Paul Atkinson, former Zombies member dies
LOS ANGELES (60s music news website) - Paul Atkinson, who played guitar in a British invasion band, the Zombies, and later became a successful music industry executive, has died. He was 58. Atkinson died last Thursday at the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center after a long battle with liver and kidney ...
| 'Motown 45' celebration with an outstanding performance of Gladys Knight
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - We assume that you are goinh to see the "Motown 45" TV show on ABC next month with some of the great music legends and performers. We mention the outstanding performance of Gladys Knight. She did "Neither One of Us" and "Heard It Through The Grapevine" and it was just like ...
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Retro: The Jam
By Mikey (Gillingham, Kent. UK) Introduction Influential and extremely popular punk-based mod trio from Surrey, Paul Weller (vocals, guitar), Bruce Foxton (bass) and Rick Buckler (drums). They hold the record for the most simultaneous Top 75 singles with 13 (all re-activated by their 1982 dissolution). ...
| Jan of 'Jan & Dean' dies at 62
LOS ANGELES (60s website) - Jan Berry, who with Southland school chum Dean Torrence rose to fame singing surfer-rock songs in the 1960s, has died in Los Angeles. Jan Berry - once described as the daredevil half of the Jan & Dean duo - reportedly died at a hospital after falling ill yesterday at his ...
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Elvis link has Scottish village all shook up
LONDON, UK (Elvis Presley Fans Website) - Elvis Presley's ancestral heritage has been traced back to Lonmay, a small village in north east Scotland, the London-based Times said, citing Allan Morrison, author of a book on Presley. Parish records are said to show how eight generations before Elvis was ...
| Frankie Goes To Hollywood reunited
LONDON, UK (80s website) - One of the biggest and most controversial bands of the 80's has reunited. Frankie Goes To Hollywood's first three singles topped the charts, but they split after a huge backstage bust-up, The Sun reported. Now, 17 years later, they have reformed, not because they have made ...
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Mud lead singer Les Gray dies
LISBON, Portugal (70s Website) - Les Gray, the 57 year old front man of 70's pop band Mud, has died at his home in Portugal. He suffered a heart attack, although he had also been battling against throat cancer for some time. Gray had been undergoing chemotherapy rather than having his voicebox removed ...
| Doris Troy dead at 67
LAS VEGAS (Top40 Charts) - Doris Troy, the big-voiced soul singer of the 1963 hit "Just One Look," whose life story was the inspiration for the long-running musical "Mama, I Want to Sing," died on Monday in a hospital in Las Vegas. She was 67 and lived in Las Vegas. Born Doris Payne in Harlem, New York, ...
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Retro: Duran Duran
By Mikey (Gillingham, Kent, UK) Introduction One of the greatest influential bands of the eighties, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor aka Duran Duran, (the three Taylor's are not related,) marking their welcome return to the world of music, with a big comeback trail ...
| Curator decries Elvis tape cutting
NEW YORK (Elvis Fans Website) - Plans to cut up and sell pieces of an original tape of Elvis Presley's Sun Studio recordings are "shameful," a curator for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said Tuesday. The curator joined a chorus of Elvis fans complaining as the tape's owner held a New York press conference ...
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Info about 40th anniversary Beatles tribute festival
CLEVELAND (Xpress press/Beatles Fan Website) - The year is 1964. For The Beatles, it is a year of firsts. "Meet The Beatles," the first Beatles album, debuts in the United States. In February, The Beatles make their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, and they embark on their first American tour. ...
| Doctor charged with exploiting dying Beatle
NEW YORK (Beatles Fans Websites) - A terminally ill George Harrison was forced by his cancer doctor to sign autographs on his deathbed, according to a 10-million-dollar lawsuit filed by the former Beatle's estate. The suit names New York oncologist Gilbert Lederman, accusing him of "shameless self-promotion" ...
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Bobby Hatfield death was caused by cocaine
NEW YORK (60s website) - Bobby Hatfield died at the age of 63 on November 5th of last year, a few hours before he was to take the stage in the first performance on a Righteous Brothers reunion tour. Initial findings after his death placed the cause of death as advanced coronary disease, which brought ...
| Kinks singer shot by mugger
NEW YORK (N. Orleans news) - The Kinks front man Ray Davies is recovering after being shot by a mugger who snatched his girlfriend's bag. Davies, who penned Waterloo Sunset, had left a restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Sunday night when his partner's bag was grabbed. He gave chase but one of ...
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Retro: The Police
by Mikey (Gillingham, Kent, UK) Introduction Nominally, the Police were punk rock, but that's only in the loosest sense of the term. The trio's nervous, reggae-injected pop-rock was punky, but it wasn't necessarily punk. All three members were considerably more technically proficient than the average ...
| 'The Double Fantasy' album that John Lennon signed is up for sale
NEW YORK (Beatles Fans Website) - The copy of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy LP that Lennon autographed for Mark Chapman hours before he was murdered is up for sale. The album was found hidden behind a planter near the entrance of New York's Dakota apartment building shortly after Lennon ...
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Bee Gees: Collectors Edition 2 DVD Box Set will be in stores Dec. 9th
NEW YORK (Eagle Rock Ent. press release) - Just in time for the holidays, Eagle Rock Entertainment presents the hits and history of the Bee Gees with the release of Bee Gees: Collectors Edition. This specially packaged 2 DVD set features the amazing biographical program Official Story, as well as the ...
| John Lennon lyrics have sold for $455,000
NEW YORK (Beatles Fans Website) - Handwritten lyrics by John Lennon to The Beatles' song 'Nowhere Man' have sold for $455,000 in New York. The lyrics had been expected to fetch between $80,000 and $100,000 at Christie's yesterday. Earlier this year, a student film featuring John Lennon sold for over ...
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Retro: The Clash
Gillingham, Kent, UK (By Mikey) Introduction The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but the Clash were the definitive British punk rockers. Where the Pistols were nihilistic, the Clash were fiery and idealistic, charged with righteousness and a leftist political ideology. From ...
| Retro: The Stranglers
Gillingham, Kent, UK (By Mikey) Introduction It has often been said that the Stranglers are probably the most enduring band of the UK punk/new wave era, while at the same time being the least celebrated. Line-up consisted of Hugh Cornwell on guitar/vocals, Jean-Jacques Burnel on bass/vocals, Dave Greenfield ...
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