The original writer, Gordon Jenkins, did have a problem with it and sued Cash in the mid-'70s. The Man in Black shelled out $75,000 in a settlement. Here's "Crescent City Blues": And here's Johnny Cash: 197 votes Was this a ripoff? 14 'Photograph' by Ed Sheeran vs. '...
in 2013 during the taking of a photograph and thus destroyed his career. She countersued, maintaining that the assault had taken place. At the trial, Swift was removed from Mueller’s suit and the other two defendants were found notliableas the jury found in favor of Swift’s countersuit....
Bernie Taupin toldRolling Stonein 2014, “fronted by an androgynous woman, who looks like something out of a Helmut Newton photograph.” Elton didn’t want “Bennie and the Jets” released as a single, only acquiescing after he heard it was getting play on the top Black station in Detroit...
Photograph: Columbia Records Springsteen had a weird ’90s, running away from his own superstardom, abandoning the E Street Band, his popularity dropping to a relative low. In the midst of it he released a stark, angry folk record of astonishing power: the title track of The Ghost of Tom...
Mahalia JacksonMahalia Jackson, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1962.(more) gospel music Written by Virginia Gorlinski Virginia (Gini) Gorlinski was Arts and Culture Editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She was responsible primarily for subjects related to music and dance but also handled articles con...
Songs with "regret" in the title are fair game, but this list focuses mainly on songs about regret as a subject. Have you gone and done something you really shouldn't have? Why not write some music about it? This is a ranked list of all songs about regret, as voted on by music fa...
'Photograph' Def Leppard. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images The greatness of Def Leppard can be summed up in four words, and notgunter glieben glauten globen. The four words are: Girls totally liked them. This was a breakthrough in metal terms. Lep served glam thrills for the dancing lad...
The trio actually returned to the site of the photograph to reshoot the cover, but by that time, that decrepit old house on Palm Avenue in West Hollywood had been torn down. (It's aparking lottoday, in case you'd like to drag a sofa out there.) ...
1. Def Leppard, "Photograph" From:Pyromania(1983) Def Leppard was primed for the big leagues following 1981'sHigh 'n' Dry, and the diamond-sellingPyromaniamarked their shift from New Wave of British Heavy Metal-adjacent upstarts to Top 40 superstars. They owe much of that success to "Phot...
“In India, George had become fascinated by the god Krishna," Boyd wrote, "who was always surrounded by young maidens and came back wanting to be some kind of Krishna figure, a spiritual being with lots of concubines. He actually said so.”...