SMELLS LIKE SWEET ROYALTIES

Elvis Presley has finally been knocked off the throne as the world’s top-earning dead celebrity. The new champion is Kurt Cobain, who managed to earn $50 million between October 2005 and October 2006 despite being completely dead. Forbes Magazine has compiled the list for the past six years with Presley taking top spot for the first five years. Cobain’s win came thanks to Courtney Love selling off 25 percent of Nirvana’s song catalog to the music publishing company Primary Wave (and I, for one, am looking forward to hearing Kurt’s great tunes in a spaghetti commercial). After Cobain and Presley, the next highest-earning dead folks were Charles Schulz, John Lennon, and Albert Einstein. (Forbes.com)