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9/15/17-Rise & fall of Bette!

[CNN] Well hello, Bette Midler, it's so nice to have you back where you belong. The 71-year-old actress took a spill Thursday night during a Broadway performance of "Hello Dolly." Fans were alarmed when Midler tumbled while onstage. "An hour into @HelloDollyBway & a tech snafu has just led 2 the amazing @BetteMidler toppling off a moving platform," music critic Todd Simmons tweeted. "A literal show stopper." Midler reportedly fell […]

todaySeptember 15, 2017

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9/8/17-Don Williams passes

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Country Music world mourns the loss of one of its’ most distinctive song stylists with the passing of Don Williams after a short illness. He was 78. A native of Floydada, Texas, Williams was born May 27, 1939. He grew up in Portland, TX, graduating there in 1958. Music had always been a part of his upbringing, entering – and winning - a talent contest when […]

todaySeptember 8, 2017

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9/7/2017-Nile Rodgers & George Michael

Nile Rodgers found it "extremely emotional" creating a remix of his late pal George Michael's track Fantasy. The Chic front man was close friends and a regular collaborator with the singer, and George asked him to rework his previously-released track Fantasy in early 2016, months before he died that December. Hours before the single debuted on BBC Radio 2 on Thursday morning, Nile took to Twitter to tell a user […]

todaySeptember 7, 2017

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9/3/17-Walter Becker dies

Walter Becker, the co-founder and guitarist of the influential rock duo Steely Dan died on Sunday at the age of 67. His death was announced his website, alongside an image of him as a child next to one of him as an adult holding a guitar. With no other details mentioned, it is unclear what the cause of his death was. Becker had missed two recent Steely Dan performances. At […]

todaySeptember 3, 2017

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9/1/17-Fleetwood Mac Tour News

Fleetwood Mac leader Mick Fleetwood has assured fans the band's 2018 tour won't be a finale. Bandmate Christine McVie has hinted that the upcoming 18-month global trek will be a farewell, but the drummer insists the band has more music to play and perhaps record. "In my mind, it's not (the final tour), and everyone in the band has decided that it's not," he tells Rolling Stone, "but we thought […]

todaySeptember 1, 2017

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8/31/17-Lighthouse leader dies

Hear Skip Prokop on "The Lost 45s." Skip Prokop, co-founder and drummer with the Canadian rock band Lighthouse, has died. He was 74. He was a frequent guest on "The Lost 45s." Band manager Brenda Hoffert, wife of Lighthouse co-founder Paul Hoffert, says Prokop died Wednesday in a St. Thomas, Ont., hospital. She says Prokop had been living with a heart condition and was ill for some time. Prokop had […]

todayAugust 31, 2017

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8/29/17-Bowie sets record

'The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity” David Bowie June 2002. This week the music of David Bowie reached a major milestone with the one billionth stream on Spotify from his stellar 50-year career. The #1 streamed song, “Heroes”, […]

todayAugust 29, 2017

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8/17/17-Tanya Tucker @ Glen Campbell

Country star Tanya Tucker has written an emotional tribute to her late ex, Glen Campbell, a week after his death. The singer dated the Rhinestone Cowboy star when she was in her 20s, back in the early 1980s, and admits she has always loved him. In the new issue of Closer magazine, Tucker pours out her heart for Glen, who died on August 8th, aged 81, following a seven-year battle […]

todayAugust 17, 2017

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8/8/27-Glen Campbell Dies

Hear Glen Campbell on "The Lost 45s." Glen Campbell, the upbeat guitarist from Delight, Arkansas, whose smooth vocals and down-home manner made him a mainstay of music and television for decades, has died, his family announced on Facebook on Tuesday. He was 81. "It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and legendary singer and guitarist, Glen Travis Campbell, following […]

todayAugust 8, 2017

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