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The Man Who Created the Word "Grammy" and Other Idle Gossip
According to the Grammy Awards website, the music industry's highest honor got its name from a nationwide “name the award" contest back in 1959. Not so according to Grammy-, Emmy- and Clio-winning writer-comedian Stan Freberg, who recently toured the Grammy Museum and emerged incensed. He says the honor's origins (and his role in them) have been ...
Paula Abdul Predicts a Guy Will Win 'American Idol?'
The Dish Rag caught up with American Idol judge Paula Abdul last night at Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy bash. We got the scoop on her strapless satin printed cocktail dress, who she's wearing to tonight's Grammy Awards and some hints about the new season of American Idol. Paula predicts a guy will win this season!
Producers Select Grammy Openers
Labels once held sway over show's first acts Superstars often open the show like Prince and Beyonce. Other memorable acts have included Sting and the Police; Madonna and the gorillaz; Ricky Martin; and alicia keys with the late Frank Sinatra. One would think such lightning-in-a-bottle Grammy openers are the brainchildren of savvy music managers ...
Grammy Scorecard List of Nominees/ Updated Winners
Field 10 - Jazz All other music categories: =winner RECORD OF THE YEAR “Chasing Pavements," Adele “Viva La Vida," Coldplay “Bleeding Love," Leona Lewis “Paper Planes," M.I.A “Please Read the Letter," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss ALBUM OF THE YEAR “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," Coldplay “Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne “Year ...
Leo Fender Honored Posthumously
The Recording Academy will bestow a technical award on the guitar maker whose instruments revolutionized pop music's sound. No invention since the phonograph more dramatically affected how popular music is made than Fender guitars, arriving as they did with the birth of rock 'n' roll. Buddy Holly was an early Fender convert; Jimi Hendrix used the ...
Grammy Rehearsals with Radiohead: 'There's a Surreality to It All'
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards are Sunday night, and the rehearsal schedule for today is stacked with big names -- U2, Paul McCartney, Coldplay and Stevie Wonder But the day got off to an especially compelling start as Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead strolled in, shook off the rain and performed “15 Step" to ...
New York's Milk Studios Picks Hollywood Backdrop
Milk Studios Gone Hollywood The firm, which is expanding from New York, will spend millions to upgrade a 46,000-square-foot, half-century-old industrial building on Cahuenga Boulevard. Publishers and advertisers can't get enough of Hollywood, the photography studio says. Some of its space may rent for $10,000 a day. One of New York's best-known photo studios ...
All-Star Tribute to Neil Diamond at Musicares Gala
The most commonly heard phrase spoken by attendees and artists alike at Fridays MusiCares tribute to Neil Diamond Feels like a Bar Mitzvah! Or the biggest karaoke party ever, but rather than having to suffer through your drunk friends closing time rendition of Sweet Caroline, instead some 2,500 music industry VIPs got the man himself backed ...
What's Cooking Around L.A.
The jazz picks this week are on the rad side. Take powerful tenor and baritone Dale Fielder at Vibrato on Friday: This guy can rock a room. Or across town at the Caf 322, where The Bobby Bradford Motet slips his out-there stuff by the crowd by hiding it in some fairly traditional arrangements. ...
L.A. to Consider Landmark Status for Puppet Theater
Fans turn out at a commission meeting to voice support for the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, which is struggling to stay afloat. Pinocchio danced on the table and wise-cracking Fred Mingo sat on it Thursday as they helped convince Los Angeles officials to consider making a marionette theater near downtown an official city cultural site. Fans ...
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