MUSIC NEWS: MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015
ABC WILL RUN SHANIA TWAIN SPECIAL
Canadian mega-pop-star Shania Twain's Las Vegas show will be featured as an A-B-C special. ``Shania: Still The One Live from Vegas'' will show Twain's full stage performance, as well as behind-the-scenes footage. It runs February 28.
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SLY STONE WINS LAWSUIT
Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone has won a big award in a breach-of-contract suit against his business partners. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has ruled Stone's ex-manager Gerald Goldstein, attorney Glenn Stone and Even St.
Productions owe Stone $5 million. Stone's attorneys argued Goldstein and Glenn Stone convinced Sly Stone to become an employee and co-owner of the company in 1989 so they could get at his royalties.
Attorneys for Goldstein and Glenn Stone had argued Sly Stone didn't have any royalties because he owed millions to the IRS. Goldstein and Glenn Stone plan to challenge the ruling.
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MORE ON BLINK 182 SITUATION
There's more back-and-forth between the members of
Blink-182 over what's going on with the band. Guitarist Tom DeLonge writes on Facebook he was asked to drop all his projects to do a
Blink-182 album in six months. DeLonge says he couldn't break contracts already in place for his other projects. He says, ``Never planned on quitting, just find it hard as hell to commit.'' Bassist Mark Hoppus tells Alternative Press DeLonge enjoys being on stage but other than that, he doesn't want to be in Blink-182.
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GRATEFUL DEAD'S MAIL-ORDER PROGRAM A RESOUNDING SUCCESS
Deadheads have flooded the U-S Mail to get tickets to the final Grateful Dead shows. The band's representative says more than 60-thousand envelopes containing more than 350-thousand ticket requests have been received as of Monday. The Dead have a history of selling concert tickets by mail. They will perform their final shows together in Chicago in July. Because of the overwhelming success of the mail-order program, the Dead will not do any more pre-sale tickets and the new public on-sale date has been moved from February 14 to February 28 via Ticketmaster.
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BUDDY HOLLY BEING TURNED INTO A HOLOGRAM
Buddy Holly will take the stage once again, as a hologram. The Hollywood Reporter reports Hologram U-S-A is working on turning Holly into a hologram for a show that will debut in Texas next year, then go on tour. Holly's widow, Maria Elena Holly, is giving her blessing. She says she's excited that the project will allow a new generation of fans to experience Holly in concert.
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TRISHA YEARWOOD PLANS THIRD COOKBOOK
Trisha Yearwood is putting out another cookbook.
``Trisha's Table: My Feel-Good Favourites For A Balanced Life'' will be released March 31. Yearwood co-wrote it with her sister Beth.
Garth Brooks wrote the foreword. Yearwood has two other cookbooks, ``Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen'' and ``Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood.''
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FALL OUT BOY HIT NUMBER ONE
Fall Out Boy have racked up their third number-one record. ``American Beauty/American Psycho'' makes its debut on top of the Billboard album chart, with more than 218-thousand equivalent album units. Their ``Saves Rock and Roll'' and ``Infinity on High'' albums were also number one.
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'AMERICAN IDOL'
Have we already seen the next ``American Idol?'' J-Lo thinks so. The Idol judges were blown away by 16-year-old Maddy Hudson. Jennifer Lopez says the Northern California teenager could win it all this season. The judges loved her look and her sound. She was so good, each judge gave her a golden ticket. Harry Connick Junior even assured Maddy that he wasn't just being nice. The Idol auditions stay in San Francisco tonight.
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GREGG ALLMAN MOVIE
Here's the latest in the case against those who tried to make a movie about singer Gregg Allman. Prosecutors have said they never promised immunity to a filmmaker indicted in the case. Hillary Schwartz was working on ``Midnight Rider'' last February when a camera assistant was struck by a train during filming. A lawyer for Schwartz claims his client was promised immunity in return for an interview with prosecutors. But prosecutors say there was no deal. Georgia authorities say the crew was on the tracks without permission. Work on the film has since stopped.
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The following is HMV Canada's top 10 CDs based on national sales for the week ending Jan. 31.
CDs
1 2015 Grammy Nominees _ Various Artists
2 American Beauty/American Psycho _ Fall Out Boy
3 1989 _ Taylor Swift
4 X _ Ed Sheeran
5 The Pale Emperor _ Marilyn Manson
6 Title _ Meghan Trainor
7 Juggernaut: Alpha _ Periphery
8 Groove Station 2015 _ Various Artists
9 This is All Yours _ Alt-J
10 Unorthodox Jukebox _ Bruno Mars
COUNTRY
1 1989 _ Taylor Swift
2 Country Hits 2015 _ Various Artists
3 Lifted _ Dallas Smith
4 Man Against Machine _ Garth Brooks
5 Montevallo _ Sam Hunt
6 Anything Goes _ Florida Georgia Line
7 Greatest Hits: Decade No. 1 _ Carrie Underwood
8 Crash My Party _ Luke Bryan
9 The Outsiders _ Eric Church
10 Bringing Back the Sunshine _ Blake Shelton