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lifestyle WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015 Music & Movies Man run over by Suge Knight says he punched ex-rap mogul man who Marion “Suge” Knight ran over told knees and a shoulder injury. “Every day, I try to forget Gangster rap scene authorities he was mad at the former rap music it,” Sloan said. “I just know, I screwed up, and Terry’s The former gang member-turned-film consultant Amogul and punched him through the window dead.” Sloan’s memory troubles prompted Coen to planned to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against of the truck before an encounter that left his friend comment at one point on his testimony, “I find that self-incrimination during part of his testimony, but a dead. Cle “Bone” Sloan testified Monday about the this witness is being deceptive.” prosecutor granted him limited immunity. Afterward, day he and friend Terry Carter were hit by a pickup Sloan said he still did not remember what occurred truck driven by Knight, the co-founder of Death Row Surveillance video before his confrontation with Knight. He denied he Records. But Sloan refused to identify Knight as the Sloan’s faltering memory on the witness stand was brought a gun to the fight, as Fletcher and one of man behind the wheel when he was struck outside a contrasted by a lucid account of the events that led to Knight’s previous attorneys have suggested. Compton burger stand on Jan 29. He said he didn’t his injuries with detectives on Jan 29. In an hour-long Knight, 49, was a key player in the gangster rap remember specifics of the fight and does not want to recorded interview, Sloan quickly recalled details and scene that flourished in the 1990s, and his label once be a “snitch.” told detectives how he attacked Knight twice in the listed Dr Dre, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg among its “I will not be used to send ‘Suge’ Knight to prison,” burger stand parking lot. He told detectives that artists. Knight lost control of the company after it was Sloan, an adviser on the upcoming film “Straight Knight told him he was going to kill him after he forced into bankruptcy. He has prior felony convictions Outta Compton,” said, adding that he was only on the Sloan landed a blow, and said he responded, “Not for armed robbery and assault with a gun. He pleaded stand because he was subpoenaed. Sloan’s testimony today.” no contest in 1995 and was sentenced to five years’ was offered during a preliminary hearing Monday He told detectives he wanted justice and would probation for assaulting two rap entertainers at a during which a judge will determine whether there’s testify, but that he didn’t want to “be the guy who Hollywood recording studio in 1992. He was sentenced enough evidence for Knight to stand trial on murder, says (Knight) killed Terry,” according to audio of the in February 1997 to prison for violating terms of that attempted murder, and hit-and-run charges. interviewed played in court. Sloan’s conflicting state- probation by taking part in a fight at a Las Vegas hotel Authorities contend Knight intentionally hit Sloan and ments show the difficulty of prosecuting Knight, who hours before Shakur was fatally wounded in a drive-by Carter. But Knight’s attorney Matt Fletcher says his was once of the music industry’s most feared names attack as he rode in Knight’s car just east of the Las client was ambushed and was trying to escape an and who prosecutors say has a history of witness Vegas Strip. Shakur’s slaying remains unsolved. Knight attack when he hit the men. intimidation. Coen also watched several minutes of faces up to life in prison if convicted of killing Carter. Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen recessed the surveillance video from outside the burger stand, Knight is being held on $25 million bail, an amount hearing and said it would resume Thursday morning, including the moments when Knight’s truck ran over Fletcher has argued is excessive. — AP when he will rule on whether the case should go to Sloan and Carter. trial. Sloan said he was trying to forget details of the Sloan agreed when Knight’s attorney asked him Marion ‘Suge’ Knight, center, arrives in court for a hearing about evidence in his accident, in which he suffered two fractured ankles, a whether he attacked Knight, who hadn’t been violent murder case, in Los Angeles. —AFP serious cut to his head, two torn ligaments in his toward him. New Jo Nesbo Music Review thriller reads like extended poem rom its stunning opening line - “The snow was danc- ing like cotton wool in the light of the street lamps” - Fto its surprising and poetic ending, Jo Nesbo’s latest novel is a dream. To call “Blood on Snow” a crime novel would be an immense understatement. It does tell the sto- ry of Olav, an understandable and strangely sympathetic, dyslexic contract killer who readily acknowledges that he’s not good at much else. But it’s also a beautiful, complicated and skillfully ren- dered love story: “I held her incredibly carefully, like one of the dried flowers I sometimes found in the pages of books at the library,” Nesbo writes. It is a short, compact and lean book, a novella, really - no extraneous twists or descrip- tions or even words. But it packs an emotional punch with its gorgeous prose and a taut plot. — AP This CD cover image released by ANTI Records shows ‘Edge of the Sun,’ by Calexico. — AP Calexico flies high on ‘Edge of the Sun’ Paul McCartney, left, and Ringo Starr perform at The Night that Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles in Los he ninth studio album from Tucson, Arizona-based Angeles. — AP Calexico is a sonic road trip through the American TSouthwest, the roots of rock ‘n’ roll, the music of Mexico and more. There has always been a strong Latin strand to the Rock hall opening doors to Ringo Starr band’s country-tinged indie rock. “Edge of the Sun” is partly inspired by time spent in Mexico City, so cumbia and mariachi he first few years after the Beatles split, Ringo Starr had rial as McCartney, his fellow Beatle survivor, even more if you sounds mix with guitar and pedal steel. And that’s not all - bragging rights on his mates. He was all over the radio didn’t count McCartney’s classical excursions. there are dollops of everything from folk to electronica here, with “It Don’t Come Easy,” “Back Off Boogaloo,” His “Ringo 2012” disc sold fewer than 20,000 copies, mixed together with verve and culture-crossing curiosity. T Core Calexicans Joey Burns - on vocals and guitar - and “Photograph” and other singles at a time that John Lennon, according to Nielsen Soundscan. Numbers like that are why Paul McCartney and George Harrison went through some many artists of his generation stop making new music. Starr multi-instrumentalist John Convertino are joined by guests uneven stretches. “I had all these hits and everybody was sur- may joke onstage about how few people buy his new music, including Iron & Wine, Neko Case, Ben Bridwell from Band of prised,” Starr recalled. “I don’t know why they were, but they but he said making it is important to him. “That’s where I Horses, Mexican singer Carla Morrison, Spanish musician were.” come from - you made records, you put them out,” he said. Amparo Sanchez and members of the Greek group Takim. The Everyone’s favorite genial drummer still has his pride. “Also, for me, it’s a great excuse to hang out with a lot of opener “Falling From the Sky” is a soaraway single, buoyed by Already a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a friends and a lot of great musicians. It’s part of my life. This is jaunty trumpets. From there the album crisscrosses borders Beatle, Starr will be inducted this weekend as an individual, what I do.” and genres: “Bullets and Rocks” is a moodily entrancing medi- joining John, Paul and George with that distinction. He keeps He expresses no interest in writing a book, but has written tation on migration, while “When the Angels Played” is a har- busy at age 74, touring regularly and promoting a just- on recent discs songs that he considers mini-autobiographies monica-soaked country charmer about loving and leaving. released new disc, “Postcards From Paradise.” Besides Starr, looking back on slices of his life. In “Liverpool 8,” he sang of Mexican sounds assert themselves on “Cumbia de Donde,” new inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday leaving his hometown, “but I never let you down.” The song the instrumental “Coyoacan” and the brooding “Beneath the will be Green Day, Bill Withers, Lou Reed, Stevie Ray Vaughan, “The Other Side of Liverpool” name-checks old friends and City of Dreams,” then it’s back to the US heartland with Joan Jett, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the “5” Royales. talks about growing up poor. On the new album, “Rory and “Woodshed Waltz.” Through it all, Burns’ weathered, wistful Starr wasn’t expecting the honor and, in fact, it has raised the Hurricanes” is about the band he drummed for before voice lends the songs a sense of restless yearning. At its best, questions about whether there is a special Beatle entrance. accepting an offer to join the Beatles, who then had less of a the music on “Edge of the Sun” is retro, modern and timeless.

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