Sunday, November 17, 2024

Music

Bob Dylan’s Full MusiCares Speech: How He Wrote the Songs, a Master Class Must Read

Bob Dylan's 20 minute MusiCares acceptance speech is here. This is a master class, from the greatest. Read it and learn. If only every...

Grammy Update: Madonna, Beyonce Asked for 2 Hours of Rehearsal Time Each

Grammy weekend is in full swing in Hollywood, where it's raining. Raining! That always stinks. Meantime, rehearsals downtown at the Staples Center are full...

Rocker Alan Parsons Rebuffs Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Request to Boycott Israel

Crazy Roger Waters of Pink Floyd tried unsuccessfully to get international rock star Alan Parsons to boycott Israel. Waters belongs to BDS (I say...

Exclusive Preview of Clive Davis Dinner: Pharrell, Meghan Trainor, Carole King, More

Notes from rehearsals at the Bev Hilton for Clive Davis's dinner-- tonight: Clive: "It never gets anything less than most vibrant and the pride in...

Bob Dylan’s Big Night: Didn’t Play at MusiCares, Thanked the Byrds, Others for Making “Commercials” of His Songs

Bob Dylan looked like the most miserable bar mitzvah boy in history last night as he received the MusiCares Person of the Year Award....

Grammy Trustees Award Goes to Richard Perry, Most Successful Pop Producer of 70s and 80s

Carly Simon's "You're So Vain"? Ringo Starr's "Photograph"? Leo Sayer's "When I Need You"? How about Rod Stewart's resurgence over five volumes of American...

Kanye and Kim Will Rock Clive Davis’s All Star Pre-Grammy Dinner

I can tell you exclusively that the Beverly Hilton is going to be agog on Saturday night: Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian,...

Grammy Week: Nile Rodgers Gets a Night Off, Jams with Flea (Who’s Asked to Keep it Down)

Tuesday night, Village Studios, West L.A.: incomparable 3 time Grammy winner Nile Rodgers was honored by the Producers and Engineers Wing of NARAS. It's...