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Get Well Wishes for Charlie Watts

Rolling Stones' drummer Charlie Watts has throat cancer. He's expected to make a full recovery and be back with the Stones later this year. Charlie, 63, has been with the Stones for more than 40 years.

Get well, Charlie.

In other music news, this weekend is the 35th anniversary of Woodstock. How times change. 35 years ago David Crosby was part of the counter culture. Today, he wants to be co-President of the United States. And, he's on an anti-crime rag, bashing Enron's Ken Lay in his new song:

The 5 1/2-minute song "They Want It All" that Crosby wrote for a new CD with Graham Nash, "Crosby-Nash," faults corporate leaders for bleeding companies of money and ripping off employees and investors. One lyric says: "These people that they stole from whose lives they laid to waste/They should meet them all face to face/And explain just why their mama didn't teach them not to steal/If you want us to believe in justice, justice better be real."

Neither Enron nor Lay are mentioned by name, but Crosby told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Friday, "It's about Enron, no question. When I introduce it, I say it's about Enron."....If they can bust me, they can bust him," Crosby said. "The law should work for everybody."

Michael Ramsey, Ken Lay's lawyer, responds:

I take it seriously," Ramsey said. "Nobody knows more about money and crime than David Crosby."

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