Close scrapes with delirious fans is something that comes with being Justin Bieber.
The pint sized teen idol causes riots of squealing tweens and teens wherever he goes, including Paris, France, where police were forced to shut down an in-store appearance in February due to hoards of hysterical French girls. Recent footage also shows him making a smooth getaway – riding on a Segway – from screaming girls in an Arizona parking lot.
Thank goodness his Mom Patti Mallette is there to protect him. The Bieb relies on the most important woman in his life to shield him from the constant crush of adoring young fans, many of whom apparently show up wearing next to nothing, and sometimes nothing at all. He told Vibe.com, “My mom has me on a tight leash and (she’s) being real protective. The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.”
And Patti lays down the law in other areas too, making sure her son doesn’t get too big for his britches. Justin says, “My mom is still my mom. She could care less if I’m an international superstar. I still have to clean my room on the tour bus. She takes my computer at 12 [a.m.] so I can sleep. I don’t have a bedtime [but] she doesn’t want me on the computer because she doesn’t want it to rot my brain. When she takes away my computer, I still play with my iPad. She doesn’t know.”
Well, she might now.
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They’ve issued a successful deluxe re-release of Raw Power, but are the Iggy and the Stooges ready to record a new album? Iggy Pop told Rolling Stone he thinks it’s going to happen.
The legendary proto punk pioneers have four studio albums to their credit (the most recent is 2007’s The Weirdness), and head Stooge, Iggy, thinks there might be a fifth once they finish their tour on September 3rd. He revealed that he has been swapping demos with guitarist James Williamson.
“James is already sending me new music,” Pop told Rolling Stone. “The riffs are really good. And I even did vocals for it. I try to make songs out of it, but I don’t think any of it works yet.”
Pop said that one of the challenges of a new album would be moving the group forward musically while staying true to their original sound.
“I’m keen to respect the integrity of the group and what it stands for so I don’t want to do a new album lightly,” he says. “Whatever songs we do, I want them to be better.”
Iggy has recorded 16 solo albums and the early Stooges records are generally regarded as milestones in rock history. Henry Rollins and Jack White have both stated that Funhouse is the greatest rock album ever recorded.
Iggy and the Stooges will play the album Raw Power live in its entirety at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Monticello NY on the weekend of September 3rd.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that he rarely wears a shirt himself, Iggy is busy promoting his T-shirt line, Archive 1887.
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Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne says that he saw death coming for the Princess Diana before her tragic accident, reports Contact Music.
Weeks before Diana and her finance Dodi Fayed were killed in a 1997 car accident in a Parisian tunnel, Ozzy claims he woke up in a cold sweat with a terrible premonition of her death. He immediately told an assistant about his prediction.
He reportedly said, “I remember when Princess Diana was still alive, I woke up one morning and said to my assistant, ‘You know what? Something very bad’s gonna happen to her.’
“And sure enough, days or weeks later, the tragedy in Paris happened.”
But Ozzy doesn’t really think there is anything particularly amazing about his foresight.
“The fact is, if someone’s living their life at 300 miles per hour, you don’t have to be a clairvoyant to see what’s coming” he said.
Even if there was no sixth sense involved, Ozzy and his fellow Sabbath members are no strangers to supposed weird phenomena. The legend behind their early hit single Black Sabbath is that it involved a nighttime visit from the great beyond.
Bassist Geezer Butler, who was going through a dark occult phase, was given a Latin book on witchcraft by Osbourne. Butler claims he read the book before going to bed, and was awakened later by a black hooded figure standing at the foot of his bed pointing directly at him. He was absolutely petrified. The next day he claims the book had mysteriously vanished.
The song Black Sabbath is about the experience.
Sean “Puff Daddy P. Diddy” Combs is learning to sing. The hip hop mogul is reportedly taking voice lessons so he can sing along with his new group, Diddy Dirty Money.
The trio includes Combs, Kalenna Harper and Dawn Richard of Danity Kane. Their debut album, romantically titled Last Train to Paris, is due for release in September.
Diddy had the following to say about his singing lessons, according to Perez Hilton:
“On this new album there’s a love story and in this love story I’m expressing myself in different ways, and sometimes I’m singing.
“I wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to have myself out there. I was going to take the proper lessons.”
Meanwhile, that’s not the only new direction the rapper wants to take. In the wake of Ellen’s announced departure from American Idol, Diddy has expressed his desire to get on the show’s judging panel, according to the AP.
“At first when people were asking me if I was interested in the job I was like no … that’s not my style, but once I heard what Simon makes … [I] would love the job,” he told chat show host George Lopez on his show Lopez Tonight.
“I’ve got six kids. If I would get the same cheque Simon gets … we would have a ball,” he added.
Not that he needs the cash. Diddy recently bought his son Justin Dior a $360, 000 Maybach luxury car for his 16th birthday.
“And if a double decker bus, crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die…”
So romantic! Morrissey might not be everyone’s first choice for a wedding singer but Katy Perry and Russell Brand are thinking of getting the former Smiths frontman to perform at their pending nuptials.
For his part, however, Morrissey doesn’t think the pair should tie the knot.
According to the UK Sun, Katy met Russell’s good friend Morrissey (The Sun says Russell named his cat after him) for the first time recently. She said, “I met Morrissey for the first time the other day and we had tea together.
“He’s Russell’s mate and he is fascinating but he was giving us a hard time about getting married.
“He swooned and sighed, ‘Oh, left hand third finger, don’t do it.’ It was just so eloquent and poetic and like one of his songs.”
Despite the light protestations, Katy said, the star is still invited to the wedding, which will take place in India this autumn. She said, “It’s going to be a small ceremony, so I don’t think we’ll have a proper band. I’d love to have Morrissey.
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Aerosmith’s Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock tour is set to hit Western Canada in September. And the band will be joined by rock icon Joan Jett for five dates.
The band’s official website says, “With Very Special Guest, JOAN JETT and THE BLACKHEARTS the night is sure to be one to ROCK the hardest of ROCK ‘N’ ROLL fans. As the leader of the hard-rocking Blackhearts, JETT’S had eight platinum and gold albums and nine Top 40 singles, including the classics “Bad Reputation,” “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll,” “I Hate Myself For Loving You,” and “Crimson and Clover.” JETT was even one of only two women named to Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest guitar players of all time. JETT says, ‘I have one goal and one goal only—rocking the hell out of every listener I can reach.’”
Aerosmith has had kind of a hard year, with recent breakups and reunions, as well as some physical troubles. Most recently when guitarist Joe Perry was injured in a motorcycle accident.
Frontman, Steven Tyler, who infamously announced he was taking some time off to concentrate on “Brand Tyler” last year, before coming back to the band (and his senses), said, “I thought it was time to get my MOJO back, by rocking South America and Europe with a little HOME RUN at Boston’s Fenway Park thrown in and then off to the rest of America to do what we do best! We’re gonna rock you into the middle of next week!”
And after that…Canada.
The first show is September 8, 2010 in Winnipeg.
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Seven doctors and one nurse being investigated by California authorities in connection with the death of Michael Jackson have been cleared of any wrongdoing, reports CNN.
Cristina Gasparac, spokeswoman for California Attorney General Jerry Brown, reportedly stated that the eight suspects will not face criminal prosecution, due to insufficient evidence.
Only one doctor, who admitted prescribing drugs to Jackson before the star’s death, could face disciplinary action from the California Medical Board. Jackson was known to have sought prescriptions under several fake names and reportedly obtained meds from the doctor in question using an alias.
Gasparac stated that, “After reviewing hundreds of pages of records and documents obtained from the medical practitioners, the attorney general’s office has referred one doctor, who wrote prescriptions to an alias known to have been used by Jackson, to the California medical board for further review.”
Gasparac was reporting the results of an extensive probe that does not include Dr. Conrad Murray, who has been officially charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop icon’s death.
Jackson’s official cause of death was ruled to be an overdose of Propofol, a powerful anaesthetic.
A separate report cited by CNN noted that Lorazepam, an anti anxiety drug, could also have been a contributing factor in Jackson’s death.
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Metalheads in love can now tie the knot at Ozzfest, thanks to the new “Unholy Matrimony” package, reports Starpulse. The metal festival is offering a complete wedding package alongside this year’s line-up of Mötley Crüe, Rob Halford, and the Prince of Darkness himself. And let’s not forget Drowning Pool, Exodus, Devil Driver and Goatwhore.
The official Ozzfest website gives the details on the package, which offers everything a head-banging marrying couple could want — except a legal marriage license:
“Each special package includes a variety of items to mark the special day and 10 general admission pit tickets for the bride & groom and 8 guests; an official OZZFest wedding ceremony by ordained minister, OZZFest’s MC Big Dave; an OZZFest cake and champagne toast.”
The package also includes early entry to the venue, access to the VIP lounge, a backstage tour and lots of merch for the bride and groom and their 8 guests. Black hooded robes will not be provided. And you might not want to release any live doves.
Options have reportedly already been sold for shows in California, Connecticut and New Jersey.
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Rapper Sean “Puff Daddy P. Diddy” Combs has called journalist Martin Bashir the “R” word. Bashir, a British Pakistani journalist best known for a controversial 2002 Michael Jackson documentary, recently made Combs the subject of a detailed interrogation on ABC news, after which Combs spoke to Vibe magazine about the experience. He was not impressed.
Bashir grilled the super mogul about his parenting, particularly buying a $360,000 dollar Maybach for his son’s 16th birthday. Diddy gave Justin Dior Combs the luxury car during a lavish bash at the M2 Ultra lounge club in NYC that was broadcast on MTV.
Diddy, who was visibly rattled during the interview, told Vibe magazine he now believes the grilling was racist.
“The whole thing about giving a Maybach to my son, that’s really like a racist question,” he told Vibe “You don’t ask white people what they buy their kids. And they buy ‘em Porsches and convertible Bentleys, and it ain’t no question. It’s really a racist question and put things back in perspective with money and the way that people still look at you. And I’m not saying that consciously he’s a racist. But he probably don’t even realize that he would not ask Steve Jobs that. He would be like Steve Jobs has that money and that’s the gift his kid is supposed to get.”
Combs then added that he regrets the interview, during which the infamously tactless Bashir asked tired old questions about who killed Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls and demanded to know if Combs would market “Diddy dog food” just to get his name on it. Combs admits he should have known what he was walking into.
Combs said, “There were times in the interview when I had to give him an ultimatum. The questions weren’t being handled the right way. In hindsight, when I saw him, I shouldn’t [have] done the interview because I know the style of interview that he does.”
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It’s a summer of low concert ticket sales, poor attendance and cancelled tours. Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, The Eagles, John Mayer and Lilith Fair are among those that have had to cancel or shuffle dates. But some acts are doing just fine. These include the Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift and Bon jovi. And Iron Maiden – the metal giants have been packing venues and selling out dates across Canada, including those in Toronto, Montreal and Edmonton.
Frontman Bruce Dickinson attributes at least part of this success to reasonable ticket prices and says acts who charge exorbitant fees get what they deserve when those tickets don’t sell.
The ridiculous prices, which can rocket into the near thousands of dollars, are attempts to recoup money lost from record sales in a dying industry. But, according to Contact Music, Dickinson says Maiden refused to bow to pressure from record industry bosses to hike costs.
Dickinson tells Sky News, “It’s a massive commitment to come to see a band. They deserve not just a great show but they deserve a reasonable ticket price. Other people have inflated ticket prices to obscene levels and it’s just not right. It’s a rock ‘n’ roll show, it’s not a cash cow.”
Maiden is heading into the European leg of their Final Frontier Tour.
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