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Placido Domingo counts himself a Lady Gaga fan
Plácido Domingo, the world's greatest living tenor, has bestowed his admiration on Lady Gaga, arguably the world's biggest pop star. In an interview that recently ran in the British tabloid the Daily Mail, Domingo said he believes "Lady Gaga has a very...
Tags: Concerts, Celine Dion, Music Industry, Diana Ross, Apple iPod
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Digby Wolfe dies at 82; co-creator of 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'
Digby Wolfe, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who helped producer George Schlatter develop "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," a landmark TV series that became an overnight sensation in the late 1960s, has died. He was 82.
Wolfe, who later became a professor...Tags: Concerts, Arte Johnson, Chicago Housing Authority, Drama (genre), Cher
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Straight No Chaser's hit 'Twelve Day of Christmas' comes to L.A.
Culture MonsterStraight No Chaser is on a cross-country Christmas tour, which includes a Friday night concert at the Wiltern.... -
Dobie Gray dies at 71; singer later became a songwriter
Dobie Gray, a smooth balladeer and soul singer who scored his biggest hit in the early 1970s with "Drift Away," has died. He was 71.
Gray, who had cancer, died Tuesday at his Nashville home, said Charlie Andrews, his attorney.
Before he adopted the name...Tags: Ray Charles, Uncle Kracker, Cancer, Sonny Bono, Music
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PASSINGS: Dick Kniss, Kazimierz Smolen, Miguel Nazar Haro, Dimitra Arliss, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Dick Kniss
Bass player with Peter, Paul and Mary
Dick Kniss, 74, who played stand-up bass with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-wrote the John Denver hit "Sunshine on My Shoulders," died Wednesday of pulmonary disease at a hospital near his...Tags: Museums, Concerts, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Paul Newman, Robert Redford
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Discoveries: 'Nothing Daunted,' 'Lime Creek,' 'The Pianist in the Dark'
Special to the Los Angeles Times"Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West" by Dorothy Wickenden, Scribner: 320 pp., $26 Dorothy Wickenden's grandmother, Dorothy Woodruff, was 29 when she set out for a remote Colorado outpost in 1916 to teach the...Tags: Education, Bodies of Water, Limes, Rivers, Frank Sinatra
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Joe Henry's writing life
Jacket CopyJoe Henry has been a laborer, rancher, boxer and, most prominently, a songwriter. With his MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in hand, he's now tried his hand at a novel.... -
Taking a census of Grammy nominees, winners
Who gets nominated for a Grammy? Musicians, sure. But who exactly, on paper, are they?
Take Frank Sinatra. Yes, he was a singer of incredible power, and garnered deserved nods for the beauty of his tone and his mellifluous phrasing. But artistry aside,...Tags: Britney Spears, Paul Simon, National or Ethnic Minorities, Country and Western (genre), Nashville
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CMA Awards 2010 live: All the performances as they happen
Pop & HissWhat follows will be instant grades of every performance at tonight's Country Music Assn. Awards. This post is written off-site from the CMAs at the LAT HQ, and strives to be as fast and accurate as possible. This will be...... -
Standing up for soft rock: Tim Heidecker and Davin Wood bring their smooth stylings to Largo [Updated]
Pop & HissThe music of Tim Heidecker and Davin Wood flows into your ears like a clump of lard melting in the iron skillet of your soul. Or something like that. The duo, which just released the absolutely spot-on soft rock parody...... -
Roger Nichols dies at 66; engineer gave Steely Dan its distinctive sound
Roger Nichols, the recording engineer who gave the music of Steely Dan the lustrous sheen that became the popular group's sonic signature, died Saturday at his Burbank home after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer, his family said. He was 66....Tags: Placido Domingo, Phil Spector, Science and Technology, Achievement Records, Recording Studios
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Jerry Weintraub: The go-to guy to get connected
"Look at me, do I look like an alter kocker?" Jerry Weintraub asks. Verily, he does not. At the moment, he looks like a guy ready to swing a golf club at a visitor for asking him if he feels like -- to offer a rough translation from the Yiddish -- an...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Armand Hammer, Celebrities, James Taylor, Movies
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