Kendra Wilkinson born as Kendra Leigh Wilkinson on June 12th, 1985 in San Diego, California is a famous American television star and a fashion model.

Kendra Wilkinson was born to former cheerleader of Philadelphia Eagles, Patti and her husband Eric. When Kendra was four years old, her parents got separated and she was raised by her mother alone. Kendra Wilkinson grew up in Clairemont, central San Diego and pursued her high school studies at Clairemont High School graduating in 2003. Soon after finishing high school Kendra Wilkinson took up work as an office assistant to a dentist and later began working as a fashion model. Kendra Wilkinson also played softball with Clairemont Bobby Sox for six years.

Lady luck soon smiled on Kendra. A photographer who shot Kendra Wilkinson’s pictures and got them uploaded on his website. These beautiful photos in turn attracted the attention of Hugh Hefner, a men’s magazine magnate. Kendra Wilkinson met Hugh Hefner, a men’s magazine magnate in April of 2004 on his 78th birthday party and became his live-in girlfriend when she officially moved into his home.

Kendra Wilkinson has a starring role on “The Girls Next Door” {58 episodes: 2005-2008} the famous reality television series on Entertainment channel. Kendra appears as the third girlfriend of Hugh Hefner after Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt on the show.
Wilkinson has also appeared as a Mystique Waitress on “Las Vegas”, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Entourage” all aired in 2005 and “General Hospital” in 2007. She has also appeared in a “Scary Movie 4″ in 2006 as blonde #3 and another of her movie “Shoot Out of Luck” is slated for release this year. Kendra Wilkinson has also made guest appearances on a number of television programs such as “The Late Night Show with Craig Ferguson”, “The Tyra Banks Show”, “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”, “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and so on.

Kendra Wilkinson who is very much interested in becoming a sports massage therapist is already taking classes on massage therapy. She is also interested in making out a career as sports announcer. When not busy with shooting schedules Kendra Wilkinson finds herself busy in creating her own designer clothing line.

The Official Charts Company has launched the first Official Mobile Downloads Chart, to reflect the growing consumption of music on the mobile phone. The Official Mobile Downloads Chart has launched to coincide with the release of the first iPhone application to offer Official Charts. The application, which costs £1.79 to purchase, gives the user a weekly update of the Official Singles and Albums Top 40s, as well as the Official Mobile Downloads Chart and highlights of the next week’s new releases.
The Official Mobile Download Chart reflects sales of permanent downloads direct to mobiles and is launched after a recent survey by entertainment retailers’ association ERA highlighted that the mobile phone is rapidly becoming the UK’s favourite music device. Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot says, “This new chart reflects the changing ways in which consumers are accessing a consuming music and underlines the Official Charts Company’s commitment to offering data on all types of music consumption. 2008 saw the launch of the world’s first Subscription Plays Chart in the UK – and 2009 will see the development of even more charts and data showcasing the fast-growing digital environment.” Gerard Grech, Chairman of MEF (Mobile Entertainment Forum) EMEA region: “The mobile download chart is a logical follow-up to the world’s first ringtone chart, which was launched by MEF four years ago. Beyond personalising mobiles with ringtones and ringbacktones, music fans are increasingly turning to their handsets to discover new songs and access music on the move.”

Gwyneth Paltrow says Madonna’s problems ‘dwarf’ her own. The ‘Iron Man’ actress insists she has a lot of respect for the ‘Hung Up’ singer because she has overcome many obstacles in her private life. Gwyneth said: ‘She’s been through everything. And she’s a real survivor. Every problem that I’ve had, she’s had 10 problems worse that dwarf my own issues.’

In recent years, Madonna has endured a bitter divorce from Guy Ritchie, seen her brother Christopher Ciccone write a damning tell-all book about their relationship and face a barrage of criticism over her adoption of Malawian boy David Banda.

Gwyneth, 36, insists the public perception of Madonna as a feisty, demanding diva is far from the truth. In reality, the blonde actress says her 50-year-old friend is warm and thoughtful.

Gwyneth said: ‘She’s a very interested, caring woman. She’s pretty great. She’s Madonna and she comes with all this stuff but she’s pretty incredible.’

Gwyneth and Madonna have been friends for 10 years, with the singer turning to Gwyneth for support after split from Guy last year.

To celebrate their 40th Anniversary of live touring, GONG, the progressive/psychedelic rock band originally founded in 1967 by Australian musician Daevid Allen will join forces with guitarist Steve Hillage and other core members from the original line-up for a rare UK tour in November 2009.

The UK tour will celebrate the first time Gong have toured the UK since 2000.

Dates as follows: Bristol O2 Academy (Nov 19), Exeter Lemon Tree (Nov 20), Manchester Academy 2 (Nov 21), Edinburgh Picturehouse (Nov 22), Sheffield Leadmill (Nov 23), Leamington Spa Assembly (Nov 25), Cambridge Corn Exchange (Nov 26), London HMV Forum (Nov 27), Oxford Regal Theatre (Nov 28) and Brighton Corn Exchange (Nov 29).

Gong’s music has been described as space rock. The highly anticipated forthcoming tour will reunite founding member Daevid Allen with former Gong members Steve Hillage, Gilli Smyth, Mike Howlett, Miquette Giraudy, Chris Taylor, Theo Travis and John McKenzie.

Gong are currently working on a brand new forward-looking album called “2032,” the same year that the Planet Gong makes full contact with the Planet Earth - and a major new chapter in the continually evolving Gong mythology. The album will be released September 2009.

Gong is often referred to as a ‘cult’ band. Which we have always understood to mean, “a band which too few people love too much”

But… In the words of that great French pataphysician and all round musicbox, Bloomdido Bad De Grasse, to whom we defer on all things “Zeee Gong eeeet egg-zisst all waysssss!” - as long as you want it to in fact.

Now in 2009 GONG is in its 40th year of giggling and performing in all its many forms and dis-guises, and the process has become so much more than just the most eccentric originating psychedelic band of the late sixties and early seventies.

The buds, satellites, comet-like offshoots, children and grandchildren of Gong are many and varied. Their activities cover a vast range of musical styles, tastes, inclinations and altitudes. But always at the heart of all these bands, musicians, poets, artists and performers lies the original seed vision of the luminous green planet Gong - may this site help you see it more clearly.

Why we are? Well we continue to work and at one and the same time assiduously not work on that little conundrum…

Organisers of the DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL AT DONINGTON PARK have announced five more rock acts for this year’s line up, which is shaping up to be the best yet!

Set to play Download 2009 over the weekend of 12 -14 JUNE will be BILLY TALENT, DREAM THEATER, THE BLACKOUT, BUCKCHERRY and rock stars of the silver screen ANVIL – who played the Monsters of Rock festival back in 1982.

These great acts, encompassing punk hardcore, classic rock and prog-metal join a line up that is already boasting a great selection of international rock artists. This includes the previously announced headliners SLIPKNOT and DEF LEPPARD, with many more names to be confirmed between now and June!

The Third Headliner for the Download Festival will be announced on Monday night – this announcement is highly anticipated, much talked about, with expectations high. Fans won’t be disappointed and can hear who the final headliner will be at 7.45pm on Monday 2 March via www.kerrang.com.

Bono is ‘just a naughty boy’ when he is with U2. The group’s bassist Adam Clayton says he and his bandmates – guitarist The Edge, and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. – bring Bono, who is known for his political campaigning, back down to earth.

Adam said: ‘When Bono’s back in the band, he’s not a messiah, he’s just a naughty boy!’

He added: ‘But it has been fascinating to see his persuasion grow. At any table, he tends to be the most interesting person there. There’s great wisdom and knowledge to be gained from Bono.’

It was recently revealed Bono’s distractions from music nearly split up U2.

The philanthropic rocker revealed his bandmates were convinced his prominent involvement in promoting numerous charity issues would end the Irish group.

He said: “It’s dangerous. And it worries Larry, and it worries the whole band, if truth be told. But, you know, here’s the thing - they thought, all of them, Larry, Edge, Adam, that my campaigning would sink the ship.”

Singer, poet, activist, and believer: few icons in the history of rock & roll have created and performed their art with the consciousness and passion of Bono and only a handful have done it as successfully. Whether preaching three chords and the truth or donning ironic personas, the first and only frontman for seminal Irish rock band U2 has always stood unequivocally for hope, faith, and love — and in so doing has touched millions of people worldwide.

Bono was born Paul Hewson on May 10, 1960, in Dublin, Ireland. His father Bobby, a postal worker, was Catholic, while his mother Iris was Protestant. Young Paul was raised in a spiritual atmosphere, but because he came from a mixed marriage he was never fully welcomed in either the Catholic or Protestant churches. This personal understanding of the religious strife in Ireland — along with the sudden death of his mother when he was 14 — were to be major influences on his songwriting in U2’s early years.

The band that would become U2 formed in October 1976, after drummer Larry Mullen Jr. placed a note on his high school bulletin board seeking musicians for a rock group. Hewson — along with guitarist Dave Evans and bassist Adam Clayton — made the cut at the first meeting in the drummer’s kitchen. Although he couldn’t sing, Hewson’s commanding personality landed him the job as frontman. Bono allegedly picked up his nickname from the Latin Bono Vox (good voice), but it was initially his charismatic stage presence that helped U2 gain a reputation for live performance. U2’s relentless touring schedule quickly boosted his vocal prowess, however, and by the time of the band’s groundbreaking 1983 War release, Bono had developed a soaring tenor. Within four years it would become one of the most recognizable voices in popular music.

In 1987, U2 rose to superstardom with The Joshua Tree and Bono was quickly placed in the center of international media attention. His righteously candid interviews — combined with a tendency to preach on stage — eventually made him the target of the press’ more cynical circles. After touring for over two-and-a-half years at the end of the ’80s, U2 temporarily stepped out of the public eye and disappeared to Berlin in 1990 to record a new album.

The 1991 release of Achtung Baby represented a complete musical reinvention for U2. The industrial-influenced album was darker and sexier than previous U2 works — a change paralleled by Bono’s adoption of new camera and stage presences. During the supporting Zoo TV tour, Bono sarcastically assumed the shiny black leather persona of a prototypical rock star called the Fly and appeared during encores in America as Mirrorball Man (a corrupt televangelist) and in the rest of the world as Mister Macphisto (the devil portrayed as an aging rock god).

With occasional help from guitarist the Edge, Bono has penned all of U2’s lyrics, often favoring unconventional subject matter over the typical rock & roll fare of love and sex. His material has ranged from the turmoil of adolescence, to politics, to religion. Straight-up love songs are conspicuously absent from the group’s first four albums and Bono didn’t fully embrace the love song until he incorporated it in the shadowy and complicated Achtung Baby. Bono has cited numerous influences on his lyrics, particularly his role in social works.

Bono’s resume includes an exhaustive section on social activism. In 1984, he appeared on Band Aid’s charity recording “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” After U2’s historic Live Aid performance in 1985, Bono traveled to Ethiopia with his wife Ali. There they spent several weeks helping with an education and famine relief project. In 1986, U2 headlined Amnesty International’s Conspiracy of Hope tour. Bono also performed at 1999’s Net Aid, a concert broadcasted live over the Internet that raised money to relieve third world debts.

Bono’s most extensive social campaign was Jubilee 2000, another project orchestrated to cancel third world debts that included supporters such as Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Live Aid organizer Bob Geldof, and producer Quincy Jones. During the Jubilee 2000 campaign, Bono spoke before the United Nations and the United States Congress and met with key figures such as Pope John Paul II and Bill Clinton.

Bono married Alison Stewart in 1982. They have two daughters, Jordan and Memphis Eve, and a son, Elijah. A second son, John Abraham was born during U2’s 2001 Elevation tour.