MUSIC NEWS: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2015
TIM FARRIS OF INXS PERMANENTLY DAMAGES HAND IN ACCIDENT
INXS guitarist Tim Farriss is home recovering after getting his finger severed in a boating accident.
Petrol Records confirms Farris got his left hand caught in an electric anchor winch and was hospitalized in Sydney for a week.
Farris had two extensive operations to reattach his finger and he has permanent damage. Farriss is undergoing physiotherapy. Farris writes on INXS' Facebook page he's overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and well wishes as he gets through a ``nightmare.'' INXS retired in 2012.
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GARY GLITTER FOUND GUILTY OF CHILD SEX OFFENSES
Gary Glitter faces a maximum sentence of life in prison when he is sentenced on Feb 27. Yesterday in London, Glitter was convicted of a string of sex abuse offences against three young girls in the 1970s. He blew kisses at reporters in the gallery as he was taken away in custody. Glitter was convicted in 1999 on possession of child pornography and in Vietnam in 2006 for committing obscene acts with two girls.
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Meghan Trainor had a moment of terror about the Grammys while watching the Golden Globes. She says that's when she realized people actually care about what she wears and she better step it up for the Grammys. She'll have a hand to hold during the tense moments, though. She says her dad will sit next to her.
Trainor is up for song of the year and record of the year for ``All About That Bass.'' Sam Smith, Beyonce' and Pharrell (fah-REL') Williams lead the nominations with six each. The Grammys are Sunday in Los Angeles and will be shown on CBS.
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KATY PERRY HOPES FOR HER FIRST GRAMMY
After 13 Grammy nominations, Katy Perry thinks it's about time she gets a trophy. She's never won a Grammy. She's up for two this year: pop duo/group performance for ``Dark Horse''
with Juicy J, and for pop vocal album for ``Prism.'' Perry says it would be ``so amazing and so funny'' to win for ``Dark Horse''
because it's darker than what she usually does. Perry has been added as a performer at Sunday's Grammys in Los Angeles, which will be shown on CBS.
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GAGA'S EX HAS TO SPLIT PROFITS
A judge says Lady Gaga's first producer _ and ex-boyfriend _ owes a songwriter more than $7 million. Rob Fusari
(fyoo-SAHR'-ee) was told to pay the full amount of a jury verdict to Wendy Starland despite a request to lower it. Starland is the one who discovered Gaga in 2006 in New York, and testified Fusari sent her off to find an ``edgy, bold, confident, charismatic'' performer _ and that he'd split the profits. Fusari had previously sued Lady Gaga for $35 million in New York, but that lawsuit was dropped.
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BRANDY CLARK IS BRINGING ``HEE HAW'' TO THE STAGE
Brandy Clark is hoping a musical version of ``Hee Haw'' will draw in people who don't like country music. Clark and songwriter Shane McAnally are working on ``Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical.'' Clark says she wants people to leave it saying, ``Wow, if that was country music, I love it.'' Clark says the musical is in on the joke and makes fun of the ``Hee Haw'' stereotype. She says she wants it to have as much heart as it does humour. It premieres in Dallas in September.
