The Buzz : Everything You Need To Know Today Jun 5th

Merge 104.8  |  05 June 2022

Mariah Carey is being sued over her Christmas classic “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by a songwriter who said he co-wrote a song with the same title five years before Mariah did. Andy Stone is asking for at least $20 million in damages from Mariah, her co-writer and Sony Music Entertainment for copyright infringement and misappropriation, among other claims.

 

Johnny Depp is planning to release a new album after winning his defamation case. He is is teaming with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame musician Jeff Beck for the project which is set to be released this summer. He’s no stranger to music having played rhythm guitar for a rock band in the 80s as well as being a featured musician in songs by Oasis and Aerosmith.

 

NASA is set to launch another spacecraft mission to orbit around the moon later this month, in preparation for a new lunar space station. The launch has been delayed a few times to ‘no earlier than June 13th’, having been previously set for June 6th. It will act as a test mission for Lunar Gateway which will one day serve as a ‘staging area’ for landing humans on the moon. NASA say they are planning to land the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2025.

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