Free Giveaway CDs and DVDs with newspapers

tmb2000

Redcase wrote: »

I think this is correct,sorry if i`m wrong.
Ray Davis of the kinks new cd Working man’s Cafe to be given away with the Sunday times on 21 October.

YOUR NOT :beer: and being a big Kinks fan this is great news :j :j

Sunday Times in Davies CD deal



[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Mark Sweney[/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Friday October 12, 2007[/FONT]
[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]MediaGuardian.co.uk[/FONT]


[FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Davies: CD will be given away with the Sunday Times, preceded by a free download track on the paper's website[/FONT]

The Sunday Times is to jump on the album giveaway bandwagon by releasing former Kinks lead singer Ray Davies' new solo CD for free on October 21.
Davies' album, Working Man's Cafe, will be offered for free with every copy of the Sunday Times while one track, Vietnam Cowboys, will be available as a free download from October 14 at Timesonline.co.uk.
The promotion, which follows in the footsteps of the Mail On Sunday's high-profile giveaway of Prince's Planet Earth album in July, has been heralded as part of a new era for music and newspaper promotion.
"This is a first for the Sunday Times and Ray Davies and continues the changing trend in the music industry for artists showcasing their new work," said the Times Media sales and marketing director, Katie Vanneck.
The Davies album, which will be supported by a six-figure marketing campaign including TV, radio and digital advertising, consists of 10 tracks.
In July, the Mail on Sunday caused a furore with a groundbreaking giveaway of Prince's unreleased CD Planet Earth.
The Prince giveaway saw the MoS's year-on-year circulation rise by 4.43% to sell an average of 2,319,788 copies in July.
On the day of the promotion, July 15, sales figures soared to 2,800,846 copies.
The promotion sparked a furious reaction from the record industry, although HMV agreed to sell the paper so its customers could gain access to the CD.
A week later, circulation came down with a bump when the newspaper appeared to lose all of the extra 600,000 sales attracted by the CD giveaway. However, the Mail on Sunday said its sale the weekend after was still 31,000 copies up on its base sale the week before the giveaway.


Ray Davies Returns With New Solo LP!
12 Sep 2007
Ray Davies Returns With New Solo LP
‘Working Mans Café’ released October 29th

Eighteen months after releasing his first ever solo album, Ray Davies is back with what promises to be one of the best albums of his incredible career. While last year’s ‘Other People’s Lives’ was a lifetime in the making, this new album happened relatively quickly.

Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee and mixed in North London at Konk earlier this year, ‘Working Mans Café’ features 12 stellar songs written by Ray Davies and co- produced with Ray Kennedy. They assembled a crackerjack band of top musicians who breathe life into a wonderful collection of songs.

The 12 new songs are vintage Ray Davies and bears all the hallmark classic musical and lyrical insights we have come to expect from him. The album is infused with a transatlantic sound befitting Ray’s close ties to the American south coupled with his well respected Englishness. From the first upbeat notes of the lead track ‘Vietnam Cowboys’, it is clear Ray has never sung better.

‘Working Mans Café’ is a wistful, humorous and poignant look at today, just what we have come to expect from one of Britain’s greatest songwriters. Highlights are many and include the Preservation Jazz Hall sway of ‘Morphine Song’, the painful longing of ‘Imaginary Man’ and the haunting emotion of ‘One More Time’.

‘You’re Asking Me’ and ‘In A Moment’ offer incredibly affecting pop while ‘Working Man’s Café’ revisits familiar Davies territory – that yearning for an era gone by. Brimming with variety, ‘Voodoo Walk’ is a steamy stroll on the rock side.

‘Where is the real world?’ he asks on the album’s final track after giving ample evidence throughout this impressive 12-song cycle that it lives within these grooves.

On a different but related track......

At same time Madonna has also apparantly left the traditional music biz so interesting "Times" (sorry) ahead. Madonna is poised to leave her record company of 25 years to sign a $120 million (£60 million) deal with Live Nation, a concert promotion firm, in a move that many may regard as further evidence that the music industry of the last century is officially dead.

tmb2000

scott_lithgows wrote: »

Was "the millionairess" not given away before as a freebie? I,m in the middle of moving house at the moment so cant find it at the moment,I remember as it,s an Alistair Sim film I was very keen to buy the paper to get it,this is a couple of years ago so it,s not a "regional" issue.
Also anyone know how many "carry on " films are still to be freebies ?

Yes definitely came with the Express - dire film, I never made it to the end.

I think now the Sun has given away 21 different Carry On films via my local McCalls which only leaves about nine left - I have them all filed away so I'll try listing them all when I get a mo, Express has given away three Xmas specials.

I really must get a life :rolleyes:

tmb2000

tmb2000 wrote: »

Yes definitely came with the Express - dire film, I never made it to the end.

I think now the Sun has given away 21 different Carry On films via my local McCalls which only leaves about nine left - I have them all filed away so I'll try listing them all when I get a mo, Express has given away three Xmas specials.

I really must get a life :rolleyes:

OK Carry On Freebies that I have - all Sun unless stated

1 - CARRY ON FOLLOW THAT CAMEL

2 - CARRY ON CAMPING
3 - CARRY ON DOCTOR
4 - CARRY ON HENRY
5 - CARRY ON !!!!!!
6 - CARRY ON COWBOY
7 - CARRY ON CRUISING
8 - CARRY ON NURSE
9 - CARRY ON CONSTABLE
10 - CARRY ON ABROAD
11 - CARRY ON EMMANNUELLE
12 - CARRY ON BEHIND
13 - CARRY ON SPYING
14 - CARRY ON LOVING
15 - CARRY ON CLEO
16 - CARRY ON REGARDLESS
17 - CARRY ON AT YOUR CONVENIENCE
18 -CARRY ON AGAIN DOCTOR
19 - CARRY ON GIRLS
20 – CARRY ON JACK
21 - CARRY ON UP THEKHYBER (Sunday People)

THE TV XMAS SPECIALS Express
1969, 1972,1973

quoia

DAILY MAIL

starting Saturday - A new series of War DVDs detailing World War 1

The GREAT WAR - 26 part series.





An extract from "The Great War", the book of the television series - (WHY YOU SHOULD GET A COPY)

A summer Sunday, 1914: All across Europe the bells were pealing, calling men and women to church.
Sunday, the Lord's Day and a day of rest. It was a world of firm beliefs: father at the head of the family; the monarch at the head of the nation; God in his Heaven.
"Sunday, after church, was a day of quiet pleasures; a walk in the country or the park; perhaps a cycle ride; perhaps a boat, drifting lazily down a river."
These are the opening words of The Great War, a monumental 26-part documentary, which even today is the definitive history of the conflict the world now knows as 'the war to end all wars'.

With spoken commentary married to wonderfully evocative archive film, the first programme of the series portrays the lost European world of 1914 on the eve of being engulfed by the first true world war.
We see the progress of industry and invention, social privilege contrasted with abject poverty, the outward appearance of social order and discipline contrasted with simmering discontents beneath, and, most dangerous of all, the rising tension between the two rival armed alliances into which Europe was divided.
We watch the aged Austrian Emperor, Franz Josef, a bewhiskered father-figure among young dancers in peasant costume, like a scene from an opera; Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany resplendent in field-marshal's uniform swaggering among his generals in brass helmets a-flutter with ostrich plumes; the Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, with his wife and beautiful daughters in procession with Orthodox priests amid his subservient people.
And we see King George V, Emperor of India, enthroned at a Royal Durbar in Delhi, receiving the obeisance of countless rajahs.
Of all those splendid monarchies of 1914, only one, the British, would still be in existence when the guns ceased firing in 1918.
No wonder, then, that the memory of the Great War of 1914-18 haunts us still, even though next year will mark 90 years since it ended.
Today, in new novels and television dramas, the soldiers are still bidding farewell to their families in villages and back streets, shouldering their packs and going off to the front.
The Great War has now become part of the national curriculum.
The battlefields and war cemeteries in France and Belgium are thronged with visiting schoolchildren, often searching the gravestones or the vast memorials at Thiepval and the Menin Gate in Ypres for the name of a forebear who fell in battle.
And it is right that we should freshly remember the Great War in this way, because the colossal
social and political changes it wrought still shape the world we live in today.
In 1914 the continent of Europe was dominated by three great imperial monarchies - the German Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm II; Austria-Hungary under the aged Emperor Franz Josef; and the Russian Empire under Czar Nicholas II.
But the Great War swept these empires away in a storm of defeat and revolution, and replaced them with the independent nation-states which make up the map of Europe we see today.
In the case of Russia, a Communist revolution led by Lenin produced the Soviet Union - a legacy of the war which was to cast a shadow over the world until its final collapse in 1990.
Even the English-speaking dominions of the British Empire acquired a new sense of their own nationhood during the war.
No longer would they unquestioningly accept leadership from London.
And Indian politicians began to work towards the day when a free and independent India would replace British imperial rule.
So it was that the Great War sowed the seeds of the dissolution of the British Empire

Yet the Great War holds deeper meanings for us.
It marked the birth of our own age of mass participation, abruptly hastening the march of social equality.
It liberated women from political and domestic thraldom.
It thrust forward technological change - especially in aviation.
It ushered the United States to the centre of the world stage for the first time.
In the history of this titanic struggle, therefore, lies the essential key to an understanding of the world we live in today.
That is what makes The Great War, being given away free on DVD in the Daily Mail over the next three weeks, such compelling viewing for every family.
But why start the series with 'a summer Sunday'?
Because it was on Sunday, June 28, 1914, that Archduke Franz Ferdinand (the heir to the Austrian throne) and his wife Sophie were making a state visit to Sarajevo in the then Austrian province of Bosnia when they were shot dead by a Serbian terrorist.
In the final words of this first programme: 'The peace of Europe died with them.'
That bleak statement launched Europe on its long march - through the mobilisation of millions of men, the huge opening campaigns that were supposed to win the war before Christmas, the grim realisation that this was going to be a prolonged total war, the stalemate on the Western Front, the bloody trench battles of attrition, and the climactic allied successes of 1918.
When I was approached by the BBC to be a writer on the series, I was a young historian who had just published my book The Sword Bearers, about World War I.
On television in those days there were no gimmicks like today, when 'celebrity' presenters deliver lectures to camera while prancing about on the site of some past event.
And the wealth of film footage would have made it unnecessary anyway.
Garnered from archives all over the world - although the bulk of it came from the Imperial War Museum in London - there were gems on every reel.
An unexpected find was astonishing footage of German soldiers' daily life in the trenches, discovered in the Communist East German archives in Berlin, showing the men going about their daily lives, eating their rations and on one occasion even dancing in the open air.
After film arrived at Ealing Studios in huge containers, every foot of it had to be looked at by archive researchers in order to select the best material for each programme.
Remember that all this footage had been shot by cameramen standing in the open and operating heavy, hand-cranked box cameras set on tripods, often in the most appalling conditions.
What gives this archive film its immediacy of impact is that every movement and gesture is wonderfully lifelike instead of jerky as in much other archive material of the time.
And here I have to confess, even in those days the BBC was doing a bit of 'cheating'.
For this smooth, lifelike action film was achieved by 'stretching' the film by inserting extra frames, so rendering its speed the same as in today's television film-projectors.
The second key ingredient lay in the scripts - all written by the finest historians of their age - which provided the essential narrative thread that links together the whole story.
They place the terrible experiences of men in battle - whether in the trenches, in the air or at sea - in the grand-strategic framework of the titanic struggle.
The scripts explain how and why each year's campaigns were planned by the opposing sides - and how and why some plans succeeded and others appallingly failed, such as the Allies' botched enterprise on the rocky slopes of the Gallipoli Peninsula, and the Germans' spring 1918 offensive, which intended to win the war at a blow but led to their own defeat.
They probe the minds of individual political and military leaders grappling with the dilemmas of a conflict on a hitherto unimagined scale.
And the historians also bring home to the viewer the realities of mass industrialised war - the first fighter planes, the mighty Dreadnoughts, and the weapon that would change the face of so much conflict over the next century - the tank.
The third vital ingredient in making the series lay in the deeply moving personal testimony of the veteran eye-witnesses.
An appeal in the Radio Times resulted in sackfuls of reminiscences, diaries, photos, and memorabilia.
It fell to a young woman researcher, Julia Cave, to interview the veterans on film - at a rate of 16 a day.
Julia's patience and tact served to prize open memories locked tight for 50 years.
In the interviews, the veterans relive their wartime experiences on film, even to the point of breaking down and shedding tears.
They speak from the heart about the sheer terror they felt once they'd gone 'over the top' into the storm of enemy fire - and about such macabre experiences as coming upon a trench filled with the skeletons and grinning skulls of Germans long dead.
The outcome of this collective endeavour is an enthralling filmic history of the conflict which cost ten million lives, and which shaped our lives right up to today.
The centre of gravity of the series lies in the Western Front and its 400 miles of opposing trench systems.
This is where the main strength of the formidable German Army was posted - on French and Belgian soil.
Only by defeating that army and forcing it into retreat could France in the trenches, discovered in the Communist East German archives in Berlin, showing the men going about their daily lives, eating their rations and on one occasion even dancing in the open air.
After film arrived at Ealing Studios in huge containers, every foot of it had to be looked at by archive researchers in order to select the best material for each programme.
Remember that all this footage had been shot by cameramen standing in the open and operating heavy, hand-cranked box cameras set on tripods, often in the most appalling conditions.
What gives this archive film its immediacy of impact is that every movement and gesture is wonderfully lifelike instead of jerky as in much other archive material of the time.
And here I have to confess, even in those days the BBC was doing a bit of 'cheating'.
For this smooth, lifelike action film was achieved by 'stretching' the film by inserting extra frames, so rendering its speed the same as in today's television film-projectors.
The second key ingredient lay in the scripts - all written by the finest historians of their age - which provided the essential narrative thread that links together the whole story.
They place the terrible experiences of men in battle - whether in the trenches, in the air or at sea - in the grand-strategic framework of the titanic struggle.
The scripts explain how and why each year's campaigns were planned by the opposing sides - and how and why some plans succeeded and others appallingly failed, such as the Allies' botched enterprise on the rocky slopes of the Gallipoli Peninsula, and the Germans' spring 1918 offensive, which intended to win the war at a blow but led to their own defeat.
They probe the minds of individual political and military leaders grappling with the dilemmas of a conflict on a hitherto unimagined scale.
And the historians also bring home to the viewer the realities of mass industrialised war - the first fighter planes, the mighty Dreadnoughts, and the weapon that would change the face of so much conflict over the next century - the tank.
The third vital ingredient in making the series lay in the deeply moving personal testimony of the veteran eye-witnesses.
An appeal in the Radio Times resulted in sackfuls of reminiscences, diaries, photos, and memorabilia.
It fell to a young woman researcher, Julia Cave, to interview and Britain triumph over the militaristic German Empire.
To accomplish the task took four terrible years of stalemate and slaughter, and a final victorious advance in which the British armies under Haig played the largest part.
Second in strategic importance only to the Western Front were the tremendous campaigns that swung to and fro like a pendulum on the vast Eastern Front, where Czarist Russia fought Germany and Austria, and in 1917 succumbed to defeat and revolution.
This catastrophe ushered in the era of Communist dictatorship in Russia that was to last for seven decades - a truly world-shaking event.
Yet the series does not neglect the war at sea or other theatres on land, such as the Balkans, scene of a savage struggle between Serbia and Austria, or the Italian front where Austria and Italy fought prolonged attrition battles.
And in eerie echoes of today, other programmes describe the British invasion of Turkish Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and the slow march to Baghdad; and the victory won over the Turks in Palestine and Syria by General Allenby.
The series ends with the joyous victory celebrations in the streets of allied capitals on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, and with a final statement to camera from an eyewitness who had been there on the frontline in Flanders when the guns at last ceased to fire:
"No more Verey lights going up with their greenish wavering flare. No flash of howitzers on the horizon.
"No downward droning of shells. No machine-guns. No patrols going out. Silence."

Potsdamerplatz

quoia wrote: »

DAILY MAIL

starting Saturday - A new series of War DVDs detailing World War 1

details shortly

I seen the ad for this tonight on television. The series is called THE GREAT WAR and is a 26-part documentary series. The first 2 episodes are free with Saturday's Daily Mail.

I have seen a few episodes before on the UKTV History Channel and they are of a very high quality. I will definitely be getting the complete set which is exactly the same deal as THE WORLD AT WAR (daily token redemption at WH Smith)

All 26 episodes of this landmark series for you to collect - exclusively with the Daily Mail


Inside every copy of today's Daily Mail, you'll find a free double-episode DVD of The Great War. Part One 'On the Idle Hill of Summer' and Part Two 'For Such a Stupid Reason Too' launch this momentous series and then from Monday, 15 October to Saturday November 3, you can pick up another disc in this definitive collection.


The Great War is one of the most ambitious and prestigious series ever produced by the BBC. Drawing on over one million feet of film, hundreds of exclusive interviews and contemporary diaries and letters, this documentary masterpiece is by far the most comprehensive film history of World War One ever made. Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave this superb collection also features the voices of many other leading actors of the day including Sir Ralph Richardson and Marius Goring.


How to collect this 26-volume DVD library no family should miss -


The first DVD is FREE inside today's Daily Mail and then from Monday, we will be printing a voucher. Simply cut it out and take it to your local branch of WHSmith or Easons, where in return you will be given that day's DVD (Excludes airport and outlet centre stores). Or if you prefer, you can just collect twelve of the separate tokens we will print in the paper and send them in an envelope to an address we will publish later in the promotion Full details are in the paper each day.

There also a chance to collect for a unique Presentation Box and free paperback book that is the perfect companion to this glorious series. So remember to pick up the Daily Mail every day for your chance to own The Great War on DVD.

PLUS - Every day during the promotion, every reader can claim a free download of a first-hand account of The Great War. Painstakingly compiled from hundreds of face to face interviews, these touching reminiscences really bring the history of the First World War to life.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/prmts/prmts.html?in_article_id=487298&in_page_id=1777

Potsdamerplatz

RE: Carry On Films with The Sun

I hope they release "Carry On England" - I know it was cheesy but it was one of my favourites.

:beer:

Redcase

Carry on screaming was another one.

1 - CARRY ON FOLLOW THAT CAMEL

2 - CARRY ON CAMPING

3 - CARRY ON DOCTOR

4 - CARRY ON HENRY
5 - CARRY ON !!!!!!
6 - CARRY ON COWBOY
7 - CARRY ON CRUISING
8 - CARRY ON NURSE
9 - CARRY ON CONSTABLE
10 - CARRY ON ABROAD
11 - CARRY ON EMMANNUELLE
12 - CARRY ON BEHIND
13 - CARRY ON SPYING
14 - CARRY ON LOVING
15 - CARRY ON CLEO
16 - CARRY ON REGARDLESS
17 - CARRY ON AT YOUR CONVENIENCE
18 -CARRY ON AGAIN DOCTOR
19 - CARRY ON GIRLS
20 – CARRY ON JACK
21 - CARRY ON UP THEKHYBER (Sunday People)

THE TV XMAS SPECIALS Express
1969, 1972,1973

Redcase

also i just looked through my stack od free dvds and there is carry on matron and carry on cabby.

consumermonkey

Oooh Matron, Put them away! Put Them Away!

Quaint1

Yup - I have 23 of the films so far released as newspaper 'freebies' - the one I really hope the will issue sometime is the very first "Carry On Sergeant"; the remaining unissued titles are England, Don't Lose Your Head, Columbus, Jungle, Teacher and Matron.
Hopefully The Sun/NOTW will do something next year! (and if The Express could be persuaded to release the one remaining Christmas TV special too...:) )
Au Res.,
Paul