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A Music Legend Speaks to Minds...

HELEN REDDY MUSIC LEGEND

Helen Maxine Lamond Reddy is an Australian singer, actress, and activist. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed 15 singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100

My first question is, what would you most like to be remembered for?
BEING KIND

We know most politicians were born in the fiery pit of hell as the spawn of Satan, but what’s your opinion of the politics of the world today?
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU VOTE FOR, YOU STILL END UP ELECTING A POLITICIAN.

Can you tell us all about your past, present and future?
PAST IS GONE, PRESENT IS ENJOYABLE AND FUTURE IS YET TO COME.

If you were an alien visiting planet earth, what would you do? Would you turn around and go back? Or stay and try and help? Or maybe conquer?
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I'M NOT AN ALIEN? ;)

What has been your greatest achievement so far?
LIVING TO BE 70.

What has been mankind’s greatest achievement?
WOMAN'S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT HAS BEEN MAN.

If you had the chance to speak to every human being on earth, what would your message be?
LOVE.

If your life depended on it, which Soap Opera would you do a cameo in?
I HAVE NEVER WATCHED A SOAP OPERA.

If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody is around to see or hear it, does it make a sound?
IT MAKES A VIBRATION BECAUSE IT IS ENERGY (AS IS EVERYTHING).

Have you ever felt pressured by the fact that what you do affects society? Have you ever wondered whether you were doing the right thing?
NO.

What’s your opinion of the highly engineered and marketed music we see in the charts today?
I PREFER MUSICIANS TO COMPUTERS.

Why do you think music and words seems to work so much better than just words as a means to get a message across?
STUDIES HAVE PROVED THAT WORDS SET TO MUSIC ARE MORE EASILY REMEMBERED.

What kind of movies do you watch and why?
I PREFER NON-VIOLENT FILMS PREFERABLY COMEDIES AND CLEVER PLOTS (HEIST FILMS, ETC.)

What are your opinions about the power of the internet?
IT HAS THE CAPACITY TO REACH BILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD SIMULTANEOUSLY.

Do you think man is created in the image of God (or Goddess) or the other way around?
ASK ANY MICROBIOLOGIST, THEY WILL TELL YOU THAT MAN IS A MUTATION. WOMAN IS THE ORIGINAL GENDER.

A recent scientific report stated that religion will eventually die out completely. What’s your opinion on that? A good thing or a bad thing?
I BELIEVE SPIRITUALITY WILL OVERTAKE AND UNITE ALL FAITHS.

Is “free will” the whole of the law? Can man ever be truly free?
HUMANS ARE THE ONLY BEINGS IN THE UNIVERSE WITH FREE WILL. ANGELS, ACCORDING TO UNIVERSAL LAW, CANNOT INTERFERE WITH HUMANS UNLESS HUMANS ASK FOR HELP THAT IS NOT SELF-SERVING. IN WHICH CASE THE ANGELS ARE FREE TO ASSIST BUT IT IS MOST IMPORTANT THAT WE THANK THEM FOR THAT ASSISTANCE. THEY LOVE GRATITUDE.

Do you back Nuclear Power? If not, why not.
ONLY IF USED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS.

Do you believe in Ghosts? UFO’s (i.e. aliens visiting planet earth)? God?
SPIRITS, YES. UFO's, I'VE NEVER SEEN ONE THOUGH I DON'T DOUBT THAT THEY EXIST. GOD IS THAT WHICH IS.

Have you ever experienced altered states of consciousness? How, why and was it beneficial? And would you recommend it to all politicians, business and religious leaders?
YES. POLITICIANS, BUSINESS, AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE LINEAL THINKERS AND FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT TO EXPERIENCE AN ALTERED STATE.

What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
I'LL KEEP THAT ANSWER TO MYSELF.

What would you still like to achieve?
A LONG, HEALTHY LIFE.

Would you ever record a duet with Justin Bieber?
ONLY IF MY GRANDDAUGHTER INSISTED.

Do you believe in manmade global warming? Or is it natural?
COMBINATION OF THE TWO. MAN CERTAINLY IS A PRIME FACTOR.

Thank you Helen! Phil G. 

Hit Songwriter Launches New Album

NUMBER ONE HIT SONY/BMG SONGWRITER RELEASES NEW ALBUM


Award-winning, hit songwriter, Tom Tikka is back with a brand new album packed with what his record label calls, “hit after hit.”

The album, entitled “Better Man”, is released on 20th May world-wide on every platform from the Minds Behind the Music Record label. The distribution is via their mainstream deal with Sony Orchard.

Tikka has been working closely with Minds Behind the Music on the album. It all started when his song “Venetian Rubber Boots” was selected to the label’s upcoming environmental fundraising compilation album to support the fight against climate change.

Now Tom and MBTM have released Tikka’s sophomore effort entitled Better Man. The album features the hit single “By 2022” (#14 on iTunes Canada), a song that’s been reviewed in multiple music blogs and is also now nominated in the single of the year category at the ISSA awards 2022.

Tikka said: "Better Man is my attempt to write one of those records that I grew up with. I thought it’d be nice to try to reproduce some of the magic that the great singer-songwriter albums of the 60s and 70s had – albeit with a modern twist. This was also an era when the Top 40 was a lot more eclectic than it is today. There could be many artists from radically different genres on the same week’s Billboard chart: Uriah Heep, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Kris Kristofferson, Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Three Dog Night. This was yet another aspect I wanted to revisit."


Formerly the songwriter of the Sony/BMG & Warner Music band, Carmen Gray, Tom Tikka has managed to build a rather successful career for himself as a solo act. Tom’s previous album, This Is My Happy Face included three international iTunes smashes. Both "Doormat" & "With Eyes Closed" were #1 hit singles, while “Heart’s on Fire” made it to #2. Tikka has been featured on Huffington's Thrive Global, Authority Magazine, Melody Maker Magazine, Ballroom Blitz, The Hollywood Digest, VENTS Magazine and many others, while his music videos have won at film festivals around the world.


Tikka is also an ISSA Award winner (Emerging Male Artist of The Year) as well as a Josie Music Awards and Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominee.

"Tikka has been at this a long time so I rue not discovering him sooner…" – THE HOLLYWOOD DIGEST


"I don’t normally use the word genius for many musicians, however the cap fits with Tom Tikka." – TUNEDLOUD


Contact: MBTM for press packs/photographs officialmbtm@gmail.com

Record Label: https://mindsbehindthemusicrecords.carrd.co

Album available here https://orcd.co/betterman_tomtikka