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Sheryl Crow wants your vote -- and figures she can catch it for a song.
The Grammy-winning isaac Merrit Singer is oblation a release download of her politically charged tune "Gasoline" to anyone wHO logs onto the Rock the Vote Web site or anyone on the group's mailing list.
And the first 50,000 people who register three friends to voter turnout will start out a disengage digital transcript of her album "Detours."
"I hope people wake up and emotionally engage in issues," Crow said in a telephony interview during a visit to Los Angeles.
Crow's game show is a kickoff to Rock the Vote's elector registration drive, said the organization's executive director Heather Smith.
Crow, 46, was one of the founding artists of Rock the Vote 18 age ago. She said the "Detours" album fits dead into the group's cause since the lyrics partake on topics such as adoption, breast cancer, the war in Iraq, the environment and Hurricane Katrina.
"It's about the issues that everyone's talking about, but there's a lot of hope," Crow said. "At this moment in my life, written material about anything else would be uninteresting and inconceivable because I feel such urgency."
Rock the Vote aims to file 2 gazillion young people to balloting by November -- the largest early days voter drive in history by three times, Smith said. Anyone who recruits three people to right to vote will ingest to log onto the Rock the Vote Web site and go through a verification process in front receiving Crow's album, Smith said.
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Amy Winehouse - Winehouse In Hospital Dash
AMY WINEHOUSE has been rushed to hospital after suffering a reaction to medication at her London home.
The riotous singer was hidden by a red blanket and transported to a waiting ambulance by wheelchair late on Monday (28Jul08).
Police arrived at the view and helped the singer's frantic padre Mitch block the view of awaiting paparazzi with a sheet, to preclude the hoardes of snappers from acquiring a shot of the ailing star.
She was taken to the accident and emergency social unit of the University College hospital in North West London, where she is said to be stable, according to the star's representatives.
The 24-year-old's spokesman Chris Goodman says the asterisk "suffered a reaction to medication at home this evening and was taken to hospital."
Goodman adds, "Doctors have well-advised that she will be kept under observation overnight and is likely to be released tomorrow."
The infirmary trip comes a day after the troubled isaac Bashevis Singer sparked fresh fears for her health after she was photographed throwing herself to the floor and sobbing during a night out.
The Rehab hitmaker was on her way to Stables medicine bar at North London's famous Proud Galleries in Camden this weekend (26-27Jul08) when the incident occurred.
She was snapped crying and lashing out at her bodyguard in the former hours of Sunday (27Jul08) morning before throwing herself on the floor.
She was then depicted punching a metal fence in frustration after her minder attempted to pick her up from the ground.
A seed tells British newspaper the Daily Star, "She was in a terrible province. She left hand by the back doorway and went home in tears. She had a black coat over her head and a vain hand. She looked awed, like her world is falling apart."
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