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The Goo Goo Dolls are in a Los Angeles studio putting finishing touches on their seventh album, Gutterflower. Band members John Rzeznik, Robby Takac and Mike Malinin have recorded twelve songs for the disc which is due out in 2002. Gutterflower is being produced by Rob Cavallo (Dizzy Up The Girl). Beginning December 2nd and concluding December 17th, John Rzeznik’s 1967 Pontiac GTO will be put up for bids on VH1 and eBay in connection with VH1-1’s My Music Awards (Dec. 2 at 9:00 pm ET/PT). The classic car is white with black interior and is being auctioned off with… Read more »

He was called the “Quiet Beatle,” but “Frustrated Beatle” may have been a better tag for George Harrison, who found himself overshadowed in the Fab Four by two of the most important songwriters in history. Still, the guitarist managed to create a memorable body of work with the Beatles, and he notably turned his bandmates onto Eastern mysticism. Harrison, who died in Los Angeles Thursday after a long battle with cancer, wrote and sang such Beatles nuggets as “Something,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Here Comes The Sun” and “Taxman.” After the Beatles broke up, he embarked on a patchy… Read more »

The birthplace of the world’s most famous band the Beatles remembered George Harrison on Saturday as an inspirational musician, a spiritual man of conviction and a reluctant celebrity. Outside the Liverpool house where Harrison was born 58 years ago, fans from as far afield the United States and Australia braved the northern English cold to pay tribute to the man known as the “Quiet Beatle.” “George: a man of conviction along with John. Rest in peace,” said a note written by a fan placed with a bunch of flowers on the windowsill of the tiny house in Arnold Grove. Eddie… Read more »

First they tried it with George Michael, then Ricky Martin. Now MTV will use Sean “P. Diddy” Combs to educate youth around the world about HIV on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day. The campaign, titled “Staying Alive,” will broadcast to nearly 600 million people across the globe from Spain to Korea carrying the message that HIV doesn’t discriminate and anyone who isn’t safe can become infected with the potentially deadly disease. “Staying Alive” will feature seven young people from around the world discussing how HIV or AIDS has affected their lives. “The stories are very relatable. (‘Staying Alive’ features) everything… Read more »

The minute he heard that Beatle George Harrison was dead, George Metropolis rushed to Hollywood Boulevard Friday to say goodbye – to his look-alike. There, Metropolis, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the “Quiet Beatle” who died on Thursday of cancer, joined teary-eyed fans, many of them middle-aged ex-hippies, who gathered near the Beatles’ star on Hollywood’s “Walk of Fame” to leave flowers, candles, and silently pray for the rock icon who was so much a part of their youth. “I met him once in 1979. He walked into this bar and saw me and said to his bodyguard, ‘That… Read more »

Coldplay took a break from recording its second album and squeezed into to a local London pub on Friday (November 23) to tune up for its upcoming American dates. The band, minus ill bassist Guy Berryman, performed at the Shepherd pub with “acoustic guitars, disco lights and a pub-singer P.A. system…hastily installed in the corner near the dartboard,” according to a report on the band’s official website (coldplay.com) by Coldplay guitar tech Matt McGinn. The trio played several of its own songs, including “Yellow,” “Trouble,” “Don’t Panic,” “Parachutes,” and the new “In My Place,” as well as covers of the… Read more »

DIRECTV Inc. will premiere an exclusive U2 television event in December free of charge to its more than 10.3 million residential and commercial customers. DIRECTV will roll out this commercial-free U2 broadcast as part of its DIRECTV ® FREEVIEW ® event series to customers beginning Saturday, December 1, and continuing throughout the month. This original four-hour U2 event will include a concert film of the band’s sold-out Elevation Tour 2001, recorded live in Boston this past June. Other than the limited exhibition on DIRECTV, this long-format version is only available on U2’s new DVD. In addition, DIRECTV will premiere more… Read more »

The architects of the government’s post-Sept. 11 propaganda war may well want their MTV on the frontlines in the Arab world. Rushing to shift perceptions of the United States in the Islamic world, Washington and Hollywood are now brainstorming about how the entertainment business might help convey a wider – and more positive – range of perceptions about America. And no demo is more crucial to the future of Islamic-Western relations than the 15-30 age group. That’s where MTV comes in. The potential to intersperse messages between programming segments – as with the “Rock the Vote” campaign, for example –… Read more »

Creed has always sought to take its audiences higher with deeper lyrics than the average hard rock band has, so it’s no surprise that the songs on the trio’s new album, Weathered, due out Tuesday (November 20), also resonate with meaning. In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, however, those meanings might seem even more profound, and Creed frontman Scott Stapp said it’s something he and guitarist Mark Tremonti are ambivalent about. “I definitely think after the fact that people are gonna perceive some of these songs a lot different because of the events that happened on September… Read more »

Britney Spears’ third album, “Britney”, debuts at no. 1 on the album sales chart this week with 745,744 units sold, more than doubling last week’s top selling album. This gives Britney Spears the second best selling album of 2001 according to Soundscan (the no. 1 best selling album of 2001 goes to her label mates *NSYNC). Beyond all of this, Britney also becomes the first solo female performer in the history of The Billboard 200 to have her first three albums debut in the no. 1 spot. Britney demonstrates the artist’s global appeal with debuts at number one in Canada,… Read more »