Howard Stern – After spending decades on terrestrial radio, Stern joined celestial radio station Sirius Radio in January 2006 and immediately lost a couple of zillion listeners, while keeping some millions of hardcore listeners. The net effect was Stern stopped mattering all that much. Until 2012, when Stern joined the judges at “America’s Got Talent”, regained his audience and became a mainstream TV star as well. Now he has a mass audience here and with his Lady Gaga interview last Monday got everybody else at the same time.
Yellow Dogs – In what may very well be a first, Guitarist Saroush and his brother drummer Arash Farazmand after their former bassist took revenge for being thrown out of their band, Yellow Dogs, shot the unarmed musicians to death. The band survived secret gigs and arrests to die in Brooklyn by a true coward who blew his brains out on the roof of their house.