Rolling Stones vs. Trump; Virtual concert raises $7 billion
Rolling Stones vs. Trump; Virtual concert raises $7 billion
Rolling Stones threaten to sue Trump over using their songs
LONDON: The Rolling Stones are threatening Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs despite cease-and-desist directives.
The classic “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” is a popular song at Trump’s events. The Stones’ legal team is working with music rights organization BMI.
“The BMI have notified the Trump campaign on behalf of the Stones that the unauthorized use of their songs will constitute a breach of its licensing agreement,” the statement said.
“If Donald Trump disregards the exclusion and persists, then he would face a lawsuit for breaking the embargo and playing music that has not been licensed.”
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Stars, world leaders unite at event aimed at fighting virus
LONDON: Global Citizen, a summit and star-studded virtual concert hosted by Dwayne Johnson, raised nearly $7 billion in cash and loan guarantees to assist the poor around the globe whose lives have been upended by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Organizers promised 250 million doses of a vaccine for those nations if one is successfully developed.
Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, Coldplay and Chloe x Halle performed. Cyrus performed The Beatles’ “Help!” in an empty stadium and Hudson performed “Where Peaceful Waters Flow” from a boat in Chicago.
Speakers included leaders of New Zealand, El Salvador, Sweden, South Africa and Barbados, Canada, and France.
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Milton Glaser, designer of ‘I Love NY’ logo, dies at 91
NEW YORK: Milton Glaser, the groundbreaking graphic designer who adorned Bob Dylan’s silhouette with psychedelic hair and summed up the feelings for his native New York with “I Love NY,” died Friday, his 91st birthday.
The cause was a stroke and Glaser also had renal failure, his wife, Shirley Glaser, told The New York Times.
In posters, logos, advertisements and book covers, Glaser’s ideas captured the spirit of the 1960s with a few simple colors and shapes. He was the designer on the team that founded New York magazine with Clay Felker in the late ’60s.
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