AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sir George Martin, the classically trained producer who helmed the Beatles recordings from their mop-top phase through their late musical masterworks, was honored Saturday night in Los Angeles.
Reuters - The widows of former Beatles John
Lennon and George Harrison led an all-star tribute on Saturday
to Sir George Martin, the producer who molded the Fab Four into
the world's most important pop music force.
Reuters - The moment is burned into the
mind of Roadrunner Records president Jonas Nachsin. It was
1999, and his label had convinced Ozzfest organizers to put its
newly signed band, Slipknot, on the festival's second stage.
Reuters - There were a lot of questions
surrounding the "Guitar Hero" videogame when it first came out.
Would gamers agree to pony up extra money for the special
guitar-shaped controller needed to play it? Would the music
industry agree to license master tracks? Would the addition of
downloadable content be successful?
Reuters - Building a studio behind the
Jacksonville, Florida, home he shares with wife, soul/blues
singer Susan Tedeschi, and their two children has allowed
guitarist Derek Trucks to make "the first album I've ever been
a part of that feels epic."
Reuters - Professionals and amateurs alike
will have the chance to remix the third single from Mariah
Carey's platinum-plus album "E=MC2" via a contest hosted on a
startup social network Web site for musicians, Billboard has
learned.
