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Music Industry Moves: UMe Promotes Tim Plumley to VP of Media and Artist Relations

Thania Garcia UMe, the catalog division of Universal Music Group, has promoted Tim Plumley to vice president of media and artist relations. He is based in the company’s Santa Monica headquarters and reports to the executive VP of media and artist relations, Sujata Murthy. “Tim is a key member of my communications team, where he continues to develop innovative new ways to promote our artists and their projects across a wide range of media outlets,” Murthy said. “Tim not only has the trust and respect of our executives and members of the press, but crucially he is viewed as a true partner by our artists and their management teams.” His roster at Ume includes the Band/Robbie Robertson, the Beach Boys, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Zappa, George Harrison, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, John Lennon, Louis Armstrong, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones and others.

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Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath to release career-spanning autobiography this year

Black Sabbath is set to release a career-spanning autobiography later this year. Titled Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath – and Beyond, the autobiography is due to hit bookshelves on June 6, and will trace the founding Black Sabbath bassist’s personal and professional life. The latter topic will include a recount of Black Sabbath’s multiple line-up changes and internal struggles, as well as the band’s “beginnings as a scrappy blues quartet”, according to an official synopsis.“A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black Sabbath, covering his years as the band’s bassist and main lyricist through his later-career projects, and detailing how one of rock’s most influential bands formed and prevailed,” the synopsis adds.Into the Void is said to include appearances and mentions of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and The Who.

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University Challenge viewers seriously distracted by ‘iconic’ contestant’s appearance – but can you spot why?

UNIVERSITY Challenge fans were left seriously distracted by one contestant's striking looks during the latest episode as Twitter descended into chaos over his lookalike. The BBC Two quiz show returned with Jeremy Paxman on hand to welcome two more teams to face off in order to advance further into the contest.

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‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ TIFF Review: The Parody King’s Life Is One Big Joke

Al Yankovic (Daniel Radcliff) is a curly-haired, awkward kid with no friends and no excitement in his life. Until one day when he ends up at a turnt-up polka party where he wow’s the party crowd by shredding on the accordion. His parents, Mary and Nick Yankovic (Julianne Nicholson and Toby Huss), disapprove of him playing, and his relationship with them becomes strained.

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Selma Blair calls cane her ‘dance partner’ amid ongoing multiple sclerosis battle

Selma Blair calls her cane a “dance partner” as she continues to battle multiple sclerosis. The ‘Cruel Intentions’ actress, 50, who also wears a turban as she suffers alopecia, said her stylish set of sticks have helped her overcome “compromised” movement due to her nerve disease, diagnosed in 2018. She told the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine: “Movement has been so important to me my whole life.

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Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider & Magilla Entertainment Link Arms For 1985 Rock Censorship Docuseries “Filthy Fifteen”

EXCLUSIVE: Having rallied in recent months against censorship-advocating Republican politicians and the loss of abortion rights in America, Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider is going back to the past to spotlight our potential future.

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Bob Rafelson, ‘New Hollywood’ director who co-created the Monkees and made Five Easy Pieces with Jack Nicholson – obituary

Bert Schneider, his partner in the independent production company Raybert, began kicking around the idea of a television show about a band “more interested in having fun than making a living”. Their Variety ad seeking “4 insane boys, [aged] 17-21” was answered by 437 hopefuls, and the successful applicants – Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork – were dispatched on a six-week improv course. The show’s goofily knowing house style did not arrive instantly – a pilot polled direly in testing.

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Universal Music Group Reports 17% Revenue Growth for 2022 Second Quarter

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorUniversal Music Group racked up a strong earnings report for the second quarter of 2022, with about $2.7 billion in revenue, a growth of 17.3% in year-over-year in constant currency, a percentage gain that carries over for the entire first half of the year.Recorded-music revenues were up 16.2% (9% in constant currency) to around $1.96 billion, with streaming subscription revenue up 14.6% to $986 million. Subscription revenue saw a boost from a “DSP catch-up payment” (possibly from the Copyright Royalty Board’s confirmation of its 2018 streaming publisher rate increase) amounting to nearly $42 million in revenue and $26 million in both EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA.

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Frank Zappa family sells estate to Universal

Universal Music has signed an agreement with the children of Frank Zappa – Moon, Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva, collectively The Zappa Trust – to acquire the late musician’s estate. The deal covers Zappa’s recordings and publishing catalogue, name and likeness rights, film archive and all of his unreleased material.

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Frank Zappa’s Recordings, Song Catalog and More Acquired by Universal Music Group

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorUniversal Music Group has announced an agreement with Frank Zappa’s family to acquire the legendary musician’s recordings, publishing catalog, film archive, name and likeness, and the contents of “The Vault,” the storage facility that houses his complete archives. The agreement is between UMG and the Zappa trust — comprising the musician’s children Moon, Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva Zappa — and spans his four-decade career.

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Alice Cooper Signs With CAA for Touring in North America (EXCLUSIVE)

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLegendary rocker Alice Cooper, who should need no introduction, has signed with CAA to represent his touring in North America.He has sold more than 50 million albums over the years and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. His nightly radio show, “Nights With Alice Cooper,” continues to air in nearly 100 cities in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the U.K.

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Influential folk singer-songwriter Judy Henske dies, aged 85

Variety). She is survived by Doerge, her daughter and granddaughter.

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Orrin Hatch Dead At 88; Ex-Utah Senator Appeared In ‘Traffic’ & ‘Murphy Brown’

Former Republican Senator Orrin Hatch passed away today at the age of 88. The cause of death has not yet been made public

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Cynthia 'Plaster Caster' Albritton, artist and rock star groupie, dead at 74

Cynthia Albritton, better known as "Cynthia Plaster Caster" for the plaster casts she made of rock star private parts, died after what her representatives said was a long illness. She was 74. Although unconventional and a self-described "recovering groupie," Albritton evolved as an artist, expanding from music stars to film directors, eventually adding females.