How Long Can They Keep It Up? Eight Days A Week
Burned out on reborn Beatlemania? Too bad, bucko. Here’s some more, courtesy of Total TV magazine:
To singer Bonnie Raitt, the most boffo Beatle was John Lennon: “My favorite thing about him was his thighs and his wit. The way he used to stand - even when I was 14 - drove me absolutely nuts.”
Actress Patti D’Arbanville-Quinn’s favorite song is “If I Fell,” which was “playing during my first serious kiss.”
Disc jockey Dan Ingram says the seven-minute “Hey Jude” was “every DJ’s favorite. It was the first of the ‘bathroom ballads’ to give us enough time to run to the bathroom.”
Finally, from documentarian Ken Burns: “Of course I love the Beatles. Why do you think my hair looks this way?”
Loose talk
Rolling Stone Keith Richards, on how he stays fit (in Details): “Passing the vodka bottle around. And playing the guitar. I’ve always done the same: I eat all the wrong things, I drink all the wrong things, I smoke all the wrong things. My metabolism is that way.”
Meanwhile, back at the Bundy crime scene …
Christina Applegate turns 24 today.
Negotiations continue for the yellow submarine
The home in a Liverpool public housing project where Paul McCartney grew up and plotted the Beatles with John Lennon has been bought by Britain’s historic preservation agency. Quoth the cute one: “My mum would have been dead chuffed to think that our little council house would end up with the National Trust.”
Like Michael, it needs a little structural work
Gary, Ind., city officials are pushing to turn Michael Jackson’s modest boyhood home into a museum, surrounded by a rock ‘n’ roll amusement park. Said Mayor Thomas V. Barnes: “I think the dynamics of Graceland suggest how you can successfully build around a famous personality - and that’s what we hope to do here.”
Maybe, but she would have been dead chuffed
Two Deadhead astronomers have named an asteroid after the late Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia, who died of a heart attack in August. Said one of the dark stargazers: “I could have named it after my mother, and no one would have ever known about it.”
Fortunately, most of the fans had a long view
Green Day rocker Billie Joe Armstrong paid a $141.85 fine for indecent exposure after dropping his drawers and mooning the audience during a Milwaukee concert. Armstrong was arrested by several officers when he left the arena through a rear door.
His next task: fixing what’s rotten in Denmark
None other than former Sex Pistols manager Malcom McLaren has been hired by the Polish government to help with a media campaign to make Warsaw trendy. “It’s a tough old gig,” McLaren told W magazine, “but there’s a fantastic energy there.”
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