MUSIC NEWS: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2016
ROCK HALL - NOMINEES REACTION
Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin says the band has always been so lucky to have such amazing and supportive fans and Yes accept their Rock Hall induction with incredible pride. Joan Baez says she never considered herself a rock-and-roll artist but she's proud that some of the songs she sang made it into the rock lexicon. Pearl Jam thank their fans for making their induction possible. Jeff Lynne says he is ``deeply honoured'' that Electric Light Orchestra will be included. The estate of Tupac Shakur says his induction recognizes how his ``message of change and mission to give voice to those who didn't have one continues to resonate with millions of people to this day.'' The question on many music fans' minds: will Steve Perry sing with Journey at their induction? Guitarist Neal Schon has no idea.
He tells Rolling Stone magazine none of the band members have contact with Perry but he hopes Perry will do it.
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FIFTH HARMONY - CAMILA CABELLO
Camila Cabello says the rest of Fifth Harmony knew she was unhappy. Fifth Harmony say she rejected their efforts to make her happy. Fifth Harmony have issued a statement saying they asked Cabello to stay for one more album because the group was finally seeing some success. They say she refused group meetings, turned down meetings with label head L-A Reid and even skipped out on group counselling. The group acknowledges Cabello told them in mid-November that Sunday's performance would be her last. They say they were ``truly hurt'' by the way Cabello and her team handled her departure, but they wish her the best. Cabello has not responded.
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TURTLES - LAWSUIT
New York's highest court has dealt a blow to The Turtles in their case over whether radio stations should pay to play songs recorded before 1972. The New York Court of Appeals has ruled the owners of pre-1972 songs can't make radio stations pay for their use. Flo and Eddie of The Turtles had filed a lawsuit against Sirius X-M Radio, saying their rights were violated when Sirius played their songs without permission or compensation. Sirius had argued they didn't need permission for records made before 1972, when new federal copyright rules went into effect.
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``TOM DELONGE'' - ``KONGOS''
There's a pretty good chance you're saying the names ``Tom DeLonge'' and ``Kongos'' wrong. In the case of DeLonge, it's because he says it wrong. DeLonge says it with a hard G, but he found out on a recent trip to France that his family there pronounces it doo-LANJ'. DeLonge says he's been branding himself as a stupid American for 20 years with the wrong way to say his name and he wishes he could start all over with the more sophisticated pronunciation. In the case of Kongos, bassist Dylan Kongos says the name is said differently, depending where they are. He says they grew up saying KONG'-ihs, the Greeks and South Africans say it KONG'-us, while Americans call them KONG'-ohs.
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JACK WHITE - SAM PHILLIPS
Jack White is keeping up his upholstery skills by redoing a couch from the Sam Phillips Recording studio in Memphis. White was an upholsterer before his music career took off.
White's publicist says the Phillips family contacted him about renovating a purple short-back couch. The family gave White free reign to do what he wanted. The couch now has a red seat and a bright blue back and will be part of the renovations being done at the studio.
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ST. VINCENT - GUITAR WORLD MAGAZINE
St. Vincent not only made fun of Guitar World magazine for the way they portray women, she did it on the very cover of that magazine. St. Vincent is on the cover posing with a guitar while wearing a beach coverup that has a cartoon drawing of a bikini on it. St. Vincent says she did an internet search for women on the cover of Guitar World and all she found was ``girls in bikinis holding guitars like they've never held a guitar before.''
She says she decided to make her own ``absurdist comment'' about that.
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(The Associated Press)
