Kanye and Knievel sort it out
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We loved the video for Kanye West’s Touch The Sky – featuring Pamela Anderson and looking straight out of the 70s, it was as cool as it was funny. Unfortunately not everyone thought so – especially not Evel Knievel, the famous motorcycle daredevil who became a household name in the 1960s.
The video had Kanye in the role of ‘Evel Kanyevel’ (see what they did there?), wearing a white jumpsuit just like the stuntman’s and crashing a rocket into a canyon in a stunt gone wrong. The real Evel didn’t take too kindly to it, and has sought to take action against the hip hop star. He said that Kanye had infringed copyright and the video had tainted his image with its “vulgar, sexual” tone.
But now the rapper and the stuntman have promised to settle the case out of court, and use a mediator to help. They’ve set a date to thrash it out in November – these things take ages, don’t they? Evel originally sued last year when the video was released.
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