| Gemmzine Editorial 11/19/09 |  |  |  |  | | Written by Joe Viglione | | Thursday, 19 November 2009 00:04 | | Pattinson, Ray Davies on Letterman New CDs from Dick Wagner Cy Curnin Susan Boyle a huge smash on CD 
Robert Pattinson was interviewed on David Letterman last night and despite the coup and the fun chat where Letterman completely dropped the ball was boring his audience to tears with a lame Sesame Street parody before going into the tremendous version of "You Really Got Me" with Ray Davies...and not interviewing Davies. What is wrong with these people? Davies is on tour with a choral group and superb rearrangements of his material and Letterman talks about...Sesame Street. Not even the Count in honor of Twilight, David chats up "Cookie Monster"... Twilight! The Love that dare not speak it's name. New Moon is going for a "big bite of the box office" according to some trades....and while the "new kids on the movie screen" are raking in the bucks, the old standbys of the modern-era Hollywood don't seem to be faring as well...Eddie Murphy and Will Farrell having problems generating the value for their...I mean your...dollar ...the great Dick Wagner has a CD out, "Full Meltdown", and the producer of Mark Farner and guitarist for Alice Cooper and Lou Reed should be unleashing more of his magic on the world. More about Dick in Gemmzine soon. Cy Curnin of The Fixx also has a superb new CD out...it's utterly fantastic and my review of it will be up here in the next few days. Also appearing on Gemmzine will be reviews of a new book on David Bowie by Marc Spitz, The Freedom To Rock by T.L. Rotkiewicz - a unique record industry fantasy that is very worthy of your time as well as the new tome on Leonard Cohen our good friends at MVD have in release- Hallelujah indeed! On another serious matter, the L.A. Times puts the budget of the Modern Warfare game at 200M while the monies generated are said to be 550 million in just 5 days...Janet Jackson is talking about Michael Jackson and the new Marty Balin DVD "Live On The Boston Esplanade" produced and directed by yours truly, was released on November 18, 2009. It's made the news in Medford, Mass! along with my interview with Michael Moore...today Medford, tomorrow the world! And speaking of conquering the world, Susan Boyle's new CD has a brilliant rendition of The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" with a nice dash of Marianne Faithful innocence and those exquisite pipes adding something unique and special to the old chestnut. The late Larry Fallon was in a band with the late Jimmy Miller, legendary producer of the Stones. Fallon created a string arrangement for "Wild Horses" that was never released. That would be sublime on a boxed set by the Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World...especially with Boyle bringing big attention to their old copyright. BEATExpo November 29, 2009 Stamford Connecticut! Be there! Spany & Our Gang, The Fifth Estate, Ian Lloyd of Stories, John Ford of The Strawbs and more! GEMMZINE moving up on the Alexa charts! We want to thank all our readers for their support! Gemmzine is #505,629 on the Alexa site with 2000% positive change globally. In America we are in the top 110,312 of websites with thousands of hits since we opened in February of 2009 (at around 25 million on Alexa, so the improvement is amazing). Google is the #1 site, Facebook is #2, MySpace is #11 and dropping, USA Today.com is #495, Gemm.com itself is 45,367 and rising (up 2%) - so that's how that works. Our goal is to have Gemmzine in the top 100,000 in the world by our first anniversary...February 2010... BEATLES ROCK BAND SALES: According to Wikipedia.org The Beatles Rock Band was released on September 9, 2009 and has "total sales across all platforms in the United States was 595,000 units with revenue between $59-60 million" - of course Wikipedia doesn't update as rapidly as Nielsen Media Research but it is clear no one album by the biggest band of all time made so much money within such a short space of time.
Wesley Willis's Joy Rides - MVD to release the DVD - free showings in Chicago, Brooklyn and Philly December 8
| | Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2009 17:33 | | 2012, Twilight...changes in the movie industry | | | | | | Written by Newsfeed | | Sunday, 15 November 2009 11:14 | | Hollywood rethinks use of A-list actors"District 9", a low budget movie in which the biggest stars were space aliens treated like refugees and the lead actor was South African Sharlto Copley, made $200 million. Thriller "Paranormal Activity", starring Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat, has cash registers ringing to the tune of $100 million. Read more here:
Jackson's "This Is It" passes $200 million worldwideExternal link: | | Last Updated on Sunday, 15 November 2009 19:08 | | Warhol Painting and CMA broadcast scores big! 11/12/09 | | | | | | Written by newsfeed | | Thursday, 12 November 2009 15:06 | |  | Warhol painting a hot ticket at NYC auction By ULA ILNYTZKY – 1 hour ago NEW YORK — A painting by Andy Warhol, "200 One Dollar Bills," brought the equivalent of 43.8 million dollar bills at auction, more than three times its highest presale estimate of $12 million. The piece, one of Warhol's first silk-screen paintings, sold at Sotheby's on Wednesday evening. The auction house did not reveal the names of the buyer and seller. Full story here: |
by Mandi Bierly
ABC’s broadcast of the 43rd Annual CMA Awards was the most-watched program in primetime Wednesday, dominating in every key ratings demo, according to preliminary Nielsen numbers. Per the Alphabet, it was also the most-watched CMA Awards telecast in four years, with its highest Adult 18-34 rating in five years and best Women 18-34 rating in six years. | | Last Updated on Sunday, 15 November 2009 19:00 | | Gaming / Videorama! Modern Warfare 2 trailer 2 million hits! | | | | | | Written by newsfeed | | Sunday, 08 November 2009 08:35 | | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Launch Trailer Has Already Over 2m Viewsby Luigi Lugmayr The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game is launching in 2 days on November 10th. In case you are wondering how popular this game will be on the Xbox 360 and on the Sony PS3 just look at the views the official launch trailer got since it was published on November 4th. Currently the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Launch Trailer has been seen by 2,142,051 people on Youtube. You can see the video below. Read more here: TRAILER REVIEW BY JOE VIGLIONE Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a big expensive motion picture called a "game". It is Terminator-styled violence with explosion after explosion, sure to excite the male audience and definitely a bad influence for those who cannot separate fiction from reality. External link
REPORTS OF STEVEN TYLER LEAVING AEROSMITH by Rohin Guha Steven Tyler, in a diva-ish homage to Geri Halliwell's abrupt exit from the Spice Girls in 1998, stunned his bandmates with news/lack of further explanation of his own departure. Guitarist Joe Perry says that he knows nothing further, while bassist Tom Hamilton glibly offers how Tyler is always angry at the band. DB Techno.com
Boston Herald on Tyler/Perry split
I saw online that Steven said that he was going to leave the band,” Perry told the Las Vegas Sun . “I don’t know for how long, indefinitely or whatever. Other than that, I don’t know.” According to Perry, he’s been working hard to remain relaxed. “Frankly, the last few months, I’ve been wanting not to rock the boat. I don’t want him canceling any more gigs,” Ax man Perry also says the band doesn’t have any qualms about continuing without Tyler and finding a new band member to “move the Aerosmith vibe up a notch.” | | Last Updated on Monday, 09 November 2009 05:50 | | |
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| Written by Joe Viglione | | Saturday, 07 November 2009 19:11 |  | By ANTHONY McCARTNEY (AP) – 1 day ago LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has temporarily blocked two music-sharing Web sites from selling songs by The Beatles and other artists for 25 cents apiece. |
| | Last Updated on Monday, 09 November 2009 00:05 | | | Ian Lloyd to make rare appearance in Boston | | | | | Written by Joe Viglione | | Friday, 06 November 2009 10:01 | | Legendary vocalist Ian Lloyd, backing vocalist on most of the hits by the group Foreigner as well as on the first hit from Kiss, "Rock & Roll All Nite (and party every day)" will be at the Cantab downstairs on November 7, 2009 in Central Square, Cambridge, Massachsetts. David Crosby called Harvard Square and that area "the hippest place in the universe" so it is very cool indeed to have Ian Lloyd as a surprise guest with SOCIAL HERO when they perform. Lloyd himself will appear at the club with STORIES performing their hits "Mammy Blue", "Brother Louie" and "I'm Coming Home" Read about THE FAMOUS from Social Hero here: | | Last Updated on Sunday, 08 November 2009 23:56 | | Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT makes even more money! than projected | | | | | Written by Newsfeed | | Monday, 02 November 2009 20:16 | Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT makes even more money! than projected ABC News The movie has made another $69.5 million internationally since its Wednesday opening, up from an original box office estimate of $68.5 million, film studio Columbia Pictures said. In total, the movie has made $103.9 million at worldwide box offices, said Columbia Pictures, the Sony Corp division that paid $60 million for the video used in the film. |  |
Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT review Read Gemmzine editor Joe Viglione's review here: The documentary film THIS IS IT is a stunning look inside a magician's bag of tricks, a behind-the-scenes chronicle of how a major music tour is put together. On that level alone it is worth more than a view, This Is It becomes the perfect textbook for any college course on marketing intellectual property. In addition to that, This Is It also provides a superior look at the construction (and deconstruction) of some music that is as familiar or almost as familiar worldwide as the music of The Beatles.
| | Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 November 2009 05:56 | | October 30, 2009 - Michael Jackson Movie, RR Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary | | | | | Written by Newsfeed | | Friday, 30 October 2009 10:59 | |
IAN LLOYD from STORIES will also appear at BeatExpo with John Ford of THE STRAWBS Lloyd also makes a rare Boston appearance on December 5, 2009 at the CLUB BOHEMIA in Central Sq. Cambridge's Cantab
From Billboard Magazine - the inside story of Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT For "This Is It," Michael Jackson's planned 50-concert residency at London's O2 Arena, the star's sudden, tragic death really could have been it, with millions of dollars lost for producer/promoter ...
by Simon Vozick-Levinson
Categories: Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Concert Reviews, Concerts on the Teevee, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, Smokey Robinson, Special Guests!, Stevie Wonder | | Last Updated on Sunday, 01 November 2009 19:49 | | New Moon soundtrack, #1 on Billboard | | | | | Written by News | | Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:01 | | By Keith Caulfield and Monica Herrera October 28, 2009
Oct 29 2009 5:35 PM EDT 'Michael Jackson's This Is It' Could Break More Box-Office RecordsThe film could be on its way to becoming the highest-grossing music-themed documentary of all time.By Larry Carroll LOS ANGELES — In life, Michael Jackson set records, sold out shows and entertained millions. Now he may be gone, but judging by the latest numbers from the smash documentary "Michael Jackson's This Is It," the iconic entertainer is continuing to astound. Following on the heels of Tuesday night's $2.2 million haul at a series of midnight showings, "This Is It" took in another $7.4 million in its first full day of release — and another $12.7 million overseas. Overall, it gives the film a worldwide total of $20.1 million — impressive numbers for a midweek release, not to mention a documentary. Read more here:
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