This is a guest post from LitPopCult.com by Richard Abowitz
Susan Boyle is a good singer who everyone has heard of only because she undermined a total conviction among the public that artistic gifts rest with the young and attractive. She did not actually win the television talent show she was on; but the well edited [...]
Las Vegas entertainment has never seemed so dull. Review-Journal’s Mike Weatherford wrote a column that made this point, and I was surprised by how many people were upset about him stating the obvious.
I had an interesting conversation yesterday with one of the “doers” of Las Vegas. Unlike myself, this person brokers deals for everything [...]
By combining music sales and concert ticket sales for the past 10 years, The Los Angeles Times music blog has offered a list of commercial champions headed by Celine Dion:
“Dion earned the title of Ultimate Top 10 champ for the decade that recently ended, thanks in large part to the money [...]
“Time in a Bottle,” a fan in the balcony called out. “I wrote that,” Brooks joked. He then played the song and a couple other Jim Croce songs for good measure. The audience loved it. I lost count of the standing ovations. By any standards, Garth Brooks opening in Vegas was a [...]
