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Dogbites News - with WNTI's Mike Watterston for Sat., June 6, 2009
Dogbites News - with WNTI's Mike Watterston for Sat., June 6, 2009<br /> ZZ Top in concert May 22, 2008 - [source].

ZZ Top-VH1 Storytellers; Ozzy Osbourne lawsuit; Millvina Dean-last Titanic survivor dies;[more...]

Dogbites News - June 6, 2009

A new VH1 Storytellers episode starring ZZ Top will premiere June 27 on the cable network. The show, which commemorates the Texas blues-rock trio's 40th anniversary, was taped March 31 at Chicago's Congress Theatre. The program also will debut July 4 on the VH1 Classic and Palladia channels.

Ozzy Osbourne has filed a lawsuit against his Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi over rights to the group's moniker. The Metal Madman claims that Iommi illegally registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to be the sole owner of the Sabbath name. "The Black Sabbath trademark should be equally owned by Geezer [Butler], Bill [Ward], Tony and I as [that is] the true Black Sabbath lineup," Osbourne writes in a statement. "Tony, let's get this ridiculous issue sorted and move on with our lives."

Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been the last survivor of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic. She was 97 & died in her sleep at her home in Southampton, England.

Los Angeles Lakers v. Orlando Magic FINALS
Tampa Bay @ Yanks 1pm / Mets @ Nationals 7pm

Jimi Hendrix's former road manager James "Tappy" Wright claims that the guitar legend was murdered in 1970 by his manager, Michael Jeffery, who reportedly stood to receive a multimillion-dollar life insurance payout. In his upcoming memoir, Rock Roadie (due June 25), Wright alleges that Jeffery drunkenly told him in 1971 that he'd forced Hendrix to swallow a lethal mixture of wine and pills because the musician was planning to hire new management. Jeffery himself died in a 1973 plane crash.

Reclusive author J.D. Salinger has sued to block publication of a new novel billed as a sequel to his classic tale of teenage angst, "The Catcher in the Rye." Salinger yesterday sued the publishers of "60Years Later: Coming Through the Rye" in Manhattan Federal Court for infringing his copyright for the novel as well as the main character, Holden Caufield. The book by an anonymous author, who calls himself "J.D. California," finds Caufield at a retirement home in upstate New York, according to the lawsuit. "It is a ripoff pure and simple," the suit claims. Salinger, 90, has never written a sequel to his 1951 classic.

AUSTIN, Texas (May 3, 2009) - After a year of sold out shows at the Alamo Drafthouse and the Paramount theater in Austin, TX, the World Air Sex Championships are taking to the road and touring fifteen North American cities in the search for this year's Air Sex Champion. "Air Sex is sort of like Air Guitar except instead of pretending to play an invisible guitar on stage, contestants get up there and pretend to have sex with someone who isn't there. With their clothes on, typically. They pick a song to perform to and then have two minutes to impress the judges with their overall Airness." June 12 - Highline Ballroom NYC

Phil Spector gets 19 years to life for murder of actress. Music producer Phil Spector was sentenced Friday to the maximum sentence of 19 years to life for the murder six years ago of actress Lana Clarkson.

Last weekend The Killers joined Bruce Springsteen for a rendition of Thunder Road at a festival in the Netherlands.

Bruce added two more shows @ the Stadium in October 8/9 On Sale Monday

Also on Sale Monday…Paul McCartney at Citifield in July 17 & 18 @ 10am.

Steely Dan will perform a landmark album in its entirety plus selected additional favorites at the Beacon Theatre. July 28 - Aja / July 29 - Gaucho / July 31 - The Royal Scam

Steve Miller Band Friday, November 6 ….NJPAC on sale Monday

Bad Company has reunited and are playing ten shows this summer wrapping up in AC on the 4th of July. Then Mick Ralphs has announced plans to participate in five reunion shows with Mott the Hoople at the Hammersmith Apollo in London this October.

Man Overboard will be issued on July 21, and is Ian Hunter's 13th solo album since his eponymous debut in 1975. Recorded in late 2008 in Pawling NY, the 11-song set is a stunning follow up to the overwhelmingly critically acclaimed Shrunken Heads album.

Pearl Jam recorded a Target commercial under the direction of Cameron Crowe last week at Seattle's Showbox Theater.

Exene Cervenka from X has revealed she has multiple sclerosis.

Mackenzie Phillips, the former child star who had checked into rehab for the 10th time following an arrest on drug charges last year, will be among the high-profile names on the upcoming season of the VH1 reality show "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew," the network announced Wednesday. Other headliners include Dennis Rodman, former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss; and country singer Mindy McCready, Rounding out the crew: Former bassist of Alice in Chains, Mike Starr, "Real World: Hollywood" cast member Joey Kovar, "America's Next Top Model" contestant Lisa D'Amato, Tom Sizemore and former Miss Teen USA Kari Ann Peniche.

Gene Simmons has invited Adam Lambert to open for KISS this summer

Jennifer Hudson is pregnant

Eddie Murphy Delirious -- 25th Anniversary. This two-disc special edition includes the groundbreaking performance and a bunch of bonus featurettes.

He's Just Not That Into You.

Weeds: Season Four.

Koko Taylor, a sharecropper's daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet "Queen of the Blues," has died after complications from surgery. She was 80.

A&E canceled Patrick Swayze's series, The Beast.

Eddie Van Halen revealed that the date of his wedding to fiancée Janie Liszewski is June 27. The guitarist also reiterated his plan to record new music with Van Halen after his honeymoon, adding that the band then will "go on tour about a year from now." He also reported that he'd "gone to [frontman David Lee Roth's] house four or five times over the last month" to work on songs.

72 year old actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide.

Told there were rumors he'd gotten engaged to actress Minka Kelly, Yankees captain -- and notorious playboy -- Derek Jeter said it's not remotely true.

Converse is producing AC/DC and Metallica sneakers.

It's official, Aerosmith will be doing "Toys In The Attic" in its entirety on this Summers tour.

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