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Whitney's Headstone Has Familiar Lyric

By Newser Editors

The epitaph on Whitney Houston’s headstone was written by Dolly Parton, and Houston’s fans will immediately understand why. “I will always love you,” reads the quote on the bottom of the grave marker, reports AP , a reference to the Parton song that Houston made enormously popular. Houston is buried next… …read more

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These 10 Songs Were Meant for Other Singers

By Evann Gastaldo Can’t picture anyone other than Whitney Houston singing “How Will I Know”? Well, Janet Jackson was offered the song first, reports Entertainment Tonight . Nine more songs that were originally intended for someone else: Justin Timberlake’s “Rock Your Body” was originally offered to Michael Jackson—as were a few other eventual… …read more
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Clive Davis Praises Frank Ocean, Hip-Hop Community For Embracing Star After Coming Out

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Clive Davis chatted at length about Grammy Award winner Frank Ocean’s coming out and the hip-hop community’s heartwarming reaction in a new interview with MTV News.

“I’ll tell you what was heartwarming was the reaction of the Hip Hop community,” the current chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment, who played critical roles in the careers of Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys and Kelly Clarkson among others, said. “I mean, they accepted him as a person. This could have been very controversial.”

Davis, who’s been making the media rounds to promote his autobiography The Soundtrack of My Life, came out as bisexual last month.

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We Investigated Whitney Houston Extortion: FBI

By Evann Gastaldo Newly released FBI files on Whitney Houston reveal that the bureau once investigated an alleged extortion attempt against the singer, Reuters reports. The 128 pages of files were posted on the FBI‘s website yesterday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The alleged extortion attempt was reported to… …read more
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Whitney Houston Was in Denial: Clive Davis

By Evann Gastaldo Clive Davis has a new memoir, out yesterday, that apparently reads more like a tell-all. In The Soundtrack of My Life , Davis recalls that Whitney Houston was “in complete denial” about her substance abuse problems. He includes letters he sent her, including one from 2001 in which he wrote, “When… …read more
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John Mayer Admits He Was a "Jerk" to His Famous Ex-Girlfriends

Mother Still Tormented Over Her Death

Mother Still Tormented Over Her Death

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It’s nearly been a year since Whitney Houston‘s shocking death, and Cissy Houston still asks herself, ‘Could I have saved her somehow?’Who she blames for ‘way he treated her’

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Three Marketing Insights from Oprah Winfrey's Lance Armstrong Interview

By Judy Begehr, AdVoice Much like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and other newsmakers before him, Lance Armstrong opted to tell his story to Oprah Winfrey. The interview averaged 3.2 million total viewers in its premiere telecast and achieved new heights for the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). In the wake of Armstrong’s tell-all, there are three crystallized marketing insights that we can all learn from:
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Whitney Houston, EDM, Vinyl: Inside The Music Stats of 2012

By Zack O’Malley Greenburg, Forbes Staff Last week the Nielsen Company and Billboard released their annual year-end report on music sales. And for industry watchers, it was seven pages of pure statistical deliciousness. Some of the most fascinating stories, however, are located beyond the first page.
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