“he wrote great songs and was a giving and forgiving collaborator,” band said of long-time drummer. read more malik b. image credit: courtesy of the mpozi tolbert estate the roots rapper malik b. dead at 47 “may he be remembered for his devotion to islam, his loving brotherhood, ...
Smokey wrote Being With You for Kim but his manager persuaded him to record it himself and he ended up in the No 2 spot behind Kim’s monster hit. Ray Charles – Them That Got 1962 Always a winner Ray Charles had it all when it comes to an encyclopedia of music talent, barrelhouse,...
One pseudonym just wasn't enough for Paul McCartney. In 1965 he wrote and gifted pop duo Peter and Gordon his song, "Woman," on the condition that it be credited to a pseudonym, Bernard Webb. In 1968, he used the name Apollo C. Vermouth when producing a single called "I'm the Urba...
National Geographicpublished a story in which Jeff Flocken, the North American director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare wrote; The United States government is considering whether to add lions to the list of species protected by the Endangered Species Act. Such protection would ban the...
"Could care less ’bout sum [money] if I’m not happy,"wrote Tecca in September of 2019in a series tweets expressing his disdain for the rap game. "Hate this shit. I love y'all, but this shit won’t be continuing as long as y'all thought … At least I tell y'all what I'ma...
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an intervention that ended badly when you declared yourself “the greatest rock-and-roll star of all time” and wrote them anyway. So we ended up with an entire verse about sitting down in a chair—in the middle of a song about aging, which must be very hard for you at 24 years old...
( I wrote this memory of a barracks Christmas when I first started blogging, and expanded it for my memoir –from which this long reminiscence is pulled. I was stationed in Japan, then, a junior airman assigned to the FEN detachment.) All during the year, Thea and I had not given up...
that’s how I got it. He autographed it to me and included a Steve Stevens playing card and some of his signature picks with his ray gun logo. I also hit him up one day asking a question about how he recorded one of his guitar tracks and he wrote right back — he’s a great ...
Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87 Pianist-singer behind “Tutti Frutti,”“Good Golly Miss Molly,” and “Long Tall Sally” set the template that a generation of musicians would follow. Check out our tribute page to Little Richard ...