John Lennon's 'Imagine' To Be Covered By Hanson, Squeeze's Tilbrook & Others
NEW YORK (CDUniverse.com) - A new version of John Lennon's classic, "Imagine," featuring Hanson, Squeeze's Glen Tilbrook, and Irish folk rockers Hothouse Flowers, is currently in the works in order to benefit orphans of last month's terrorist attacks. All acts involved will record parts in their own ...
| Smokey Robinson, Temptationsand Others To Sing Motown At City Of Hope Dinner
LOS ANGELES (MotownCity) - Smokey Robinson and Temptations and are among the acts that have agreed to perform at the upcoming City Of Hope Spirit Of Life Award dinner and ceremony, which this year salutes Vivendi Universal executive vice chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. The event, which takes place October ...
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Pink Floyd Offer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Echoes, Pink Floyd's long-awaited "best of" compilation, will hit stores November 6th. The album will include twenty-seven of Floyd's classic tracks - over 140 minutes of music - mixed together into a single piece. James Guthrie, the band's longtime producer, did the mixing for ...
| Checker twists and shouts at industry
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Chubby Checker, who introduced the world to The Twist, has demanded to be recognised as one of the most important figures in rock and roll. The singer took out a full-page advert in rock magazine Billboard to say he deserves to be honoured with a statue in the courtyard of the ...
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Former Cat Stevens Donates Royalties To Charity
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, will donate royalties from the forthcoming "Cat Stevens Box" to charity in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks on the U.S. The four-CD set is due Oct. 30 from A&M. "A lot of my lyrics were about searching for peace ...
| Lennon Tribute to Aid Relief Fund
NEW YORK (AP) - Organizers of a John Lennon tribute concert had two immediate thoughts after the terrorist attack that crumbled the World Trade Center: cancel the event, or move it out of New York. Ultimately, they decided both ideas dishonored Lennon's memory. The concert, to be telecast live 8 p.m. ...
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B.B. King Sets Holiday Album For Fall Release
LOS ANGELES (AP) - B.B. King has chosen a holiday-themed album as the follow-up to Riding With The King, his 2000 Grammy-winning collaboration with Eric Clapton. King will release A Christmas Celebration Of Hope on November 6, with proceeds from the album earmarked for the City Of Hope in Los Angeles, ...
| Olivia Newton-John Recovers Fully
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Olivia Newton-John says she made it through her battle with breast cancer with the help of family and friends and by writing music, which helped give her peace of mind. "I never thought, `Why me?''' she said. "I've been exposed to a lot of things. I've spent most of my life traveling, ...
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Ono Carries on Lennon Peace Message
NEW YORK (AP) - The full-page ad in The New York Times carried a simple message: "Imagine all the people living life in peace.'' The John Lennon lyric, carried on page 29 of Sunday's paper, was a message from his widow, Yoko Ono, in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, ...
| U.S. Patriotism Inspires Pat Boone
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Entertainer Pat Boone is invigorated by the passionate displays of red, white, and blue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. "I haven't seen this kind of patriotic fervor in years,'' Boone said Tuesday in announcing the rerelease of his 30-year-old ...
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Beatles Letter Auctioned in London
LONDON (AP) - Beatles memorabilia, including a letter from George Harrison to the "fifth Beatle,'' won the highest bids at a rock auction Thursday, but the Sex Pistols nearly stole the show. The Hard Rock Cafe restaurant chain paid $11,926 for a three-page letter from Harrison to Stuart Sutcliffe, who ...
| Chubby Checker Debuts His Beef Jerky
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The man who introduced the nation to The Twist now has meatier goals. Chubby Checker brought his new brand of beef jerky to several grocery stores Wednesday. Fans had other things on the their minds, however. Checker spent most of his visit signing autographs, posing for pictures ...
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Sex Pistols collection goes under the hammer
LONDON (Reuters) - British punk legend Johnny Rotten's famous "Anarchy" shirt sold at auction for 4,000 pounds ($5,860) Thursday. Rotten wore the stained and ripped shirt bearing the slogans "No Future" and "Antichrist, anarchy" on stage during the Sex Pistols' infamous 1970s shows. It was sold to an ...
| FEATURE-For Your Love -- the Yardbirds revisited
NEW YORK (Reuters) - You could hardly blame Chris Dreja for being just a little bit envious. After all, he watched three of his Yardbirds bandmates -- Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page -- become huge stars. Dreja, who played rhythm and later bass in the seminal '60s band, didn't. He settled for ...
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Lennon Tribute Rescheduled, Renamed, Rededicated
NEW YORK (AP) - TNT's John Lennon tribute concert, postponed in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., will be broadcast live Oct. 2 from New York's Radio City Music Hall. Newly dubbed "Come Together: A Night For John Lennon's Words & Music, Dedicated to New York ...
| Trumpeter Bushnell Still Playing
DENVER (AP) - After fifty years, Dean Bushnell is still tapping his toes and tooting his horn. Bushnell, the trumpeter who still leads the Dean Bushnell Orchestra 50 years after he assembled it, joined with former band members and other artists for a reunion Sunday. Bushnell started the band while a ...
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'Lost' Beatles show found
LONDON, UK (AP) - A recording of The Beatles appearing on BBC TV show Juke Box Jury in 1963 has been unearthed. A viewer of the show recorded the programme - on which the band gave their opinions on the music of the day - on reel-to-reel tape. The tape was handed over to the BBC, who did not have a ...
| Small Hendrix House Bid for on eBay
SEATTLE (AP) - A small house where acid-blues-rock legend Jimi Hendrix lived for a few years has brought a high bid of $33,853 on eBay, and now the buyer faces a tough choice. Richard Osborn of Michigan, who submitted the top bid in an Internet auction that ended Wednesday, must arrange to move the ...
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Joplin's Porsche Drawing Crowds
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 1965 Porsche that belonged to Janis Joplin is drawing crowds to the Petersen Automotive Museum. The red 356 Cabriolet is splashed with psychedelic butterflies and flowers, a God's eye symbol on the hood and a sun face with Joplin's Capricorn birth sign. ``The Porsche is an eye-popping, ...
| Sing-Along of 'Peggy Sue' Sets Record
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - A four-day Buddy Holly symposium concluded with a record-breaking sing-along to the 1950s rock legend's hit "Peggy Sue.'' Nearly 49,000 people attending the Texas Tech-New Mexico football game sang the song at halftime Saturday night, setting a world record for the largest sing-along, ...
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