This week in weird rock news
Talk about a strange week in rock news -- and it's only Tuesday.
- ABBA's drummer died in a freak garden/broken glass accident in Spain.
- The Raconteurs are rushing the release of their new album, Consolers of the Lonely, to next week.
Stores, fans and the press will all get the album at the same time and it will be available for download from their website.
- Trent Reznor is seeking Nine Inch Nails fans to make the group's next videos.
Radiohead is doing something similar.
- When and if Led Zeppelin hit the tour circuit again their opening act could be...VELVET REVOLVER?!?!
- Apparently the call girl in New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer's recent sex scandal has made upwards of $200,000 in downloads of her songs "What We Want" and "Move Your Body."
And you thought $4,000 a week for sex with the governor was good dough. If she gets a record deal she's going to have to thank the morbidly curious in her liner notes. Also, Larry Flynt's offered her $1 million to pose in Hustler. Who says it's only Julia Roberts who gets a hooker Cinderella story?
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