)
Ce N'était Qu'un Rêve - D'amour Où D'Amitié - Mon
Ami M'a Quittée - L'amour Existe Encore - Ziggy
10: Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore
11: My Heart Will Go On
(Thank you Michiel for these info! =)
Heard that Celine and Rene will be returning to Quebec this Friday from
Florida. Because they are throwing a party in Terrebonne Golf course
which they own. The party is called "Let's talk about golf". Attendants
of the party are all workers of the "Let's talk about love" tour. And
few days after, they will have a press conference telling about how's
Rene doing.
I'm pretty sure that many people want to get the album "Au coeur du Stade".
You can try it at www.musiknet.com
I'm trying my best to find pictures of the album, if you have some and
if you want to share with us, you can send me those pictures through
email, so that I can post them here! =)
(Updated on Aug 30th)
Hi everyone! I'm back! =) Sorry for not keeping you guys updated with
Celine stuffs for the last two months. Well, lots of things to catch
up!
First of all, Celine's greatest hits album is now called "Then & Again"
and it's planning to hit stores on Nov 16th. It will feature 5 to 8 new
songs, and some old great hits such as "Beauty and the beast", "MHWGO",
"Where does my heart beat now"...etc. Rumours saying that the first
single from the album will be "I want you to need me" written by Dianne
Warren and produced by David Foster. Some of the new songs which I know
may appear on the album are called "Run like a river", "The 1st time",
and "Would I know".
Remember the big concert at Stade de France? Right now, it has released
in CD already in some countries in Europe. The title of the album is
called "Au Coeur Du Stade" (11 tracks). It includes all the French songs
that she sang during the concert, but Sony has cut out many English songs.
The only English songs left on the album are "Let's talk about love" and
"My heart will go on". They have also cut out some of Celine's chit
chat such as talking about the recovering of Rene. The CD also comes
with a picture sleeve. I heard that it has great pictures. Rumors
saying that a video format of the concert will come out soon. And hope
that they will leave the English songs in.
CBS has announced that another Celine special is coming soon. It will
probably be aired on the Thanksgiving night. It will be taping a
performance of Celine in Radio City Hall.
On October 9th, Celine will participated at the Net Aid concert which
will take place in New York, London, and Geneva at the same time. It
will be the largest charity concert ever in history.
Celine has recorded the song "Live" for the English soundtrack of
the musical "Notre Dame De Paris" produced by Luc Plamondon.
"Celine Dion~These are special times" TV special has been nominated
for 2 Emmies.
On August 6th, Celine has participated at Tiger Woods charity. She told
how huge Tiger Woods fan she and Rene are, and how they were suprised
to hear Tiger Woods's invitation message on their answering machine.
Celine also said that Rene was very happy, especially because Tiger
Woods kept calling them to see how's Rene's recovery.
On Canada's 100 most popular Canadian singles chart, complie from all
the singles from May 1975 to June 1999, "The Power Of Love" is number
1, while "Because you loved me" is number 16.
In Japan, if you get on the JR train, you'll probably see an advertisement
(poster) of Celine for an English school. The school called "Eion" has
chosen Celine for their promotion.
(Updated on June 25th)
More pictures from Celine Stade de France concert. =)
(Updated on June 24th)
Base on the tracklisting of various "Treat her like a lady", it looks
like that Sony UK is pretty serious on this single. Hope it'll do well
around the world.
CD1
1 Treat Her Like A Lady
2 Treat Her Like A Lady (Metro Club Mix)
3 Treat Her Like A Lady (Ric Wake Club Mix)
CD2
1 Treat Her Like A Lady (recorded live at the Molson Centre, Montreal)
2 Love Can Move Mountains (recorded live at L'Olympia de Paris)
3 The Prayer (duet with Andrea Bocelli)
4 Treat Her Like A Lady (live video)
MC
1 Treat Her Like A Lady
3 The Prayer (duet with Andrea Bocelli)
(Updated on June 23rd)
I made a mistake, TVA will be the station which televise Celine's Dec
31st concert in Canada, not TV5. Sorry! ;)
(Updated on June 22nd)
Two more great pics of Celine from Karla! Right now, Celine is probably
beside Rene in their Florida's house.
The release date of "Treat her like a lady" in Ireland, and UK is June
28th. And rumors saying that the tickets of Celine's farewell concert
(Dec 31st) will go on sale on Sept 9th. But probably, there won't be
many because some companies,and Rene can reserve those tickets in advance.
And rumors saying that the concert will probably be something like the
one she did in Stade de France. However, few months ago, I have also
heard that the concert may be 3 hrs long. Anyway, we'll just have to
wait and see. And in Canada, TVA will broadcast the concert.
(Updated on June 21st)
The above picture is taken from Libration. In Stade de France concert,
Celine added many French songs into her repetoir. She also sang "Je crois
toi", "Dans un autre monde", "Terre", "Ziggy", "J'Irai Ou Tu Iras",
"Je sais pas", "Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore", "L'amour Existe Encore",
"Ce N'Etait Qu'un Reve", "D'amour Ou D'amitie", "Mon Ami M'a Quittee".
, and many other.
(Updated on June 20th)
Celine gave a spectacular concert in front of 9,5000 audiences. Mama
and Papa Dion, Luc Plamondon, E. Marnay(the major song writer for Celine's
early french career), were among the audiences. Celine also told the
audience that Rene has also attended the concert via Satelite. Celine
said Rene is watching every single second of the concert in his armchair
and he is doing fine. Many audiences despite cameras shooting them, broke
into tears. Celine thanked the audience for their support, energy and
prayers which helped them a lots. Celine said that she will fly back to
Florida immediately after Sunday's concert to be with Rene, before she
has her next concert in Switzerland 10 days after. Jean-Jacque Goldman
also joined Celine on stage singing J'irai où tu iras and a cappella,
S'il suffisait d'aimer. There are also some HK newspapers reporting this
concert, saying that Celine's popularity and her high status in the music
world, is very secure, and imcomparable. Thank you Karla for those pics! =)
(Updated on June 19th)
Today in Canada, on some news programs, they show some clips of Celine's
concert, telling audience that Rene is doing fine. I think those clips
are from Celine's Stade de France concert, but I am not 100% sure.
(Updated on June 18th)
Tomorrow is the day of Celine's big concert in Stade de France. In case
some of you don't know where is Stade de France, it's the stadium where
the Soccer World Cup was held. And as a reminder, TF1 channel will
boardcast one of the two concerts there on TV few weeks later.
(Updated on June 16th)
Story time!!! As I said yesterday, a fellow Celine fan got to meet Celine
the day before Amsterdam concert at the hotel. Although it was a day
for Celine to shut her mouth in order to rest her vocal cord, Lysanne,
and some other Celine fans still had a great time meeting her. Right
now, let's go to read her whole experience. Once again, thank you Lysanne
for your contribution! =) Lysanne's unforgettable experience
By the way, Lysanne would like to know what hotel does Celine stay in
London and Paris. If anyone knows, please email me or her. Thank you!
And also a special thank to Karla. =) Aren't Celine fans the nicest group
of people in the world or what?!!
(Updated on June 15th)
Celine sets a new record in Netherlands. Yesterday, 6,5000 people attented
the concert, making it the largest concert ever in Netherlands!! Bravo!
Today, a very nice Celine fan, Lysanne, who met Celine in Amsterdam,
sent me her story of meeting Celine, and going to her concert. She
also sent me a picture of Celine's new outfit in the concert. I think
I'll be able to put up that page as soon as tomorrow. Before that, let's
tell you what Celine said in the concert.
This is what Celine said in Amsterdam concert provided by Merijn. "After
'Because you loved me' Celine said that it was a long time ago already
that she was in Amsterdam. She said she was happy to see us again. But
before she wanted to move on she wanted to tell a few personal things:
"I want you to know tonight, ...that Rene is fine!" (applause of about
a minute) "I got to tell you that uhm, I just want you to know something.
I just want you to know something: it is hard, but I am so proud of him,
because he is so strong. He´s going through it. And I got to be honest
with you it was very hard for me. I just arrived yesterday night. ..
yesterday morning I'm sorry. yesterday morning. But of course it's hard
for me to leave home. I want to be with him. But also, I want you to
know that tonight I wanted to come here and I wanted to say to all of you
Thank you , so very much for all your prayers. It's helping us tremendously!"
The crowd started cheering "Rene" after Celine had said that she organized
that Rene could watch the show live via a satelite link. "This is
definitely a lot of energy that you just send to Florida and it's going
to help him a lot. It's going to give him a lot of energy. And I know
he's watching: "Rene, I love you so very much sweety". And tonight we
got to go on with the show and we're going to have a good time in
Amsterdam!"
(Updated on June 14th)
The left side picture above is inside a new French Magazine. Celine even
has her own golf bag. The right hand side picture is a picture that I
found on Celineonline's discussion board. And I want to share this with
you because I found it quite funny, and scary!
Celine's mother will host an kitchen TV show produced by Julie Snyder.
The talk show host Julie Snyder will produce for the first time an
emission without being face to the camera. Being a large friend of Celine,
she will help Théresa Dion to carry out its dream to have its own TV
show. Remember sometime ago, Celine was on Rosie, and she said that after
her break, she may come back to her show to introduce new recipe. So,
right now, Celine can go to her mom's show to introdue her new recipe
there.
(Updated on June 13th)
Interesting story. During an interview, reporters asked Cher, who does
she like better, Mariah or Whitney. And Cher says I like Celine more.
Her voice is very powerful!
(Updated on June 12th)
Good news for people who receive TF1 channel. Because TF1 channel will
broadcast one of Celine concerts in Stade De France(June 19th or 20th)
on June 26th-8:50 P.M. (20h50)
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