In Brief: Sex Pistols, Bob Marley & the Wailers
By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)Apr 16, 2002 10:00 PM
Plus news on Pink’s Bally Total Fitness deal, Milwaukee arena’s legal settlement, and Dee Snyder’s “filthy fifteen.”
Plus news on Pink’s Bally Total Fitness deal, Milwaukee arena’s legal settlement, and Dee Snyder’s “filthy fifteen.”
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The Sex Pistols will perform a concert in Great Britain this summer, but won’t perform on the June 3 holiday weekend of the Queen’s Jubilee, Reuters reported. “To say they were looking forward to it is maybe going a bit far,” said John Giddings of London promotions firm Solo.
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On May 21, Island/Universal will issue digitally remastered versions of four posthumous Bob Marley & the Wailers releases: “Legend,” “Rebel Music,” “Talkin’ Blues” and “Natural Mystic.” Each album will feature its original artwork and liner notes, and bonus tracks.
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Bally Total Fitness clubs has signed a marketing pact with Pink. According to a press release, “The agreement calls for a creative collaboration on a new Bally-Pink hip-hop dance aerobics class, titled “Get Your Body Started,” a national dance competition, and the presenting sponsorship of the performer’s upcoming ‘Pink - The Party Tour 2002’ throughout North America.”
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the city’s Bradley Center has paid $750 each to 15 men who were jailed during a 2001 police sweep aimed at nabbing ticket scalpers outside the arena. In exchange, the 15 men have dropped a lawsuit against the facility, but the men reportedly are moving ahead with a lawsuit against the City of Milwaukee. According to the Journal Sentinel, “the operation generated controversy because people were jailed, sometimes for hours, for something that is punishable only by a fine, and because relatively few professional scalpers were being nabbed.”
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In advance of the April 21 debut of the VH1 movie “Warning: Parental Advisory,” former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snyder has released his own “filthy fifteen”—songs that he thinks would offend conservative listeners today. The TV movie is billed as a comedic look at the mid-‘80s controversy over pop-music lyrics spearheaded by the Parents Music Resource Center. Twisted Sister’s hit “We’re Not Going to Take It” was on the list of songs the PMRC considered offensive at that time.
Snyder’s list, in no particular order:
- Britney Spears, “Slave 4 U”
- Christina Aguilera, L’il Kim, Mya and Pink, “Lady Marmalade”
- DMX, ” “Where’s My N—gaz”
- Eminem, “Kim”
- Jay-Z, “Super Ugly”
- Kid Rock, “Paid”
- Custom, “Hey Mister”
- Marilyn Manson, “The Reflecting God”
- Mystical, “Shake You’re A—”
- Nine Inch Nails, “Closer”
- Rob Zombie, “House of 1000 Corpses”
- Shaggy, “It Wasn’t Me”
- Slipknot, “People = S—t”
- Snoop Doggy Dogg, Anything by him
- System of a Down, “Chop Suey”