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By Paul V.
If you caught the smokin’ Superbowl halftime show
with Prince, you were probably surprised when he launched
into “The Best of You” by the Foo Fighters. Well,
no one was more surprised than the Foos themselves, who had
no idea it was going to happen. Apparently Prince hated the
Foo Fighters’ version of “Darling Nikki” they
put out a couple of years ago, but drummer Taylor Hawkins
took it in good spirit. “It was pretty amazing to have
a guy like Prince cover one of our songs, and actually do
it better than we did!”
Trip hoppers Massive Attack are readying their new CD, and
cool guest vocalists collaborating with them include Damon
Albarn, Liz Frasier, Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval and
Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio.
Morrissey wowed Los Angeles with his recent shows in Pasadena,
and he’s looking to the future—for when he kicks
the bucket! Recently, Moz shared he wants to be buried in
the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, next to the grave of Johnny
Ramone. As for his tombstone, he quipped, “I’d
thought of ‘Home at last,’ but Bela Lugosi already
used it.” Perhaps ‘Pretty Girls Make Graves’ would
be more appropriate?
Erasure will release album number 12 this spring, entitled
Light at the End of the World, which is set for a May 22
release.
Fresh from masterminding David Beckham's lucrative move to
America, U.K. pop-culture svengali Simon Fuller is turning
his hand to another important project, Spice Girls—The
Musical. After seeing the success of Dreamgirls, Fuller and
his scriptwriter brother Kim are busy constructing the Spice
Girls story as a musical movie. You have been warned.
Congrats to all the Grammy Award winners, but a special nod
must go to the Dixie Chicks, who won in every category they
were nominated. Natalie Maine’s “Simpsons laugh” when
they accepted their first trophy was priceless!
And finally, in our Britney Spears Watch: It’s already
splitsville for her and boy toy Isaac Cohen (who recently
spilled every juicy detail about their sex life to a U.K.
rag), and Brit recently had to fight off rumors that she
was having wild sex parties in her Malibu home with—gasp—lesbians.
If that’s not scathing enough, she just got sent a
gnarly letter from Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a former Michael
Jackson confidant. He chided her for her very less-than-motherly
behavior, saying, "We can all pretend that life is one
big party devoid of responsibility, but coming home drunk,
or letting your kids see you in a degraded state, will permanently
scar them.” Hmm—just like Michael Jackson’s
face.
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