Tuesday Rock Roundup for 1/19
Posted by Tommie and the Bartender on January 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As much as he doesn’t want his private life in newspapers, it seems that Van Morrison can’t escape it right now. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that Samantha Branch, whose mother Dee dated Morrison in the mid-’60s, wants the 64-year-old to take a paternity test. Dee Branch was the road manager for Morrison’s band Them in 1966. Samantha was born in March 1967, but the identity of her father has remained a mystery, and Dee Branch died when Samantha was just four months old. Samantha says she was told when she was eight that Morrison is her father and even had regular contact with him in the ’80s. But Morrison cut all contact in 1987 when she first mentioned a paternity test.
Since its launch last September, The Beatles Rock Band video game has sold one-point-seven-million copies worldwide, with 357-thousand sold in the US in December. That’s not quite as strong as the broader-based Rock Band Two. According to data collected by market research company the NPD Group, that one sold one-point-seven-million copies in the US alone during its first four months on shelves in 2008. Ringo Starr is very proud of The Beatles’ recent releases, including Rock Band (7A)
Ringo and Mick Jagger were among the stars who appeared on Larry King’s telethon for Haitian relief last night on CNN. A taped performance of “Hideaway” – a duet with Haitian-born Wyclef Jean from Jagger’s 2001 solo album Goddess in the Doorway – was part of the show, which raised over five million dollars during its initial two-hour airing.
Jimmy Buffett has posted a video on his website asking his Parrothead fans to help the victims of last week’s earthquake in Haiti. He is asking that they text the word “Haiti” to 90999 to make a 10-dollar donation to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief. “It’s a very simple way to get a lot of good to Haiti in a very short time,” Buffett says.
NEW RELEASES:
Hammersmith Apollo 3 CD- Live October 2009 by Mott The Hoople CD, Living With The Past re-release by Jethro Tull CD
Gamer is new to DVD and BluRay today. Gerard Butler stars as a gladiator in a future world where prisoners battle for their freedom in a mind-control game.
The Invention of Lying stars Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais as a guy who lands in an alternate reality where everyone tells the truth.
The thriller Whiteout stars Kate Beckinsale as a US Marshal on the trail of a killer in Antarctica.
Pandorum finds Dennis Quaid waking from a deep-space mission to find that his ship has been boarded by murderers.
TV that’s gone digital this week includes the second season of The Game, the fifth season of Weeds and the 12th season of Dallas.
