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Paul McCartney Enlists A Bunch of Hot Pop Stars and Idris Elba to Cover “McCartney III” Songs for New Album

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Paul McCartney Enlists A Bunch of Hot Pop Stars and Idris Elba to Cover “McCartney III” Songs for New Album

This is a clever idea.

Paul McCartney has enlisted a cadre of young pop stars to cover the songs from his critically acclaimed “McCartney III” album.

First up is Dominic Fike, Columbia Records’ $4 million signee (See below).

The others are Anderson.Paak, Beck, Blood Orange, Damon Albarn, EOB, Idris Elba, Josh Homme, Khruangbin, 3D RDN From Massive Attack, Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent.

Should be cool. The album will be released digitally on April 16th for streaming and download. CDs and LPs soon thereafter, I guess.

Idris Elba?

McCartney III Imagined
1. Find My Way (feat. Beck)
2. The Kiss of Venus (Dominic Fike)
3. Pretty Boys (feat. Khruangbin)
4. Women And Wives (St. Vincent Remix)
5. Deep Down (Blood Orange Remix)
6. Seize The Day (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
7. Slidin’ (EOB Remix)
8. Long Tailed Winter Bird (Damon Albarn Remix)
9. Lavatory Lil (Josh Homme)
10. When Winter Comes (Anderson .Paak Remix)
11. Deep Deep Feeling (3D RDN Remix)
12. Long Tailed Winter Bird (Idris Elba Remix)*

“Grey’s Anatomy” Without Meredith Grey a Possibility as Ellen Pompeo Wants More Money, or Cancel the Series

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“Grey’s Anatomy” Without Meredith Grey a Possibility as Ellen Pompeo Wants More Money, or Cancel the Series

UPDATE: Thursday night “Grey’s” returned and killed off another main character.

 

EARLIER: Will “Grey’s Anatomy” make it a 20th season?

Not if Ellen Pompeo has anything to do with it. Pompeo is publicly negotiating for more money to keep playing insipid Meredith Grey beyond this season, number 17.

The show gave her COVID this season and put her in a coma. She’s been in bed whilst dreaming of being on a beach, running into all the other actors fired by Shonda Rhimes over the last 2 decades.

Tonight the series resumes with a crossover special with “Station 19,” the other Rhimes show that’s turned into a surprise success spun off from “Grey’s.”

Meantime, showrunner Krista Vernoff has been giving interviews this week threatening that she’s writing a series finale in case Pompeo doesn’t make a deal with ABC and Shondaland.

But really, ABC doesn’t want to cancel “Grey’s.” The ratings are still good, the show has a lot of fans, there’s a big cast and crew dependent on paychecks far less than Pompeo’s.

Plus, “Grey’s” is an ensemble piece. It never lived or died on the saga of Meredith Grey. If the character dies or moves away, life at Sloan Grey Hospital will continue, and the writers can just tell the stories of the other characters without missing a beat.

Pompeo is already the highest paid female in TV. She’s rich beyond imagination. What else does she want?. She’s not nominated for Emmy awards. She was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2007. Since then she’s become a favorite of the sketchy People’s Choice Awards. If “Grey’s” is cancelled, I guarantee you she’ll be spearheading a reunion series on Netflix within three years.

Vernoff and Rhimes were smart to put Meredith in a COVID coma this season. That’s allowed all the other characters to get on with their business. On daytime soaps producers minimize a character so the audience is used to them not being on screen before they exit. Seems like Pompeo is headed in that direction.

Justin Bieber: This is Why No One Takes Him Seriously, He’s Promoting Socks with Crocs

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Justin Bieber: This is Why No One Takes Him Seriously, He’s Promoting Socks with Crocs

Justin Bieber: why does no one take him seriously? He must wonder that, too, when his head isn’t all the way up his own arse.

His latest single, “Hold On,” is a dud, number 21 and falling after a week. His tour isn’t selling. He’s laughable.

And then comes a press release this morning:

JUSTIN BIEBER SOLIDIFIES CROCS AND SOCKS AS MUST-HAVE FASHION PAIRING WITH SECOND COLLABORATION

“Crocs with socks is definitely the move,” said Justin Bieber. “They’re comfortable, they’re fashionable, and most importantly it’s fun to bring your own style to how you wear them. It’s been a blast bringing this latest collaboration with Crocs to life.”

Imagine receiving such an announcement in the 70s from Stevie Wonder or James Taylor. Think of Bono sending this out right before “The Joshua Tree” album.

Songs in the Key of Crocs? Mud Slide Socks?

Justin Bieber is an embarrassment to the music community and to humanity at large.

In sum: “The iconic silhouette comes bundled with a pair of drew house-branded socks, making it official that Crocs and socks are, indeed, better together. The addition elevates the partnership with a cozy vibe that represents Bieber’s style and personality.”

The whole thing is a crock. LOL. At least he’s consistent.

 

LOL from Jimmy Kimmel Show: Sacha Baron Cohen Might Be Selling Vaccines to Celebrities

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LOL from Jimmy Kimmel Show: Sacha Baron Cohen Might Be Selling Vaccines to Celebrities

This is just outrageously smart and funny. On Jimmy Kimmel, it seems like Sacha Baron Cohen might be selling vaccines to celebrities. His strung out wife, Isla Fisher, appears to be drinking the vaccines 25 at a time. And, of course, the Hollywood Foreign Press is involved.

Highlights include a call from Kanye West. Cohen says: “I can get you Johnson and Johnson. No, not Dakota and Don.”

Also: “Trust me, no one from the Hollywood Foreign Press is getting COVID any time soon.”

And Tom Cruise calls in: “I thought the Thetans were immune.”

Brilliant.

Geraldo Rivera Says He’s “Pondering Running” for the Senate in Ohio Replacing Retiring Rob Portman

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Geraldo Rivera Says He’s “Pondering Running” for the Senate in Ohio Replacing Retiring Rob Portman

Fox News broadcaster Geraldo Rivera is thinking of a new career.

He Tweeted today that he’s thinking of running for the US Senate from Ohio, taking the place of retiring Rob Portman.

Geraldo would run as a Republican, which would be funny since he was always aligned with liberal causes prior to meeting Roger Ailes.

Rivera has been living in Ohio with his 5th wife, Erica Levy, and their daughter. They married in 2003. He’s 77, she’s 46. He’ll turn 78 in July.

“Jeopardy!” Guest Host Katie Couric Says She’s Delivered Memoir to Publisher: “I hope you f-ing like it”

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“Jeopardy!” Guest Host Katie Couric Says She’s Delivered Memoir to Publisher: “I hope you f-ing like it”

Katie Couric has turned in her memoir to publisher Little Brown. She announced the moment on Twitter in the video below. She says it’s very “emotional” and adds “I hope you fucking like it.”

Couric is current guest host of “Jeopardy!” and doing a great job, I think. It’s tough to be the first woman host, but Katie always blazes trails.

Her memoir, I hope, will really get into Matt Lauer, Tom Brokaw, her time at CBS hosting the Evening News, all of it. She better not leave anything out. Of course, there will be a lot about losing her sister and husband each to cancer. And starting the whole StandUp4Cancer charity and awareness of colon cancer.

If she just turned the book in, we’ll see it a year from now.

Before the Beatles, Producer George Martin Recorded an Electronic Music Single: Now Limited Edition Available

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Before the Beatles, Producer George Martin Recorded an Electronic Music Single: Now Limited Edition Available

Before he worked with the Beatles, their famed producer George Martin had his own little recording career.

In 1962 he released a instrumental single he composed that was an early experiment in electronic music. The two songs are quite beautiful and full of melodies. Are we surprised? This man was under appreciated genius.

Now dublab is releasing 2 limited editions of the single using the name Martin recorded under, Ray Cathode. Here’s the link. Beatles fans will want one of these things. I know I do!

Monkees in the Mix: Micky Dolenz Releasing Album of Mike Nesmith Songs Including Linda Ronstadt’s “Different Drum”

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Monkees in the Mix: Micky Dolenz Releasing Album of Mike Nesmith Songs Including Linda Ronstadt’s “Different Drum”

Two days ago, Micky Dolenz celebrated a birthday. Happy birthday, Micky!

And now we get the news that the once and always Monkee is releasing his first new album in nine years. And all the songs are by his pal of more than 50 years, fellow Monkee Mike Nesmith.

“Dolenz Sings Nesmith” is produced by Mike’s son, Christian, and includes a cover of a song you may not realize Mike wrote: Linda Ronstadt’s “Different Drum.”

The cover, at left, reminds me a little of the famous “Nilsson Sings Newman” album from the 70s when Harry Nilsson had a collection of Randy Newman songs.

Micky confirms it in the album’s press release. He says he got the idea for the album a long time ago. As Micky says “I think I first mentioned it to Nez years ago, I don’t know where the idea came from, maybe from my friend Harry Nilsson and his Nilsson Sings Newman album. I thought to myself, ‘Wow, Dolenz Sings Nesmith’”. The new album, which was recorded between September 2020 and February 2021, features songs written throughout Nesmith’s long career, including many from the critically acclaimed Michael Nesmith & The First National Band albums, as well as a few Monkees deep cuts. And who better to produce the album than Nesmith’s son, Christian Nesmith, who has done an incredible job in coming up with fresh and completely new arrangements for all of the songs.

The album comes to us on May 21st from 7A Records.

Happy Birthday, Micky! You just keep getting younger and younger!

 

 

One Direction’s Ex, Zayn Malik Announces: “F*** the Grammys” Because He Wasn’t Nominated, But He Wasn’t Eligible Either

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One Direction’s Ex, Zayn Malik Announces: “F*** the Grammys” Because He Wasn’t Nominated, But He Wasn’t Eligible Either

Former One Direction singer Zayn Malik is upset he wasn’t nominated for a Grammy Award. He’s so mad that he told them on Twitter to “F” off in so many words. He wrote on Twitter yesterday: “Fuck the grammys and everyone associated. Unless you shake hands and send gifts, there’s no nomination considerations. Next year I’ll send you a basket of confectionary.”

The problem is that eligibility for this Sunday’s Grammys was cut off last September 30th, 2020. Zayn’s album, “Nobody is Listening,” was released two just months ago, in January of THIS YEAR, 2021. So it was months and months late. His prior album, “Icarus Falls,” was released in 2018, two years before this session’s deadline.

Also, both albums sold around 2 copies and were very, very bad.

Seven hours after his first Tweet, Zayn was chastened to follow up with this observation: “My tweet was not personal or about eligibility but was about the need for inclusion and the lack of transparency of the nomination process and the space that creates and allows favoritism, racism, and netwokring [sic] politics to influence the voting process”

Got that? It’s racism and “netwokring” that prevented his nominations. How about making a good album and releasing it on time? That might be the answer.

Poor Zayn. Does he have a manager? Does he take advice from anyone? He seems to be his own worst enemy. No one can be this clueless.

A Real Soap Opera: ABC’s “General Hospital” Kills off an Unpopular Character, But Actor Roger Howarth Will Stay

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A Real Soap Opera: ABC’s “General Hospital” Kills off an Unpopular Character, But Actor Roger Howarth Will Stay

Franco, a one time rapist and bad guy, is no longer alive on “General Hospital.”

On Tuesday, the ABC soap killed off the unpopular character– unpopular among the show’s other characters as well with fans– by shooting him in the heart. Actor Roger Howarth, who’s played the part since 2013, was seen in a pool of realistic blood.

Immediately Twitter lit up with worries that Howarth, who’s been on ABC soaps since 1993, had been fired.

I immediately checked with a couple of insiders who told me, “He’s coming back as another character.”

Indeed, Howarth told Soap Opera Digest later in the day, that Franco was gone but he wasn’t leaving. He’ll be back after a short break.

He said, “I’m really excited. I have great faith in the people who think of these things. I’ve been in good hands so far.”

Howarth played the character of Todd Manning for years on “One Life to Live.” When that show was cancelled, he moved Manning to “General Hospital.” But then, in a soap twist, ABC sold the online rights to “OLTL” to Prospect Park Productions, and Howarth was recast on “GH” as Franco, a psycho artist originally played by James Franco. (Long story there, not worth retelling.)

But Franco carried a lot of baggage. He’d been a rapist, a scoundrel, plotted someone else’s rape, and was despised by the people of Port Charles. Whoever Howarth returns as has to be more popular, and a relief, I would think, for the actor.

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