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This Day in Music…November 21
1934 – The musical “Anything Goes,” by Cole Porter, opened.
1963 – The Elvis Presley film “Fun in Acapulco” premiered.
1975 – Elton John received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
1978 – Prince’s second single “Just As Long As We’re Together” was released.
1980 – Don Henley was arrested after paramedics treated a nude sixteen year-old girl suffering from drug intoxication at his home in Los Angeles, CA. Henley was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, cocaine and Quaaludes and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
1980 – A one-hour documentary film, “Van Morrison in Ireland,” was premiered at London’s National Film Theater.
1982 – Joni Mitchell and Larry Klein, her bass player, were married.
1983 – In Los Angeles, movie theatres premiered Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video.
1988 – “The Delicate Sound Of Thunder” by Pink Floyd was released.
1990 – Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall were married in Bali, Indonesia.
1991 – Aerosmith made a guest appearance on an episode of the Fox TV show “The Simpsons” called “Flaming Moe’s.”
1993 – The musical “Cinderella” closed after 14 performances.
1993 – The musical “Cyrano – The Musical” opened.
1995 – 2pac Shakur and Tha Dogg Pound gave out 2,000 turkeys in Los Angeles, CA.
1995 – The “Beatles Anthology I” set a first-day sales record, selling 450,000 units.
1995 – Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong was arrested and fined $141 for dropping his pants at a concert in Milwaukee, WI.
1997 – Coolio and seven members of his band 40 Thevz were arrested and charged with theft and assault in a boutique in the town of Boblingen, Germany. The eight were charged with assaulting a female clerk in a clothing store and stealing clothing worth $2,000.
2003 – In Santa Barbara, CA, Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation. Jackson immediately posted the $3 million bail and then flew back to Las Vegas where he had been filming a video. He was given an arraignment date of January 9, 2004.
2003 – Phil Spector was charged with the murder of Lana Clarkson at his home the previos February. Spector pled innocent.
http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/music/nov21.htm
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about 9 months ago
In music news:
At what may be the height of her early career, teen sensation Taylor Swift finds herself facing the downside of stardom — naysayers.
The 19-year-old pop/country singer-songwriter heads in to Sunday’s American Music Awards with a leading six nominations after a dream year of sold out concerts and the best-selling album in the United States.
and:
“(Taylor) tries to hold herself to a better standard but perfection is not one of them. At 19-years-old, I don’t know how she deals with the nerves (of singing live). And sound issues are not always in our control,” Robert Allen, one of Swift’s managers, told Reuters.
Lefsetz agrees with music critics that Swift “is phenomenal live”. But he added: “I think it is a sad state of affairs when one of the biggest artists in the world can’t sing.”
Reuters
about 9 months ago
I’ll skip this album:
Sting‘s “If on a Winter’s Night…” may feature holiday-inspired songs, but don’t call it a Christmas album. “The whole season is much broader than that,” he says. “Winter is about inspiration and imagination.”
While culling source material for “Winter’s Night” — which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and has sold 139,000 copies since its October 26 release, according to Nielsen SoundScan — Sting found inspiration in everything from a 14th-century carol (“Gabriel’s Message” ) to traditional lullabies and poems.
Reuters
about 9 months ago
Oh goody, movie fan wars!
I know, I know, we’ve heard enough about Twilight’s “New Moon” already. Westwood residents couldn’t get away from fans lined up on the sidewalks for the midnight showing holding signs declaring their devotion (like one I spotted that said, “We flew all the way from NY and NJ to be here” ).
But this is big news, worth bringing up in the endless wizard-vampire comparisons.
Summit Entertainment set the official estimate for “New Moon’s” midnight ticket sales at $26.3 million, breaking the record “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” set this summer at $22.2 million.
Los Angeles Times
about 9 months ago
Only a total fool or a fangirl — not that there’s any noticeable difference between them — would watch the AMAs instead of The Amazing Race.
It’s hard to imagine that this is finally happening. A music awards show without Kanye West and/or Taylor Swift will go down on Sunday night, and right here in our hometown.
The American Music Awards are set for a live Sunday night broadcast — tape-delayed for the West Coast. Set to air at 8 p.m. on ABC, expect at least 20 music performances, and the occasional fan-voted award to be handed out at the gala at downtown’s Nokia Theatre.
Los Angeles Times
about 9 months ago
This is interesting…
A year ago Adam Young was working at a Coca-Cola warehouse near his home in southern Minnesota, struggling to remember melodies in his head as he loaded delivery trucks.
“After work I would race back home, not even eat or take a shower, and just go back to the computer for fear of losing whatever inspiration I had,” he said. Working alone in his parents’ basement under the name Owl City, Mr. Young posted his fizzy electro-pop songs to MySpace and iTunes, selling about 2,000 tracks a week — quite good for an unknown.
Now, however, his song “Fireflies” has hit No. 1 twice on Billboard and been downloaded 1.4 million times, and he has been booked alongside John Mayer and Taylor Swift for the Z100 Jingle Ball, the annual teen-screamathon concert at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 11. And he has moved out of his parents’ basement.
New York Times
Gee, and he wasn’t even on American Idol!
about 9 months ago
No comment:
“I should be having sex with more girls.” This is what John Mayer concluded, using slightly more colorful language, last Sunday night at his anonymously modern apartment in SoHo.
They’re everywhere, after all, and Mr. Mayer has not been unwilling in the past. But the last couple of years, full of tabloids and TMZ, have taken their toll.
“It’s crazy to me that in my head, that being 32 and dating women is going to get me in trouble,” he said, talking faster as he went along. “I can’t even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It’s a nightmare.”
New York Times
about 9 months ago
Ann Powers weighs in on the search for “the perfect diva”:
Everyone knows that Taylor Swift can’t sing. The teen star might hold the zeitgeist in her pink satin clutch, but she’s regularly criticized for her live vocal performances, which tend toward wild notes and shortness of breath. Her turns onstage at the recent Country Music Assn. Awards, where she became the youngest-ever Entertainer of the Year, had critics pulling out descriptions like “shaky,” “a train wreck” and (memorably, from Entertainment Weekly’s Ken Tucker) “wobbly as a newborn colt.”
Such negatives aren’t new: A year earlier, the website Country Standard Time ran an editorial declaring Swift’s voice “her biggest liability.”
It’s nothing new for a young female singer to take slaps for her lack of chops. Remember Madonna’s early days or, really, most of Janet Jackson’s career? What’s different about Swift is that her vocal problems actually play into her strengths.
Los Angeles Times
about 9 months ago
Then there’s this:
EMI Music became the first major music company to agree to distribute its music videos and concert footage on Hulu, the popular online video site.
The London company will make content available from its various music labels, including Virgin, Capitol and Blue Note.
Los Angeles Times
about 9 months ago
“Only a total fool or a fangirl — not that there’s any noticeable difference between them — would watch the AMAs instead of The Amazing Race.”
So if I watch them both I am a…???
about 9 months ago
WARNING: video of the smug slug is included in this interview. View at your own risk.
kris 20 @ Yahoo! Video
about 9 months ago
A multi-tasker.
The operative words: “instead of.”
about 9 months ago
about 9 months ago
What about a person without cable who, due to proximity to the mountains, is unable to get CBS?
A whiz with AV technology.
**bets he had no problem programming a VCR, too**
about 9 months ago
Poor John Mayer. Sounds like he may be in need of a box of PUFFS.
about 9 months ago
That person needs to come to chat during The Amazing Race and enjoy the Race vicariously.
about 9 months ago
Indeed that person does!