"LA Times" Apologizes for Erroneous Tupac Shooting Story

The Los Angeles Times has issued an apology following yesterday's revelation that their March 17th report which implicated Sean "Diddy" Combs and his associates in a 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur was partially based on fabricated documents. "In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job," Chuck Philips, the author of the report said in a statement. Deputy managing editor Marc Duvoisin added: "We should not have let ourselves be fooled. That we were is as much my fault as Chuck's. I deeply regret that we let our readers down." An imprisoned con man, James Sabatino, is believed to have forged the FBI documents that were at the center of the report.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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