The English Roses and butterfly figurines welcomed the guests. At the party, Madonna—dressed in a white satin frock—read from the book to a crowd consisting of teenagers and young children and later gave them gift baskets. Coleman Getty's idea was to have the literary press read the book for the first time at the party and write about the reaction it generated among the children. Only one photographer was allowed to take pictures of the event, and only the film crew from the BBC's children's news program, "Newsround", was allowed to film it. On September 15, 2003, Callaway released the picture book simultaneously
Black Roses (The Rasmus album) Black Roses (The Rasmus album) Black Roses is the seventh studio album by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus, which was released on 29 September 2008 in the UK. In Germany the album was released on 26 September and in the Nordic countries two days before. The album immediately replaced Metallica's "Death Magnetic" on the top spot of the Finnish Album Charts and went gold after one week. , an estimated of 350,000 copies of the album have been sold worldwide. According to Dynasty Recordings' MySpace profile, the band rested in Helsinki during the winter 2006 and also wrote songs