These Diary Products Are Particularly Cheesy
Excerpts from John Lennon’s diaries may end up in a new book about the late Beatle but not if Yoko Ono has anything to say about it.
“It is known the last entry was on the day he died,” Lennon’s widow says. “That was so personal, and it should be protected. I will take all measures to respect his privacy and name … I will do my best for John.”
Diaries from the last five years of Lennon’s life - when some say he was mentally addled, or addicted to heroin - were stolen by his personal assistant a few days after his death in 1980, and weren’t returned for almost a year.
London publishers said recently that an American writer had approached them with a package including diary excerpts. Geoffrey Giuliano, who’s done 18 Beatles books, says he’s working on a Lennon bio but denies having diary material.
Loose talk
Singer/songwriter Jewel, on her musical success (in US magazine): “It’s like a jalopy winning the Indy 500.”
Fame is so fleeting, wouldn’t you know
Christine McVie turns 54 today.
It gives a whole new meaning to virgin publishing
Those teen singing sensations, the Hanson brothers - 16-year-old Isaac, 14-year-old Taylor and 11-year-old Zachary - already have an authorized biography in the works, reports People magazine, through Virgin Publishing in England.
But we hear that he puts on a hell of a show
Jewel is the woman musician most men would want to be stranded with on a desert island, while women went for U2’S Bono, according to an Internet poll by the music retailer CDnow. U2’s “PopMart” tour was picked as the summer show not to be missed, while Satan worshiper Marilyn Manson’s was selected as the one to avoid.
His fans all weaseled out, so ‘pop’ went the Pop
Seminal punker Iggy Pop has been forced to sit out the R.O.A.R. rock tour with a dislocated shoulder. It seems Mr. Pop hurt himself when he dove from the stage during a Columbus, Ohio, concert last month and the crowd failed to catch him.
Obscene? He was just talking about Donald Duck
Sponge frontman Vinnie Dombroski was arrested for obscene language following a recent Tulsa show, but the charges were later dropped. “When I perform I feel I am in a forum that respects my freedom to say what I want,” Dombroski said. “If a Sponge show is not your cup of tea, there are plenty of roads to Disneyland.”
Now we know that the record will be a bomb
Crooner Michael Bolton, meanwhile, has been working on his vocal range while recording an album of arias due out this fall. “Now I know how to hit even higher notes,” Bolton says. “Basically, I think of a note now like I’m an Olympian who has to reach for the gold medal.”
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