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Friday, March 09, 2007

FDR, Stones added to listFranklin Delano Roosevelt, Eubie Blake, the Velvet Underground, Bob Newhart and the Rolling Stones all on the same stage? Librarian of Congress James H. Billington added sound recordings by all of them, as well as 20 others, to the prestigious National Recording Registry on Tuesday.

Recordings by Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones are among those added to the National Recording Registry.

FAXON RISES WITH EMI
Industry veteran new head of music publishingRoger Faxon, a movie exec in the 1980s who's worked at EMI for a dozen years, has been upped to chairman-CEO of EMI Music Publishing -- the culmination of a succession plan put into place two years ago.

BONO TO EDIT JULY VANITY FAIR
Rocker in charge of Africa-themed issueRock star and activist Bono is adding another title to his resume: first-ever guest editor of Vanity Fair. The U2 frontman will edit the magazine's Africa-themed July issue, on newsstands in early June, on behalf of his Project RED campaign, it was announced Tuesday.

SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST'S URGE TO CONVERGE
Film, music, interactive mingle as never beforeThe South by Southwest music fest had been rocking for eight years when organizers decided to add a combined "film and multimedia" component in 1994. According to Hugh Forrest, event director of SXSW's now-separate interactive festival, the two new disciplines didn't exactly complement one another at first.
source: varietynewsletter

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