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Scotsman
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
In pictures: Iggy Pop in Glasgow
Iggy Pop has been astonishing and delighting audiences over a career spanning nearly 60 years. Consistently named as one of the most influential musicians still performing today, the legend delighted his audience at Glasgow's O2 Academy on Tuesday. Here are a selection of pictures from Glasgow's incredible show. Make sure you keep up to date with Arts and Culture news from across Scotland by signing up to our free newsletter. 1 . Iggy Pop With a career spanning nearly 60 years, Iggy Pop is one of the most influential musicians still performing today. | Calum Buchan Photo Sales 2 . A legend His many accolades include being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award | Calum Buchan Photo Sales 3 . Influential Everybody from The Sex Pistols to Joy Division have acknowledged the influence he had on them. | Calum Buchan Photo Sales 4 . The Stooges He started out as lead singer of punk band The Stooges, before collaborating with David Bowie on his first two solo albums | Calum Buchan Photo Sales
Black America Web
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
Salt-N-Pepa Sue UMG Over Rights to Iconic Recordings
Source: Slaven Vlasic / Getty Salt-N-Pepa, the pioneering hip-hop duo consisting of Cheryl 'Salt' James and Sandra 'Pepa' Denton, have initiated legal action against Universal Music Group (UMG). Their goal? To regain control over their master recordings. The lawsuit invokes the Copyright Act of 1976. This act allows artists to terminate previous agreements and reclaim ownership of their recordings after a certain period. According to the lawsuit, James and Denton filed termination notices in 2022. They allege UMG has refused to honor their rights. They also claim that their music was removed from streaming platforms, hindering their ability to license work to other parties. The duo contends that UMG's actions have significantly harmed the value of their catalog and deprived fans of access to their music. UMG maintains that the recordings in question were 'works made for hire,' a classification that would prevent the artists from reclaiming rights under the Copyright Act. Salt-N-Pepa dispute this characterization, claiming their original contracts do not support UMG's claim. The lawsuit seeks fees that exceed $1 million. They also look for a permanent injunction affirming their ownership rights. This legal battle highlights ongoing tensions in the music industry, where legacy artists often confront challenges in regaining control over their work amid outdated contract terms. Salt-N-Pepa were the first female rap group to win a Grammy and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. They are set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2025. STAY SCHEMING?! Drake Claims UMG Plotted To Inflate Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' Streams UMG Files To Dismiss Drake's 'Not Like Us' Lawsuit & Argues He 'Willingly Participated' In Beef Outkast, Salt-N-Pepa Among 2025 Inductees Into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame SEE ALSO Salt-N-Pepa Sue UMG Over Rights to Iconic Recordings was originally published on Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE
Boston Globe
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Chris Jasper, Isley Brothers keyboardist and songwriter, dies at 73
Advertisement Mr. Jasper was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as a member of the Isleys; found subsequent success with the breakaway band Isley-Jasper-Isley; and had a busy career as a solo artist and producer, putting out 17 albums and working with artists including singer Chaka Khan. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up In 1969, he began playing with the Isleys as a teenager, joining two other young musicians in helping usher in the '3+3' era of the band. After more than a decade of performing as a vocal trio, fusing rock, and gospel on hits such as 1959's 'Shout,' the Isley Brothers had grown to become a self-contained six-piece unit that wrote, produced, and performed its own songs. The band came to embrace a funk-forward sound on acclaimed albums such as '3+3' (1973), which opened with the Top 10 hit 'That Lady,' and 'The Heat Is On' (1975), which featured 'Fight the Power,' an antiestablishment anthem that reached No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and influenced a Public Enemy song of the same name. 'Our music is about so much more now,' guitarist and drummer Ernie Isley said in a 1976 interview with Phonograph Record magazine, reflecting on the group's development. 'We've got a lot more to say musically and lyrically. I-IV-V chord changes and three guys jumping up and down, screaming and shouting 'wooo' just isn't where we're at.' Advertisement 'That's right,' Mr. Jasper added. 'We want our music to expand people's consciousness and take them onto a different musical plane.' The band continued to release politically minded anthems such as 'The Pride,' a No. 1 R&B hit. It also broadened its audience through funk- and soul-inflected covers of rock hits including Stephen Stills's 'Love the One You're With' and Seals and Crofts's 'Summer Breeze.' The members also put out sultry ballads such as 'For the Love of You,' a quiet-storm classic that was covered by Whitney Houston, and 'Between the Sheets,' which found a new audience after Notorious B.I.G. sampled it in his song 'Big Poppa.' Although the Isley Brothers released a string of million-selling albums in the 1970s, the group's commercial fortunes gradually declined, and the band split up in 1984 because of what Mr. Jasper described as 'financial inequities' between the three older musicians - brothers O'Kelly Isley Jr. and Rudolph and Ronald Isley - and the three younger band members, who left to form Isley-Jasper-Isley. The new group, which included Ernie on guitar and drums and Marvin Isley on bass, took turns singing lead while recording R&B hits including 'Look the Other Way,' 'Insatiable Woman,' and 'Caravan of Love,' a spiritual ode to peace and harmony that topped the R&B chart in 1985. 'I had been looking at the world scene quite a bit and wasn't pleased with what I was seeing,' Mr. Jasper recalled in an interview for 'The Billboard Book of Number One Rhythm & Blues Hits,' looking back on 'Caravan's' origins. 'I just felt that we all needed a positive message.' Advertisement Mr. Jasper, who sang lead, said he wrote the lyrics in 20 minutes: 'Are you ready for the time of your life?/ It's time to stand up and fight / … The place where mankind was born / Is so neglected and torn.' The song became an international hit after the Housemartins, a British indie rock band, recorded an a cappella cover in 1986. Although Isley-Jasper-Isley soon disbanded, Mr. Jasper continued to record socially conscious songs as a solo artist, scoring another R&B chart-topper with 'Superbad,' the title track to his 1987 debut. The song was an improbably danceable call for children to stay in school and look out for their neighbors, and included a call-and-response section praising 'superbad' civil rights leaders: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 'I compose the same R&B, soul and funk music that I am known for, but I feel obligated to put positive messages in the music, whether it is a love song, a song about social issues, or a spiritual song,' Mr. Jasper told the French music website Yuzu Melodies in 2013. As a solo artist, he still wanted 'to bring the funk,' he added, but 'with a positive message.' The youngest of seven children, Christopher Howard Jasper was born in Cincinnati on Dec. 30, 1951. His mother played the piano and arranged for him to start taking lessons when he was 7. Mr. Jasper grew up in suburban Lincoln Heights, on the same street as the Isley family. When he was a boy, his sister Elaine married Rudolph Isley and moved to Teaneck, N.J.; Mr. Jasper lived there for a year as a teenager. During that period, he began performing with Marvin and Ernie Isley, playing at New Jersey churches and high schools in a group called the Jazzmen Trio. Advertisement After graduating from high school in Ohio, Mr. Jasper studied for a year at the Juilliard School in Manhattan, where he learned the fundamentals of composition but bristled at the school's focus on atonal music. He transferred to C.W. Post College, now Long Island University Post, where he studied under jazz pianist and composer Billy Taylor and received a bachelor's degree in music composition. After going solo, Mr. Jasper founded his own label, Gold City Records. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2022. He leaves his wife of 42 years, Margie Jasper, a vice president at his record company; and three sons, Michael, Nicholas, and Christopher.
