2020 - Max Crook American musician Max Crook died age 83. A pioneer of electronic music he was the featured soloist on Del Shannon’s 1961 hit 'Runaway', which he co-wrote and on which he played his own invention, the Musitron. Crook also recorded a series of instrumentals, credited as Maximilian. 2017 - Ed Sheeran Ed Sheeran returned to No.1 for the forth time with his third studio album ÷ (pronounced […]
2020 John Prine, who grew up near Chicago, is named the first honorary poet laureate of Illinois. Prine died of coronavirus three months earlier. 2019 Taylor Swift's former label, Big Machine, was sold to Scooter Braun's company for an estimated $300 million, giving him control of her back catalog, including the master recordings. In response, Swift accused Braun of bullying her and said she would re-record all her old albums […]
2022 US singer R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison for using his celebrity status to sexually abuse children and women. The 55 year old R&B artist was convicted last September in New York of racketeering and sex trafficking crimes. He had faced years of allegations and the judge said he had an "indifference to human suffering". Lawyers for the singer, said he would appeal. Ahead of his […]
2019 Singer/actress Katharine McPhee, 35, marries the 69-year-old super-producer David Foster. They met in 2006 when Foster mentored McPhee on American Idol, and started dating in 2017. 2017 Gary DeCarlo, singer of the 1969 hit "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," dies of cancer at age 75. https://youtu.be/jsaTElBljOE 2016 Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's longtime guitarist died at his home in Nashville, aged 84. Moore had been in poor health […]
2020 American guitarist Pete Carr died age 70. He was lead guitarist for the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and recorded extensively at FAME Recording Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama. He recorded with Joan Baez, Bob Seger, Joe Cocker, Boz Scaggs, Paul Simon, The Staple Singers, Rod Stewart, Barbra Streisand, Wilson Pickett, Hank Williams, Jr., among many others. 2016 Mack Rice, the […]
2021 American singer-songwriter Johnny Solinger died one month after he revealed that he was suffering from liver failure. He was 55 years old. He was best known for being the lead vocalist of Skid Row from 1999 to 2015. 2020 American soul singer Tami Lynn died. She scored a Top Ten hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1971 with "I'm Gonna Run Away From You". She sang on all […]
The Biggest Headlines In Music, June 25th 2021 Rock group Måneskin, winners of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest, became the first act from Italy to have two singles in the top-ten of the UK Singles Chart simultaneously with 'I Wanna Be Your Slave' at No.6 and 'Beggin'' (a cover of the 1967 song by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons) at No. 10. 2019 A fan who went into labour […]
2016 Kanye West debuts the video for "Famous," which shows him in bed with nude likenesses of his wife Kim Kardashian, Donald Trump, Bill Cosby, Rihanna, and other celebrities and associates. West appears next to a likeness of Taylor Swift, who is derisively mentioned in the lyrics, "I made that bitch famous." West calls the video "a comment on fame." 2014 A working draft of Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling […]
2021 British engineer and composer Peter Zinovieff died age 88. In the late 1960s, his company, Electronic Music Studios (EMS), made the VCS3, a synthesizer used by many early progressive rock bands such as Pink Floyd and Krautrock groups as well as more pop-orientated artists, including Todd Rundgren and David Bowie. 2021 Britney Spears asks a court to end her conservatorship, which is controlled by her father. "This conservatorship is […]
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