Lady Gaga Wins Court Battle Over 'Lady Goo Goo'

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Lady Gaga has won an injunction barring the makers of an online game from promoting an animated character called Lady Goo Goo. The character, intended to be a parody of the singer, was part of the British company Mind Candy's Moshi Monsters site, in which children can adopt a virtual pet monster.

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Lady Goo Goo, a sunglasses-wearing blonde baby, appeared in "The Moshi Dance," a video that went viral on YouTube in June. Mind Candy had intended to release the song as a single, but the British High Court ruling bars them from promoting, advertising or selling anything involving the Lady Goo Goo character.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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