How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video Buddy Holly on the CD?

Re:How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video... by WorkerBee28474 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:44PM (#46970527)

> they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist.

Their old bassist did not make for good PR... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Smith

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Re:How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video... by snthpy on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @01:10AM (#46971487)

> The story took another surprising turn in 1993, when Wyman's 30-year-old son from his first marriage, Stephen, married Smith's mother, Patsy, then aged 46, making Smith her own step-grandfather’s ex-wife.

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Re:How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video... by dudefeliciano on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @07:04AM (#46973914)

that's a stroke inducing sentence right there

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Re:How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video... by ChrisRR on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:17AM (#47001081)

Yeehaw

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Re:How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video... by taysco on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @05:29AM (#46973292)

yikes. didn't know about any of that.

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