#Johnnie Cochran

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When the Chandler situation first prompted Jackson to seek legal help, his team consisted of entertainment attorney Bert Fields and his private investigator Anthony Pellicano. It wasn't long before two other Los Angeles-based attorneys were hired. Howard Weitzman was brought on board first and he in turn recruited Johnnie Cochran. Both were highly regarded criminal defense lawyers.

It wasn't long before Evan Chandler's attorney realized that the case had grown far too complex and high profile for him to handle on his own. Barry Rothman then hired his own lawyer - Robert Shapiro.

Despite her bitter dispute with Evan, June eventually had a change of heart and the two agreed to hire an attorney to represent their combined interests. June and Evan retained the famed activist attorney Gloria Allred. Allred's strategy was to go public with the allegations to force the Los Angeles district attorney's office to file criminal charges against Michael Jackson. But attorney Robert Shapiro raised concerns with Evan about Allred's strategy. He argued that fighting this very sensitive fight in front of a camera might not be the way to go.

Shapiro suggested that Chandler use a civil attorney named Larry Feldman.

Feldman explained that if Gloria Allred went on camera and made a public statement, the Jackson people would have to do the same. The press, he said, would have a field day with tit-for-tat comments flying back and forth. The district attorney would just be annoyed, not spurred into action. And if the objective was to get some money, get the boy treatment, and get on with life, then having an attorney front and center at news conferences was not the right option, Feldman counseled. This made sense to Evan Chandler, and he quickly dismissed Allred and placed Feldman in charge of the case.

The Jackson Team had claimed that the boy's allegations had grown out of a contentious custody battle. But the custody battle had ensued only after Jordie revealed being molested to his father. However, what began as a simple filing of legal papers in a custody dispute would quickly evolve into a pitched legal battle involving the megastar, allegations of child abuse, and multi-million dollar settlement negotiations.

When Feldman filed a startlingly graphic four-page declaration signed by Jordan Chandler, he was only thirteen years old and in the eighth grade.

-Diane Dimond

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O.J. Simpson may have made my career

I woke up to the news about O.J. Simpson dying and can’t believe I never wrote about him here. He may have made my career.  That slow-speed chase on a Friday night, when I had to work early the next morning for the news at WSVN starting at 6 a.m. I had to go out that night, which I never did before an early day of work.  It was my friend Seth’s bachelor party before his wedding to Ally.  We…

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Where's Johnnie, Donald? (Hint: he's dead.)

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Empire Records. Joe playing drums to "If You Want Blood". Epic.

[shadowland]

EDDIE COCHRAN "Teenage Heaven" + guitar dance {x} Go, Johnny, Go! (1959) dir. Paul Landres

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Empire Records (1995) | Soundtrack and Bonus

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HAPPY REX MANNING DAY

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a few days ago, i was told i look like a monkey. I have nothing against monkeys, so i know the guy was just trying to bait me into a reaction. this guy was using a slur for Japanese people, many of whom I have great respect for and I don't like hearing slurs. so i asked him to cool it which he took as an opportunity to escalate the situation into violence. he continued to say something about people needing to go back to "their own country." when I asked him what if he was talking to me, he asked me, "what are you going to do about it?" and came towards me. thankfully, a library staff member intervened, telling him to leave. i didn't insult or threaten him, though i did stand up to protect myself. in the old days... well, instead of internalizing his insult, i have decided to see the hidden reason he would try to get into my head like that. i know it's more about him than me. it's how this world wants us to do to one another. to make us "the other" or a thing, but I know i'm growing, so i will not let it affect me. Enjoy these songs that include THING in them:

Bo Diddley: Pretty Thing

Prince Rogers Nelson: Hot Thing

Billie Eilish: Wildflower

Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Juice Newton: The Sweetest Thing

Ms. Lauryn Hill: Sweetest Thing

Depeche Mode: Everything Counts

Dave Gahan: One Thing

Roxy Music: Main Thing

U2: Even Better Than the Real Thing

Jennifer Lopez: Love Don't Cost A Thing

Eddie Cochran: Something Else

Howard Jones: Things Can Only Get Better

Shining Soul: Doing My Thang

Solange: Things I Imagined

Slipknot: 742617000027

Metallica: The Thing That Should Not Be

Johnny Cash: Oh, What A Good Thing We Had

Dusty Springfield" I've Got A Good Thing

The Troggs: Wild Thing

Jimi Hendrix: Wild Thing

James Brown: Get Up Offa That Thing

Fleetwood Mac: Tell Me All the Things You Do

The Fixx: One Thing Leads to Another

Kylie Minogue: Wouldn't Change A Thing

The Police: Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Willie Nelson: Things To Remember

David Bowie: Shapes of Things

Booker T and the MGs: Doin' Our Thing

Snotty Nose Rez Kids: Something Else

The Kinks: Things Are Getting Better

George Harrison: All Things Must Pass

The Beatles: Something

Sten Joddi, Chase Manhattan, Adrian Harjo, Tha Native, & Joey Stylez: It's A Native Thang

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By macabre coincidence an event that took place around Bristol marks a major turning point in the story of pop music. Eddie Cochran died hours after appearing at the Bristol Hippodrome in 1960, as part of the Larry Parnes-produced Anglo-American rock ’n’ roll package tour. Two of the people who shared a stage with Cochran that night were Tony Sheridan and a Liverpudlian singer called Johnny Gentle. Both were under contract to Parnes and both would play a significant role in the history of the most influential British act of all time, the Beatles. Sheridan, the first British rock ’n’ roller to sing and play his own guitar live on British TV, would become best known for the recordings he made in Hamburg with the Beatles shortly before they found fame.

Parnes was the first manager in Britain to become as famous as his artists – the Simon Cowell of his day – with a stable of singers including Tommy Steele, Britain’s first real rock ’n’ roll star, Marty Wilde, Billy Fury, Vince Eager and others. He was also homosexual, a dangerous thing to be at a time when gay men were routinely arrested, fined or even imprisoned.

Their tour was due to take a break after a week of shows in Bristol, and Cochran and co-headliner Gene Vincent wanted to get home to America. Cochran was in a hurry to get to London, where he was going to meet up with Vince Eager before the pair flew to the States together, and Cochran and Vincent rented a private hire taxi, driven by George Martin from Hartcliffe, to take them. Shortly after 11pm on 16 April 1960, their car set off from Bristol’s Royal Hotel (now the Bristol Marriott Royal, on College Green) for London Airport.

Sadly, none of the passengers would make their flight. Less than an hour out of Bristol, Martin realised he had taken a wrong turn. On Rowden Hill, a notorious accident black spot near Chippenham, he lost control and the car spun backwards, hitting a lamppost. The impact of the crash sent Cochran up into the roof of the car and forced the rear passenger side door open, throwing him onto the road. Martin and tour manager Patrick Thompkins, who were in the front of the vehicle, were able to walk away uninjured. The three passengers who had occupied the back seat – Eddie, Gene and Eddie’s girlfriend Sharon Sheeley – were lying on the grass verge. All three were rushed to Chippenham Cottage Hospital, before being transferred to St Martin’s Hospital, just outside Bath. Vincent had broken his collarbone, Sheeley was badly bruised and concussed, but Cochran was seriously injured and would not regain consciousness: he died in hospital in Bath the following day. A young police cadet, David Harman, was among those called to help clear the scene after the crash. Harman would later find fame as Dave Dee, front man of the hit group Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.

Three weeks after Cochran’s death, Larry Parnes auditioned the Beatles to act as the backing group to his big signing, Billy Fury. They did not win that booking, but he hired them to play with Johnny Gentle on a short tour of Scotland. All of the Beatles were fans of Cochran and Vincent, and lapped up Gentle’s tales of life on the road with the two big American stars. When the 17-year-old George Harrison discovered that Gentle owned the shirt that Cochran had worn on stage in Bristol for that last show he begged the singer to give it to him.

Excerpt from Darryl W. Bullock's book The Velvet Mafia in The Bristol Magazine [x]

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The wise words of an artist to his critic.

SHOP.

Side note: extremely excited to have found the vintage party decoration I used in the background for free! A super nice fella told me I could just take it, after purchasing 6 souvenir spoons from him at Williams Grove 💛

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I could never be a defense attorney. I could never lie for a murderer, rapist, or evil human being. The way these defense attorneys be lying for their clients because they were paid insane amounts of money is DISGUSTING. I think defense attorneys were created so the innocent can be defended & the guilty to be punished appropriately! Nothing else not getting the guilty acquitted or a mistrial because you are dismissing the oath of law.

I don’t know how these lawyers sleep at night knowing that a murderer, rapist, or evil person is free to wreak havoc on other’s lives. It’s disgusting to watch these trials while knowing the defendant is guilty. I could never become a liar for money. Defense lawyers are sociopaths it’s no other word to describe them. It’s no way they can have a normal home life if they are lying in the court of law everyday.

How could Johnny Cochran(OJ Simpson lawyer) sleep at night, how could Dick DeGuerin(Robert Durst lawyer) sleep at night, how could Jennifer Bonjean(Bill Cosby lawyer) sleep at night, & so many other lawyers like John Gotti’s lawyers.

It’s a disgrace to law. That’s why people don’t believe in the justice system. It’s so rigged & it’s stomach turning evil!

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Empire Records (1995).

[shadowland]

Go, Johnny Go! (1959) was Eddie Cochran's third and final appearance in a major picture. A second song, "I Remember", was filmed but cut from the final print.