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Musical news 11/07/07

If you haven't already seen that Ozzie criticizes Police's Sting. No it's not a music review. It's a legal matter.

With his tabloid-y split with wife #2 nearing a final divorce, Paul McCartney's fate has been learned. He's got a new girlfriend.

It would seem improbable for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to be fodder for the British tabloids. But the London newspapers — and now The Daily News and The New York Post — are in a tizzy today with reports that Paul McCartney is having a romantic relationship with Nancy Shevell, who was appointed by Gov. George E. Pataki to the M.T.A. board in 2001.

The article goes on to say that she's separated from her husband.

More surprising, she's a Republican.

The Blakemans have been active in Republican circles and have given contributions to Governor Pataki and President Bush. A woman who answered the telephone at a Manhattan residence for the Blakemans said today that no one was available for comment. Asked for a comment, Paul Freundlich, a New York-based spokesman for Mr. McCartney, replied by e-mail, “We don’t comment on Paul’s private and personal or business affairs.”

The Eagles will be performing tonight at the CMA awards. I haven't heard their new album, nor do I intend to. But in the past many of their songs - especially "Lyin' eyes" would have been excellent country songs if they weren't classified as a rock group.

However their new album, according to Newsbusters is a blame America first effort. (h/t Sean and Frank)

The new album from The Eagles, Long Road Out of Eden, is just one long, sustained attack on the integrity of the United States and is as bad as any loud-mouthed Dixie Chicks diatribe. With songs prosaically about Global Warming and the evil American “empire,” seemingly the only one of the band who just wanted to entertain the fans was Joe Walsh, the others too puffed up with their own sense of superiority to bother.

It's odd that they'd go this route if they're conciously moving into the country market. Though I never assumed they were conservative they did do some work that sounded that way.

Well though it wasn't their work, one of the Beatles dated Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan's daughter. But then she was no Republican.

Actually I was more thinking of "Get Over It," a 90's song that seemed to puncture a whole slew of liberal pieties.

And Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" was an excellent critique of the evening news.

Finally, on a sad note, George Osmond died.

George Osmond, the patriarch who launched the singing and entertainment careers of the Osmond family 45 years ago during a fortuitous trip to Disneyland, has died. He was 90.

Osmond, who had been in failing health, died Tuesday of complications related to old age at his home in Provo, Utah, said family spokesman Kevin Sasaki.

Less than a day before, his daughter Marie Osmond, who is a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars," dedicated her latest performance on the ABC TV show to her parents. Her mother, Olive, died in 2004 at 79.

In one of those odd coincidences, Marie Osmond is the second contestant on Dancing with the Stars to lose a parent this season. Jane Seymour's mother died a few weeks ago.

paul mcartney, the eagles, george osmond.