Posts Tagged ‘rolling stone magazine’
Here’s something mildly related to yesterday’s post about the Allman Brothers suing their old label.
Turns out Virgin is suing 30 Seconds to Mars (Yes, that’s right. Not the other way around.) for contract violation. It seems the band signed a contract for 9 years (cough, wankers, cough) but left after 7, being as that’s the [...]
Yesterday, Rolling Stone published an article about how singer-songwriter Jackson Browne is suing John McCain over the un-permissioned use of his song “Running On Empty” in a political campaign commercial. The ad was, you guessed it, mocking Obama’s urging people to properly inflate their tires.
Browne at a John Edwards rally
This isn’t the first time an [...]
[This is an update to James Brown’s Old Stuff Up for Auction]
The 350-or-so items from James Brown’s estate were sold yesterday for a sum of around $800,000, a bit short of the 2 million Christie’s estimated. Items of interest: his medical bracelet bought by Paul Schaffer for $32,500, Hammond organ for $10,000, and his pink [...]
According to Rolling Stone,
“A guitar famously lit on fire by Jimi Hendrix while performing onstage in London in 1967 is going to auction. Experts are predicting the guitar may fetch as much as $1 million.”
The story goes that he lit it on fire, got burnt (go figure), and on his way to the hospital, told [...]
