Linda Stein's Personal Assistant Arrested for Her Murder

Ten days after former Ramones manager and New York real estate tycoon Linda Stein was found bludgeoned to death in her 5th Avenue apartment, the police have made an arrest. Twenty-six-year-old Natavia Lowery, who worked as Stein's personal assistant, has seemingly all but confessed to the crime, telling officials they had an acrimonious relationship. "It was that Linda just kept yelling at her, over everything" a law enforcement official told The New York Times. "They fought. It was like a continuous thing, like a buildup." Last December Lowery was charged with identity theft.

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Song Stories

“The A Team”

Ed Sheeran | 2011

This debut track from the then-20-year-old British singer-songwriter has a dark story behind it. Sheeran says he culls songwriting inspiration from "viewing other people's situations," which, for the heroine in "The A Team," involves drug addiction and prostitution that began as a teen. Sheeran paints the woman's trials with haunting imagery such as "But lately her face seems/Slowly sinking, wasting/Crumbling like pastries." "I did a gig at a homeless shelter, [and the song] is about one of the women there. It's her story," he said.

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