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After releasing a self-titled debut album, « Violent Femmes, » in 1983, the band gained fame with hits including « Blister in the Sun, » « Add It Up » and « Special. » It recorded at least 10 albums and toured the world at least a dozen times, the lawsuit said

Bassist Brian Ritchie sued lead vocalist Gordon Gano on Wednesday, saying he was deprived of credit for some of the group’s songs and a proper accounting of its earnings.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, also accuses Gano of trashing the band’s reputation by allowing its signature hit, « Blister in the Sun, » to be used in a Wendy’s commercial.

Gano, reached by telephone at his Manhattan home, called the lawsuit « a complete surprise » — especially since the band still regularly performs and just returned from a tour in South Africa.

« We just played a really, really good tour, » he said. « Since the early ’80s, everything’s really good. We’re playing better than ever. »

In the suit, Ritchie claims he founded the band in 1980, 대구출장안마 taking on drummer Victor DeLorenzo that year and Gano in 1981.

After releasing a self-titled debut album, « Violent Femmes, » in 1983, the band gained fame with hits including « Blister in the Sun, » « Add It Up » and « Special. » It recorded at least 10 albums and toured the world at least a dozen times, the lawsuit said.

« This action is the unfortunate culmination of an ongoing intra-band dispute between Ritchie and Gano over Gano’s misappropriation and misadministration of Ritchie’s interests in the jointly owned songs and assets of the band, misappropriation of assets solely owned by Ritchie, improper accounting and nonpayment of royalties, » the lawsuit said.

The Wendy’s deal was a buzz-kill for the band’s fan base, the suit says, causing one fan to comment in an online blog that after hearing « Blister in the Sun » in a commercial, « My ears perked up. Then my jaw dropped. Then my heart sank. »

Wendy’s is based in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.

The suit seeks a ruling declaring Ritchie half owner of the band’s songs and an accounting of past and future royalties and unspecified damages.

Gano declined to respond to the claims in detail, except to say he wrote the band’s songs with one or two exceptions.

Ross told Michael and Dina Lohan

Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Itália« You have both demonstrated to me extraordinarily good judgment in resolving this matter as you did, » state Supreme Court Justice Robert A. Ross told Michael and Dina Lohan.

Terms of the divorce agreement, which will become official within 60 days, weren’t disclosed. Dina Lohan has custody of the couple’s two minor children, Aliana, 13, and Dakota, 10.

Neither Lindsay, 21, nor her brother Michael, 19, were involved in the divorce proceedings since they are no longer minors.

Dina Lohan said, « Now the healing process can begin for my children and myself. »

She said Lindsay, who was arrested last month in Santa Monica, Calif., on suspicion of driving under the influence and cocaine possession, 대구출장샵 is doing « fantastic. »

The « Mean Girls » star faces an Aug. 24 court date in connection with that arrest.

The Lohans were close to an agreement on a divorce settlement in 2005, but that deal collapsed while Michael was serving a prison term for drunken driving, brawling and other charges.

He was released in March and entered a Christian-based drug and rehabilitation center in West Babylon. He has repeatedly said Lindsay needs the same kind of treatment.