AC/DC, The Clash, The Police and others join Rock Hall
ByMar 10, 2003 11:00 PM
AC/DC, The Clash, The Police, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, and the Righteous Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a Monday night (3/10) ceremony in New York City. The event included performances from all of the inductees accept for the Clash, whose founder and frontman, Joe Strummer, died in December.
VH1 will air highlights from the induction ceremony on Sunday (3/16).
AC/DC, The Clash, The Police, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, and the Righteous Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a Monday night (3/10) ceremony in New York City. The event included performances from all of the inductees accept for the Clash, whose founder and frontman, Joe Strummer, died in December.
VH1 will air highlights from the induction ceremony on Sunday (3/16).
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Phil Spector not off the hook
Radio reports claiming that police are treating the death of actress Lana Clarkson--who was found shot dead in producer Phil Spector’s home on Feb. 3--as an accidental suicide are false, an investigator tells Billboard. An L.A. radio station reportedly said on Monday (3/10) that police were theorizing that Clarkson shot herself, and the claim was echoed on Tuesday’s (3/11) edition of “The Howard Stern Show.”
Police took Spector into custody following the shooting. He was later freed on $1 million bail, and no formal charges have been lodged against him.
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New Beastie Boys track blasts Bush on Iraq
The Beastie Boys have ended a five-year recording hiatus and released a new song titled “In a World Gone Mad” via their official website. The song is the group’s message to George W. Bush re: the Iraq situation. Sample lyrics:
You and Saddam should kick it like back in the day
With the cocaine and Courvoisier
But you build more bombs as you get more bold
As your mid-life crisis war unfolds
All you want to do is take control
Now put that axis of evil bullshit on hold
Our boys are all grown up. Remember when their stage show featured girls in cages and a giant inflatable penis?
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New club-fire lawsuit filed against Clear Channel, Anheuser-Busch
The family of a woman who died in last month’s blaze at a Rhode Island nightclub has filed a lawsuit that, in addition to naming many of the defendants already targeted in a similar but separate suit, also names Rhode Island rock-radio station WHJY, parent company Clear Channel Communications, and beer-brewer Anheuser-Busch, The Boston Globe reports.
The suit reportedly alleges that the radio station and beer company sponsored the Great White concert that ended in a deadly fire that killed 99 people and injured nearly 200 others, and that the companies therefore bear part of the responsibility for the tragedy.
A Clear Channel executive told the paper the company is “deeply saddened that plaintiffs’ lawyers are looking for deep pockets to pick, rather than allowing people the requisite time to grieve for those whom we have lost.”
Unfortunately, that sounds about right.
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CMT Flameworthy nominations
Country Music Television has unveiled the nominees for its CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards, the Tennessean reports. Kenny Chesney, Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Martina McBride, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Shania Twain and Keith Urban are vying for the Video of the Year honor.