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Kurt Cobain Leaps Over Elvis to Top Forbes List of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,224682,00.html ^ | October 24, 2006

Posted on 10/24/2006 8:41:28 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

A nail in the casket is hardly the end for some stars. Instead, their work, as well as their iconic images, continues to appeal to fans who remember them, and to those born long after they died.

The 13 icons on our sixth annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list collectively earned $247 million in the last 12 months. Their estates continue to make money by inking deals involving both their work and the rights to use their name and likenesses on merchandise and marketing campaigns.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: celebrities; cobain; davegrohl; elvis; kurtcobain; nirvana; presley
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To: MitchellC

Soundgarden and AIC were 10 times better than Nirvana ever was.

Heck, even the Foo Fighters are better than Nirvana.


21 posted on 10/24/2006 9:06:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MitchellC

Those were my four favorite bands back in the day... after Metallica of course.


22 posted on 10/24/2006 9:06:51 PM PDT by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

bookmark


23 posted on 10/24/2006 9:07:49 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: MitchellC

Well said. Thank you.


24 posted on 10/24/2006 9:07:58 PM PDT by colinhester
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To: COEXERJ145
she would explode and scream her head off.

It beats what he did. :-)

25 posted on 10/24/2006 9:08:05 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: himno hero
I wonder how they compare once "normalized" for population and purchasing power of the dollar.

In the same sense "Gone With The Wind" is probably still the number 1 movie.
26 posted on 10/24/2006 9:09:31 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: KarlInOhio

And both WERE crazy people.


27 posted on 10/24/2006 9:11:58 PM PDT by uptoolate (Their 'innocent' civilian is their next suicide bomber)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

He sounds just as good now as he did then!


28 posted on 10/24/2006 9:12:25 PM PDT by gorush (Exterminate the Moops!)
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To: dfwgator

Made flannel popular again.


29 posted on 10/24/2006 9:12:34 PM PDT by uptoolate (Their 'innocent' civilian is their next suicide bomber)
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To: gorush
"He sounds just as good now as he did then!"

(This re: Bruce Springsteen...I pray that no one misses the sarcasm.)

30 posted on 10/24/2006 9:17:48 PM PDT by gorush (Exterminate the Moops!)
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To: dfwgator
Foo Fighters have always been hit-and-miss. The only album I've liked all the way through was the one with 'Stacked Actors' (can't recall the CD title) while the rest were generally dull aside from the singles.

Listen to 'Nevermind,' forgetting any prejudice you may have built up over time, and I think most people would agree that it's a pop-rock masterpiece. The same could be said for 'In Utero,' except for two songs and the order in which the songs were placed, all part of Cobain's design to have 'fake fans' hate it.

I'd agree that Soundgarden and AIC were on average better musicians than Nirvana, but not better songwriters. In that sense, it's like comparing the best of Led Zeppelin to that of the Beatles.

31 posted on 10/24/2006 9:18:44 PM PDT by MitchellC
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To: MitchellC
AIC is one my favorite bands and Layne's emotions oozed through their music. I was never an Eddie Vedder fan, even prior to his political rants, though I liked a handful of Pearl Jam songs (rendition of "Last Kiss" is solid). Nirvana I liked in the early stages but it became overexposed after a while. Overall, I think they have some good tunes. Soundgarden I could take or leave. I saw them open for GnR.
32 posted on 10/24/2006 9:20:47 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: KoRn

I remember when Bonham died. Coming home from school, just hearing the news of his death after sending in for tickets to the Zeppelin concert scheduled for Chicago. We all just sat there stunned in disbelief.

We had a party that night in honor of him. We drank Vodka and Gin that night while smoking hash under the glass.

I vowed that night that I would die in the same manner at the same age as him as a show of respect.

What a freakin' idiot I was.

Idolatry then and Idolatry now. Nothing new under the sun.



33 posted on 10/24/2006 9:20:52 PM PDT by uptoolate (Their 'innocent' civilian is their next suicide bomber)
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To: streetpreacher
Those were my four favorite bands back in the day... after Metallica of course.

Now there's a band that should've stopped making music in 1991.

34 posted on 10/24/2006 9:20:55 PM PDT by MitchellC
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Easy to explain, more lefty stoners than ever before!


35 posted on 10/24/2006 9:21:43 PM PDT by blondee123 (Politicians are like diapers, need to be changed often & for the same reason!)
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To: uptoolate
Actually we were happy because he was dead. I couldn't stand him!
36 posted on 10/24/2006 9:21:53 PM PDT by KoRn
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To: KoRn

When our band heard the news that Cobain had died, our singer said, "What took him so long?"

We were not surprised at all. That depressant aura that surround him was something that really turned me off about him.

I want a front man like Roth. You know, a funny idiot.


37 posted on 10/24/2006 9:32:11 PM PDT by uptoolate (Their 'innocent' civilian is their next suicide bomber)
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To: MitchellC
Nirvana was one of several bands, the others being Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, that forced a change for the better on the pop music industry, away from the over-produced trash of the late 70s thru early 90s.

And substituted underproduced trash. It didn't stop the overproduced crap either, as can be seen by listening to anything by any random pop diva or boi band since.

38 posted on 10/24/2006 9:33:15 PM PDT by LexBaird (98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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To: dfwgator
Kurt Cobain, most overrated rock star ever.

How can you say that? Nirvana changed rock music... it helped evolve rock n' roll from the stale long-haired 80s bands. Kurt's influence is still heard today.

39 posted on 10/24/2006 9:34:43 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (Say "NO" to the Trans-Texas Corridor)
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To: MitchellC

You forgot Mudhoney.


40 posted on 10/24/2006 9:38:03 PM PDT by elmer fudd
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