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News Ticker: Ludacris, Secret Machines and Phil Spector

7/9/08, 10:05 am EST

  • Ludacris has signed a multi-million dollar deal with AT&T to become their new spokesperson. The rapper will appear in commercials for the phone company starting next month.
  • Having left their major label contract, Secret Machines will go the self-release route for their still-untitled third album, due out in the fall. The band will be working in collaboration with World’s Fair Label Group.
  • The National are showing their support for RS cover boy Barack Obama by designing a T-shirt combining Obama’s portrait with their song “Mr. November.” The band will donate all profits from the shirts to the candidate’s campaign.
  • Ronnie Spector and members of the Crystals, Bobbie Soxx and Blue Jeans are all seeking unpaid royalties from famed producer and murder suspect Phil Spector.

[Photo: Getty]

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fakename311 | 7/9/2008, 1:11 pm EST

It’d be cool if RS did a full story on the Phil Spector thing, because that TMZ story that it links to is so snarky. I also have a feeling that their opinion that Ronnie Spector is “looking for a hand out” would be the incorrect side to be on with this case.

Phantom Of The Paradise 1974 | 7/9/2008, 1:42 pm EST

“(The) opinion that Ronnie Spector is “looking for a hand out” would be the incorrect side to be on with this case.”

Absolutely. Ronnie had a ton to do with Phil Spector’s killer R and B sound.

Phil has always mistreated the people in his inner circle.

Ronnie deserves every penny.

She HAS TO act now before Phil spares no expense to purchase with his retrial to get his “Get Out Of Jail Free” card!

locoed | 7/11/2008, 11:46 pm EST

these cats would sell there’re mama’s if they were’nt bolted down.can you see the real underground giving it up for KFC? thats why he cant write his own lyrics.punk.

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