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May 28, 2010 – How could a meeting between a make-up artist and Kiss’ Gene Simmons go so wrong? Well according to documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday the guitarist wanted more from her than she was willing to give and it didn’t involve make-up. 
May 28, 2010 – Didn’t Bret Michaels look healthy on American Idol on Wednesday night? There is a chance he wasn’t. 
May 27, 2010 - File this under “You can’t be good at everything.” Elton John was arguably the biggest solo musician in the world in the seventies and he was easily in the top 10 in the eighties but it seems he was too busy conquering the world to learn to cook. 
May 27, 2010 – The good news is the Faces are back together but the not-so-fine print says Rod Stewart will not be in the mix. 
May 28, 2010 – “What-eva” seems to be what many are saying about Wednesday’s American Idol finale. While 24.2 million viewers checked out Simon Cowell’s swan song it was the show’s lowest rated finale since season one which could spell trouble for winner Lee DeWyze. 
May 27, 2010 – It sure sounds like Paul McCartney is a responsible dad. The former Beatle say he never tours when it’s his turn to look after his daughter Beatrice – his child with ex-wife Heather Mills. 
May 27, 2010 – Slash says he’s not holding his breath for the next big thing in Rock. In fact the former Guns N’ Roses guitarist is disappointed in the current Rock scene. 
May 18, 2010 – Norah Jones says she hasn’t done too many festivals in the past because her music was too “intimate and quiet.” 
May 11, 2010 – The name Phil Collins reminds us of countless hits, huge arena tours and complicated drumming. How about the Alamo? 
April 5, 2010 – Sting seems to be fed up with our paradigms around pot! The singer says we, as a society, spend too much time putting marijuana users in jail when legalizing the substance could feed the hungry of the world. 
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Sept. 24, 2002 - In high school my best buddy John Scott could never understand how I, a rocker, preferred Barbra Streisand over Linda Ronstadt. Our typical teenaged angst played out via rapturous arguing sessions on who was technically the better singer. For me, Streisand the quintessential seventies diva, won hands down when it came to crescendo's and unlike Ronstadt, didn't have a penchant for covering fifties doo-wop songs. Neither wrote their own tunes, with the exception of a rare co-write credit here or there, and both owned the seventies in their respective genre's and so they had that in common but comparing Streisand to Ronstadt brought apples vs. oranges to mind. Both were known as pop singers but if I may split hairs both were really coming from different angles. 
Ronstadt, who's now 56, is the first to downplay the sexual content of her seventies marketing but interestingly she's also first in line to rag on her own pop music, more than even I did in the seventies. "I turned away from a lot of those songs because I outgrew them" she told Rolling Stone magazine recently "And they don't speak for me anymore" She's referring to her exodus from pop that started with stints with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra in 1983 and moved on to traditional Mexican songs introduced to her by her father.  |
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