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5/14/20-Beach Boys 60th Reunion

Source: music-news.com Cousins Mike Love and Brian Wilson are close to putting their differences aside for another Beach Boys reunion tour. The surviving members of the group have been touring separately in two Beach Boys bands since their 50th-anniversary tour ended in 2012, but Love tells Rolling Stone he is open to the idea of another get together to mark the 60th anniversary of the band's first hit in 2021. […]

todayMay 14, 2020

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5/10/20-Betty Wright passes

  The music industry is suffering from another significant loss as sources close to Betty Wright’s family have confirmed her passing. She was 66. Known for R&B classics such as “Tonight Is the Night” and “No Pain, (No Gain),” Wright’s ubiquitous 1972 single “Clean Up Woman” would be immortalized in hip hop soul history when it was sampled for the remix of Mary J. Blige’s “Real Love." Born Bessie Regina […]

todayMay 10, 2020

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5/9/20-Little Richard dead

Source: TMZ Little Richard, a giant in the early stages of Rock 'n' Roll and beyond, has died. Richard had enormous influence over the genre, with insanely popular hits like the fantastically frenetic, "Tutti-Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally." The Beatles have credited Richard as being inspirational to the Fab Four. Richard's bass guitarist, Charles Glenn, tells TMZ ... Richard had been sick for 2 months. He died at his Tennessee […]

todayMay 9, 2020

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5/6/20-Kraftwerk founder dies

(CNN) Florian Schneider, the co-founder of the German electronic band Kraftwerk, has died of cancer at age 73. "Kraftwerk co-founder and electro pioneer Ralf Hütter has sent us the very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday," the band said in a statement provided to CNN by publicist Alexandra […]

todayMay 6, 2020

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5/5/20-Gene Simmons & Holocaust

source: music-news.com Kiss star Gene Simmons has opened up about his mother's release from a Nazi concentration camp after her official papers were unearthed in Germany. Bild reporters obtained the documents and recently showed them to the rock star 75 years after American troops liberated the Mauthausen camp on 5 May, 1945 - three days before the official end of World War II. Gene's mother, Flora Klein, was the only […]

todayMay 5, 2020

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5/5/20-Boy George Revelation

Source: music-news.com Boy George didn’t take part in the 1985 Live Aid concert because he was 'otherwise engaged chemically.' The former Culture Club frontman has revealed his band were asked to perform at the landmark concert - which was held on July 13 1985 to raise money for the Ethiopian famine - but organizers “didn’t follow up” on the request because of George’s battle with a drug addiction. Speaking to […]

todayMay 5, 2020

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5/5/20-Cher's cancelled tour

source: music-news.com Cher is glad her "Here We Go Again Tour" was shut down in March, because the pop legend knew how dangerous the coronavirus crisis was going to be. The 73-year-old singer icon was on the road when her March 12 concert in Oklahoma was cancelled and she knew instinctively that government officials were making the right decision to shut everything down. "I knew more than most Americans because […]

todayMay 5, 2020

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4/25/20-Beatles vs Stones

Mick Jagger is amused whenever Paul McCartney insists The Beatles were better than the Rolling Stones because he is adamant there is no comparison. The age-old question is one that has entertained music fans for decades, and McCartney recently reignited the debate by claiming the Fab Four's wider appeal made them the superior group. "(The Stones) are rooted in the blues," the Hey Jude hit maker recently told U.S. shock […]

todayApril 25, 2020

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4/23/20-Marianne Faithfull News

Marianne Faithfull is recovering at home after spending three weeks in hospital battling the coronavirus. The 73-year-old singer was admitted to a London hospital with coronavirus symptoms, and she subsequently tested positive for the virus and later contracted pneumonia. On Wednesday, her representatives posted a statement on her social media accounts in which they announced the As Tears Go By singer had left the hospital and was now resting at […]

todayApril 23, 2020

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