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The annals of Rock N Roll lore are filled with hundreds of talented and tortured souls. Some of them fought through the pain, some of them took the easy way out. I’m sick and fucking tired of lauding the quitters. There’s nothing poetic about dying in some godforsaken shack after systematically distancing yourself from everyone who cares ... read more |
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Since this column has been hibernating longer than Rip Van Winkle (5), I’ll give ya’ll a brief rundown of how things work. Like Glenn Close (6) after seeing an excited and injured soldier in The World According To Garp, I’ll slide in all the biggest music-related stories of the last week and thrust until happy endings are achieved for all ... read more |
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Whoever drew up the papers to buy the rights to Rita Marley’s biography of her late husband Bob to make it into a movie forgot one minor detail – to include the rights to his music to be used in the film as well. That little snafu is now costing the Rita Marley-executively produced biopic dearly because the rights went to another Marley film – being executively produced by son Ziggy ... read more |
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I think I speak for everyone when I say what the fuck, Jamaican law enforcement officials? What the fuck? Thousands of historic vinyl recordings of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and other Reggae pioneers have been stolen. Or misplaced. Or destroyed. No one really knows, least of all the incompetent security team assigned to protect it ... read more |
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Not ready to let a little thing like death stop him from collecting dollar bills, Elvis headed Forbes’ 2007 list of deceased money making celebrities. The King brought in an estimated forty-nine million dollars. That’s a whole lot of fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches. John Lennon came in second at an equally obscene forty-four million ... read more |
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