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RIP: Chyna
Apr 22, 2016
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At the age of 45, groundbreaking professional wrestler Joanie Laurer, who performed professionally as “Chyna”, was found dead in her home in California. It has been speculated that she died from a drug overdose and was already dead for nearly two days when her body was found.
When she entered the WWF in the late 90’s as the bodyguard of Hunter Hearst Helmsley, the wrestling world had never seen anything like her. Chyna did not look like any other woman who had previously been associated with the industry and she was a physical match for many of the men, so much so, that she began to wrestle against them.
In the process of becoming the first female (and only) Intercontinental Champion, Chyna embarked on facial reconstruction and breast augmentation surgery and became a sex symbol. Arguably, at one point she was amongst the top five in popularity in the WWE. She was not able to come up with a contract agreeable with the WWE in 2001 and she would part ways with the organization, though the story had been put out that she felt forced out following her former boyfriend’s (Triple H) tryst and eventual marriage with the owner’s daughter, Stephanie McMahon.
Chyna’s career would spiral downward including a stint in pornographic films, which as per a podcast with Steve Austin, indicated that this is what would keep her out of the WWE Hall of Fame, though he did refer to her as a Hall of Famer following her death. Chyna has been lobbying hard in the past year to get into the Hall.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com offer our condolences to the friends and family of Joanie Lauer at this time.
When she entered the WWF in the late 90’s as the bodyguard of Hunter Hearst Helmsley, the wrestling world had never seen anything like her. Chyna did not look like any other woman who had previously been associated with the industry and she was a physical match for many of the men, so much so, that she began to wrestle against them.
In the process of becoming the first female (and only) Intercontinental Champion, Chyna embarked on facial reconstruction and breast augmentation surgery and became a sex symbol. Arguably, at one point she was amongst the top five in popularity in the WWE. She was not able to come up with a contract agreeable with the WWE in 2001 and she would part ways with the organization, though the story had been put out that she felt forced out following her former boyfriend’s (Triple H) tryst and eventual marriage with the owner’s daughter, Stephanie McMahon.
Chyna’s career would spiral downward including a stint in pornographic films, which as per a podcast with Steve Austin, indicated that this is what would keep her out of the WWE Hall of Fame, though he did refer to her as a Hall of Famer following her death. Chyna has been lobbying hard in the past year to get into the Hall.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com offer our condolences to the friends and family of Joanie Lauer at this time.
RIP: Prince
Apr 21, 2016
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To call it a sad day in the world of music is an understatement.
It was announced that at the age of 57, Minneapolis based musician, Prince died at his palatial estate, Paisley Park. At the moment, no cause of death has been announced, however it was reported that he had a sever flu which caused him to miss multiple concerts.
Born Prince Rogers Nelson in 1958, Prince was a legitimate musical genius. Capable of playing multiple instruments at the level of a virtuoso, Prince would write music that crossed the genre of funk, pop, rock and R&B. He would initially become famous in the late 1970’s, but it was in the 1980’s with the smash album, Purple Rain, which would paint him as a mega star in the musical field.
Hits would keep coming for Prince and he would create a career, which had few equals in terms of musical legacy, influence and ability. He would enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the first ballot in 2004.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to extend our condolences to the friends and family of Prince at this time and we are going to spend the rest of the evening listening to Prince.
May we suggest that you do the same.
It was announced that at the age of 57, Minneapolis based musician, Prince died at his palatial estate, Paisley Park. At the moment, no cause of death has been announced, however it was reported that he had a sever flu which caused him to miss multiple concerts.
Born Prince Rogers Nelson in 1958, Prince was a legitimate musical genius. Capable of playing multiple instruments at the level of a virtuoso, Prince would write music that crossed the genre of funk, pop, rock and R&B. He would initially become famous in the late 1970’s, but it was in the 1980’s with the smash album, Purple Rain, which would paint him as a mega star in the musical field.
Hits would keep coming for Prince and he would create a career, which had few equals in terms of musical legacy, influence and ability. He would enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the first ballot in 2004.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to extend our condolences to the friends and family of Prince at this time and we are going to spend the rest of the evening listening to Prince.
May we suggest that you do the same.
Steve Miller Fires Back
Apr 17, 2016
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That didn’t take long.
In an interview with Billboard, Steve Miller reacted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drama that he was a part of and as you can imagine he had a lot of interesting things to say:
On whether he stands by his statements that he made regarding the ceremony:
“Of course I do, yeah. I spoke the truth as I experienced it, and as I have experienced it over the years. Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks…I was pretty naïve when I started and, over the years, my record companies have grossed over $1 billion from my work, and I've spent 50 years auditing them to force them to pay me what my contracts call for. I caught them illegally selling hundreds of thousands of my records in markets worldwide. They've broken their contracts, they've broken their word. They have built-in theft in all their accounting. I've had to threaten to use the RICO statutes against them. It's a business with built-in theft and cheating, that's just considered normal, and I'm just not the kind of guy who tolerates that, I don't go for that. If it's not fair, and if it's not clean and clear, then I'm going to work to make it that way.”
On the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame audience:
“Well, the audience that I saw was just a bunch of people at tables. I looked out there and I didn't really see any friendly faces -- I basically saw people I had been suing and auditing for years.”
On the Black Keys inducting them:
“I wanted to ask Elton John to induct me, because Elton knows my music and loves my music and we’re friends, and I thought he would probably have a good historical perspective. But they said, “no, the Black Keys are going to do it,” and I said, “well, OK,” and they said “there’s no negotiation on any of it, that’s the way we do it, that’s the way we’ve always done it, that’s the way it’s gonna be. It’s all gonna be a surprise; you’re not gonna know what they’re gonna say, you’re not going to know anything about that.
I think their experience was as bad as mine. It shouldn't have happened, and if the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame would have had good enough manners to at least introduce us, we'd probably be friends. We have a lot in common, and I think they've been played pretty good by Rolling Stone. I don't know them, and I don't have any bad feelings about them at all. I feel badly for them, because they've got to think, "welcome to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, kid, here's how it works."
Maybe next week we won’t have a dramatic revelation of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony.
In an interview with Billboard, Steve Miller reacted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drama that he was a part of and as you can imagine he had a lot of interesting things to say:
On whether he stands by his statements that he made regarding the ceremony:
“Of course I do, yeah. I spoke the truth as I experienced it, and as I have experienced it over the years. Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks…I was pretty naïve when I started and, over the years, my record companies have grossed over $1 billion from my work, and I've spent 50 years auditing them to force them to pay me what my contracts call for. I caught them illegally selling hundreds of thousands of my records in markets worldwide. They've broken their contracts, they've broken their word. They have built-in theft in all their accounting. I've had to threaten to use the RICO statutes against them. It's a business with built-in theft and cheating, that's just considered normal, and I'm just not the kind of guy who tolerates that, I don't go for that. If it's not fair, and if it's not clean and clear, then I'm going to work to make it that way.”
On the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame audience:
“Well, the audience that I saw was just a bunch of people at tables. I looked out there and I didn't really see any friendly faces -- I basically saw people I had been suing and auditing for years.”
On the Black Keys inducting them:
“I wanted to ask Elton John to induct me, because Elton knows my music and loves my music and we’re friends, and I thought he would probably have a good historical perspective. But they said, “no, the Black Keys are going to do it,” and I said, “well, OK,” and they said “there’s no negotiation on any of it, that’s the way we do it, that’s the way we’ve always done it, that’s the way it’s gonna be. It’s all gonna be a surprise; you’re not gonna know what they’re gonna say, you’re not going to know anything about that.
I think their experience was as bad as mine. It shouldn't have happened, and if the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame would have had good enough manners to at least introduce us, we'd probably be friends. We have a lot in common, and I think they've been played pretty good by Rolling Stone. I don't know them, and I don't have any bad feelings about them at all. I feel badly for them, because they've got to think, "welcome to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, kid, here's how it works."
Maybe next week we won’t have a dramatic revelation of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony.
Farewell Kobe
Apr 13, 2016
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This is one of those times where it really feels like an end of an era.
The Kobe Bryant retirement tour has come to an official end and honestly we don’t know what we can say that hasn’t been said already.
There is nobody who watched Kobe Bryant play that couldn’t agree that he didn’t want to win more than anything else in the world. Bryant was the Los Angeles Lakers for years and was arguably the most recognizable athlete in the world at one time.
History will paint him as one of the top ten basketball players of all-time and his final seasons brought life to what was an awful campaign for the Lakers; certainly not the way that he, or any of us for that matter had ever imagined, though yet his final game, a matchup against the Utah Jazz that has zero playoff implications will take precedence in a day where the Golden State Warriors are going for history trying to break the record for the most wins in a season and the opening games of the NHL Playoffs.
Bryant is a first ballot hall of famer and a certified winner. What will he do next?
We don’t know, but betting against him isn’t an option.
The Kobe Bryant retirement tour has come to an official end and honestly we don’t know what we can say that hasn’t been said already.
There is nobody who watched Kobe Bryant play that couldn’t agree that he didn’t want to win more than anything else in the world. Bryant was the Los Angeles Lakers for years and was arguably the most recognizable athlete in the world at one time.
History will paint him as one of the top ten basketball players of all-time and his final seasons brought life to what was an awful campaign for the Lakers; certainly not the way that he, or any of us for that matter had ever imagined, though yet his final game, a matchup against the Utah Jazz that has zero playoff implications will take precedence in a day where the Golden State Warriors are going for history trying to break the record for the most wins in a season and the opening games of the NHL Playoffs.
Bryant is a first ballot hall of famer and a certified winner. What will he do next?
We don’t know, but betting against him isn’t an option.