We all know Billy has been helping Courtney with her new album. He's been living with her for the past 4 months. Things that make you go hrmmmmmmmmmmm. I'll refrain from any personal comments/opinions (because they could get me banned haahah).
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200533,00.html
The new and improved Courtney Love, one of our most talented and conflicted performers, has a lot of plans. Among them: heading to Londons West End where shell appear in a classic play before the end of the year, perhaps even earlier.
But first: Courtney is busy in the recording studio with producer Linda Perry, who put Christina Aguilera on the charts with Beautiful and gave James Blunt his career with Youre Beautiful. Perry, whom Courtney rightly calls a genius, will probably sign Love to her Custard label for the album. The title hasn't been set, but How Dirty Girls Get Clean has been bandied about. Perry hasnt given Courtney any songs with the word beautiful in the title, but she did give her a stunner, Love says. She whipped a song out of the Beautiful and gave it to me, Courtney reports. Its stunning.
This week, to cleanse herself and get ready for a big round of singing and lyric writing, Love has stashed herself away at a spa for several days of fasting. Its not for weight, she told me, its for clarity. Shes on a mostly liquid diet of lemon water, apple juice, zucchini, carrots, parsley juice, aloe vera andbelieve it or notcastor oil.
The diet must work. Indeed, Courtney Love has never sounded better. Shes clean as a whistle and much resolved to have a series of successes this year including the play, the album and a book shell publish this fall called Dirty Blonde. The publisher is a classy one, too: Faber & Faber via Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Their other authors include Tom Wolfe, Philip Roth and Walker Percy. Not bad. Its not a kiss and tell, she insists. Conde Nasts Fashion Rocks supplement will carry an excerpt in September.
Back to the album: Courtney tells me that the principal work has been done by Perry, herself, and Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan. Not many people know this, Courtney says, but Billys been living with me for the last four months. By selling 25 percent of the Nirvana song catalog, Courtney raised enough money to buy a big Gatsby-like house in the Hollywood Hills, complete with a formal ballroom. Billy has one wing, Frances (her 13-year-old daughter) has another and I have one, she says proudly.
The change in finances has a lot to do with Courtneys new outlook. She says at her low point she had about $4,000 left, and she and Frances had moved into a rented condo. Offers were always pouring in to use Nirvanas songs (aka songs by her late, celebrated husband, Kurt Cobain). Coca Cola was desperate for one for a commercial. But in April Courtney sold 25% ownership in the catalog to music vet Larry Mestel. Bono was among those who wanted to buy the catalog, Courtney says. But "he didnt understand the extent of my debt, she reports. They remain friends. Now she says, a new feminine version of KY Jelly, is begging to use one of the songs for their commercials.
They probably want Come As You Are, she jokes. However, theres been no decision so far.
One of her big purchases with her new money is an Aston Martin, although she doesnt know how to drive it. Thats just as well. I have a driver, she says. She is determined to stay out of trouble. And if Linda Perrys Custard Music winds up with Universal Musicthe company Courtney sued to get out her contractshell be happy to go along without any complaints. I dont hold any grudges, she says right before hanging up. Shes got to get back to that parsley juice!
