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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Tuesday Rock Roundup

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will announce its 2007 inductees on January 8th. Nine acts were nominated and five will be inducted. The nine acts are Van Halen, R-E-M, Patti Smith, The Stooges, The Dave Clark Five, Chic, Joe Tex, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and The Ronettes. To be eligible for induction artists had to release their first single or album at least 25 years before the year of nomination.

According to Britain's News of the World, Paul McCartney will fork over 235-million dollars to his estranged wife Heather Mills. The paper says his daughters -- Stella and Mary -- persuaded him to agree to the settlement because they are concerned about his health. He will give Heather 19-point-five-million dollars, most of which she will donate to charity, as well as a secret package of five-point-nine million a year, 15-point-seven to buy homes in Europe and America, five-point-nine million for a U-K home, and close to four million a year for staff and expenses for 15 years.

Britain's Daily Mail reports that Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster will get married next summer at a 16th-century estate outside Edinburgh [pr: Edinboro], Scotland. The estate has 15 bedrooms, with an additional 12 suites adjacent to the house, as well as a banquet hall, an 18-hole golf course and a heli-pad. Stewart's father was born nearby, which is one of the reasons why he wants to get married there. This will be Stewart's third marriage.

Don Felder's lawsuit against his former Eagles bandmates will now reportedly be settled on January 19th. He recently appeared on an episode of V-H-1's Really Rich Real Estate in which he tried to broker a deal for someone to buy Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. Felder's fiance is a real estate agent.

Frank Sinatra was born on this day in 1915. I mention this because he's The Chairman.

There's no new CDs worth mentioning out today, but new DVDs include:

World Trade Center
Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
Barnyard
The Fox & The Hound 2
The Devil Wears Prada
two more of those Ultimate Bond collector sets
and a 4-Disc version of The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe