Hope you're doing well on this early Sunday morning. I'm guessing early? I mean, for me, it's mid-morning, but I'm a tad odd that way.
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A quick rundown of stuff that's on the radar, but I don't (really) care much about one way or the other:
- King Charles III was officially coronated yesterday (Saturday). Pip, pip, and what-not.
- The Kentucky Derby was yesterday- the first leg of horse racing's "big three". In the meantime, I feel like people aren't making a big enough stink about the seven horse that died at Churchill Downs just in the week leading up to the race.
- (Not exactly new news) Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox "News" (read that word with a sneer). I'm a staunch supporter of the Bill of Rights and all- but Carlson was not, and never has been, a member of the press in the "classic" sense. He is/was a talking head, spouting half-truths and outright lies. And he deserves every bad thing that comes his way, as do his former employers.
There's more, but I really do try to block stuff out.
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The Class of 2023 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced this week, and all of... two (?) of them would I actually consider as being in that genre.
Look, it's not that I object to people like Willie Nelson, Missy Elliot, or George Michael being recognized for their work- but, seriously? Absolutely, positively, 2,569% not rock and roll artists. It's long past time for the place to change it's name. Of course if they did that, they'd lose a great deal of the buzz they generate each year by induction people who aren't rockers, so it's a Catch-22 for them, I guess?
And on a side note- how in the blazing hell was Bernie Taupin not inducted 29 years ago, alongside Elton John. Not to take anything away from John (who is an incredibly talented piano player, vocalist, and entertainer), but I have trouble imagining him have nearly as successful a career without Taupin as his lyricist.
(And a note from the other side: Radiohead and Sheryl Crow are the only inductees from this year's class who I actually consider "rock" acts.)
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I've mentioned this previously, but I do enjoy watching football (the global version) on weekends, but I'm still irritated that I've seen all of one Atlanta United match this season. Of course, with the lackadaisical way they seem to play, I don't guess I'm missing all that much, am I?
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Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot passed away last Monday. He was 84. Lightfoot scored his biggest successes in the early 70s, but his off-stage habits (re alcohol) wreaked havoc on his health, exacerbating a 1972 Bell's Palsy diagnosis.
The Maritime Sailor's Museum in Detroit, mentioned in his 1976 opus The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, rang its bell 30 times Tuesday- 29 peals for the sailors Lightfoot had immortalized in song, and once for the singer himself.
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LiveNation reported $3.1 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2023.
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A Manhattan jury returned a "not liable" verdict in the Marvin Gaye estate's copyright infringement claim against Ed Sheeran Thursday. The suit had claimed Sheeran copied elements from Gaye's Let’s Get It On for his Thinking Out Loud.
The trial lasted just under two weeks.
Sheeran told reporters he was "very happy with the outcome of the case" but was "absolutely frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court at all."
Admittedly, I'm not familiar with Sheeran's song, but what little I heard of it on an NPR Morning Edition piece about the lawsuit sound pretty similar to me. I mean, if George Harrison was found to have ripped of The Chiffons' He's So Fine for his My Sweet Lord, I'm not sure how the jury in this case returned this particular verdict (but, again, I've only hear about 10-15 seconds of Sheeran's song).
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Billy Corgan says he "paid ransom" to a hacker who'd somehow gotten copies of nine tracks on Smashing Pumpkins' upcoming Atum "rock opera".
During an interview with KROQ’s Klein/Ally Show, Corgan said the tracks had yet to be mixed and that the FBI helped track down the hacker and prevent the leak.
He added the songs "were all probably the most catchy, single-y type" (not words I'd normally associate with their songs, though I do enjoy a great number of them). Corgan said he wasn't aware of the result of the FBI's work, but that the hacker not only had Pumpkins' tracks, but "classic stuff from bands of the past probably doing reissues" as well.
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Just a reminder: No Saturday Night Karaoke this week. We'll be back at it on the 20th. Hope to see you then.
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