June Brown, 95. She played the chain-smoking Cockney matriarch Dot Cotton on the British soap opera “EastEnders” for 35 years. April 3. Bobby Rydell, 79. A pompadoured heartthrob of early rock ’n roll who was a star of radio, television and the movie musical “Bye Bye Birdie....
Ed Sheeran performs in concert on the opening night of his Australian tour at Optus Stadium on March 2, 2018 in Perth, Australia. Paul Kane/Getty Images Welcome to the Billboard Chart Beat Podcast, where each week co-hosts Gary Trust and Trevor Anderson, from the Billboard charts ...
The indisputable queen of them all wasDonna Summer, who catapulted to international superstardom in the ‘70s with classics including the erotic epic “Love to Love You, Baby,” siren-like “I Feel Love” and the aptly steamy “Hot Stuff.” Together with GRAMMY-winning Italian producerGi...
Dua Lipa and two songwriters who worked on her single "Levitating" are being sued by two songwriters who claim the song rips off their 1979 disco song "Wiggle and Giggle All Night (Wiggle)." A judge in New York ruled this week it will go forward. L. Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer...
The “I Will Never Let You Down” debacle didn’t help her increasingly tense relationship with Jay-Z’s entertainment company, Roc Nation, who’d signed her in 2008. In December 2015, Ritasued Roc Nationclaiming she hadn’t been allowed to release her second album and their working relatio...