Etta James appear dates
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Etta James has a select handful of dates coming up in support of her new Blue Gardenia album, which was released on Aug. 21. She'll be appearing at the House of Blues clubs in New Orleans on Sept. 8; Las Vegas on Oct. 5; West Hollywood, Calif., on Oct. 12; and Anaheim, Calif., ...
| Elvis Presley Among 2001 Gospel Music Hall Of Fame Inductees
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - His hip-shaking antics might have caused the conservative sect to raise an a collective eyebrow back in the day, but Elvis Presley is now being inducted into Gospel Music Association's 2001 Gospel Hall of Fame. Joining Presley in the Hall are Doris Akers, Wendy Bagwell & the ...
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Ex-Singer for Sha Na Na Teaching Law
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Dennis Greene, former singer with the '50s revival group Sha Na Na, has a new gig: He's teaching entertainment law at the University of Dayton this year. He'll also teach courses on intellectual property in the digital economy as well as mass media and race. Greene is a tenured associate ...
| Paul McCartney Provides Voice for Frog
VENICE, Italy (AP) - Paul McCartney's famous voice now belongs to, of all things, a frog. McCartney and Dustin Hoffman provide the voices for ``Tuesday,'' British director Geoff Dunbar's animated short film at the Venice Film Festival. "Tuesday'' is the story of a group of frogs that fly across the ...
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Trains Stop Rolling for Ray Charles
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Last year, it was the trains that stopped Ray Charles' show. This year, Ray Charles' show will stop the trains. For the second straight year, Charles will be performing an outdoor concert at Harrah's Plaza in downtown Reno - next to the railroad tracks. Last year, Charles found himself ...
| Brian Wilson Heads To Japan
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Brian Wilson and his band will perform five dates in Japan next month. A spokesperson for Wilson said the singer-songwriter is anxious to perform for audiences in Japan, telling: "The Japanese fans just love him over there." This visit will mark Wilson's second tour there - ...
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Aussie Band INXS Visits Transylvania
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Members of the Australian band INXS got their fangs into some serious shopping while in Transylvania for a concert, a newspaper reported. The five band members bought woolen sweaters and T-shirts with Vlad the Impaler's portrait during a visit Wednesday to Bran Castle, the ...
| Judge Won't Dismiss Garcia Guitar Suit
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) - A Marin County Superior Court has refused to dismiss a lawsuit that disputes the ownership of five of Jerry Garcia's guitars. Grateful Dead Productions, the Novato-based company representing the surviving band members, had asked the judge to dismiss Doug Irwin's lawsuit for ...
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Davies to Tour This Fall
NY (Top40 Charts) - Kinks frontman Ray Davies will kick off a solo tour on September 18th in Philadelphia. The twenty-three-date jaunt will wrap up on October 25th in Seattle. Look for Davies to showcase some new material that he's been working on with Hoboken, New Jersey indie-rock darlings Yo La Tengo. ...
| Wanna buy Jimi Hendrix's house?
SEATTLE, Washington (Top 40 Charts) - For sale: 900-square-foot, two-bedroom house in Seattle. Purple kitchen cabinets, hardwood floors and a clawfoot bathtub. A steal! And did we mention that Jimi Hendrix once lived there? It's true. One of Jimi Hendrix's boyhood homes is for sale on eBay. As of Friday ...
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Judge Allows James Brown Sexual Harassment Suit To Move Forward
NY (Top40 Charts) - A California Superior Court judge has refused to throw out a sexual harassment case filed against soul legend James Brown by a former employee in May of 2000. Lisa Ross Agbalaya, who was president of West Coast Operations of the New James Brown Enterprises from April 1993 to February ...
| Elvis Lives!
London (Top40 Charts) - Elvis Presley died 24-years ago and to mark the anniversary, an image has been produced to show how he would have looked if he'd lived to celebrate it. The picture (right) represents how the King of Rock and Roll might shape-up at the age of 66, had he not died at his Graceland ...
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Beatles autographs net $24,000
MELBOURNE, Australia (Top 40 Charts) - A piece of paper signed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison in 1965 sold for $24,000 at an auction Monday, the Associated Press reported. An anonymous collector acquired the pizza-stained paper, which the three Beatles bandmates signed at a hotel ...
| CSN Kicks Off 'Nice, Friendly Tour'
NY (Top40 Charts) - David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash, also know as CSN, kick off a six-week tour tonight (August 13) outside Detroit at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan. It's the trio's first tour since a reunion outing with occasional partner Neil Young in early 2000. ...
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L.A. oldies station now jammin' to a new name
HOLLYWOOD (Top40 Charts) - The obituary to radio's once-hot "Jammin' Oldies" format can now be written. Clear Channel's Los Angeles outlet KCMG-FM (92.3) - which launched the format, a potpourri of R&B classics, soul and disco, to much fanfare in 1998 - switched to an urban AC sound Thursday evening. ...
| Linda's Photos See New Light
NY (AP) - Shortly before her death in 1998, Linda McCartney finished putting together a book of photographs she had taken during the previous three decades. Light From Within, which took her two years to compile, is finally being released in October. The diaristic collection, with a foreword written ...
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Jardine Loses 'Beach Boys'
NY (AP) - Founding Beach Boy Alan Jardine received a severe legal setback Monday, when a U.S. District Court ruling prohibited him from touring with his band under the name the "Beach Boys Family and Friends," as he did throughout 1999. Instead, he may continue as the "Family and Friends Beach Band." ...
| Ringo unveils All-Starrs
(Launch) - Ringo Starr unveiled the latest edition of his All-Starr Band Tuesday at a press conference at Casino Rama in Rama, Ontario, where the group kicks off its latest tour Thursday. Starr welcomed new All-Starrs Roger Hodgson, Greg Lake, Ian Hunter, Howard Jones and Sheila E., along with returning ...
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Iowa hosts 'Images of Elvis' contest
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - Hawaiian Elvis was there. TV Elvis also showed up in a Frank Sinatra-style 1960s suit. Even gospel-singing Elvis made an appearance, but was outnumbered by several swiveling pelvis Elvises. Of course Vegas Elvis shined - courtesy of the sequins - at Bluffs Run Casino for ...
| Byrds member McGuinn to release 'Treasures'
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Founding Byrds member and folk-rock pioneer Roger McGuinn will release "Treasures From The Folk Den" Sept. 4 via Appleseed Records. The 18-song album features new recordings of traditional folk numbers, with guest spots from the likes of Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, ...
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