The King is dead ... long live Cobain
Dwayne Jenkings  |  by www.theage.com.au. All rights reserved. 4.01 | 16:16

top-earning dead celebrity.
($A66.2 million) in the year to this month.

Presley was in the No. million.
celebrities' work or image in advertising and elsewhere.


ago, said Forbes.com writer Lacey Rose.
Cobain's win was because his widow, actress and singer Courtney Love, sold a 25 per cent stake in Nirvana's song catalogue to New York music publisher PrimeWave.


Schulz at $US35 million.
million and physicist Albert Einstein at $US20 million, whose Einstein educational videos.
Other celebrities on the list included Theodore Geisel, better known as children's book author Dr Seuss, rhythm and blues pioneer Ray Charles, Marilyn Monroe and reggae singer Bob Marley.

Past top Brando.
When you see news happening: SMS/MMS: 0406 THE AGE (0406 843 243), or us.

Read more on by www.theage.com.au. All rights reserved.
Related news
  • Miss Him When He's Gone
    Franky Micklestone

    T here was something strange in the air that Tuesday night, summer of '95: the breeze was balmy but edgy, and the evening seemed extra dark and somehow uneasy...

  • All 'Growed' Up: Rethinking Jay Z
    Sam Boyle

    MARK ANTHONY NEAL is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (20...

Post comments
Name
Place
4 + 3 =
Comments