anthony mason has the story. >> reporter: it has been alleged that you are henry and howard coward. >, we've taken legal action against the coward brothers to stop this. >> they started by taking legal action against us. >> yeah. >> i think of them as being very two-dimensional. >> i do too. although i have to say they do resemble us. ♪ i don't want you anymore ♪ ♪ you put your foot right down through the floor ♪ ♪ oh ♪ >> reporter: and when elvis costello and t-bone burnett stopped by rough trade records in new york's rockefeller center, they were seen signing the new coward brothers album. ♪ >> can you believe that the catholic league of decent folk wanted this beautiful song banned from the air waves? >> reporter: the fable of henry and howard coward is told in a new audible original series, "the true story of the coward brothers," directed by christopher guest. harry shearer plays the radio host. >> by 1959 it was not just the coward brothers' career that was in freefall. the very existence of rock and roll was in doubt. >> this alleged history of the coward brothers is something

[ cheers and applause ] >> that was anthony mason with billie eilish.t will be sunday, february 2nd right here on cbs and streaming on paramount+. stay with us. "cbs news roundup" will be right back. >>> holiday decorations are one of the joys of the season, but there is also a dark side to all those flashing lights, candles, and christmas trees. each year, about 15,000 people suffer decorating-related injuries. kristine lazar has more. >> reporter: last year on christmas day, firefighters rushed to a miami area home after the christmas tree caught fire, leaving behind major damage. no one was injured, but in 2021, a similar situation near philadelphia turned deadly. investigators believe a faulty electric star on top of a dry tree led to the fire that killed a father and two of his children. why is it so important that we make sure that our christmas tree is watered? >> if your christmas tree isn't watered, it gets dry really fast. and a dry tree can go up in a burst of flames. >> reporter: alexander hoen s aric is chair of the consumer safety commissi

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eilish has already ascended to pop music heights that few have ever achieved, and this morning anthony mason shares the proof. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: do you care about winning grammys? what's that big laugh? >> what a question. >> reporter: billie eilish already has nine and she's up for seven more, including album of the year, as she tours behind "hit me hard and soft." >> do you want to meet ""cbs sunday morning."" we go back behind stage with billie eilish later on "sunday morning." >>> new york's legendary apollo theater has been making and breaking careers for nine decades. it's hosted some of the biggest names in show business. now nancy giles tells us the apollo is getting its due. ♪ i don't want it ♪ >> reporter: the apollo theater has launched some of music's most iconic stars, including smokey robinson. >> when i first came into the apollo theater ever in my life. i saw this mural. i wanted to be on be it so bad. and here we are. we finally made it. >> reporter: now the theater itself is taking a bow. coming up on "sunday morning." >>> there's been a lot of talk about tariffs lately. we

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anthony mason invited them in for a chat to describe their long strange trip to becoming one of the most bands in american history. >> i don't think of you guys as awards people necessarily. >> no. >> no. >> reporter: the grateful dead never seemed destined for cultural nobility. so what does this mean for you? >> it's a legacy thing for me and for us, i think. ♪ trucking ♪ >> reporter: but the band, born in the hippie counterculture of the '60s is now a kennedy center honoree. ♪ just keep trucking on ♪ >> this honor to me is not just to the band members. it's also to the audience, our deadheads. it's to all the people who really enjoyed our band. >> and kept us going. >> it's a creative honor for all of us. >> reporter: the surviving members, mickey hart, bobby weir, and bill kruetzmann met us at the great american music hall in san francisco. where they played in 1975. ♪ >> maybe left some brain cells here at the same time. >> reporter: debuting their album blues for allah on this stage, accompanied by live crickets. >> and they got loose. and that's the fun part. >> because guess what

anthony mason talks with the three surviving members about what the honor means to them. >>> and we areed sonic the hedgehog movie. james mars den and ben schwartz who voices sonic himself will be in studio to tell us all about sonic number three. we will have everything you need know and more on the show. we will see you at 7:00 and i have to say it again. it is a christmas movie. sorry gianna. >> you are killing me. all right. well, we'll discuss later. thanks. see you soon. >>> okay. there's just one week more left until christmas. that's it. one week. all right. you have got some time to finish that shopping and holiday shipping deadlines are here though. so heads-up. usps ground shipping is due today with priority mail express by saturday and u.p.s. has a thursday headline or monday with next day air and if you are willing to pay fedex offers same day shipping wow, through christmas eve. my mom stood in line for us yesterday. props to you. >>> meanwhile, we wanted to know what's your favorite christmas movie. a poll up on the x at kpix.com so check it out and here's the results. lo

it has now become our longest serving lecture here at the museum, our speaker, the mason distinguished lecture is anthony tucker-jones anthony is the author of over books. even though he had 60 books, it took about 50 or so of those before first had him here in 2021 when he spoke on churchill master and commander in our partnered program with the churchill of new orleans. if you would please to your program today and throughout the weekend will get a more fulsome biography all of our speakers. but so that we have time for one last question during q&a, i'm going to make all of the intros pretty short. and i'd also, if you could please be nice to, because he's due back in about two weeks to give a presentation on his latest book, churchill cold warrior. and i don't want him to cancel. so, ladies and gentlemen. good morning, everyone. very nice to see a sea of expectant faces so early in the. obviously as it is, jeremy's just said it's the 80th anniversary of the battle of the bulge, and it's quite a good time, i think, to reassess its impact on the on the second world war. bear with me. as jeremy just said

anthony snook, they will serve a total of 118 years. they were relentless in their mission to hunt down max and mason.el angry yet, because i'm worried about how how that will change me. because, at the moment, i'm upset — i'm too upset to think about my anger. i try not to think about them because it takes away my love for max. so i try not to focus on them, because i don't want to be angry. so i always put max in front of everything, you know? so i concentrate more on max than i do them. i think...they've got to live with what they've done for the rest of their life. for max and mason's family, facing their first christmas without their boys, these sentences bring very little comfort. fiona lamdin, bbc news. and if you want to find out more about the lives of max and mason and the investigation which brought their killers to justice , there's a special film on the bbc iplayer — it's called the mistaken identity murders. let's take a look at today's papers. many of them lead with an image of the woman gisele pelicot, whose ex—husband has been jailed for 20 years in a mass rape trial which has shocked