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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Etta James appear dates
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Etta James has a select handful of dates coming up in support of her new Blue Gardenia album, which was released on Aug. 21. She'll be appearing at the House of Blues clubs in New Orleans on Sept. 8; Las Vegas on Oct. 5; West Hollywood, Calif., on Oct. 12; and Anaheim, Calif., ...
| Elvis Presley Among 2001 Gospel Music Hall Of Fame Inductees
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - His hip-shaking antics might have caused the conservative sect to raise an a collective eyebrow back in the day, but Elvis Presley is now being inducted into Gospel Music Association's 2001 Gospel Hall of Fame. Joining Presley in the Hall are Doris Akers, Wendy Bagwell & the ...
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Ex-Singer for Sha Na Na Teaching Law
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Dennis Greene, former singer with the '50s revival group Sha Na Na, has a new gig: He's teaching entertainment law at the University of Dayton this year. He'll also teach courses on intellectual property in the digital economy as well as mass media and race. Greene is a tenured associate ...
| Paul McCartney Provides Voice for Frog
VENICE, Italy (AP) - Paul McCartney's famous voice now belongs to, of all things, a frog. McCartney and Dustin Hoffman provide the voices for ``Tuesday,'' British director Geoff Dunbar's animated short film at the Venice Film Festival. "Tuesday'' is the story of a group of frogs that fly across the ...
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Trains Stop Rolling for Ray Charles
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Last year, it was the trains that stopped Ray Charles' show. This year, Ray Charles' show will stop the trains. For the second straight year, Charles will be performing an outdoor concert at Harrah's Plaza in downtown Reno - next to the railroad tracks. Last year, Charles found himself ...
| Brian Wilson Heads To Japan
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Brian Wilson and his band will perform five dates in Japan next month. A spokesperson for Wilson said the singer-songwriter is anxious to perform for audiences in Japan, telling: "The Japanese fans just love him over there." This visit will mark Wilson's second tour there - ...
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Aussie Band INXS Visits Transylvania
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Members of the Australian band INXS got their fangs into some serious shopping while in Transylvania for a concert, a newspaper reported. The five band members bought woolen sweaters and T-shirts with Vlad the Impaler's portrait during a visit Wednesday to Bran Castle, the ...
| Judge Won't Dismiss Garcia Guitar Suit
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) - A Marin County Superior Court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit that disputes the ownership of five of Jerry Garcia's guitars. Grateful Dead Productions, the Novato-based company representing the surviving band members, had asked the judge to dismiss Doug Irwin's lawsuit for ...
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Davies to Tour This Fall
NY (Top40 Charts) - Kinks frontman Ray Davies will kick off a solo tour on September 18th in Philadelphia. The twenty-three-date jaunt will wrap up on October 25th in Seattle. Look for Davies to showcase some new material that he's been working on with Hoboken, New Jersey indie-rock darlings Yo La Tengo. ...
| Wanna buy Jimi Hendrix's house?
SEATTLE, Washington (Top 40 Charts) - For sale: 900-square-foot, two-bedroom house in Seattle. Purple kitchen cabinets, hardwood floors and a clawfoot bathtub. A steal! And did we mention that Jimi Hendrix once lived there? It's true. One of Jimi Hendrix's boyhood homes is for sale on eBay. As of Friday ...
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