Seems that Mick had a photo op with Taylor Swift and Ellie Goulding. You know all these names. You know Steve’s bile level has just spiked.
Ellie Goulding’s team Instagrammed the photo with an unfortunate caption.
This isn’t an indictment of Goulding, probably, but a reminder that to the young the old are mostly old. Or, admirably old.
According to this story, Gary Glitter made $450,000 in 2012 from royalties for his songs, the most famous of which is Rock and Roll Part 2.
The problem is that Glitter was convicted for his massive child-porn collection in the 90s, did his time and then spent a number of years dodging the police in Southeast Asia, while apparently living the life of a sex tourist. All the while funded by the licensing fees paid by sports arenas and television and movies and commercial for the use of his songs.
He was arrested again in 2006 in Vietnam for molesting pre-teen girls, and after conviction and sentencing to three years in prison the NFL banned the playing of his songs at their stadiums. Some other teams did, too, but enough were still playing the tunes in 2012 to pay him that big score.
Glitter was recently convicted of child sexual abuse of three girls as young as 10 years old, crimes that dated back to his days as a rocker in the 70s and 80s, and was sentenced this week to 17 years in prison.
It’s hard to associate the glories of Rock And Roll Part 2 with the evil that Glitter has done in his life, until you follow the money. Then it all becomes very clear.
Adam Ragusea explains it in Slate today.
Sam Smith’s Stay With Me is an irritating faux gospel falsetto pop ballad that Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne now have writing credits on.
You be the judge:
UPDATE: Tom Petty released a statement about this.
OTHER UPDATE: Later in the day, after this post, I posted about another song called Stay With Me, by the Chin-Chins, without even connecting the two. Now they’re connected.
The East Village bar owned by Dictators lead singer Handsome Dick Manitoba is running an Indigogo campaign to raise $25,000 to pay for expenses related to a lawsuit. It seems that Manitoba’s isn’t compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The complaint is here.
A woman in upstate New York is suing heartthrob Rick Springfield for the third time, claiming that during a concert he went into the audience, swung his butt around and knocked her unconscious.
This picture is a shot the woman took moments before the allegedly debilitating injury took place.
The two previous trials ended up with no decisions.
Grammy nominees:
Black Keys
Paramore
Jack White
Beck
Ryan Adams
It just looks like it. Here’s the story at Gothamist. Not tha A for Anarchy symbol in the logo. Click for larger.
I may be the only person in the world who didn’t know this song. As a kid record shopping at the SmithHaven Mall I would eye this one covetously because of the cover.
But yesterday, the band Spirit sued Led Zeppelin for copyright infringement. Here’s the song:
Yep, it sounds like Stairway, and there are millions of Youtube videos pointing that out. What seems to be happening here is that Jimmy Page has remastered the whole Led Zeppelin catalog and Spirit’s suit effectively holds that project hostage until it is resolved.
My first though was the Statue of Limitations. Surely that has expired for a song released in the 70s. It turns out that the statute of limitations for copyright infringement is three years, but Spirit could, if it won the suit, collect royalties for new issues of the song over the last three years. Stairway to Heaven, by the way, has earned on average $13M per year for the last 40 years. I’m sure some years were better than others, but that’s a lot of dough.
An attorney named Oliver Herzfeld tells the story over at Forbes, with his opinion about how it’s going to turn out. Looks like Randy California may get as wealthy as Willie Dixon. But what were these guys doing the last 40 years?
a shirt with a picture of Ryan Gosling wearing a shirt with a picture of Macauley Culkin on it.
Culkin is in a band called Pizza Underground, which plays versions of Velvet Underground songs with the lyrics rewritten so they’re about pizza. Papa John Says, I’m Waiting (for a slice), you get the idea.
Here’s a video of their first show. I believe they served pizza to all in attendance.
But that’s old news (last December). Today this picture came out. Do I need to describe it? Funny.
