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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 perform at The Night that Changed America: A Grammy Salute to in Los he ninth studio 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,” “,” His “” 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 “” 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, , 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, “.” Besides Starr, looking back on slices of his life. In “,” 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. McCartney told magazine recently that, when following than the Hurricanes. Starr had sat in for ex-Beatles For evidence, check out “Tapping on the Line,” which blends reminded Starr wasn’t in the hall on his own, he vowed to see drummer Pete Best a couple of times in Germany. an antique-sounding drum machine with a plaintive vocal what he could do. “I talked to Bruce Springsteen and I talked Could that be the best decision in rock history? that channels Edward Snowden-era concerns about surveil- to Dave Grohl, and they both thought he should be in. And I “I was as surprised as anyone when the phone call came - lance. — AP said I’d do the induction. That took care of it,” he said. ‘do you want to join?’ - and I said sure, because I loved the band,” Starr said. “It was not a difficult decision because I just Purely coincidental loved to play with those three, not knowing where it was ‘On Your Rather than being nominated and voted upon by the full going to go, of course.” Starr’s “All Starr Band” of rotating musi- Estefan musical panel of musicians, journalists and others who choose most cians, an ingenious device to keep an active live career, is Feet!’ members, Starr was selected under a “musical excellence” cat- already more than a quarter-century old. The current incarna- finds its Broadway stars egory. That category has been used four times, none before tion features , of Toto, Richard Cuban-American actress who attended the same Miami high 2011. Joel Peresman, president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Page of Mr Mister and Gregg Rollie of Santana. Being a fea- school as Gloria Estefan and an actor who stars on USA’s Hall of Fame Foundation, said these honorees are chosen by tured player on at least one hit single is a job requirement, so “Sirens” have been chosen to star on Broadway as Gloria and committee. Although lobbying calls are taken, induction is a band members can rotate in the spotlight with Ringo. A Emilio Estefan in a musical based on the groundbreaking entertain- group decision. He said that any calls that come in during the He keeps adding dates, and is already booked 22 nights in ers’ lives. Producers said Monday that Ana Villafane will make her process - including, presumably, McCartney’s - “are purely October, from Boise, Idaho and Vancouver, Canada to Boston Broadway debut opposite Josh Segarra in “On Your Feet!” The musi- coincidental.” and Brooklyn. Starr dismisses any talk of retirement, citing 89- cal will begin performances Oct 5 at the Marquis Theatre. “I only knew about it when Paul McCartney called me and year-old blues guitarist B.B. King - who was performing last “Kinky Boots” director Jerry Mitchell will helm the show, with said, ‘they want to honor you at the Rock and Roll Hall of year until being sidelined by health issues - as an inspiration. Sergio Trujillo choreographing. The story will be written by Fame. I’ll be doing the speech for you. Will you accept?’” Starr “He’s sitting down, but he’s still out there,” Starr said. “Hey, I’m Alexander Dinelaris. The Estefans were born in Cuba and together File photo, singer Gloria Estefan, left, poses with said. “I said sure, how great is that?” Only an occasional singer already sitting down.”— AP became musical luminaries in Spanish and English, winning her husband, Emilio Estefan, at the opening of and lyricist with the Beatles, Starr has maintained an active Grammys with crossover hits like “The Rhythm is Going To Get You” the 90th season of the Hollywood Bowl, in Los recording career, particularly since getting sober in the late and “Words Get in the Way.”—AP Angeles. — AP 1980s. Since 1992, he’s put out as many discs of original mate-

Randy Bachman pulls Reba McEntire shines his weight on ‘Heavy Blues’ on ‘Love Somebody’ ove Somebody” is Reba McEntire’s Night,” written by Brandy Clark and Shane here has THIS been for the past The Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” best album of the 21st century McAnally, and the title song, co-written by Sam four decades? Randy Bachman, “Ton of Bricks” hits the listener as adver- because it draws on her strengths: Hunt, which finds McEntire rising to a challenge who made classic rock history with tised; “Little Girl Lost,” a daddy-never-loved- “L W That is, subtly and powerfully interpreting sub- of mixing tongue-twisting stanzas with a testify- Bachman-Turner Overdrive and The Guess me, now-I’m-a-hooker song, features some stantial story songs about adult relationships set ing chorus. Other highlights include a duet with Who, has recorded his best album since memorable, instantly recognizable fuzz-tone to contemporary . At 60, the per- Jennifer Nettles on “Enough,” dealing with a part- 1976. The name says it all: heavy blues, deliv- guitar from Young; and “Confessing to the former - she bills herself by her first name these ner who leaves her feeling like she’s not worth ered with help from an All-Star cast of Devil” features posthumous licks from days - remains a remarkable vocalist, capable of the effort he puts into the rest of his life, and the guests, including Neil Young, Peter Healey from a long-ago unreleased session stunning ferocity and dramatic nuance. She’s emotional ballad “Just Like Them Horses,” a trib- Frampton, Joe Bonamassa, Robert Randolph with Bachman. The catchiest track on the one of the great traditional country singers of ute to her rodeo champion father, written by and Jeff Healey. If this was 1975 and the album is “Wild Texas Ride,” featuring a boogie her time, but she prefers pushing herself to stay friends Liz Hengber and Tommy Lee James. With radio still played rock, there might be a half- drum beat over raw guitars and enough current. Always ambitious, she errs only when “Love Somebody,” McEntire proves she still has dozen hit singles on “Heavy Blues.” The open- cowbells to make even Will Ferrell happy. It’s she tries to appeal to radio with material that’s far too much to say to rest on her laurels. — AP ing track, “The Edge,” sounds like BTO playing really good to see Bachman takin’ care of too lightweight for her talent and maturity. a mashup of “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” and business again. — AP “Love Somebody” strikes a perfect blend, especially on songs like “She Got Drunk Last