- Led Zeppelin fans who weren’t able to get tickets for the band’s reunion show at London’s O2 Arena, and those who just want to pretend that they went, are now buying the ticket stubs and cut-off wristbands from the show off eBay for prices as high as £125 each. If that number sounds familiar, it’s because that’s the same amount 20,000 lucky lottery winners spent to actually see Led Zeppelin perform.
- According to reports, singer Robbie Williams is thinking about following in the footsteps of Paul McCartney and Radiohead by leaving EMI after his record contract expires. It was in 2002 that Williams signed an £80 million deal with EMI that cut the label in for a piece of all Williams’ touring, publishing and merchandising. Still, with the current decline of the record industry, Williams’ manager Tim Clark warns, “I would be very wary about signing him to any major label at the moment.”
- At a Jingle Ball concert last night in Philadelphia, Timbaland played the new Madonna/Justin Timberlake collaboration “4 Minutes to Save the World.” The song is expected to be the first single from Madonna’s new album, due out sometime next year. After brief appearances on YouTube and Perez Hilton, Warner Bros. quickly pulled the plug on the leak.
- Casting is underway for a biopic about the Queensbridge, NY, hip-hip collective the Juice Crew. Cuba Gooding Jr. will star as the Crew’s leader, Marley Marl, with rapper David Banner cast as rapper Biz Markie. Keke Palmer, of Akeelah and the Bee, has been cast to play the role of Marl’s protégé Roxanne Shante, while Idlewild’s Jackie Long will fill the role of Big Daddy Kane.
- An autopsy on Hawthorne Heights’ Casey Calvert found that the guitarist, who passed away on November 24th, died of an “accidental substance abuse,” due to “acute combined effects of opiate, citalopram and clonazepam intoxication.”
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