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Just reading that jazz sax player Dexter Gordon became friendly with the family of Lars Ulrich when he was in Denmark, and is Lars' godfather.
Any others?
I read somewhere that Charles Wright was Dr Dre's uncle, but that seems tragically untrue (NWA covered/extensively sampled his track Express Yourself). But I do like that a royalties conflict was resolved entirely by Charles Wright calling up Ice Cube in person and telling him off.
I read somewhere that Charles Wright was Dr Dre's uncle,
It was actually Easy-E (Eric Wright). It think people wondered aloud whether Charles and Eric were related (some suggested Charles was either Easy-E's dad or uncle) mainly as part of a conversation about the various members of NWA being a bit more middle class than they let on - and it somehow became 'fact' - such as in Easy-E's obituary in the [url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-eazy-e-1614134.html ]Independent [/url]here
Ahhh right you are. Well that makes more sense.
