(Reuters) - Randy Meisner, a co-founder of the Eagles who sang lead on the 1975 hit "Take It to the Limit," died on Wednesday of complications from lung disease, the band said on its website on Thursday. He was 77. Meisner, a bass player, joined Glenn Frey, ...
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The music video for the single, which was directed by John Maybury, and featured mostly close-ups of O'Connor's face as she sang, which helped her to become as well-known as the song. She was named Rolling Stone's artist of the year in 1991, and in 2023, she was presented with ...
A two-time Grammy-winning soul and gospel artist who sang with Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and other stars and knew triumph and heartbreak as the mother of singer Whitney Houston. Oct. 7. Tim Johnson, 77. The former U.S. senator was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South...
The 68-year-old sang it for the first time in 1974 at the National Finals Rodeo, and has performed it there another nine times since. Also on the bill is Grammy-nominated Rockstar rapper Post Malone, who will sing America The Beautifu...
being, was shared with the world through all that he created. Through his music and his boundless love, Quincy Jones' heart will beat for eternity."Jones rose from running with gangs on the South Side of Chicago to the very heights of show business, becoming one of the first Black ...
One of the iconic figures in the genre is Elvis Presley, often referred to as the King of Rock and Roll. His groundbreaking sound, which blended Rock and Roll, gospel, and country influences, revolutionized the music industry. Songs such as “Heartbreak Hotel,”“Hound Dog,” and “Jailhouse...
With the Beatles, Lennon and McCartney were seen as the primary creative forces. They wrote and sang most of the songs. After the end of the Beatles’ run, McCartney did some solo work, but also fronted a new band called Wings. While his post-Beatles work hasn’t been a...
with Geffen to Asylum records, and Meisner recorded on the band’s first five albums, contributing bass, high harmonies, songs, and lead vocals, most notably on “One of These Nights.” Meisner left the Eagles (to be replaced by Timothy B. Schmit, the same bassist who replaced him in ...
Born in Chicago in 1933, Jones would cite the hymns his mother sang around the house as the first music he could remember. But he looked back sadly on his childhood, once telling Oprah Winfrey that “There are two kinds of people: those who have nurturing parents or c...