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  • Glitter Gone From NFL

    Forbes is reporting that Gary Glitter’s anthemic Rock and Roll, Part II won’t be played at games this year. Unless you’ve been under a rock somewhere, you’ve heard that the rocker who owes his royalties to NFL teams throughout the U.S., has been twice convicted of crimes related to child pornography. The album and single were never massive hits and Part II remains the only Top 10 song of Glitter’s career.

    Sometimes, like Dennis Miller said, you have to cull the herd. While recognizing that Glitter has an illness, increasing the popularity of his music doesn’t help. While the NFL may take some criticism for this move, I think they did the righ thing.

    Spinning In The CD:
    My wife just came home from a day of garage sales and antiques with a boxed set of Motown LPs. The CD goes away today.

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  • Welcome Back, Jay-Z. When Did You Leave?

    He’s been on the Grammys.

    He’s performed with Beyonce.

    He may have done that in more ways than one.

    He runs a music company — a good one.

    He even owns part of a basketball team.

    F0rget what Biggie claimed. Jay-Z is Brooklyn’s Finest, or one of ’em anyway. And now he’s back from his “retirement”? That is what Entertainment Weekly is reporting and being picked up all over the world.

    Shawn Carter is gonna make more music. Since he was born in the Nixon administration, it’s not as if he is too old to do that. So if The Black Album wasn’t really his final album, the crossover smash sold out of stores and generated three Top 40 hits. The stars out for that album — Rick Rubin, Kanye, John Legend and more — are no doubt available to him again. Look for young Beyonce to play a greater role as well.

    It’s been three years. Time to stop playing with spreadsheets and start playing with mixing boards.

    Spinning in the CD:
    I’m still liking Panic! At The Disco. I Write Sins Not Tragedies is as fresh a sound as Green Day’s American Idiot showed up two years ago.

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  • Bye Bye Bobby

    Thinking about two kids never living up to their potential. Yes, I know that Whitney was the 1980s Diva of Choice, but she should have a Streisand-like career, not a Paula Abdul-length one. And Bobby Brow, what’s up with that? One of the coolest music makers of his generation when he didn’t get sidetracked from one project to another.

    Kiss it goodbye. They’ve been through drugs, alleged spousal abuse, scandals of every kind, but Whitney Houston has reportedly filed papers to divorce Bobby Brown.

    This all appears to be happening a decade too late, and after so much abuse of their relationship, one has to wonder what finally prompted Houston to take action. Her mindset and the super-duper, hot, hear-it-here first exclusive will undoubtedly tell the tale, but for now, it’s “Buh-buh Bobby”

    Spinning In The CD
    Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys     Yeah, I know it’s 40 years old, but old music can still amaze. And, truth be told, I owe our sister Book site a review of a hot new book about Brian Wilson so I needed to soak up some fun, fun, fun in the warmth of the sun.