[Big Bad Bill]

Originally Posted by Sounds Great

http://entertainment.timesonline.co....743834,00.html

IT is live, but not as we remember it. Pop stars on the forthcoming Live 8 DVD will have their performances “improved” with computer trickery, attracting charges that the official record of the concert is being faked.

During the long hot day of July 2, several singers, including Bono of U2, went briefly off-key while the performance of others, such as Pete Doherty of Babyshambles, was dismissed by critics as an embarrassment.

Blushes will be spared thanks to a computer program called Auto-Tune, described by some as “Botox for the vocally challenged”.

no other live recordings in the history of rock'n'roll have been touched up? please. we were tuning pitchy singers with eventides WAY before autotune. took a lot longer, though.

“By cutting up and reassembling notes it can erase the wrinkles and bum notes and make a karaoke drunk sound like Frank Sinatra,” said one technician, who declined to be named.

yeah, right.