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"Bernie Madoff Song / Christmas Bonus"
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Whip em, Whip em good: The 80’s punk band Devo, is suing McDonald’s for copyright infringement over a toy that looks suspiciously like the band. The Happy Meal toy, part of an "American Idol" themed promotion is called "New Wave Nigel" and features the distinctive flower-pot like chapeau that the band members sported. "This New Wave Nigel doll that they’ve created is just a complete Devo rip-off," said Devo member Gerald Casale.
Don’t You Toy With Us! – NY Post
Last night’s annual Robin Hood Foundation gala, held at the Javits Convention
Center, raised over $56.5 million for New York charities according to the
organizers. Attendees numbered around 3,700, including KKR founder Henry
Kravis, and Pequot Capital’s chairman Art Samberg. Entertainers in the
crowd were also plentiful, including rapper Jay-Z, Rush Communications Chairman
Russell Simmons, former Talking Heads head David Byrne, and former NBC anchor
Tom Brokaw. Conan O’Brien was the host for the evening. Performers
included Columbian hip shaking cutie Shakira as well as Sheryl Crow and John
Legend.
Musician David Byrne, who attended the gala with his girlfriend Cindy Sherman, said the gala bustling with so many entertainment and finance-industry stars was “quite a scene.”
“The bids are probably going to be outside of my tax bracket,” Byrne said in an interview about the event’s auction while waiting outside the Javits Center.
After a dinner of filet of beef, grilled chicken and bow-tie pasta, the attendees listened to live music performed by Shakira, the hip-twitching Colombian pop singer, and rock star Crow, who made a surprise appearance and took the stage for a rendition of “Lean on Me.”
Robin Hood Raises More Than $56.5 Million as
Shakira, Crow Sing – Bloomberg
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Material girl Madge is reportedly getting paid around $25 million — roughly $15 million for a 90 minute concert and another $10 million for a millionaire’s private party, both in Dubai. According to Gordon Smart of The Sun (UK):
“The negotiations for the tour to stop in
Dubai in November are being finalised and she will get £7.5million for the one
show only. The figure is so big because of her new contract with Live Nation and
the huge funds available from private promoters in Dubai.”Madge signed to the company for £60million
last autumn.And if that wasn’t enough, she is also in
talks to perform at a private party for a mystery punter while she is out there
which will earn her another £5million.
That makes Rod Stewart’s performance at Blackstone CEO’s Steve Schwarzman’s 60th birthday bash sound like a bargain. Stewart was reportedly paid around a million bucks….
Madonna £12m for two gigs – The Sun
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The heavy metal rocker’s got another gig as an artist and he’s doing quite well with over $2 million in sales in 2007. He spoke to Neil Cavuto on 2/1…..
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Solo artist and Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band member NIls Lofgren on Fox Business "Money For Breakfast"
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Apparently rapper 50 Cent requires that concert promoters stock his dressing room with the forbidden by law Cubans….
Cuban Cigars For 50 Cent! – TheSmoking Gun
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Merle Hazard, country singer, meets famed economist Arthur Laffer. Laffer gives Merle the idea for a song, "In the Hamptons." "In the Hamptons" is a parody of "In the Ghetto," made famous by Elvis Presley and written by Mac Davis…..
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Forget panels about mortgages and sub-prime debt. This year’s hottest ticket at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual conference in Boston had nothing to do with the sagging mortgage market. U2’s Bono was the featured speaker. And while he didn’t rescue the market, he did give what could have been a depressing conference a big entertaining shot in the arm:
But for the bankers and loan brokers in
attendance, the glum mood was broken somewhat by U2 singer Bono, the featured
speaker at the association’s gathering at the Hynes Convention Center. Bono is
on the lecture circuit, using his rock superstar status to advocate for aid for
the poor and disease-wracked of Africa."You’re sitting there thinking you’re
having a bad day, and he’s talking about millions of people in Africa – the
poverty," said Maureen Ostrom, one of thousands who caught Bono’s speech at
8:30 a.m."It was just so inspirational,"
she said, as co-worker Sal Mazzocca, seated next to her, sang a few bars of the
U2 hit "Running to Stand Still."
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Former Van Halen front man Sammy Hagar has proven that he’s a very adept businessman by turning his passion for Tequila into a popular premium name. And others have taken notice as well, trying to get him to sell out. Now he’s selling an 80% stake to Gruppo Campari:
Hagar created Cabo Wabo Tequila to
serve patrons at his Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He began
to distribute it in 1999. Last year, his company sold 147,000 cases, making
it the second-best-selling premium Tequila in the United States, he said in
a telephone interview.
"I’m jumping up, I’m excited,” Hagar said of the opportunity for
worldwide distribution by a company that does business in 190 countries.
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Rolling Stone Keith Richards latest confession is too hilariously bizarre to ignore:
The 63-year-old guitarist made the shocking confession, enough to make a dead man cry, in the latest edition of British music magazine NME.
"The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards says in a feature about his impact on rock that hits stands Friday.
"He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. It went pretty well, and I’m still alive."
‘I Snorted My Father’ - New York Post
Word comes that now Donald Trump is immortalized in song by Bruce Hornsby. According to Page Six:
Singer-pianist Bruce Hornsby has been playing a tune about The Donald during his current solo tour, The Post’s Kenneth Lovett reports. The lyrics cover Trump’s desire to be more successful than his developer father, his once-bankrupt casinos, his divorce from Ivana and his TV show with the chorus, "You know who I am, I’m Don Trump," and ending with, "let’s all pay homage to me."
What Page Six didn’t mention: According to Variety, which we noticed reviewed Hornsby’s show earlier in November, the "cautionary tale of ego about Donald Trump" is called "Sick Bastard", and was made up on the spot.
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For all of you Wall Street Rock’N Roll wannabes out there, here’s your chance to play with the big boys. If you’re willing to shell out $8,500 (chump change to most of you) to make some music with the likes of George Thorogood, Dickey Betts, Levon Helm, Jon Anderson, Max Weinberg, and Joe Satriani, among others, Rock’N Roll Fantasy Camp is coming to New York City in August.
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