"We're more popular than Jesus now."
Those six words, uttered by John Lennon during a 1966 interview with a reporter (and personal friend) from the London Evening Standard, caused a furor among American Christians. Southern radio stations banned the Beatles' music, folks gathered 'round blazing fires to burn their albums and John was on the receiving end of death threats.
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"[My career] has become kind of large and it really began for me very, very small, like me alone in my bedroom with my four-track and a pair of headphones. I just need to go back there for a while to get my bearings again and then know what to do next. I just need to let it rest for a minute."
~Canadian artist Feist, who plans to take a break after her current tour
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Janet's first North American tour in seven years, Rock Witchu, has gotten off to a bumpy start.
“That to me was like when Matisse turned his back on painting and decided that everything he wanted to say artistically from now on could be said by a few simple shapes cut out of paper. It was as if Elvis had left Vegas in the ’70s and started to play with the punks.”
~Sean Lennon, on his famous father leaving The Beatles to form The Plastic Ono Band with Yoko.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures, which is why the whole A-Rod affair scandal, coupled with her brother's tell-all book, might just be the best thing to happen to Madonna in a long time.
And hey, you never know...she might be masterminding these scandals all on her own.
Birthdate: June 22, 1970
Birthplace: Scarborough, Ontario
Soundbyte: "Those of us that have the opportunity to have a
mouthpiece, then let's keep talking about it. Right now if you look in
the newspaper, there's a lot of meaningless stuff. A lot of stuff about
the inner workings of Parliament and nothing about what we can do to
make the world a better place."
The wrath of Courtney Love has been unleashed on Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan. She has her knickers in a knot because he supposedly refuses to attend Frances Bean’s sweet sixteen-birthday celebration next month.
Singer/songwriter Michelle Branch has dreamt about opening a bakery since she was a little girl. She recently wrote on her official message board, “Baking, like music, is a creative release for me and can also be very therapeutic.”
