News Ticker: Kanye West, Paul McCartney, Tom Waits, Mick Cocks

December 24th, 2009 by Rolling Stone Leave a reply »

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  • Thanks to his VMAs stage-crashing incident, which robbed Taylor Swift of her special moment, Kanye West has been voted 2009’s celebrity Scrooge by a survey of nearly 2,000 children, Reuters reports. Bonus Jonas Brother Frankie was selected as the most appropriate Tiny Tim.

  • Paul McCartney got into the holiday spirit with a rare performance of Wings’ 1977 Christmas hit “Mull of Kintyre” with a set of bagpipers at London’s O2 Arena this week. Watch it on YouTube.
  • Tom Waits tells the Los Angeles Times he’s started work on a new album: “You’re never sure how long it will take. You write two songs and you put them in a room together and they have offspring.”
  • Like Rose Tattoo members Ian Rilen, Pete Wells and Lobby Loyde, guitarist Mick Cocks has died after a battle with liver cancer, Reuters reports. Guns n’ Roses covered the Aussie hard rockers’ “Nice Boys” on G N’ R Lies.
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