A pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement. Dec. 1. Bob McGrath, 90. An actor, musician and...
Barry White, Donna Summer, and Gloria Gaynor ruled the radio. After Vietnam, Watergate, and a deep, lingering recession, Americans, it seemed, just wanted to go out and boogie. In New York, where the financial situation was so bad that the city had defaulted on its bonds in 1975, the...
Who is the most famous musician that was born the same year as you? Science has the answer. Stacker identified musicians born every year from 1920 to 2003 and then selected the top three musicians in each year using page view analysis from Wikipedia while ignoring data spikes that may have ...
Aretha Franklin sings during the finale of “Aretha Franklin: Duets,” an AIDS benefit concert in New York on April 28, 1993. Others onstage include Smokey Robinson, Gloria Estefan, Rod Stewart, Bonnie Raitt, Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. (Ron Frehm / Associated Press) 7/16 Aretha F...
As one half of McFadden & Whitehead, John Whitehead scored a big hit with the 1979 tune "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now.” However the R&B duo were even more successful as songwriters for other artists, penning tunes for Gloria Gaynor, the O’Jays and the Jacksons, among others. In 2004,...
“I met Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. They told me they were going to record the song. When I came back to the States and sang it, people said I was doing a Rolling Stones song. I stopped singing it. [Years later] I put it back into my repertoire when Bonnie Raitt was in New...
Her career thrived in the integrated Paris society; when La Revue Nègre closed, Josephine starred in La Folie du Jour at the Follies-Bergère Theater. Her jaw-dropping performance, including a costume of 16 bananas strung into a skirt, cemented her celebrity status. Josephine rivaled Gloria Sw...
As one half of McFadden & Whitehead, John Whitehead scored a big hit with the 1979 tune "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now.” However the R&B duo were even more successful as songwriters for other artists, penning tunes for Gloria Gaynor, the O’Jays and the Jacksons, among others. In 2004,...
As one half of McFadden & Whitehead, John Whitehead scored a big hit with the 1979 tune "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now.” However the R&B duo were even more successful as songwriters for other artists, penning tunes for Gloria Gaynor, the O’Jays and the Jacksons, among others. In 2004,...
As one half of McFadden & Whitehead, John Whitehead scored a big hit with the 1979 tune "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now.” However the R&B duo were even more successful as songwriters for other artists, penning tunes for Gloria Gaynor, the O’Jays and the Jacksons, among others. In 2004,...