The Whole Thing Should Be As Clear As … Goo
Wal-Mart apparently is seeing red over an album cover by the Goo Goo Dolls.
The discount store chain has banned the band’s album “A Boy Named Goo,” which depicts a boy smeared with blackberry juice, reportedly because some people think it resembles a bloodied abuse victim.
“The album cover is as offensive as a bearskin rug photo of a baby. To think that it would promote child abuse is ridiculous,” said Johnny Rzeznik, lead singer of the Buffalo, N.Y., band (which played Spokane in April).
“The name of the album is ‘A Boy Named Goo.’ The picture is of a boy covered with goo. What part of this concept are they unclear on?”
There was no comment from Wal-Mart, which had sold 51,000 copies of the album before refusing to re-order.
Loose talk
Yoko Ono, currently touring with son Sean Lennon’s band, on her legacy: “I would like to be remembered as what I was, whatever that was.”
She started out as one of Springsteen’s friends
Courteney Cox turns 32 today.
Guess he lost a ring on this merry-go-round
So where is British rocker Bob Geldof (of Live Aid/Boomtown Rats fame) going to live now that his ex-wife, Paula Yates, got their house in their divorce settlement? Just down the road, in a place owned by INXS singer Michael Hutchence - whose baby Yates is carrying.
She needs to get ready for a brand new beat
Martha Reeves (of Martha and the Vandellas/”Dancing in the Streets” fame) is hopping mad about some contemporary tunes. “Some of the music today I wouldn’t take to a dogfight,” she said. “When rap comes on, I leave the room because I don’t want to hear it.”
He must’ve been babbling when that was over
Besieged by fans, country crooner Garth Brooks signed autographs for 23 consecutive hours at Nashville’s International Country Music Fan Fair - from 11 a.m. Tuesday to 10 a.m. Wednesday - breaking his personal record of 12 straight hours set at the festival in 1992.
But at least he didn’t give the judge any lip
An arrest warrant was issued for infamous Milli Vanilli musical phony Rob Pilatus after he disappeared from one drug-treatment facility, but was rescinded when he showed up at another. The legendary lip-syncer was sentenced to 180 days in rehab after pleading no contest to beating a man with a metal lamp base, assaulting another person who had accused him of stealing a watch and breaking into a parked car.
He’ll always be Number One with a bullet
Michigan’s Jackson County Gun Board has extended rabid rocker/ hunter Ted Nugent’s permit to carry a concealed weapon for another three years. “We have on file numerous threats against my life and my family’s life,” Nugent told board members, “people saying they are going to kill me because I kill animals.”
, DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: 2 Color Photos
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Rick Bonino