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When you marry a man of immense wealth and fame, certain aspects of the wedding take care of themselves. HEATHER MILLS, an anti-land-mines activist who married SIR PAUL McCARTNEY last week, didn't have to worry about what type of flower to choose for her bouquet: she carried McCartney roses, a variety named after her husband in 1993. She walked down the aisle to the tune of Heather, which McCartney wrote for her on his latest album. And she was surrounded by McCartney's famous friends, including Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton, in an Irish castle the couple...
...Ramones; of a suspected drug overdose; in Hollywood. Born Douglas Colvin, the volatile bassist and songwriter admitted to a long history of drug use in his autobiography, Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones (2000). His death came three months after the Ramones were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame...
Burnett doesn't care much for notoriety. He has an obstreperous side that makes him wary of fame but suits his current mission as the retrograde rebel of the music business perfectly. If the industry ticks, Burnett tacks. Take commercial radio, presumed to be the business's main artery to consumers. Most contemporary songs are market tested--not to determine whether consumers like them but to see if they turn the radio up or down; commercial-radio stations want their listeners to do neither, fearing that any reach for the dial could result in a station change. Inevitably, the edges...
...It’s not just 15 minutes of fame now—it just goes on and on and on,” Houston said last week of his tumultuous year...
...professor at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, he has gained fame through his study of such diverse disciplines as economic and political development in lower-income countries and the history of social thought...