A publicity stunt built on bad rock ’n’ roll

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In the annals of publicity stunts, this has to be way up there. It wasn’t enough for Blender to name Jefferson Starship’s so-bad-I’d-consider-going-deaf “We Built This City” as the worst song ever. According to the New York Post, Blender contributor Russ Heller is slated to go for the world record in listening to the song at least 324 times in one day at the Best Buy on lower Broadway in Manhattan starting Friday morning. Ouch.

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