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Paul McCartney Nearly Attacked By Bonkers Fan, Robert Smith’s New Alarming Collaboration, EMI Loosen Up

4/2/07, 9:05 am EST

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  • Paul McCartney survived a serious breach of security at his Peasmarsh country estate on Friday when a crazed fan drove his car through the gate, over McCartney’s lawns before finally crashing into trees and a fence right outside the house. The man was allegedly screaming “I must get to him” by the time security managed to restrain him. Scary.
  • The NME is reporting that Robert Smith is working with Ashlee Simpson on her new record. Pete Wentz – who is a friend to both artists – apparently said that the pair know each other from Ashlee’s stint in the London production of Chicago. Is it too late for April Fools’?
  • Avril Lavigne has spoken out against what she sees as Britney Spears’ weak incapacity to handle fame. “What’s happened to Britney is all down to who she is as a person,” Lavigne said. “If you want a piece of this business you have to be able to deal with it. You can’t complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness because that’s the job.” Does the job include spitting at reporters?
  • Tony Scott, a clarinetist, composer and arranger has died. Scott collaborated with the likes of Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker. He was 85.
  • Well this is huge: EMI has just announced that they are launching “DRM-free superior quality downloads” – aka non copy protected digital tracks – and have said that Apple’s iTunes Store will be the first online music store to sell the piratable downloads.
  • Listen to the new Chris Cornell song/see a cute picture of the rocker with his baby on his MySpace page. The song is called “No Such Thing,” not sure what the baby is named.
  • Listen to some of the new Bright Eyes album, Cassadaga, here.

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DGG | 4/2/2007, 10:22 am EST

Britney Spears’ “weak incapacity”?

Now that does deserve one of Ms. Goodman’s trademark Valley-speak end-of-sentence adjectives to let you know how you should feel about the news item: “Scary”, indeed!

THX-1138 | 4/2/2007, 10:34 am EST

Ashlee Simpson + Robert Smith=

There is no God.

abandonedstation | 4/2/2007, 10:41 am EST

maxwell was tackled by macca’s secuirty detail. he and his silver hammer are now in custody.

oh, avril. you just want some attention. britney is in a different league of fame than most celebrities so saying she can’t cope isn’t really fair, but it certainly doesn’t help that she ain’t the sharpest knife in the box of crayons.

i bet ashlee simpson spends most of her time apologizing to her father for not being jessica.

i just realized, i’m ingesting way too much gossip from this website… i feel like i need to go over to pitchfork to clean myself off.

Gracie | 4/2/2007, 10:42 am EST

Sweet merciful crap! No, Robert, no!!! Don’t do it!!!!…And poor Paul, like the remaining Beatles don’t have enough wackos after them, and now that guy…oye…

Ashlee Simpson=GODDER THAN GOD | 4/2/2007, 10:51 am EST

This will be a fine record with the fat CURE fellow & our goddess!

BlindFame | 4/2/2007, 10:54 am EST

Avril your degree of fame is like a cookie whereas Brit’s is the whole frickin bakery. Your opinion is about as valid as your pop music is punk.

Marty P. | 4/2/2007, 11:31 am EST

If Paul McCartney can be attacked by some crazed lunatic, imagine the the danger that Paul Stanley must face every day !!!

t-remm | 4/2/2007, 11:58 am EST

cassadaga is phenomenal

STRATCAT | 4/2/2007, 12:11 pm EST

Listen up Paul!
Learn from what happened to your friend John Lennon!
This is crazy that your security is not good enough to stop a maniac like this getting that close to you.
You are a treasure to so many so protect yourself because we want you around as well as Ringo!
Wise up and don’t be a fool.

STRATCAT | 4/2/2007, 12:15 pm EST

Robert Smith must be in major need of cash to be working with this pathetic excuse for an artist responsible for that joke lip sync fiasco on saturday night live.
robert,where is your dignity?
Have you sold your soul or has all that makeup clogged up your sense.
SAD!

Morgan | 4/2/2007, 12:20 pm EST

In the name of Lohan, Robert say it aint so! Britney’s definately the bigger star, but punk lite Avril is right. Buck up, beotch! Paul is probably lucky with all the nutjobs running around in the world today, who the hell knows what could have happened. Robert, Robert, Robert…….

the porksword | 4/2/2007, 12:34 pm EST

i never saw what was so good about the cure anyway…

J-Odo | 4/2/2007, 1:07 pm EST

BRIGHT EYES !!!!! MY LOVE AND IM SO EXCITED FOR THE NEW ALBUM!!!! YIP-EEEEEEEEE

Jon B. | 4/2/2007, 1:15 pm EST

screw paul, yo

Hunter | 4/2/2007, 1:36 pm EST

Robert Smith has become pathetic. The Blink 182 & Korn thing was bad, but Ashlee Simpson is where I draw the line.

The Cure has been my second favorite band for years, behind only Pearl Jam, and as painful as it is… I won’t be able to listen to the Cures music anymore

I don’t think Robert Smith has grasped just how much he’s truly destroyed his credibility.

ASHLEE is better than THE CURE | 4/2/2007, 1:52 pm EST

& about 1,000 times HOTTER!Screw the haters likely FAT indie chicks & limp wristed “men” !

STRATCAT | 4/2/2007, 2:00 pm EST

People that can’t tell the difference between Ashlee lip sync simpson and a new wave ICON are not to blame for their opinion.
Big corporate heads have been dishing out crap to the masses promoting it as something of substance for so long that some people these days put someone like Ashlee Simpson in the same league as someone of true musical stature.
This is the state of culture today with all your fall out boys and your Simpson’s.
How SAD.

Donald | 4/2/2007, 2:22 pm EST

Sounds like the looney “fan” listened one too many times to “Drive My Car”.

Seriously, though, McCartney really does need stronger security. I saw him in concert in Tampa, 2005. Towards the end of the show, some guy jumped from out of nowhere and ran toward Paul. He used his bass to keep the guy off, but still, the guy never should’ve gotten so close.

zentropa | 4/2/2007, 2:37 pm EST

Country Estate? With your cash Pauly i would build a replica of the 14th century,5 towered castle of Coucy.Moat and Drawbridge included. Put some archers on the walls and in the towers.Let huge English Bulldogs roam the ramparts ,fed only on scraps thrown from the castle.Better than fat security men with one eye on the dirty magizine and one hand on the Bishop.

Morgan | 4/2/2007, 2:41 pm EST

While the statement that Ashley Simpson is about 1000 times hotter than the Cure’s Robert Smith is impossible to debate, hands down, she wins- that’s where the discusion ends. She has her undenyable hotness to bring to the table, that and that alone. Musicaly, it would be laughable to try to compare her to the good stuff that Cure has done over the years. I figure if they do colaborate they can like, at least share lip gloss and grooming tips. Maybe she’ll be naked. Otherwise, she’s of no use to us

Wonderwoman | 4/2/2007, 3:07 pm EST

For all those ignorant fools who think that this Robert Smith/Ashlee Simpson collaboration is going to work out, I have only one thing to say to you:

You have absolutely NO taste in music whatsoever.

rockhead | 4/2/2007, 3:31 pm EST

bright eyes album its all over the net for about 10 days.

Denny Laine | 4/2/2007, 3:48 pm EST

Maybe the guy was driven insane by listening to the Linda McCartney tapes….

melz | 4/2/2007, 3:55 pm EST

I think everyone needs to leave Britt alone. Avril is nowhere near as big as Britt, so she has no idea,(she is also still happily married)As a recent mother myself of two young boys I believe it is called post partum! I don’t blame Britt for what has happened, let’s not forget two babies in two years and a divorce and she is also probobly the most watched person in the world, so let’s give her a break! I’m hear for ya Britt :-)

Ben | 4/2/2007, 6:14 pm EST

The man who atacked Paul McCartney shouldn’t have been able to get so close. And Lennon’s assassin…why call him a crazed FAN? Since when do fans kill their idols?

Epic | 4/2/2007, 7:01 pm EST

Maybe the fan went crazy listening to Ashley Simpson

zentropa | 4/2/2007, 8:32 pm EST

Maybe Heather was sending a MESSAGE?

zentropa | 4/3/2007, 11:50 am EST

UT-OH…Someone deleted my Defenition of a crazed fan.Which part didnt you get?

Floyd | 4/3/2007, 1:35 pm EST

Screw Jon B., Yo…

fanofthefab4 | 4/4/2007, 1:41 am EST

To the poster who said why call the nut who killed the great John Lenon a crazed fan since fans don’t kille their idols, well Mark David cahapman had been a huge Beatles fan especially a big John Lennon fan all through his teen years,but he was also somwhat of a christian fanatic and he began to have love/hate feelings for John after John said The Beatles were bigger than Jesus. Also in his totally irrational mind he thought John was a hypocrite and sold out because he had written Imnagine about no possesions and he read a book in the library called,John Lennon One Day At A Time that wrote about John living in the fancy Dakato appartments etc. He says that he heard voices in his head at the time telling him to kill John and he had tried to commit suicide himself twice before.

fanofthefab4 | 4/4/2007, 1:47 am EST

I just noticed I made a few typing mistakes. I really wish there was an edit button on here!

k-bones(a7xrox) | 4/4/2007, 1:57 am EST

avril lavign is a sell out she pretended to be a punk kick ass girl to get famous, i hate her, she has no right talling britny what to do,i hate britny 2, but i use to like avril before she started puttin on this bimbo/slut /whore outfits and singing about taking other peoples boyfrinds. word to avril get a life u poser!!b***h

k-bones(a7xrox) | 4/4/2007, 1:59 am EST

avril lavign is a sell out she pretended to be a punk kick ass girl to get famous, i hate her, she has no right talling britny what to do,i hate britny 2, but i use to like avril before she started puttin on this bimbo/slut /whore outfits and singing about taking other peoples boyfrinds. word to avril get a life u poser!

k-bones(a7xrox) | 4/4/2007, 2:01 am EST

sorry thay posted me twice oops

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