John Hartman, Doobie Brothers’ Founding Drummer, Dies at 72

Cardi B scored another win in court last week when a jury ruled that she did not infringe the publicity rights of Kevin Brophy, the man whose distinctive tattoo design appeared without permission on the cover of her 2016 mixtape ‘Gangsta Bitch Music Vol 1’.Brophy sued the rapper – real name Belcalis Almánzar – in 2017. A photo of his distinctive tattoo was Photoshopped onto the cover of the 2016 mixtape, so that it appeared on the back of a man who was positioned to look like he was performing oral sex on the rapper.He argued that the unauthorised use of the tattoo image meant people assumed it was him in the photo, and – given the explicit nature of the artwork – that had resulted in him facing frequent “uncomfortable comments, questions, and ridicule from community members and family”.The long running dispute finally got to trial last week.

A hacker who illegally accessed and then sold unreleased music by Ed Sheeran and Lil Uzi Vert has been handed an eighteen month jail sentence.Adrian Kwiatkowski from Ipswich pleaded guilty back in August to fourteen counts of criminal copyright infringement plus three counts of computer misuse and three offences under the Proceeds Of Crime Act.It followed an investigation that began at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in the US in 2019 when the management companies of several artists reported that someone going by the name of Spirdark had hacked into a number of cloud-storage accounts and downloaded unreleased music files. He was then seeking to sell those files for bitcoin.Investigators in New York connected the email address used to set up Spirdark’s cryptocurrency wallet to Kwiatkowski and identified that the IP address of the device he’d used to hack one of the artist cloud storage accounts was in the UK.

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Bono has apologised for putting that U2 album on your iPhone that time. Yeah, that was in 2014, mate. Bit late really.

The GRM Daily Rated Awards returned as a live event last night, with a ceremony held in London.Dave was the big winner of the night, taking home four trophies for Male Artist Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Track Of The Year and Video Of The Year.The latter two were both for his Stormzy collaboration ‘Clash’, of which he said: “Back in 2019, I’d just finished my tour. My friend Cal who produced this song had just brought Jordan 1s and Jordan 4s, so I freestyled ‘Clash’.

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"I’m just so glad you are all ok.Typical the one week I am away this happens," she groaned.Meanwhile, the post was flooded with messages from celebrity well-wishers, with Lizzie Cundy urging the shaken star to "come to mine".Hollyoaks' Jamie Lomas, who plays gangster Warren Fox in the Channel 4 soap, sounded a lot more sensitive than his onscreen persona when he wrote: "Hope you're ok brother."Fortunately, no-one was hurt during the strike and Peter's second child he shares with Katie, son Junior, was not believed to have been present at the time.Earlier, Peter had taken to Instagram to lament that his children didn't realise how "naturally beautiful" they were.On seeing a stunning photo of themselves together at an event, the pair had voiced their concerns that it must have been edited, only for him to assure the world that it wasn't.They'd been getting into the swing of the Halloween season when they showed up at Tulley's Shocktober Fest launch night.Princess, a dead ringer for her mum with the same long blonde tresses, and Junior, who appears to look just like his dad, had dressed down in black puffer jackets and trouser sets for the occasion.Yet he revealed in his New! magazine column that both kids had asked what the Myserious Girl singer had done to the photo to "make it look like that"."I had to explain to them that they just look amazing and are naturally beautiful children," he exclaimed, adding: "It was quite sweet actually."He concluded: "'It got me thinking that sadly a lot of people don't realise how beautiful they are."Meanwhile, Peter has also been in the news recently for his defence of TOWIE star James Argent after the news emerged that he is dating a teenage girl, who is 16 years his junior.James, 34,

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Brian Ray, a familiar sight to Paul McCartney fans as a 20-year multi-instrumentalist stalwart in the superstar’s band, has a dream for making Palm Springs a destination on the routing of touring rockers, as well as more of a cultural hub for the arts in general. It’s a dream whose destination is well in sight. He’s helping with the already partially funded campaign to restore and reopen the Plaza Theatre, a 1936 gem that has sat unpolished, if not quite completely dilapidated, through eight years of notable dormancy right in the heart of Palm Springs’ famous shopping district. Since he moved to the desert part-time four years ago, Ray has often thought about what could be, or what could have been, when it comes to the Plaza. It hasn’t been fit for ages to use as a hub for the annual Palm Springs Film Festival, as it was back in then-Mayor Sonny Bono’s day. But, more in keeping with Ray’s day job: “How about the mid-week shows that all the artists do when they come to Coachella? Or with Paul McCartney during Desert Trip, when we chose to go to Pappy and Harriet’s [in nearby Pioneerville] and play for about 140 people” — something he suggests could have gone down in the 800-capacity Plaza instead. “You could imagine that before that festival, Neil Young would’ve stepped into that theater and said, ‘This is where I want to do mine.’ That’s what would’ve happened if it would’ve been ready, you know?”

The Doobie Brothers, has died aged 72.Hartman’s death was confirmed last Thursday (September 22) according to a post by the band.“Today we are thinking of John Hartman, or Little John to us. John was a wild spirit, great drummer, and showman during his time in the Doobies.

John Hartman, drummer for the Doobie Brothers during the band’s hit-making 1970s heyday, has died, the band announced. He was 72.

A post shared by The Doobie Brothers (@doobiebrothersofficial)Their self-titled debut album in 1971 didn’t make a splash on the charts, but their second studio album, “Toulouse Street,” became an instant fan favorite because of songs like “Listen to the Music” and “Jesus is Just Alright.” The album peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 charts in 1972.

The Doobie Brothers’ original drummer John Hartman has died aged 72. His former bandmates hailed him as a “wild spirit” in a social media statement to mark his passing, which did not state John’s cause of death. The group – named after the 1970s slang ‘doobie’ for a marijuana spliff – said in joint tribute: “Today we are thinking of John Hartman, or Little John to us.

John Hartman, the original drummer of the Doobie Brothers and a co-founder of the band, has died at the age of 72.In a social media statement Thursday hailing him as a 'wild spirit' and a 'close friend,' the band declined to reveal the date of cause of death.'Today we are thinking of John Hartman, or Little John to us. John was a wild spirit, great drummer, and showman during his time in the Doobies,' the band wrote.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For years, the radio world has looked to two different sets of radio charts — the Billboard rankings, which are currently powered by BDS, owned by Luminate (formerly known as Nielsen Music), and separate charts from the airplay monitoring service Mediabase. But that dueling-charts era is coming to an end. Luminate announced Thursday morning that, beginning in December 2022, use of BDS will cease and Luminate will begin partnering with Mediabase, which it says is “known widely as the music industry standard across labels, publishers and management companies,” for the charts published in Billboard. That will finally create an end to the confusion of whether a song has hit No. 1 on one or both charts in a given format. Of course, in the case of very close calls at the finish line, this will also mark the end of a time when songs had a shot of claiming a No. 1 at either Billboard or Mediabase.