Simon Cowell looked back on the death of his mother, calling it the darkest period of his life. On the latest episode of the Diary of a CEO podcast, theAmerica's Got Talent judge, 64, recalled the heartache of losing his mother Julie in 2015, after having already lost his father Eric in 1999. "I was on a downward spiral at that point,” Cowell said. "I lost everyone, you know. I’ve lost my parents. Read More...
Tom Petty wrote countless memorable songs, many of them chronicling a litany of women who came to vivid life in his lyrics — “American Girl,” Mary Jane of “Last Dance with Mary Jane,” and the various “girls” and “babes” who populate his songs. Perhaps none loom so large as the “good girl who loves her mama” at the heart of “Free Fallin’,” Petty’s highest-charting solo single released in 1989. “I don’t know the girl in ‘Free Fallin’,” Petty, who died Monday after suffering a heart attack, revealed in an interview with Billboard ahead of his 2016 induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Read More...
Sure, writing Ulysses or Paradise Lost is impressive, but for my money being the guy who got people to say ”sucks” is as big as it gets for a wordsmith. It also seems a much easier way to get famous. So when I decided to create a new slang word to sweep the nation, I sat down with the master — Snoop Dogg, music’s most dominant minter of new words. In fact, Snoop, who is currently on pace to overtake Shakespeare in Oxford English Dictionary references, developed the pseudo-pig-Latin habit of adding ”izzle” to the ends of words. Read More...
