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PASSINGS: Michael Parrish, Bobby Sharp
This article has been corrected. See note below for details.Michael Parrish Former editor of the Los Angeles Times magazine Michael Parrish, 67, who oversaw the reinvention of the Sunday magazine in the Los Angeles Times in the mid-1980s, died Friday of liver failure while under hospice care in the Los Angeles...Tags: Obituaries, Entertainment, Newspapers, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Music Industry
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Grammys 2013: Complete list of nominees and winners
British roots music band Mumford & Sons took the top honor for its album "Babel" at the 55th Grammy Awards ceremony Sunday. The night mostly distributed honors broadly to an array of younger generation acts including New York indie...
Tags: Frank Ocean, Fernando Gonzalez, Minnesota Wild, Media Industry, ABC (tv network)
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Grammys 2013: Pre-telecast ceremony broadens the spotlight
Awards handed out Sunday before the evening Grammy Awards telecast sometimes set the stage for what happens during the national TV broadcast. This year, the Black Keys got the momentum rolling by having a hand in three awards early on, including rock...
Tags: Entertainment, Emmylou Harris, Awards and Prizes, Jimmy Jam, Bonnie Raitt
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Eastside record label still spinning out the music
Hector Gonzalez straps a five-string bass guitar over his belly inside a music studio on a dreary stretch of Monterey Park. He plays as a smooth, prerecorded tenor joins a funky accordion through his headphones. Trying to bite a bullet, or sometimes...
Tags: Entertainment, Fine Artists, Paul McCartney, Ritchie Valens, Sony Corp.
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Mickey Baker dies at 87; rhythm and blues, rock guitarist
Mickey Baker, an exceptional 1950s session guitarist who played on hundreds of recordings, helping to transform rhythm and blues into rock 'n' roll, died Tuesday at his home near Toulouse, France, according to French media reports. He was 87. A cause of...
Tags: Entertainment, Bo Diddley, Frank Zappa, Buddy Holly, Movies
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Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood
First published on Dec. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op...
Tags: Johnny Carson, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Celebrities, Movies, Los Angeles Hotels
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President Obama, Mitt Romney cameo on 2012 CMT Music Awards
Pop & HissPresident Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney have taped cameos for tonight's 2012 CMT Music Awards. President Obama and Mitt Romney will appear in what is billed as "a comedic opening segment" on the CMT Awards show.... -
Oscars by the Numbers
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Ken Phebus dies at 64; veteran talent buyer
Shortly after being hired about a decade ago to up the ante of musical talent offered at the Orange County Fair's summer concert series in Costa Mesa, veteran talent buyer Ken Phebus rolled out his schedule for the fair's board. But one of the...Tags: Entertainment, Nine Inch Nails (music group), Norah Jones, Music Industry, Dwight Yoakam
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'Fela!' band: Great Afropop music -- and a few questions raised
Pop & HissThe onstage band for the 'Fela!' musical in Los Angeles includes no black musicians. The production about the life and music of Afropop star Fela Kuti uses a multicultural group of Anglo, Latino and Asian players.... -
Jerry Leiber dies at 78; lyricist in songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller
Jerry Leiber, who with his songwriting partner, Mike Stoller, created a songbook that infused the rock 'n' roll scene of the 1950s and early '60s with energy and mischievous humor, has died. He was 78.
Leiber, the words half of the duo, died Monday at...Tags: The Rolling Stones (music group), NPR, Entertainment, Cole Porter, Culture
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Nick Ashford of Ashford & Simpson songwriting team dies at 70
Nick Ashford, half of the Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson that penned elegant, soulful classics for singers Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye and funk hits for Chaka Khan and others, died Monday, his former publicist said. He was 70.
Ashford, who along...Tags: Obituaries, Human Interest, Arts, Earth, Wind & Fire (music group), Marvin Gaye
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