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Kim Fowley's rock 'n' roll exegesis 'Lord of Garbage'
Los Angeles Times Book CriticKim Fowley came out of a Hollywood that doesn’t exist anymore, the Hollywood of Kenneth Anger and Ed Wood. Best known for cooking up the Runaways, he began to work in the music business in the late 1950s and since then has turned up in more places...Tags: Entertainment, Music
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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...
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Southern California Close-Ups: San Fernando Valley
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on April 24, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. The San Fernando Valley is 260 square miles of suburbia. Actually, make that suburbia on nutritional supplements. And antidepressants. With perhaps a little cosmetic surgery south...Tags: Bankruptcy, Woodrow Wilson, Seinfeld (tv program), Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Restaurants
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PASSINGS: Fred Milano, William Polk Carey, Mike Colalillo
Fred Milano
Doo-wop singer with Dion and the Belmonts
Fred Milano, 72, a singer who made rock 'n' roll history on doo-wop hits with Dion and the Belmonts in the 1950s, died Sunday, three weeks after his lung cancer was diagnosed, said Warren Gradus, who...Tags: Arizona State University, Finance, Companies and Corporations, Obituaries, Armed Conflicts
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At Grammy Museum, spirit of protest will offer break from awards
Pop & HissWhile fans wait to find out if Adele, Rihanna or Bruno Mars walks away with a golden gramophone at Sunday night's Grammy Awards, trouble is brewing at the Grammy Museum. Preparations have been underway for an exhibition that looks at a tumultuous period... -
David Wax Museum brings Mexican masters' lessons to Wiltern
Pop & HissDavid Wax of David Wax Museum is a Harvard man with a deep knowledge of folk music in the U.S. and Mexico.... -
San Fernando Valley: 11 micro-itineraries
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe San Fernando Valley is 260 square miles of suburbia. Actually, make that suburbia on nutritional supplements. And antidepressants. With perhaps a little cosmetic surgery south of Ventura Boulevard, where the big money is. Or maybe — now that it'...Tags: Bankruptcy, Woodrow Wilson, The Blues Brothers (movie), Science and Technology, Seinfeld (tv program)
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PASSINGS: Zoogz Rift, Carl Bunch, David E. Davis Jr., James Pritchett, James M. Roberts, Pat Rowe
Zoogz Rift Punk rock musician Zoogz Rift, 57, a punk rock musician whose experimental style garnered comparisons with Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa, died March 22 at Encino Hospital of complications from diabetes, said his partner, Laura Rift....Tags: Music Industry, Obituaries, High School Sports, Sports, Celebrities and Health Issues
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PASSINGS: Johnny Preston, Lina Ron, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Jimmy Carnes
Johnny Preston
Singer had No. 1 hit with 'Running Bear'
Johnny Preston, 71, who had a No. 1 pop single in 1960 with "Running Bear," died Friday at a hospital in Beaumont, Texas, his son Scott told the Associated Press. The elder Preston had bypass...Tags: Obituaries, Government, Track and Field, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sports
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Stan Ross dies at 82; producer-engineer co-founded Gold Star studio
Producer-engineer Stan Ross, who co-founded Hollywood's Gold Star Recording Studio, which has a storied place in rock history as the home of Phil Spector's innovative "Wall of Sound" technique, has died. He was 82.
Ross died Friday at Providence St....Tags: The Beach Boys, Physiology, Herbert Ross, Neil Young, Science and Technology
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PASSINGS: Gil Clancy, Zoogz Rift, Carl Bunch, David E. Davis Jr., James Pritchett, James M. Roberts, Pat Rowe
Gil Clancy
Boxing trainer
Gil Clancy, 88, a boxing trainer who helped lead Emile Griffith to welterweight and middleweight titles, died Thursday at an assisted-living facility on Long Island, N.Y., his family said.
Born in Rockaway Beach, N.Y., in...Tags: Music Industry, Sports, New York University, Celebrities and Health Issues, Cricket
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Ritchie Valens and ‘Donna’
The Daily MirrorFeb. 5, 1959: Hereâs a story I neglected to post in my original coverage of âThe Day the Music Died,â an interview with Donna Ludwig of Granada Hills, the subject of Ritchie Valensâ song âDonna.â The Times said: While in......
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