After Billy Dee Williams played him in "The Jacksons: An American Dream," Berry Gordy says his buds cracked him for not being as attractive as the Colt 45 slinger -- but for 79, the founder of Motown Records still looks pretty damn good.
... 's head. For like a second. We think.
Filed under: Music, Wacky & Weird
Imagine going to a garage sale, but being afraid to buy that old tiki lamp because you're scared the guy who sells it to you is just going to come to your house that night and beat you up and take it back. Welcome to the Death Row Records sale!
Unreleased songs by the likes of 2Pac and Snoop Dogg are set to go on sale in a couple of weeks, but people are scared to buy them because they don't want to come across as crossing Suge Knight, the Daily News reports.
Knight was forced to turn over the songs when he declared bankruptcy in 2006. A source tells the paper, '"It could be a tough sale. Some people don't want to go near the catalogue because they think Suge still believes it's his."
Filed under: Music
Those who said Paul McCartney would only regain the rights to the Beatles catalog over Michael Jackson's dead body may have been right.
Sources close to Jackson tell the Mirror Jacko wants to end his 24-year feud with McCartney by leaving his remaining share of the Beatles library to Paul in his will. Jacko snaked McCartney back in 1985 in a bidding war for full ownership of the roughly $700 million Lennon-McCartney songbook
If the rumors about Michael's health problems are true it might not be too much longer before McCartney can sing "Hey Jude" without paying a fee.
Filed under: Music, Michael Jackson
Remember the Soulja Boy video where he was chillin' in his crib, and six thugs armed with pistols and AK-47s busted in and robbed the place? Wait ... that really happened.
A rep for the teen rapper says the incident took place at Soulja Boy's home Dec. 30th -- no one was injured.
In a online video released the next day, two masked dudes claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming it was just the two of them and one weapon.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Music
You don't need a milli reasons to watch this video -- Weezy falls flat on his ass, that's all you gotta know.
Filed under: Music
It's always a shame when two lifelong friends fight over money. It's even worse when they're dead.
The estate of keyboardist Merl Saunders is suing the estate of Jerry Garcia over a CD of a live performance of theirs that was released in 2004. According to a federal lawsuit filed yesterday, Saunders' estate claims it has equal rights to the music, but didn't find out about the CD until after it was released.
Saunders' estate wants in excess of $100,000. Neither Saunders nor Garcia could be reached for comment because they're both dead.
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Music
In the '70s, Patti LaBelle (left), Nona Hendryx (center) and Sarah Dash (right) reached #1 on the charts as the funky girl group Labelle with their classic song "Lady Marmalade." Guess what they look like now!
Filed under: Music, Beauty, 'Memba Them?!
This nerdy kid grew up to be one of the freakiest names in music. Can you guess who he is?
Filed under: Music, 'Memba Them?!
Deniece Williams became famous for songs like "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" with Johnny Mathis and for her '80s hits "Let's Hear It for the Boy" and " It's Gonna Take a Miracle." Guess what she looks like now!
Filed under: Music, Beauty, 'Memba Them?!
Hospitalization really does a body good!
Finally, Amy Winehouse is looking less worse for wear -- and showed off her fuller figure while hanging loose in the Caribbean this weekend.
Filed under: Paparazzi Photo, Music, Amy Winehouse
For $40,000, you can hear a wasted John Lennon sing about sucking nipples.
Today, the auction house Bonham's is selling Lennon's outtake of the 1973 song "Just Because" to the highest bidder. On the track, according to the NY Post, you hear the former Beatle slur, "I wanna take all them new singers, Carol and the other one with the nipples, I wanna take 'em and hold 'em tight, all them people that James Taylor had... I wanna suck your nipples, baby!"
We're guessin' Carol is Carole King and the other chick with the nipples must be Carly Simon.
P.S. -- Lennon re-recorded "Just Because" for his "Rock 'n' Roll" album in 1975.
Filed under: Music
The death of R&B singer Sean Levert may open jail medicine cabinets far and wide.
Levert died in a Cleveland, Ohio jail after being forced to go cold turkey for six days. The jail refused to give him Xanax that had been prescribed for him. His death resulted in part from withdrawals from the med.
Now the Cuyahoga County jail where Leveret died is looking to change its policies and give inmates meds for valid prescriptions.
Filed under: Music
Yolanda Whittaker became famous as rapper Yo-Yo, with her 1991 hit single "You Can't Play with My Yo-Yo." Guess what she looks like now!
Filed under: Music, Beauty, 'Memba Them?!
Dave Grohl lives in a world of sarcasm -- so while you may agree with him when he says Metallica is "lame" and "sucks," it's probably not what he meant ...
His thoughts on the new Guns 'n Roses album though -- totally authentic.
Filed under: Music, Wacky & Weird
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