On-demand services have arguably supplanted radio, and Dr. Demento, whose real name is Barret Hansen, jokes that the reaction today to Yankovic is a little different than it was back in the day. As the music industry transitions from album sales to streaming, Yankovic, now free of his record deal, is questioning what it means to be a veteran independent artist in I know that sounds a little ironic after coming off a No. But I have to stay true to what I think is the best way for me to get my material out.
See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour ». First, though, Yankovic, who lives comfortably with his wife — photographer Suzanne Yankovic — and their year-old daughter, Nina, in the Hollywood Hills, is hard at work again, this time helping Sony Legacy compile a career-spanning box set, titled — what else? Those albums have sold more than 9.
Yankovic and Sony Legacy are promoting it through PledgeMusic. PledgeMusic has begun taking orders for the set with a target release date of this fall. This ensures that production will be able to keep a close pace with consumer demand. He quickly disperses any suspicions on the part of his visitor that all this looking back meant he was ready to slow down. But this seemed like a good demarcation, it seemed like the end of an era. Al does get permission from the original writers of the songs that he parodies.
Plus, Al wants to make sure that he gets his songwriter credit as writer of new lyrics as well as his rightful share of the royalties. Most artists are genuinely flattered and consider it an honor to have Weird Al parody their work.
Even though most recording artists really do have a pretty good sense of humor, on a few very rare occasions Al has been denied permission to do a parody. Go figure. What the hey? Unfortunately, there are a lot of song parodies floating around the Internet being attributed to Al which were in fact done by somebody else. If you want to verify whether or not a song is actually by Al, check the Catalog page.
Demento Radio Show. He grew up in Lynwood, California a suburb of Los Angeles , although the hospital he was actually born in was in the neighboring town of Downey. Al attended Lynwood High school, where he was a straight-A student and graduated as Valedictorian at the age of After graduating from college, Al decided that architecture was not for him, so he worked for a few years in the mailroom and later at a desk job for a large radio syndication company in Culver City, California.
He has brown eyes and naturally curly no perm! Al got married on February 10, to his wife Suzanne. They have a daughter named Nina, born February 11, No, although they were friends for many years. In October , Frankie passed away at his home in Florida at the age of New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system. Since pop-culture chronicler Nathan Rabin obsessively wrote about every single Yankovic tune ever for his new book, The Weird Accordion to Al , he might be more familiar with that catalog than anyone else, save for Yankovic himself.
Here is what he learned about the four-decade trajectory of pop music from diving off the deep end into the weird world of Al. Yankovic has an incredible ability to know exactly when the iron is hot enough to strike, and it has led him to pay tribute to artists, over and over again, at what would later be known as the height of their powers.
And Al got Nirvana and grunge just as right. Both are historically built on the music and artistry of other artists. Al was liberated by YouTube and digital distribution. He could release low-budget but tremendously funny videos for every song on an album and have his audience follow him on YouTube.
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