Bill Hicks: Salvation

1 November 2005, 11:02

Bill Hicks: Salvation

Rykodisc is soon releasing an unedited version of Bill’s Oxford show, in a much classier cover than Invasion’s, as Salvation: Oxford November 11, 1992.

Rodney Eric Griffith

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Silver (Auction) Hammer

31 October 2005, 10:21

The suit John Lennon wore on the Abbey Road sleeve has sold for $118,000, days after three of the wax heads from Madame Tussauds used on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band were sold for £81,500.

Rodney Eric Griffith

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Stupid Fox

30 October 2005, 23:01

The conspiracy by Major League Baseball robbed us of a pre-Halloween Treehouse of Horror even though the new season started weeks ago.

Rodney Eric Griffith

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The George Harrison Fund for UNICEF

29 October 2005, 11:31

The George Harrison Fund for UNICEF

At last week’s screening of the Apple Films Inc. documentary The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited with George Harrison and Friends, Olivia Harrison announced The George Harrison Fund for UNICEF, a joint undertaking between the Harrison family and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to support UNICEF programs that provide lifesaving assistance to children caught in humanitarian emergencies. (The complete press release can be found here.)

Rodney Eric Griffith

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The Correct Time

29 October 2005, 01:01

The new Burt Bacharach disc At This Time (warning: copy-protected Sony disc) originally contained a much stronger lyric to the end of the song “Who Are These People?”, which Bacharach changed at the behest of Sony execs. Per a Los Angeles Times interview, he regrets doing so, and intends to release the original version as either a download or European single (hopefully, the former).

Rodney Eric Griffith

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