Pop singer Katy Perry had been dropped by three record labels before she finally broke through.

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Two months later, though, pop singer Katy Perry signed on as spokeswoman and joined as a minority investor in August.

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Now, he is collaborating with pop singer Katy Perry, who has also invested in the company, on her own line of sweet-and-salty Popchips called Katy's Kettle Corn, which launched last month.

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But the list also includes the emancipated jailbird Amanda Knox, the emphatically un-mysterious New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, the generic pop star Katy Perry, Cinderella's official sibling-in-waiting Pippa Middleton and the fast-rising TV stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet.

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Pop stars like Justin Bieber and Katy Perry just have the advantage of being able to find other revenue sources through things like perfume licensing deals and endorsements.

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In a fair world Crenshaw would be richer than Katy Perry and his sharp, jangly, immaculately constructed guitar pop would play from every car radio.

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