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Stories in the category Music

Carly Simon’s breakup with Starbucks and Howard Schultz

By A. James Memmott

October 15, 2009 at 10:05am

Singer Carly Simon has sued Starbucks Corporation for $5 million to $10 million.

Children and ex-manager fight over Ray Charles estate

By Emily Morgan

April 22, 2008 at 11:35am

It’s been four years since Ray Charles died, but his name is still a money maker.

Max Weinberg is crazy for real estate

By A. James Memmott

April 12, 2008 at 9:57am

Turns out that drummer Max Weinberg marches to the beat of a different drummer.

Will MTV audience care who rocked the cradle?

By Emily Morgan

April 9, 2008 at 8:38am

MTV’s Rock the Cradle has kicked off its debut season, but does the average MTV reality show fan even care about these celebuspawn?

Jay-Z cuts 2 deals - with Live Nation & Beyonce

By Emily Morgan

April 5, 2008 at 5:42pm

Jay-Z has had a big week. The rapper is expected to finalize a contract with Live Nation records soon worth $150 million. If that weren’t enough to celebrate, last night he reportedly married his superstar girlfriend, Beyonce Knowles.

Diddy on the way to a hat trick?

By Emily Morgan

April 3, 2008 at 1:42pm

P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, Diddy: It doesn’t matter what you call him, this man is a hit maker.

Divorce offers window into McCartney financial empire

By Carol Eisenberg

March 27, 2008 at 8:35am

Sex, money and marital dysfunction: It’s all there in the Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce settlement, splayed out in 58 revelatory pages that read more like a British tabloid story than a legal decision.

Muckety this! The Dalai Lama to Kurt Cobain

By Jack Sherman

March 25, 2008 at 3:05pm

Cascadilla Creek cuts through one of Ithaca, New York’s famously gorgeous gorges and then moseys through residential downtown. On its northern bank, as it passes under North Aurora Street, sits a large, slate-roofed, circa-1913 house. In the 1970s it was Teen Challenge, a faith-based drug treatment center. Then, it passed into the hands of the Sherman family (including this writer), who sold it to an architect, who sold it, indirectly to the Dalai Lama.

The Beatles go to court

By Emily Morgan

March 25, 2008 at 8:25am

Yesterday, all their problems were so far away.

The Osmonds: United in song and charity

By Ali Jones

March 22, 2008 at 11:01am

The Osmond family, once cited by a Mormon elder for setting “the greatest example of missionary work,” has helped raise billions of dollars for children’s hospitals over the years.

Lawsuit settled over Beach Boys name

By Carol Eisenberg

March 21, 2008 at 2:30pm

A five-year legal fight over the use of the Beach Boys’ name has been settled amicably, paving the way for a possible reunion by the surviving members of the California surf-sound group.

Songwriter has more than a feeling about Huckabee

By Emily Morgan

February 16, 2008 at 12:14pm

John McCain wants you to take a chance on him. Every little thing Hillary Clinton does is magic. Supporting Mike Huckabee is more than a feeling.

Campaign songs, intended to set the mood and provide a memorable catch phrase for candidates, have riled a few musicians during the current presidential race.

Tom Scholz, of the band Boston, spoke out recently about Mike Huckabee using Boston’s hit More Than a Feeling on the campaign trail.

A Talking Heads link to Washington Post publisher

By Gary Jacobson

February 10, 2008 at 11:11am

New Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth’s newspaper pedigree is matchless. Her grandmother is the late, legendary Katharine “Kay” Graham, who stared down the Nixon administration during Watergate.

But perhaps the best advice for Weymouth in her new job comes through Aunt Tina on the other side of the family.

50 Cent-Kanye and other feuds ignite Grammys

By Emily Morgan

December 10, 2007 at 11:25am

An awards show, by nature, is all about competition. But this year’s Grammy Awards, set to air on Feb. 10, may decide several music industry feuds of 2007.

One of the most public battles in the rap industry this year was between 50 Cent and Kanye West, who both scheduled album releases on September 11, 2007. 50 Cent proclaimed that if he were outsold by West, he would retire as a solo artist.



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