- As if shadily beating out Britney Spears to the top Billboard spot wasn’t enough, Don Henley has now added insult to injury. Talking about the added pressure of being both a rock star and a father, Henley admits each band member is “Deeply involved in being a good parent and not having our kids grow up to be Paris Hilton or Britney Spears.” Ouch, Don, way to kick a girl when she’s down. Couldn’t you at least say “Hilton or Winehouse?”
- Michael Jackson will not lose the last vestige of his empire, the Neverland Ranch, according to his spokesperson. Even though Jackson is late on a $23 million loan, he plans to refinance the payment.
- In a shocking new study, it’s been found of 33 percent of all hit songs contain allusions to sex, drugs or alcohol. We say “shocking” only because we thought that number would be much higher. In really surprising news, only 14 percent of rock songs contain lyrics about substance abuse, while 80 percent (!) of rap songs deal with the topic. So much for “sex, drugs and rock & roll.”
- One Florida man is brazenly suing Apple for $15,000, stating that Apple is “in possession of monopoly power in the portable digital media player market, the online music market and the online video market and has the power to control prices in these respective markets and has been able to exclude competition from these respective markets.”
- The University of Massachusetts will stage a three-day symposium on the life and music of jam gods the Grateful Dead. Guest speakers include Jerry Garcia’s first wife Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia, GD Radio Hour host David Sans and Dead publicist, and UMass ‘78 graduate, Dennis McNally. In other Dead news, a recent Phil Lesh show in NYC introduced a lot of kids watching The Lion King on Broadway to something they’ll eventually discover is marijuana. Sex, drugs and rock & roll lives on!
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