2019 R&B singer Melvin Edmonds died at the age of 65. He was a member of the group After 7 and the brother of Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds. After 7 scored the hits 'Can't Stop,' 'Ready or Not' and 'Heat of the Moment.' 2019 A sweater worn by Kurt Cobain during the singer’s last photo-shoot with Nirvana sold for $75,000 at a New York auction. Also sold for $23,000 was Nirvana’s […]
Global superstar Ed Sheeran has released a studio recording of "Life Goes On (featuring Luke Combs)" available everywhere now via Atlantic Records. Sheeran and Combs revealed the surprise release on social media shortly after their show-stopping, live performance of "Life Goes On" on the 2023 Academy of Country Music Awards Thursday night, May 11th. The original version of the track appears on Sheeran's sixth studio album, " - " which […]
HARRY BELAFONTE, THE legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist, died Tuesday, April 25, Rolling Stone confirmed. He was 96. Belafonte died at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with longtime spokesperson, Ken Sunshine, saying the cause was congestive heart failure. Belafonte rose to prominence in the Fifties when his interpretation of calypso music popularized the sounds of the Caribbean for an American mainstream audience. His many […]
February 12, 1967 Police raid Keith Richards' Redlands estate, where they discover "various substances of a suspicious nature" and arrest him along with Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull. The whole thing is a setup. British authorities - guardians of their longstanding monarchy - are uneasy with the Rolling Stones, who seem to be corrupting the youth. The UK weekly News of the World loves stories about rock star indiscretions, and […]
Burt Bacharach, the singularly gifted and popular composer and Oscar winner who delighted millions with the quirky arrangements and unforgettable melodies of "Walk on By," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" and dozens of other hits, has died at 94. Bacharach died Wednesday at home in Los Angeles of natural causes, publicist Tina Brausam said Thursday. Over the past 70 years, only Lennon-McCartney, Carole King and a handful […]
On February 7, 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at New York’s Kennedy Airport—and “Beatlemania” arrives. The aeroplane touched down at JFK Airport at 1.20pm to scenes never seen before. It was the first visit to the United States by the Beatles, a British rock-and-roll quartet that had just scored its first No. 1 U.S. hit six days before with “I Want to Hold Your […]
Here Are the 2023 Grammy Awards Winners See all of Sunday’s biggest winners below: Record of the Year Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s) and mastering engineer(s), if other than the artist. “Don’t Shut Me Down,” ABBA Benny Andersson, producer; Benny Andersson & Bernard Lohr, engineers/mixers; Bjorn Engelmann, mastering engineer “Easy on Me,” Adele Greg Kurstin, producer; Julian Burg, Torn Elmhirst & Greg Kurstin, […]
Jeff Beck, one of the greatest guitarists of all time who rose to fame in the English rock band The Yardbirds, died on Tuesday. He was 78. His family said in a statement on Wednesday: “It is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing. After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday. His family ask for privacy while they process […]
Farrokh Bulsara was born on 5th Sept 1946, on the small spice island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were both Parsee (Persian). His father, Bomi, was a civil servant, working as a High Court cashier for the British Government. In 1954, at the age of eight, Freddie was shipped to St Peter’s English boarding school in Panchgani, about fifty miles outside Bombay. It was there his friends […]
