The last week in February.

Wow
can it be the last week in February seems that it was just New Years Day. The year is quickly passing us by. In the music world this week Brittney Spears not only shaved her head and the salon owner sold her hair online for "charity" but she went into rehab then left and eventually went back again. The odd thing is her ex K-Fed said that he thought she should have gone awhile ago and he 's going to take care for the two kids they have??? I cannot see how K-Fed is going to take care of two kids when he has a couple more of them by a different woman who he doesn't even acknowledge. To quote a line from a John Lennon tune " Strange days indeed, most peculiar momma."

In regards to the former Beatles record label and Apple Corp and Apple Inc reached an agreement this past week. Seems that in 1991 the two parties agreed that Apple Inc wouldn't use the "Apple" logo and trademark. Apple Corp was unhappy about Apple Inc. using the logo on the iTunes site and prevented them from allowing Beatles songs to be downloaded.
Under the new agreement Apple Inc. will license certain trademarks and their continued use back to Apple Corp. in return they will allow Beatles songs to be downloaded on iTunes. The two companies will have to bear their own legal costs and the terms of the agreement weren't made public. So, it won't be long until we can download our favorite Beatles songs from iTunes or iWIndows.

Kurt Cobain's 40 th birthday would have been this week he was born on Feb 20,1967 in Aberdeen Washington USA
he killed himself on April 5, 1994. In the 14 yrs since his death a Forbes Oct 2006 article listed him as the top-dollar dead celebrity earning an estimated $50 million dollars passing Elvis who was the top-dollar dead earning celebrity and only earned $42 million in 2006.
Another musician Tupac Shakur was killed in 1996 and continues to release new music he grossed 25 million in 2006, Rick James who died in 2004 will have a new single out this year. Seems like dying is a boom to a musicians bottom line.

In happier news the band Modest Mouse (the song "Float On" 2004) will be coming out with a new CD titled
"We were dead before the ship sank" on March 20 and guitarist Johnny Marr will be joining them. He was in The Smiths during the 80's with Morrisey then he played with THE THE and eventually formed the band Electronic with Bernard Sumner (New Order) . Electronic called it quits and New Order reformed so he's been playing with various artist such as Oasis, Beck, Beth Orton, and his own group Johnny Marr and the Healers., I believe that this will make Modest Mouse sound even better than before.
Here are a list of birthdays in music for the week of Feb 19-25, 2007


Robert "Bilbo' Walker(1937)
guitarist for the band Stillwater

Lou Christie(1943)
American songwriter for
for the Chess Label

Paul Dean (1946)
Lead guitarist for
the band Loverboy

Tony Iommi (1948)
guitarist for
Black Sabbath

Andy Powell(1950)
Founding member of
Wishbone Ash

Johann Hans Holzel (1957- 1998)
better known as FALCO

Seal Samuel (1963)
known as just
"Seal"
Married to model Hedi Klumm



Feb 20
Ibrahim Ferrer (1927-2005)
Afro Cuban musician
with Ry Cooder

Nancy Wilson(1937)
Jazz singer

Buffy Sainte-Marie(1941)
Canadian singer

Sandy Duncan (1946)

Jerome Geils (1948)
lead guitarist for
the J. Geils Band

Walter Becker (1950)
guitarist for Steely Dan

Randy California (1951-1997)
guitarist for the band
Spirit

John Brant (1954)
former bass player
for Cheap Trick 81-87

Ian Brown (1963)
lead singer for
The Stone Roses

Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)
Nirvana lead singer/guitarist
would have turned 40
this year

K-OS (1972)
Canadian Rapper

Ed Graham(1976)
drummer for the
band "The Darkness"

Feb 21

Eunice K. Waymon (1933-2003)
better known as
Nina Simone

Jake Burns (1958)
Lead singer
for the band
Stiff Little Fingers

James Dean Bradfield (1969)
lead singer/guitarist
for the Manic Street Preachers


Eric Wilson(1969)
member of the band
Sublime

Charlotte Church (1986)

Feb 22
Oliver(1945-2000)
American pop singer
in the 60's

Ernie K- Doe(1936-2001)
had the hit "Mother in Law" (1961)

Feb 23
Brad Whitford (1952)
guitarist for
Aerosmith

Howard Jones (1955)
English singer/songwriter
from the 80's


Brad Nowell (1968-1996)
Lead singer of
Sublime
died from heroin


Feb 24

George Harrison MBE (1943-2001)
the "quiet" one from the
Beatles

Nicky Hopkins(1944-1994)
British piano/organ player
session musician during the
60's & 70's played for
countless artists.

Doug Yule(1947)
musician/ singer
with Velvet Underground
1968-1973

Michelle Shocked (1962)
( born Karen Michelle Johnston)
American singer

Mitch Hedberg (1968-2005)
Stand up comedian
died from that damn
heroin.

Chad Hugo(1974)
drummer from the
band
Slipknot

Feb 25

John Doe (1954)
born John Duchac
founder of the
L.A. punk band "X"

The Oscars are tonight and I will have a run down of any music that will be featured in the movies until next week
GET OUT OF MY HEAD !