Peter Tosh to be honored in Kingston
KINGSTON, Jamaica (Calabash Festival announcement) - Murdered reggae legend Peter Tosh is to be honoured at the fourth annual Calabash International Literary Festival later this month. The May 28-30 festival will bring together several internationally recognised writers, actors and musicians for public ...
| Spice Girls may stage reunion
NEW YORK (NY Daily News/Mel B Fans Website) - Speaking in New York, where Mel B is appearing in a Broadway musical, the 28-year-old singer said she hoped the band would pen a new song for the album. "We will probably do something together as a group, but not for a while," she said. "I think they are ...
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Barbra Streisand memorabilia set for auction
LOS ANGELES (Barbra Streisand Foundation announcement) - More than 400 pieces of Barbra Streisand memorabilia will go on auction June 5, with proceeds going to charities supported by the actress/singer, it was announced Monday. The auction will be held at Astra West in the Pacific Design Center in West ...
| New York Dolls tribute
NEW YORK (FastLane Records press release) - FastLane Records and subsidiary/imprint label CD Smash Records are finishing up their tribute to the New York Dolls titled Jetboys of Babylon. This will be a power-packed, all-star line-up to say the least. According to New York Dolls frontman, the legendary ...
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John Lennon's last autograph for sale at $US 325,000
NEW YORK (Beatles Fans Community Website) - John Lennon's last ever autograph, given merely 15 minutes before he was murdered by Mark Chapman, is up for auction for a whopping $US 325,000. Rabiah Seminole, 51, has kept the note - which includes Lennon and Yoko Ono's signatures, self portraits of the ...
| Paul Atkinson, former Zombies member dies
LOS ANGELES (60s music news website) - Paul Atkinson, who played guitar in a British invasion band, the Zombies, and later became a successful music industry executive, has died. He was 58. Atkinson died last Thursday at the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center after a long battle with liver and kidney ...
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'Motown 45' celebration with an outstanding performance of Gladys Knight
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - We assume that you are goinh to see the "Motown 45" TV show on ABC next month with some of the great music legends and performers. We mention the outstanding performance of Gladys Knight. She did "Neither One of Us" and "Heard It Through The Grapevine" and it was just like ...
| Retro: The Jam
By Mikey (Gillingham, Kent. UK) Introduction Influential and extremely popular punk-based mod trio from Surrey, Paul Weller (vocals, guitar), Bruce Foxton (bass) and Rick Buckler (drums). They hold the record for the most simultaneous Top 75 singles with 13 (all re-activated by their 1982 dissolution). ...
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Jan of 'Jan & Dean' dies at 62
LOS ANGELES (60s website) - Jan Berry, who with Southland school chum Dean Torrence rose to fame singing surfer-rock songs in the 1960s, has died in Los Angeles. Jan Berry - once described as the daredevil half of the Jan & Dean duo - reportedly died at a hospital after falling ill yesterday at his ...
| Elvis link has Scottish village all shook up
LONDON, UK (Elvis Presley Fans Website) - Elvis Presley's ancestral heritage has been traced back to Lonmay, a small village in north east Scotland, the London-based Times said, citing Allan Morrison, author of a book on Presley. Parish records are said to show how eight generations before Elvis was ...
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood reunited
LONDON, UK (80s website) - One of the biggest and most controversial bands of the 80's has reunited. Frankie Goes To Hollywood's first three singles topped the charts, but they split after a huge backstage bust-up, The Sun reported. Now, 17 years later, they have reformed, not because they have made ...
| Mud lead singer Les Gray dies
LISBON, Portugal (70s Website) - Les Gray, the 57 year old front man of 70's pop band Mud, has died at his home in Portugal. He suffered a heart attack, although he had also been battling against throat cancer for some time. Gray had been undergoing chemotherapy rather than having his voicebox removed ...
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Doris Troy dead at 67
LAS VEGAS (Top40 Charts) - Doris Troy, the big-voiced soul singer of the 1963 hit "Just One Look," whose life story was the inspiration for the long-running musical "Mama, I Want to Sing," died on Monday in a hospital in Las Vegas. She was 67 and lived in Las Vegas. Born Doris Payne in Harlem, New York, ...
| Retro: Duran Duran
By Mikey (Gillingham, Kent, UK) Introduction One of the greatest influential bands of the eighties, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor aka Duran Duran, (the three Taylor's are not related,) marking their welcome return to the world of music, with a big comeback trail ...
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Curator decries Elvis tape cutting
NEW YORK (Elvis Fans Website) - Plans to cut up and sell pieces of an original tape of Elvis Presley's Sun Studio recordings are "shameful," a curator for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said Tuesday. The curator joined a chorus of Elvis fans complaining as the tape's owner held a New York press conference ...
| Info about 40th anniversary Beatles tribute festival
CLEVELAND (Xpress press/Beatles Fan Website) - The year is 1964. For The Beatles, it is a year of firsts. "Meet The Beatles," the first Beatles album, debuts in the United States. In February, The Beatles make their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, and they embark on their first American tour. ...
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Doctor charged with exploiting dying Beatle
NEW YORK (Beatles Fans Websites) - A terminally ill George Harrison was forced by his cancer doctor to sign autographs on his deathbed, according to a 10-million-dollar lawsuit filed by the former Beatle's estate. The suit names New York oncologist Gilbert Lederman, accusing him of "shameless self-promotion" ...
| Bobby Hatfield death was caused by cocaine
NEW YORK (60s website) - Bobby Hatfield died at the age of 63 on November 5th of last year, a few hours before he was to take the stage in the first performance on a Righteous Brothers reunion tour. Initial findings after his death placed the cause of death as advanced coronary disease, which brought ...
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Kinks singer shot by mugger
NEW YORK (N. Orleans news) - The Kinks front man Ray Davies is recovering after being shot by a mugger who snatched his girlfriend's bag. Davies, who penned Waterloo Sunset, had left a restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Sunday night when his partner's bag was grabbed. He gave chase but one of ...
| Retro: The Police
by Mikey (Gillingham, Kent, UK) Introduction Nominally, the Police were punk rock, but that's only in the loosest sense of the term. The trio's nervous, reggae-injected pop-rock was punky, but it wasn't necessarily punk. All three members were considerably more technically proficient than the average ...
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