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Access all areas : a backstage pass through 50 years of music and culture
First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal, insightful and humorous memoir packed with stories of being on the cultural frontline, from first writing press releases on a typewriter driven by Tip Ex, then as a press officer for heavy metal bands taking the bus up to Donnington Festival with coffee, croissants and the much more popular sulfate. To taking on Madonna, an unknown girl from Detroit, and telling Smash Hits 'you don't have to run the piece if the single doesn't chart', and becoming a true pioneer in music, Charone continues to work with the biggest names in music, including Depeche Mode, Robert Plant, Foo Fighters and Mark Ronson at her agency MBCPR. The story of how a music-loving, budding journalist from a Chicago suburb became the defining music publicist of her generation, Access All Areas is a time capsule of the last fifty years, told through the lens of music.
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Media: The `mumsy' minder who's protecting the material girl If you want to get anywhere near a bed with Madonna, you have to go through Barbara Charone, PR for the world's most famous woman
This was [Barbara Charone], [Madonna]'s UK press agent. She is as near as any journalist or photographer is likely to get to the Material Girl while she's here, and that's about as near as the far side of the moon. Tough, savvy and unequivocally on the side of the stars she represents, Charone has been described as \"the closest thing the UK music industry has to Alastair Campbell\". Never was a group of journalists more frustrated than those despatched to doorstep Madonna's wedding to the film director Guy Ritchie at Skibo Castle in Scotland. Charlie Bain, one of The Mirror's reporters at the scene, said: \"We could get no information at all. Barbara Charone wouldn't return our calls and refused to confirm even that the wedding had taken place. \"In 25 years in London I have never seen such excitement from the normally jaded media as there was amongst the writers waiting to get into the concert,\" says Charone about Madonna's recent British tour.
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1million a gig including 8 tattoo sets and 18 T-shirts for fans
At least two fans yesterday stumped up some 10,000 for a pair sold via the internet on the off-chance that [Madonna] might take time out to meet the great and good at the concert tonight. Aside from the huge amount of money touts have made from hiking prices of tickets to 50 times their face value, Madonna is estimated to be earning 1mil- lion for every show she puts on. And with 48 shows in 17 countries over 13 weeks, that's a huge return. Items available at the six Earls Court gigs range from limited- edition Drowned Tour T-shirts for around 18, to Madonna Nokia Phone covers for around 25, Madonna lunch boxes at around 14, Madonna leather wallets for 25 - and even Madonna tattoo and body jewellery sets for around 8. Of course, there will be cheaper unofficial versions illegally touted outside the venue. [BARBARA CHARONE], a 48-year-old American who has lived in the UK since 1974, runs the PR company MBC with Moira Bellas. Her other clients include Rod Stewart, Aerosmith, Depeche Mode and Mick Hucknall. However, the most important one is Madonna.
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3AM: Going, going.. John
SUPERSTAR Elton John has ditched another member of his staff - publicist Barbara Charone (top right).
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Madonna breaks bones after being thrown from 'new horse'
LONDON - [Madonna] suffered several broken bones yesterday when she fell off a horse at her English country estate on her 47th birthday, her spokeswoman said. \"She sustained three cracked ribs, a broken collar bone and a broken hand but is expected to be released from hospital later this evening,\" spokeswoman Barbara Charone said of the accident at Madonna's Ashcombe House estate.
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MATERIAL SKIRL; Madonna heads north as rumours grow she'll wed Guy in Scots castle
[Madonna] and boyfriend Guy Ritchie are to spend Christmas and Hogmanay in Scotland. It fuels rumours that Madonna will become _ a Material Skirl by opting for a Highland wedding to Lock, Stock director Ritchie, father of her baby son Rocco. Hollywood gossips say Ritchie's pal, actor and former footballer Vinnie Jones, suggested a Highland castle.
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Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll?
How about 'music's Alastair Campbell'? [Barbara Charone] is delighted. 'I'll take that, that's great,' she hoots.'Except I support Chelsea.'
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Nadine enlists a new weapon in her bid to beat Cheryl: Madonna's slippery PR agent Eire Region
[NADINE Coyle]'s move to surpass [Cheryl Cole] has already led her to sign Guy Chambers, who wrote Robbie Williams hits such as Angels. Now she has hired Madonna's press agent, Barbara Charone. Charone - working under the guidance of Madonna's spokesman, Liz Rosenberg - has been called a 'hapless puppet' and has been accused of repeatedly and deliberately lying.
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Inside the Bizarre world of Gordon Smart
Downstairs at the security gate of News International's headquarters in Wapping, east London, a copy of that morning's edition has been mounted in a glass frame for the benefit of visitors. \"Madonna: [Guy Ritchie]'s a Gold-Digger\", screams the front page, a \"World Exclusive by [Gordon Smart], Bizarre Editor\". Madge, it claims, has told a pal \"he wants to take, take, take\". So what are you drinking Guy? Cheers! Not long ago Smart, 28, was sat beside Ritchie for an exclusive preview of the director's latest movie, RockNRolla, and the journalist admits he lost some sleep over reporting the film-maker's marital problems. \"Somebody from the paper rang me last night and said, 'Do you think you should have your name on it? Is this going to wind Guy up? And I said 'I've got to do it, it's my job, he'll understand'.\" The story is one of a string of follow-ups to Smart's splash the previous week, \"Madonna & Guy: We're Divorcing\", a scoop that went round the world. To others in the showbiz press pack, it was a gift, a phone call from one of Madonna's people. Fingers were pointed at the singer's legendary UK publicist, Barbara Charone, by the enemy Daily Mirror, which had already reported during the summer that the Ritchie marriage was in peril. Smart says his story was no mere tip-off but \"a great team effort\", crediting his reporting colleagues Virginia Wheeler and Emma Cox and the diplomatic skills of senior executives. \"It all came together, a bit of good-cop bad-cop, some persistence and some patience,\" he says, hinting at a negotiating process to rival the Good Friday Agreement. Crucial, was an official statement from the couple the following day, confirming the story's truth. \"It was either 'it's over' or it really wasn't a story,\" says Smart. \"People have been writing that Madonna and Guy aren't in a happy relationship since 2001. The Mirror had a sniff of something earlier in the year, but that line about the announcement was a killer blow. That was definitive and we were well ahead of the competition.\"
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Interview: Chelsea's growing legions take Portugal by storm: Barbara Charone on flying the Blue flag at Euro 2004
John Terry also had an impressive tournament and, if the rumours about Steven Gerrard moving to Stamford Bridge are to be believed, when we start the next World Cup campaign Chelsea could have more England players than any other club. Suddenly Chelsea are the future of England with Wayne Bridge, Joe Cole and Scott Parker patiently waiting in the wings. Chelsea have also made their presence count at the tournament with France, Denmark, Holland, Czech Republic and Portugal. Marcel Desailly's performance for France mirrored his disappointing season at Chelsea while William Gallas and Claude Makelele maintained their good club form. Another small complaint is that I would have liked to see Wayne Bridge given a game. His performances for us last season got better and better and like [Frank Lampard] he has a penchant for scoring important goals. At the moment, though, you can't see anyone dislodging Ashley Cole, such was the quality of his display against Portugal. And that's the only time you'll get a Chelsea fan praising anyone to do with Arsenal.
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