Celine Can’t Take Cover From "Sacrilegious" Tune
For those about to rock, best not to take any cues from Celine Dion.
The Canadian chanteuse’s easy-listening rendition of AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long” earned the otherwise lauded balladeer the ignominious honor of being voted the worst cover song of all time by a panel of experts at Total Guitar magazine.
While she only sang the apparently appalling tune once, a whopping six years ago, it was seemingly one time too many for the mag’s connoisseurs.
“Cover versions have never been bigger but the number one worst songCeline Dion covering AC/DCis sacrilege,” grouses Total Guitar editor Stephen Lawson.
Dion never released the track, dubbed an “offense” against music by the magazine, following her onstage duet with Anastacia during VH1’s Divas Las Vegas concert in 2002. One-hit wonder Meredith “I’m a Bitch” Brooks accompanied the duo on guitar.
As Total Guitar is a U.K. publication, the remainder of the worst-of-the-worst roundup was unsurprisingly populated by British pop acts trying their hand at rock classics, including a Sugababes and Girls Aloud duet of “Walk This Way” and inaugural Pop Idol winner Will Young’s version of “Light My Fire.”
The magazine also released a best cover song roundup.
Jimi Hendrix’s take on “All Along the Watchtower” came out on top, followed by the Beatles’ “Twist and Shout,” Guns N’ Roses’ “Live and Let Die” and Nirvana’s “The Man Who Sold the World.”
Tops the woman who deafened it every time.
Amy Winehouse Apologizes For Racist Video
Amy Winehouse Apologizes For Racist Video
In typical fashion, Amy Winehouse popped out of her London pad on Saturday night to chat it up with anyone and everyone who decided to drop by.
The Rehab singer first opened her door to speak with journalists following further damaging allegations in the Sunday papers.
According to British tabloid reports, Winehouse is said to have appeared in a video, shot in 2007 by her incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil, singing a racist song.
Sucking on a lollipop as she spoke, Amy told the assembled media that she was “very sorry if any of her words had been misunderstood or caused offense.”
Later on the same night, the troubled crooner once again was in her open doorway - greeting a friend dressed as Jimi Hendrix who wandered up to her front door.
Making one final appearance, Amy was seen peering out of her window as fans serenaded her from the street in the early hours of the morning.
Hey, Joe: Hendrix Sex Tape a Fake, Family Says
Jimi Hendrix's bedroom jam is apparently a sham.
The family-run Seattle-based firm that controls Hendrix's music says a sex tape purported to feature the guitar god engaging two foxy ladies is a fake.
"We strongly dispute the claimed authenticity of the tape," Experience Hendrix said in a statement. "We view the release as nothing more than a callous attempt to trade on the image and reputation of a deceased artist who is unable to defend himself against such an outrageous and baseless assertion."
Vivid Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based porn purveyor, announced this week that it had acquired 40-year-old footage from an anonymous collector and turned it into a DVD and digital download creatively titled The Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape.
Vivid claims it hired experts to confirm Hendrix's identity, but several of the music icon's ex-girlfriends have come forward to dispute the tape's authenticity. In the 11 minutes of rompage, the bandanna-sporting man's face is barely seen.
Fake or no, Vivid's "sexumentary" hits stores next Tuesday.
Jimi Hendrix’s Greatest Bootleg?
Was Jimi Hendrix experienced? Let's go to the vaults, shall we?
Vivid Entertainment, the company that brought you the X-rated shenanigans of Pamela Anderson and Kim Kardashian, among others, announced it has acquired from a memorabilia collector a sex tape featuring the late guitar god and plans to release it.
According to a statement from Vivid, the Hendrix footage was filmed in a hotel room in the late 1960s, doesn't consist of any sound and has poor lighting. But it purportedly features the Axis: Bold as Love axman sporting a bandana over his Afro and getting it on with two foxy ladies.
The Los Angeles-based porn distributor is marketing the 11-minute footage as part of a 45-minute DVD, Jimi Hendrix the Sex Tape, which will also include flashbacks of the rock legend's stellar career and retail for $39.95 in stores and via download. (Vivid did not obtain music licenses so the video will not have a Hendrix soundtrack.)
As the New York Times reports, however, sources who've seen the grainy 8mm clip say Hendrix's face is only visible for a few seconds. Also casting doubts on the authenticity of Vivid's claims, several of the musician's ex gal-pals from the '60s have come forward saying the man in the film is not the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
Vivid claims it vetted the tape and was convinced the footage was the real deal after talking with the unidentified man who shot the explicit scene. The women in the film have yet to be identified.
Hendrix died in 1970 at the age of 27 from drug-related causes.