Dick Clark‘s kinda sad Rockin’ New Years Eve with Ryan Seacrest was an Interscope special on Saturday night. From Times Square: Lady Gaga was interviewed by Seacrest while wearing some kind of ... Read More
The $1.9 billion deal to sell EMI to Universal Music Group is apparently done. The decade-old plan to merge EMI with Warner Music is over, kaput, forever. EMI’s biggest group, The Beatles, now goes t... Read More
The Financial Times reported on Sunday that the new-new Warner Music Group, owned by Len Blavatnik‘s Access Industries, is out of the bidding for EMI Music. I’m not surprised. Last spring, when... Read More
John Lennon was Steve Jobs‘s favorite Beatle. So says Jobs’s biographer Walter Isaacson in his authorized bio of Jobs, out today from Simon & Schuster. Of course, Jobs named his company App... Read More
Roberta Flack’s Beatles album is ready. I think I first reported this project in the 1870s. But it turns out, it was worth waiting for. The first “single,” an ingenious cover of “We... Read More
It’s not like Nick and Toni’s, the premiere eatery in East Hampton, doesn’t host a lot of celebrities. But on Friday night it was rockin’–literally. First came Ron Delsener, w... Read More
Here’s the link for George Harrison‘s documentary by Martin Scorsese: http://www.georgeharrison.com/ This is going to be a terrific film. Great quote in the clip from Eric Clapton about sharin... Read More
So, have you tried Spotify? This is new the streaming music service aiming to take on ITunes. So far Spotify looks like a hit. You don’t download the music. You just pay to listen to it everywhere, o... Read More
Lots of talk this week about a Jeff Buckley movie with Penn Badgley of “Gossip Girl” as its star. Only, wait a sec: the real Jeff Buckley movie that will be made is based on David Browne‘... Read More
Tonight in Las Vegas, the Beatles’ “Love” show from Cirque du Soleil celebrates its fifth birthday. Paul, Yoko, Olivia, and Dhani Harrison, as well as George and Giles Martin are showing ... Read More
