Reuters - Jul 21, 2009
Senator John McCain and his Republican Party publicly apologized to singer Jackson Browne on Tuesday for using his song Running on Empty without permission in a campaign advertisement last year. The...
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Jackson Browne has settled a lawsuit and received an apology from Sen. John McCain and the Republican Party over use of his song Running on Empty during last year s presidential campaign. The settlement...
More »E! Online - Jul 21, 2009
It's one thing to lose to Barack Obama. It's quite another, one would think, to have Jackson Browne get the better of you. As it happens, John McCain chalked up just such a loss this morning...
More »E! Online - Nov 20, 2008
As far as John McCain is concerned, it's Jackson Browne who's the pretender. The beaten Republican presidential nominee is firing back at the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, claiming Browne is...
More »Reuters - Nov 19, 2008
John McCain may have lost the presidential election to Barack Obama, but his campaign seems absolutely determined not to lose to Jackson Browne. The singer/songwriter sued McCain in August after the...
More »Reuters - Aug 26, 2008
It's been six years since Jackson Browne released an album of new material, but the veteran singer-songwriter hardly feels that he has made himself scarce in the interim. I made three albums...
More »Reuters - Aug 15, 2008
Rock star Jackson Browne has sued U.S. presidential candidate John McCain for copyright infringement, accusing the presumptive Republican nominee of using the singer's 1977 hit Running on Empty...
More »AP - Aug 14, 2008
Jackson Browne doesn t want John McCain running on anything fueled by his lyrics. The singer-songwriter sued McCain and the Ohio and national Republican committees in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles...
More »E! Online - Aug 14, 2008
Jackson Browne is always up for a good protest. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has refused to take it easy, suing GOP presidential candidate John McCain and the Republican National Committee for using...
More »AP - Nov 17, 2007
Jackson Browne says that Democrat John Edwards is the most progressive candidate with a chance at winning the White House, and that he would do the most for working-class Americans. It s a challenge...
More »AP - Oct 23, 2007
Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash are putting a new millennium twist on their 1970s anti-nuclear message, urging Congress not to approve federal loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants...
More »E! Online - Oct 23, 2007
Bonnie Raitt is once again giving the government something to talk about. The titian-haired songstress joined fellow rocker-activists Jackson Browne and Graham Nash in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to dissuade...
More »Reuters - Jun 7, 2007
Country music icon Dolly Parton was honored for her songwriting on Thursday at the Songwriters Hall of Fame, where she made jokes about her famous big bust that she quipped would outlast her. I can...
More »AP - Mar 19, 2007
Jackson Browne, Don Black and Michael Masser are among this year s inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which recognizes the work of composers and lyricists who create popular music worldwide....
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
You may have seen the recent photos of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his 44th album, Modern Times, shares a title with Chaplin s 1936 classic about automation, big business and...
More »Reuters - Jul 14, 2006
Rocker-turned-preacher Richard Furay, a founding member of Buffalo Springfield and Poco, says he long felt overlooked for his contributions to two 1960s bands that pioneered the next decade s country-...
More »Reuters - Mar 22, 2006
An album of cover versions can sometimes be a window into a musician s roots. So it is with Los Angeles rocker Dave Alvin s West of the West, which gathers 13 tunes by California songwriters. The Yep...
More »Reuters - Feb 15, 2006
David L. Abell, whose Beverly Boulevard piano store served for 40 years as a resource for motion picture, pop, rock and jazz performers, died February 11 of lung disease at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center...
More »Reuters - Dec 15, 2004
A trip to The Red Light District scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday. The Atlanta rapper/actor s fourth Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam South effort sold...
More »Reuters - Dec 13, 2004
U2, the Pretenders, Buddy Guy, Percy Sledge, and the O Jays will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at its 20th annual induction ceremony, to be held March 14 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel...
More »Reuters - Oct 5, 2004
After his run on the ongoing Vote for Change tour, John Fogerty will launch his own headlining tour Nov. 8 at Nashville s Ryman Auditorium. At deadline, 11 stops were confirmed in such cities as New...
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