The Jimi Hendrix catalog is moving over and letting another major take over. Experience Hendrix, the family company that controls Hendrix's catalog and copyrights,...
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Rock legend Jimi Hendrix's first recording contract worth $1 and erotic audio and video tapes sent by Madonna to her old bodyguard went on sale in an online auction...
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Jimi Hendrix's former roadie James '"Tappy" Wright has claimed that the late guitar legend was murdered by his manager, Michael Jeffrey. In his new book Rock Roadie, Wright...
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A home recording by Jimi Hendrix, which its owners said showed the 1960s rock icon's softer side, will be auctioned next month and is expected to fetch between 50,000...
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The Portland Museum of Art has discovered that there's nothing like a little rock 'n roll to bring in the crowds. The museum in Portland, Maine, drew a record 17,839...
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A company that promoted "Hendrix Electric" vodka is paying $3.2 million to the estate of rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, which claimed the spirit infringed on the Hendrix...
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Mitch Mitchell, a pioneering drummer best known for his work with 1960s rock icon Jimi Hendrix, died on Wednesday, at age 62. Mitchell was found dead in his Portland,...
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Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s and the group's last surviving member, was found dead in his hotel room early Wednesday. He...
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Wannabe rock stars will have a greater choice of instruments and songs to choose from as videogames like "Guitar Hero World Tour" and "Rock Band 2" introduce new features. ...
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With the much-anticipated "Rock Band 2" now on store shelves, rival franchise "Guitar Hero" is sneaking into the news on several fronts. Most recently, Velvet Revolver...
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A guitar set alight onstage by Jimi Hendrix during a concert in London was sold at auction on Thursday for $497,500 to a U.S. collector. The scorched Fender Stratocaster...
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Music by Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Janis Joplin and Deep Purple, among others, will be performed live by the Mystic Orchestra as part of...
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It's showtime in Studio E. A short, balding man with a thick black mustache pops on headphones in the radio booth and leans toward the microphone as a bouncy tune — one...
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Jimi Hendrix is coming to "Guitar Hero." The Seattle-based company Experience Hendrix, which controls the rock icon's musical legacy, is providing Hendrix's music and...
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One of Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitars, set alight on a London stage more than 40 years ago and thought to have been lost forever, is to be auctioned later this year. ...
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Jimi Hendrix's bedroom jam is apparently a sham. The family-run Seattle-based firm that controls Hendrix's music says a sex tape purported to feature the guitar god...
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The company that controls rights to rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix's music and likeness said on Thursday a purported sex tape of the musician being sold on the Internet was...
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Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix. The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the sex tape from a...
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Was Jimi Hendrix experienced? Let's go to the vaults, shall we? Vivid Entertainment, the company that brought you the X-rated shenanigans of Pamela Anderson and Kim...
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An auction at Christie's of rock 'n' roll memorabilia from some of the hottest bands of the 1960s and '70s hauled in big bucks Friday, including $20,000 for a Jimi Hendrix...
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Ever get mad trying to figure out
why your version of "Voodoo Child" doesn't sound like Jimi
Hendrix?
Help is at hand from what is described as the world's...
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A museum dedicated to Woodstock will rock on even though the federal government pulled $1 million in funding for the memorial to the famous hippie fest.
Officially, the...
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Some of the biggest musical stars
of the 1960s counterculture gathered in San Francisco on Sunday
for a concert to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Summer
of Love, yet...
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The famous farm near the alfalfa field that drew 400,000 people to Woodstock for three days of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is up for sale.
The asking price: $8...
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Working Title Films has
optioned the rights to the documentary "Young@Heart" -- which
centers on a group of rock-song-singing senior citizens -- with
the aim to adapt it...
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Guitarists have been copying Jimi Hendrix for decades. Now they can learn some of the legendary rocker's work note for note.
Guitar World magazine will release a special...
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Jimi Hendrix's sister is in a purple rage over a line of vodka themed around the late guitar god.
Janie Hendrix, the rock icon's sister and CEO of Experience Hendrix, the...
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Jimi Hendrix's family filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday over the use of the guitar legend's name to market a brand of vodka.
The family claims in the lawsuit that companies...
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A new energy drink doesn't promise to give you the juice to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix, but it does hope to give you a "Liquid Experience."
Beverage Concepts says its...
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Paul McCartney's lyrics. Jimi Hendrix's guitar. A John Lennon interview. Memorabilia from some of the most influential musicians of the 20th century hit the auction block...
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Hey, Joe, want to get your hands on some ultra-rare Jimi Hendrix?
Be prepared to open up the checkbook: a song written and
recorded by the late guitar god, but never...
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Quentin Tarantino will direct a forthcoming biopic about Jimi Hendrix, according to reports.
The infamous filmmaker is said to have agreed to shoot the film, which is...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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Thirty-four years after his death,
Jimi Hendrix continues to enthrall his fans and attract new
ones.
In a control room at Electric Lady Studios, the facility
Hendrix was...
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Usher, Kanye West and OutKast are
the top nominees for the 32nd annual American Music Awards.
Usher received four nominations, including favorite
pop/rock male and...
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Carlos Santana has begun collecting
songs for his next studio album.
"I'm going to complete the next Santana album with (BMG
chairman/CEO) Mr. Clive Davis," Santana told...
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Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready
will preview tracks from the group's upcoming double-disc
concert set "Live at Benaroya Hall" via a live, one-hour radio
broadcast...
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Musician David Bowie underwent an emergency angioplasty to open a blocked heart artery in Germany and is recuperating, his spokesman said Friday.
Doctors discovered the...
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When smooth jazz guitarist Russ
Freeman formed Peak Records in 1994, he sought to provide a
home for contemporary jazz musicians.
A decade later, Peak sports an impressive...
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MTV rarely covers jazz, but Jamie Cullum is a different story. A recent "You Hear It First" segment on MTV News included an enthusiastic thumbs-up from superproducer...
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Woodstock, Monterey Pop, Altamont
and Isle of Wight are famous music festivals of the late
'60s/early '70s that have been immortalized on film. But new
documentary "Festival...
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Courtney Love , Wilco's Jeff Tweedy,
Whitney Houston , Kelly Osbourne , Jo Dee Messina , Scott Weiland .
The list goes on.
All are creative rock or pop stars and veterans...
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A member of OutKast has landed his first starring role in a movie. Andre 3000 will star in a currently untitled film that is scheduled to begin shooting in September.
The...
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The Cure will headline the Curiosa
summer festival tour with support from Interpol and the
Rapture, two acts clearly influenced by the veteran U.K. rock
act's sound....
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John Lennon memorabilia, including a leather collar he wore during the 1960s, was auctioned by Christie's for a total of $400,500.
The auction house called it the...
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A cottage industry within the
multibillion-dollar music products category, handmade guitars
and amplifiers are answering a rising demand for high-quality
gear.
Unit...
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Last summer, the state Department of Management and Budget got an unusual request from the governor. Jennifer Granholm called to ask if something could be done about the...
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The members of Blondie admit it's a bit weird to be on the music scene again when bands like the Rapture are named for one of their songs, and '80s fashion is so hip that...
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Singer David Bowie has invited his fans
to mix two of his songs together, extending a hand of
friendship to underground bootlegging enthusiasts.
The rocker, currently...
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Kurt Cobain and his band, Nirvana, spent only three years in the public eye, and they released only three studio albums. But what he accomplished before committing suicide...
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Randy Rhoads , the guitarist behind Ozzy Osbourne's most acclaimed solo work, was posthumously honored with a bronze bust on Hollywood's Rockwalk.
About 200 fans turned...
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Music legend Little Richard put
his larger than life personality on display for all to see
Thursday during a keynote address at the South by Southwest
festival in Austin,...
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A few hours before a recent performance at Constitution Hall, Robert Randolph, like much of the rest of this city, is pondering the nation's future.
"And we're talking...
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For five decades, names like Ella Fitzgerald and Jimi Hendrix have blared out in neon letters above the doors of the Olympia concert hall.
The famed Paris concert hall...
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Here's one "guitar greats" list
that Jimi Hendrix did not top: "the 100 greatest metal
guitarists of all time."
According to Guitar World magazine, the No. 1...
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Rykodisc, recognized as one of the
world's foremost independent labels, will celebrate its
20-year-anniversay with a double-album compilation CD due Feb.
3.
Ryko issued...
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Drummer Tony Thompson, who died
in an Encino, Calif., hospital Wednesday, proved his
freewheeling musical approach at his first audition for Chic,
according to...
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Rock music played lead in giving Hungarian baby boomers the resolve to bring down their communist state, says one of those reformers who today is a government...
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"This is an organization that should
not have to exist," said Wendy Oxenhorn, executive director of
the Jazz Foundation of America, in her opening remarks Oct. 16
at the...
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After 11 years of planning, backers of a National Music Center and Museum pledged Thursday to open the facility in the nation's capital five years from now.
"We will be...
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After three solo albums and sales of
more than 3 million units, Wyclef Jean decided it was time for
a musical change in direction and a new label to take that
shift...
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The late Jimi Hendrix topped a wide-ranging list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time" in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine, which comes out on Friday (August...
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Noel Redding, bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was at peace with himself and his place in life when he died on Sunday (May 11), according to his manager, Ian Grant....
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The late Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding died of "natural" causes, according to authorities in Ireland. Redding, who was 57, was found dead in his home on...
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Steve Winwood expressed his sympathies over the death of Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding. Redding died Sunday (May 11) at his home in Ireland, and Winwood said,...
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Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding died Sunday (May 11) at his home in Ireland at the age of 57, according to billboard.com. The cause of death is still unknown....
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The Jimi Hendrix estate has notched another court victory--this time in its continuing battle in England for control of some of his early recordings.
An appeals court in...
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A new Jimi Hendrix R&B tribute, Power Of Soul, will be released later this year on MCA Records and feature contributions from Carlos Santana , Earth, Wind & Fire, Chaka...
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Jimi Hendrix's body has been relocated to a new memorial in the Seattle area. The late guitarist's remains were disinterred last November 26, one day before what would have...
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With the seeming concentration on style over substance in modern pop music, where would Jimi Hendrix fit in? Pretenders leader Chrissie Hynde told LAUNCH that the guitarist,...
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Seattle will have a purple haze this weekend as the city and the Experience Music Project (EMP) celebrate what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 60th birthday. The bash, which...
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The legal battles over Jimi Hendrix's estate aren't over yet. Leon Hendrix, the late guitarist's brother, filed suit in Federal Court in Seattle, Washington, on Friday...
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The estate of Jimi Hendrix has won a partial court award of more than $300,000 in a lawsuit over rights to early recordings by the rock guitar legend.
Experience Hendrix, a...
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Jimi Hendrix, Rod Stewart, and ZZ Top are all on the soundtrack for the new skateboarding film Dogtown And Z-Boys, which opens April 26 in limited release. Echoing the...
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The father of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix died on Wednesday (April 17) at the age of 82, after a long battle with congestive heart failure. James Al Hendrix, who was...
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An upcoming DVD/VHS home-video release spotlights Jimi Hendrix's appearances on The Dick Cavett Show in the late '60s. Due May 14 from Experience Hendrix/MCA is the...
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The childhood home of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix appears to have won a last-minute reprieve from the wrecking ball. The Seattle residence was purchased at auction for...
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Fans of Jimi Hendrix will want to visit the Redhouse Tour, the traveling Hendrix museum that will make a pit stop at the Virgin Megastore in New York's Times Square on...
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A guitar once belonging to Jimi Hendrix and artwork from John Lennon and Grace Slick are just some of the items that will be up for sale when TV shopping channel QVC teams...
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The 1968 Jimi Hendrix documentary Experience, also known as See My Music Talking, comes out today (February 13) for the home market. The film, which is available in both...
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Various artifacts from the career of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix will be featured in a traveling museum sponsored by Seattle's Experience Music Project, slated...
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Guitars owned by Jimi Hendrix and Elvis Presley are expected to go for up to $60,000 each at an auction Lloyd's International will hold in London later this month.
The...
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Guitar hotshot Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, and alt-jazz trio Medeski, Martin & Wood top a list of artists who will participate in a week-long tribute...
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The family of the late Jimi Hendrix has won the right to control his name on the Internet. An arbitrator at the U.N.-backed World International Property Organization (WIPO)...
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A career-spanning compilation of music by the late Jimi Hendrix is scheduled for release on September 12. The Jimi Hendrix Experience is a four-disc collection that...
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Showtime's highly anticipated biopic of guitar great Jimi Hendrix has started filming in Toronto, though it's still at odds with Hendrix's family.
The production has not...
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Backstage at tonight's (Feb. 23) Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, Janie Hendrix dropped a bombshell on the press -- there's a whole bunch of new music on the way from her...
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The spirit of Jimi Hendrix will come alive again next month, with the appearance of two takes of a previously holiday medley on a CD single due from Experience Hendrix/ MCA...
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Cynthia Plaster Caster, the notorious groupie who made plaster casts of the penises of rock stars, is taking her stories to the stage in a spoken-word show, and is...
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It would be an understatement to say that the music of Jimi Hendrix has come a long way since his passing in 1970. Aside from his talent, which indeed speaks for itself on...
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The flow of Jimi Hendrix-related product keeps on a-comin', just like that train the late rock virtuoso used to sing about. Hot on the heels of MCA's augmented reissue The...
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Experience Hendrix will allow fans to continue doing just that on Feb. 9 with the release of Live At The Fillmore East, a double-CD set of material recorded during Jimi...
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Nearly 30 years after his death, the music of Jimi Hendrix continues to be a hot commodity. It was only last month that MCA released a double-CD of Hendrix BBC Sessions as...
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Way back in the 1960s, someone at the British Broadcasting Corporation had a brilliant idea.
The government-controlled radio system could save money on recording tape and...
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Rock guitarist Robbie Robertson took home the Lifetime Achievement award at the first Native American Music Awards, held Sunday, May 24th in Connecticut at the Foxwoods...
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Now that the $10.6 billion marriage of Universal Music and PolyGram has been confirmed, the real dealing starts.
Management for the new company is being decided in a...
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In the biggest deal in music industry history, Canada's Seagram Company Ltd. has acquired PolyGram Entertainment and its associated record labels in a deal valued at $10.6...
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Seagram Co. Ltd. and Philips Electronics NV are expected to announce a $10.5 billion marriage shortly, according to reports.
Seagram, home to Universal Music (Erykah Badu,...
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Talks between Seagram and Philips Electronics for the latter's share of PolyGram's music and film outfit are on the fast track, according to reports.
Seagram, home to...
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British music conglomerate EMI has ended takeover talks with an unnamed bidder--presumably the Seagram Co., owner of Universal Music--after failing to receive a...
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Rumors are heating up once again that EMI Music, the home of the Spice Girls, Rolling Stones and Beatles, may be sold.
Reports indicate Canada's Seagram Co. Ltd., which...
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The British Broadcasting Corporation has confirmed it will auction its rights to recordings by Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Genesis, Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones.
The...
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Band Of Gypsys members Buddy Miles and Billy Cox will perform at the Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar Festival this Sunday in Seattle.
Miles and Cox, whose legendary album...
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What's new in radio formats? More of the same oldie stuff. Country has hit a plateau and adult contemporary stations are in a slump, while various retro formats are gaining...
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Jimi
Hendrix, whose new MCA album South Saturn Delta is out-selling many artists who are still alive and kicking, was honored last week in Seattlewith a birthday...
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