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    (Legal) Career Killers: The Lawsuit That (Officially) Broke Up The Beatles

    by Victor Li May 3, 2024
    May 3, 2024

    Did Yoko, personal tensions or the loss of their manager break up the Beatles? Or was it the lawyers? (It’s usually the lawyers.)

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  • Career KillersLawMusic

    (Legal) Career Killers: Irene Cara Wins Her Lawsuit But Loses Her Career.

    by Victor Li April 19, 2024
    April 19, 2024

    Oftentimes, legal battles in the music industry are strictly business and not personal.

    For Irene Cara, however, it certainly felt pretty personal.

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  • MusicReviews

    Album Review: “Everything I Thought It Was” by Justin Timberlake

    by Victor Li March 19, 2024
    March 19, 2024

    Remember David Spade’s “look children, it’s a falling star” joke about Eddie Murphy on SNL?

    This time, the falling star is Justin Timberlake.

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  • Career KillersLawMusic

    (Legal) Career Killers: Hall & Oates and an Injunction

    by Victor Li March 8, 2024
    March 8, 2024

    How a mysterious lawsuit exposed long-running fault lines between Hall & Oates.

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  • ABA JournalLawMusic

    Law School (Taylor’s Version)

    by Victor Li February 14, 2024
    February 14, 2024

    Got a “Blank Space” on your class schedule? Learn all about “The 1” and only Taylor Swift!

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  • Career KillersHumorMusic

    “Career Killers” as “Simpsons” Memes

    by Victor Li February 8, 2024
    February 8, 2024

    Saw a funny thread depicting some Todd In The Shadows’ Trainwreckords as “Simpsons” memes. So I tried it with some of my Career Killers.

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  • Career KillersLawMusic

    (Legal) Career Killers: Badfinger and Bad Management.

    by Victor Li October 9, 2023
    October 9, 2023

    Badfinger were supposed to be the next Beatles. Instead, they paid a tragic price for having bad, unscrupulous management.

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  • Career KillersLawMusic

    (Legal) Career Killers: Violent Femmes and Wendy’s.

    by Victor Li July 21, 2023
    July 21, 2023

    How a 2007 Wendy’s ad and subsequent lawsuit broke up Violent Femmes.

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  • Career KillersLawMusic

    (Legal) Career Killers: Michael Jackson v. Sony and the People of the State of California.

    by Victor Li June 30, 2023
    June 30, 2023

    How a chain-reaction of events in the early 2000s led to Michael Jackson’s downfall.

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  • Career KillersLawMusic

    (Legal) Career Killers: Lou Pearlman and His Ponzi Scheme.

    by Victor Li June 9, 2023
    June 9, 2023

    Lou Pearlman was one of the most influential music moguls of his time. And one of the biggest fraudsters.

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  • Career KillersLawMusic

    (Legal) Career Killers: R. Kelly and RICO, The Mann Act, Sex Abuse Laws, Child Pornography, Child Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor Laws…

    by Victor Li May 5, 2023
    May 5, 2023

    R. Kelly seemed untouchable. But then Surviving R. Kelly hit the airwaves.

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  • Career KillersLawMusic

    (Legal) Career Killers: The Lovin’ Spoonful, Buffalo Springfield and Pot Busts.

    by Victor Li April 21, 2023
    April 21, 2023

    Remember when marijuana was seen as a dangerous, illegal gateway drug? It helped kill two seminal 60s bands.

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    Let Me Take You On a Trip

    by Victor Li April 6, 2023
    April 6, 2023

    Victor, you just tested negative for COVID. What are you going to do now? I’m going to see Depeche Mode at the United Center! Overall, it was a good show. …

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  • Career KillersLawMusic

    (Legal) Career Killers: Chuck Berry and the Mann Act

    by Victor Li February 18, 2023
    February 18, 2023

    How the Mann Act took down the “Father of Rock & Roll.”

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  • Career KillersLawMusic

    (Legal) Career Killers: George Michael v. Sony

    by Victor Li February 3, 2023
    February 3, 2023

    George Michael was on the verge of being the biggest pop star in the world — until his lawsuit against Sony.

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- Author of Nixon in New York: How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House (2018) and Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process (2026)

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