Taylor Swift The private equity firm criticized music industry mogul Scooter Brown over the sale of its master recordings, alleging that it tried to use a non-disclosure agreement to “silence me forever” about possible sale terms. The story dates back to the beginning of Swift’s career, when he signed a …
Read More »The lawyer argues that Britney Spears will not reintroduce music if her father takes over her career.
Britney Spears is scared of her father and will not resume her career until she has a career on her, her attorney told the court on Tuesday. Britney Spears’ attorney, Samuel de Ingam III, pleaded during a controversial hearing that Los Angeles Supreme Court Judge Brenda Penny had controlled her …
Read More »‘We lucky people didn’t throw away tomatoes’: Klaus Wurman on his Beatles and Plastic Ono days | Music
IIn September 1969, John Lennon received a call from bass player and artist Klaus Wurman, who had recently left Manfred Mann. There was nothing unusual about it. Woorman had known the Beatles for nine years and was part of the band’s tight inner circle. It was Wurman’s own band, Paddy, …
Read More »Trini Lopez, American singer and star of The Dirty Dozen, dies aged 83 from Covid-19 | Music
Mexican-American singer and actor Trini Lopez has died at the age of 83 after contracting Covid-19 at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California. As he became second in the World War II classic The Dirty Dozen in 1967 as one of the eponymous gang, Lopez scored a transatlantic hit with …
Read More »In Summertime: How Mungo Jerry Made a Swelling Classic | Music
Ray Dorset, singer, songwriter I still had a day job at a lab when the melody for In the Summertime entered my head. The lyric took 10 minutes to write. When I was young, my family always went to Hayling Island, Hampshire, for vacations; big business with about 20 of …
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