Other Superstars

[mleach]

Hmmmmmm..why not publish them now?

Lawyers perhaps?

Maybe so...but then again what stopping Clark's people ( or even Dick Clark for that matter ) from suing now? That is if those "books" even exist in the first place.

[cspotrun]

- Madonna

Dick Clark ( one could consider him a musical star I guess ), last year I was chatting on findadeath.com with a woman who works for Dick Clark Productions. She was telling me she can think of two books that are already written and ready to be published discussing all of the questionable things about Dick Clark but she added they will not be published until AFTER his death. Hmmmmmm..why not publish them now?

questionable things about Dick Clark? i've never heard ANYTHING bad about him... after all he beat the "Payola" scandal of the 50's..so what else could there be??

[nightfly61]

Casey Kasem
I wonder how many stations will run tribute "American Top 40 Weekends" that don't already run the retro shows & how many will keep the shows after he passes?
Some music television network could run marathons of his old shows "Shebang" and "America's Top 10"
(come to think of it "Shebang" reruns would be cool to see aired now!).
Cartoon Network could run marathons of lots of the shows he did cartoon voices for (Scooby, Josie, Batman).

[Anyacat]

Buddy Holly was similarly memorialized when he died. The difference, of course, was at the time there was no 24/7 coverage and no public need to rehash every single detail.

[mleach]

- Madonna

Dick Clark ( one could consider him a musical star I guess ), last year I was chatting on findadeath.com with a woman who works for Dick Clark Productions. She was telling me she can think of two books that are already written and ready to be published discussing all of the questionable things about Dick Clark but she added they will not be published until AFTER his death. Hmmmmmm..why not publish them now?

questionable things about Dick Clark? i've never heard ANYTHING bad about him... after all he beat the "Payola" scandal of the 50's..so what else could there be??

The only "bad" thing I have ever heard about Clark, well actually its more with Dick Clark Productions is how they have gone after You Tube and have the clips that was produced by Dick Clark productions be removed. Nothing wrong there since Disney, the estates of Charles Schulz and Frank Sinatra, NBC/Universal and many others have all done the same thing. But with Dick Clark Productions I know that in the past they have gone that extra step. Rather than just contacting You Tube to request the clip be removed and leave it at that, they ( Dick Clark Productions ) have contacted those users who had uploaded those clips through private email and lets just say they weren't very nice. A few years back a co-worker of mine had uploaded a clip of Laura Branigan that she had taped from American Bandstand only to have it removed "at the request" by Dick Clark Productions ( hardly a shocker ) but she did get that email from them and to this day she refuses to watch anything that has to do with Dick Clark. But to be fair to Clark, the Sinclair Television Group and Desilu TOO ( Lucie Arnaz ), they have done the same thing as well over the years. Requesting their clips be removed from You Tube AND contacting the person who had uploaded the clip.

[landtuna]

Buddy Holly was similarly memorialized when he died. The difference, of course, was at the time there was no 24/7 coverage and no public need to rehash every single detail.

I remember the days following the plane crash very well.  There was tons of coverage (for those days) but mostly by Top40 (or "color") radio.

The other great difference, of course, were that Buddy was a well-respected, very clean cut musician without an ounce of scandal in his personal life. 

[kenrayc]

I would add:

Steven Tyler
Pete Townsend
Roger Daltrey
Any member of The Eagles.
Jimmy Page

[cspotrun]

I would add:

Steven Tyler
Pete Townsend
Roger Daltrey
Any member of The Eagles.
Jimmy Page

they all would get a "crawl" at the bottom of the screen. when McCartney goes or who becomes the last Beatle, that will be a big deal- i can't think of anyone else who would get this much coverage, and lets face the main reasom jackson got so much coverage was because of his Bizarro behavior & the court cases, he hasn't had a hit record in 15 years or so.

[quadraphonic]

If any current musical superstar is going to get mad coverage like Jacko has, it would have to be Britney Spears or a Jonas Brother or some young person who is not on a death pool list ANYWHERE. His reign was pretty much the last of the Superstar Era where a superstar could cross genres and get mass radio airplay.

If anyone is 40 and over, especially up into their 50s-60s like the Eagles, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, etc. they are kind of "expected" to die.

Maybe Springsteen or McCartney might get more death press among the older set of superstars, but only because they're individual names and not part of a group [at least for 35 years]. Their names have been mentioned more often than any of the Eagles, Stones, Aerosmith, etc. individual names in historical coverage, so their death would stand out more than a group member's would.

[nightfly61]

Prince would get a bunch.
I'm also sure there's the old pop music haters on here who would have nothing good to say about him either & continually slam him even after he's dead