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PEOPLE & ARTSSaturday 5 September 2015

McCartney, Bon Jovi, Fergie
join for climate change song

In a March 4, 2015, file photo, singer Aretha Franklin is In this June 12, 2014 file photo, Jon Bon Jovi attends the Sean Paul, Leona Lewis
interviewed after a taping for American Idol XIV at The Fillmore Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York. and Colbie Caillat also ap-
Detroit. pear on “Love Song to the
Associated Press Earth,” which was released
Associated Press Friday on iTunes and Apple
Music via Connect.
Aretha Franklin Proceeds from the track
blocks screening will benefit the United
of doc at festival Nations Foundation and
Friends of the Earth. Nicole
NICHOLAS RICCARDI lier — and that the screen- NEW YORK (AP) — Paul have joined forces to re- Scherzinger, Natasha Be-
Associated Press ings at a modest theater McCartney, Jon Bon Jovi, cord a song about climate dingfield, Angelique Kidjo,
DENVER (AP) — Aretha in a remote southwestern Sheryl Crow and Fergie change. Kelsea Ballerini and Victo-
Franklin earned some R-E- town wouldn’t harm her. ria Justice also appear on
S-P-E-C-T in a federal court- They also contended that the track.
room on Friday, convinc- a recently unearthed 1968 The song was created
ing a judge to prevent the recording contract Franklin to support a U.N. confer-
Telluride Film Festival from signed gave away rights ence in Paris this Decem-
screening a documentary to the footage of her con- ber that’s aimed at reach-
about a 1972 concert of certs. ing a deal with more than
hers without the Queen of “There’s a real, substantial 190 nations to keep global
Soul’s written consent. likelihood that Ms. Frank- warming from reaching
The 72-year-old singer tes- lin does not own the rights dangerous levels.
tified via speakerphone to the images in that pic- “Love Song to the Earth”
from Detroit and said she’s ture,” attorney Cecil Morris will receive a wide release
fought for years to prevent said. “It is not appropriate on Sept. 11. Johnny Rzeznik,
the screening of the mov- at the very last instant on Krewella, Christina Grim-
ie, titled “Amazing Grace,” a Friday afternoon before mie and Q’Orianka Kilcher
about her concert in Los a 7:30 showing to seek this also sing on the song.q
Angeles. She was aghast to remedy.”
discover Wednesday that Morris added an injunction Rocker Chrissie Hynde: Assault
the festival announced would damage the repu- by bikers is ‘the way it was’
it would show the movie tation of the Telluride festi-
three times, with the first val, which draws aficiona- In this Jan. 22, 2009 file photo shows, Chrissie Hynde, lead in with a band of outlaw
showing only a few hours dos and industry types from singer of the Pretenders, during rehearsals at John Henry’s bikers. She wound up be-
before she spoke in court. across the country. “This is Studio in north London. ing beaten, robbed and
“For him to show that film, not a showing at Joe’s Film raped, she says in an inter-
for him to completely and Festival in Oil Trough, Ar- Associated Press view to air on this week’s
blatantly ignore me would kansas,” he said. “Sunday Morning” on CBS.
be terrible,” she said of the Judge John L. Kane said NEW YORK (AP) — Legend- which won popularity de- Hynde, 63, is philosophical
film’s producer, Alan Elliot, Franklin deserved the right ary rocker Chrissie Hynde cades ago with hits such about the assault.
whom she sued in 2011 to to control how her image is was with the band. And as “Brass in Pocket” and “If you hung out with those
prevent a prior showing of used. “She would suffer im- not just as the sultry-voiced “Ohio.” guys, that’s what hap-
the movie. “For him to do mediate and irreparable singer with the Pretenders, Early in her life, Hynde fell pened. That’s the way it
that would encourage oth- damage by this showing,” was,” she says.
er people to do the same Kane said in issuing his or- Hynde says she didn’t fear
thing and have no respect der. The festival could ap- for her life, though she
for me.” peal the ruling, but would should have.
Attorneys for the film festi- have to reverse judgment “We were just trying to
val complained that Frank- before the last scheduled score pot and see bands,”
lin’s move came at the last screening Sunday evening. she explains. “And if motor-
minute — an agent who The movie was directed by cycles were part of it, then
represents her had been the renowned filmmaker even better.”
told the film would appear Sydney Pollack, who died But things could easily get
two to three weeks ear- in 2008.q out of hand.
“With a lot of these guys,
once you get involved with
them, you don’t really get
out,” she says. “Especially
if you’re a woman — you
become sort of property.”
Hynde writes about the at-
tack in her new memoir,
“Reckless: My Life as a Pre-
tender.” “Sunday Morning
With Charles Osgood” airs
Sunday at 9 a.m. EDT.q