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Review: Moving right along with the Black Keys at Staples Center
The Black Keys spent the beginning of last week in New York City, where they played for more than 60,000 people at a massive outdoor concert in Central Park with Neil Young and Foo Fighters. Saturday evening, they ended the week at L.A.’s Staples...
Tags: Staples Center, Music Industry, Music, Led Zeppelin (music group), Neil Young
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Rickie Lee Jones and Bettye LaVette interpret the blues
In a concert last month at Hollywood's Hotel Cafe, the buzzy English singer Paloma Faith crouched down near the floor to sing "Let Me Down Easy." It's a tough-love song associated with a number of hardy soul-music veterans, including Bettye LaVette and...
Tags: Gnarls Barkley, Music Industry, Relentless7 (music group), The Rolling Stones (music group), Music
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Robin Gibb dies at 62; rose to pop fame as one-third of the Bee Gees
Robin Gibb, a singer and songwriter who joined two of his brothers in forming the Bee Gees pop group that helped define the sound of the disco era with the best-selling 1977 soundtrack to"Saturday Night Fever," has died. He was 62. Gibb died Sunday after...
Tags: Robin Gibb, Pneumonia, Movies, Entertainment, Bee Gees (music group)
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Herb Reed dies at 83; founder of the Platters
Herb Reed was in his 20s when he founded the Platters in Los Angeles in 1953, naming his vocal group after the term used by radio DJs for the vinyl records of the day.
Well into the digital download era — and into his 80s — Reed was still...Tags: Doo-wop (genre), Music, Arts and Culture, Tony Williams, Entertainment
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Bob Welch dies at 66; Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer
Guitarist and singer Bob Welch, whose work in the early 1970s for Fleetwood Mac set the stage for the band's multi-platinum success later in the decade, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville. He was 66.
According to a spokesman for the Nashville...Tags: Fleetwood Mac (music group), Stevie Nicks, Academy Awards, Bob Hope, Entertainment
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Robin Gibb and the Bee Gees: More than disco kings [video]
Pop & HissRobin Gibb, who lost his battle with colorectal cancer Sunday at the age of 62, was a founding member of the Bee Gees with his brothers Barry and twin Maurice. In 1994, the brothers Gibb were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the Grammy Museum... -
Robin Gibb dead: Bee Gees singer, 62, had battled cancer
Pop & HissRobin Gibb dead: Bee Gees singer-songwriter, who with his brothers made up one-third of one of the disco era's biggest acts, has died at 62 after a long battle with cancer.... -
Herb Reed, original member of the Platters, dies at 83
Pop & HissBass singer Herb Reed, who co-founded the Platters in Los Angeles in 1953 and was the last of the original members of the vocal group, died Monday in Boston, his manager told the Associated Press. Fred Balboni told AP that...... -
Review: Carole King reveals the story behind 'A Natural Woman'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesMy favorite scene in Carole King's long-awaited "A Natural Woman" comes near the beginning — appropriately, since the teen hitmaker was the epitome of an early starter. The high school student born Carol Klein had just signed a recording contract...Tags: Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Music Industry, Carly Simon, Entertainment
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Davy Jones dies at 66; Monkees' romantic heartthrob
Davy Jones was a promising 18-year-old actor from England when he found himself among the guest performers on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Feb. 9, 1964 — the same night about 75 million people tuned in to catch the American debut of the Beatles. Like...Tags: Television, Academy Awards, Micky Dolenz, Movies, Entertainment
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Adam Yauch dies at 47; Beastie Boys' rapper MCA
It had only been a few years since Adam Yauch had found fame as the in-your-face rapper and bass player MCA in the transgressive, boundary-breaking trio the Beastie Boys.
But in 1992 he was searching for something else, traveling in Nepal to snowboard...Tags: Flea (music artist), Led Zeppelin (music group), Banksy, Dalai Lama, Entertainment
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Adam Yauch, founding member of the Beastie Boys, dies at 47
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch, best known the world over as the thoughtful, witty, in-your-face rapper MCA, has died, according to Rolling Stone and the hip-hop website Global Grind, which is run by Russell Simmons. Yauch, who had been battling cancer...Tags: Cancer, Russell Simmons, Music, Arts and Culture, Rap (genre)
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