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Chuck E. Weiss
'Was More Than
the Title of
a Song'

obituary

Jul 31, 2021 3:25 PM CDT

Chuck E. Weiss 'Was More Than the Title of a Song'

'Chuck E.'s in Love,' about a music industry character, launched Rickie Lee Jones' career

(Newser) - Chuck E. Weiss, a musician and—with close friends Rickie Lee Jones and Tom Waits—prankish presence in Los Angeles music circles who inspired Jones' biggest hit, has died. He was 76. His family said the cause was kidney failure, the New York Times reports. Weiss was a songwriter, drummer,...

Alice Cooper Rocks
Into Hall of Fame

Dec 15, 2010 7:21 AM CST

Alice Cooper Rocks Into Hall of Fame

Neil Diamond, Tom Waits among others who join him

(Newser) - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is about to get decidedly more rocking: Alice Cooper is among the latest to join its ranks. Neil Diamond, Tom Waits, Dr. John, and Darlene Love will also be inducted, reports the New York Times , citing an announcement expected today. Other than Love,...

Tom Waits Wows
Film Critics,
Ticks Off
His Mom

Dec 28, 2009 6:07 PM CST

Tom Waits Wows Film Critics, Ticks Off His Mom

Singer's turn as Satan causes trouble at home

(Newser) - Tom Waits is 60 years old, but his mom can still get to him. The gravelly-voiced singer plays Satan in Terry Gilliam's latest trippy film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, and that isn't going over well with his mother. She's religious, you see. "She's really upset," he says....

Scarlett's
Waits Tribute:
Unnecessary,
But Not Bad

MUSIC REVIEW

May 14, 2008 1:15 PM CDT

Scarlett's Waits Tribute: Unnecessary, But Not Bad

Johansson revisits legendary croaker's catalog

(Newser) - “Even the most sympathetic critics,” writes Tom Breihan for the Village Voice, have to grant that Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson’s Tom Waits tribute album, “is a fundamentally ridiculous enterprise, almost stunning in its total lack of need to exist.” That said, Breihan...