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Oh, Pretty Woman
Dodger ThoughtsI'm watching "Spectacle: Elvis Costello with Bruce Springsteen" on the Sundance Channel. The pair just did a little Roy Orbison "Pretty Woman." And I got to thinking, "Man, to write something that's played with reverence and love 50 years later...... -
Pop music review: Phoenix at the Hollywood Bowl
Pop & HissIn Phoenix's video for its early single âToo Young,â the French pop-rock band worked at a fish-packing plant. It's a strange scene in itself â these guys were way too good-looking and, in the case of singer Thomas Mars, attached...... -
Review: Bruce Springsteen's 'The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story'
Pop & HissThe boxed set shows a young Bruce Springsteen reaching for greatness his own way. Let the broken hearts stand as the price you gotta pay â Bruce Springsteen, "Badlands" You'd better be some kind of genius to ask the world...... -
Album review: DeVotchKa's '100 Lovers'
Pop & HissDeVotchKa creates music that explodes with the desperate passion of someone standing at the end of a pier, or lost in the middle of a desert. The real beauty of this Denver collective’s polyglot approach is that you don’t know...... -
Album review: k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang's 'Sing It Loud'
Pop & HissThe big, beautiful voice of k.d. lang swoops, purrs and soars through the 10 songs on “Sing It Loud” like an overgrown Labrador that has slipped its leash to run loose through the park on a gorgeous spring weekend. Playing...... -
In Rotation: The Mixtures' 'Stompin' at the Rainbow'
Pop & HissWith apologies to the Who, who coined the term, the music that the Mixtures made in the Southland in the early 1960s can best be described as “maximum r&b.” The hard-driving sound is captured on “Stompin’ at the Rainbow: The...... -
PASSINGS: Mel McDaniel, Lou Gorman, Harley Allen
Mel McDaniel
Country music singer-songwriter
Mel McDaniel, 68, a husky-voiced country music singer-songwriter who had a No. 1 hit with "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On," died of lung cancer Thursday at his home in Hendersonville, Tenn., the Grand Ole...Tags: The Big Bopper, Providence (Providence, Rhode Island), Hank Williams, Jr., New York Mets, Alan Jackson
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Classic Hollywood: Cemeteries of the stars
Steve Goldstein knows where all the famous bodies are buried.
By day, he's a businessman who owns a payroll service. But in his off hours, he's one of Hollywood's best-known grave hunters. Author of "LA's Graveside Companion: Where the V.I.P.s R.I.P" and...Tags: Celebrities, Natalie Wood, Halloween, Heart Attack, Charlie Chaplin
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Aaron Schroeder dies at 83; prolific songwriter for Elvis Presley and others
Aaron Schroeder, a songwriter, independent music publisher and record producer who co-wrote 17 songs for Elvis Presley, including “It’s Now or Never,” has died. He was 83.
Schroeder, who had a rare form of dementia for about 18 years,...Tags: Perry Como, Jimi Hendrix, Human Accomplishments, Nat King Cole, Achievement Records
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Shelby Singleton dies at 77; maverick country music mogul
Shelby Singleton, a maverick country music mogul and talent scout who launched the careers of Roger Miller and Ray Stevens before resuscitating the fabled Sun Records label to give new life to recordings by 1950s Sun discoveries including Johnny Cash...Tags: Jerry Lee Lewis, Gaming, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Hospitals and Clinics
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Billy Lee Riley dies at 75; rockabilly pioneer did 'Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll'
Billy Lee Riley, a rockabilly pioneer and songwriter who recorded for the legendary Sun Records label and is best remembered for his 1957 singles "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll" and "Red Hot," has died. He was 75. Riley died Sunday of colon cancer that...Tags: Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, The Beach Boys, Herb Alpert, Pocahontas
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Ringo Starr's Q&A at the Grammy Museum
Pop & HissThe Grammy Museum has landed an impressive roster of artists for its series of question-and-answer and performance sessions in the year since it opened at the L.A. Live complex downtown. Among the participants: Brian Wilson, Smokey Robinson, Annie Lennox,...
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