What do Omar Arnold, Paul Farance, Bryan Singleton, Jack London, Michael Amir Williams Muhammad, Jimmy Nicholas, Blanca Nicholas, Roselyn Muhammad, Faheem Muhammad, Frank Tyson, Fernand Diaz, Peter Madonie, Josephine Baker and Kai Chase have in common?
They are all aliases used by Michael Jackson to score prescription drugs. So says the Los Angeles Times.
The King of Pop and the King had two things in common then: they both loved Lisa Marie and they both loved their pills.
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Showing posts with label Elvis Presley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elvis Presley. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
389...Michael Jackson Died Thursday
Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson died Thursday.
Radio died right along with him. Most radio stations just kept John Tesh rolling, Ryan Seacrest babbling and voice tracking mindlessly ploughing through the playlist.
When John Lennon and Elvis Presley died, decades before consolidation, national program directors and big chains controlling everything from Toronto, Montreal, New York and Los Angeles most stations were immediately broadcasting on-air tributes, news accounts and playing wall-to-wall dead guy music.
In my town the only station that I heard going wall to wall Michael was the station that I am with, 93.1CKCU, which has, and this is a positive, a laissez faire attitude towards programming. Although the hit stations in town, TAG FM, KISS and HOT did talk about Michael Jackson they also played the songs that were programmed weeks, days, months ago. If anything, CFRA, the local right wing news talker and CBC ONE, the lefty news talker, were more on the story than the contemporary stations.
Not hating, just stating.
Score one for local TV, like Local4 in Detroit, stations that were out on the street in their towns and a big one for the Internet.
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Radio died right along with him. Most radio stations just kept John Tesh rolling, Ryan Seacrest babbling and voice tracking mindlessly ploughing through the playlist.
When John Lennon and Elvis Presley died, decades before consolidation, national program directors and big chains controlling everything from Toronto, Montreal, New York and Los Angeles most stations were immediately broadcasting on-air tributes, news accounts and playing wall-to-wall dead guy music.
In my town the only station that I heard going wall to wall Michael was the station that I am with, 93.1CKCU, which has, and this is a positive, a laissez faire attitude towards programming. Although the hit stations in town, TAG FM, KISS and HOT did talk about Michael Jackson they also played the songs that were programmed weeks, days, months ago. If anything, CFRA, the local right wing news talker and CBC ONE, the lefty news talker, were more on the story than the contemporary stations.
Not hating, just stating.
Score one for local TV, like Local4 in Detroit, stations that were out on the street in their towns and a big one for the Internet.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
84...Porn on the Radio: Wednesday 93.1
CKCU, I will be talking to Jill Nelson, the author of the new book about a man who was a sexual superstar, and is now dead guy who, like Elvis, JFK and John Lennon, has become a legend that seemingly will live forever. Her tome is John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches and she will be joining me tomorrow morning after six.
My good friend tic's dog Ellie passed this week and he is feeling the pain. I will be filling in for him, making me a radio star from 6 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Helping me fill the time with quality talk will be erstwhile political candidate Blake Batson and Cat Lane, who is a dog nutritionist and will let you know how to give your puppy a long fruitful life like Ellie had for 16 bird and squirrel chasing years.
Scott Broderick will be joining me by phone around 8 30 a.m. to talk about his company's billboard and web campaign http://thisaintflint.ca/. Iffen you are in Ottawa you have seen the posters and billboards, now, wtf is all about? Find out from the man behind it, NewCaps [Hot 89.9 and Live 88.5] Ottawa's General Manager when he talks to me, the World Famous Dan Shields on 944 Rogers, 93.1 FM, Radio Carleton, CKCU.
After nine I will be talking to the face of Flint, Jerry Preston, about why thisaintflint.ca is kind of mean spirted and why you should load the family unit into the minivan and make your way to Flint, Michigan this summer for some realllllllllllll fun. Only an hour west of Sarnia on I-69, Flint has something for everyone, apparently. We will see. It is the gateway to Saginaw and that is where the Gears are sooooooooooo.
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My good friend tic's dog Ellie passed this week and he is feeling the pain. I will be filling in for him, making me a radio star from 6 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Helping me fill the time with quality talk will be erstwhile political candidate Blake Batson and Cat Lane, who is a dog nutritionist and will let you know how to give your puppy a long fruitful life like Ellie had for 16 bird and squirrel chasing years.
Scott Broderick will be joining me by phone around 8 30 a.m. to talk about his company's billboard and web campaign http://thisaintflint.ca/. Iffen you are in Ottawa you have seen the posters and billboards, now, wtf is all about? Find out from the man behind it, NewCaps [Hot 89.9 and Live 88.5] Ottawa's General Manager when he talks to me, the World Famous Dan Shields on 944 Rogers, 93.1 FM, Radio Carleton, CKCU.
After nine I will be talking to the face of Flint, Jerry Preston, about why thisaintflint.ca is kind of mean spirted and why you should load the family unit into the minivan and make your way to Flint, Michigan this summer for some realllllllllllll fun. Only an hour west of Sarnia on I-69, Flint has something for everyone, apparently. We will see. It is the gateway to Saginaw and that is where the Gears are sooooooooooo.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
40...Wrong again
Yesterday I wrote that John Calipari would be a bridesmaid for the second year in a row in the Final Four.
With 17 minutes to play in their Sweet 16 game the Memphis Tigers are losing by 17 so, at the risk of being wrong yet again, I would say that Coach C is done like dinner.
Somewhere Elvis is crying.
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With 17 minutes to play in their Sweet 16 game the Memphis Tigers are losing by 17 so, at the risk of being wrong yet again, I would say that Coach C is done like dinner.
Somewhere Elvis is crying.
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