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The Rolling Stones 32 years later — It’s only rock ‘n’ roll, but I like it
FrameworkIt was 1981 when I photographed my first Rolling Stones concert. It was the “Tattoo You” tour at the Oakland Coliseum with the J. Geils Band and George Thorogood opening the show. I was 21-years-old and taking pictures for the joy of it. I... -
George Jones dies at 81; country music icon
Three decades ago, an east Texas singer named George Jones took on an impossibly melodramatic, shamelessly sentimental song about a man who desperately clutched at lost love until his dying breath. His 1980 recording of "He Stopped Loving Her Today"...
Tags: Kennedy Center Honors, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Entertainment, Entertainment Events
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TV This Week March 10 - 16: 'Hindenburg: The Last Flight'
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 10 - 16, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   -------------------- SUNDAY Oh, yes, it's ladies' night: Ashanti...Tags: Sean Lowe, Jesse McCartney, Emile Hirsch, Greta Scacchi, Stacy Keach
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Henry Grossman's fab moments with the Beatles
It began in 1964 as a Time magazine photo assignment for Henry Grossman to cover the Beatles' debut appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." It developed over the years into a deep friendship between Grossman and the group, one that allowed him rare access...
Tags: John Lennon, Human Accomplishments, David Ben-Gurion, Paul McCartney, England
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Remembering Reg Presley of the Troggs: Unsung hero of rock & roll
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticRaise a pint to Reg Presley, the singer and co-founder of the Troggs, who died Monday at age 71 after a battle with lung cancer. Yes, of course, stand at attention for the band’s mega-hit, “Wild Thing,” and for the primal pleasures of...Tags: Iggy Pop, Jimi Hendrix, Music, Lung Cancer, The Rolling Stones (music group)
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Pete Townshend receives 2013 Les Paul Award
This post has been updated. See note below for details. Four of the key bands from the 1960s British Invasion were represented Friday in Anaheim when the Who’s lead guitarist and main songwriter, Pete Townshend, was given the Les Paul Award at the...
Tags: Paul McCartney, Culture, Entertainment, Pete Townshend, Eric Burdon
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A hunt for tickets and celebrities, set to music
Celebrity, as it turns out, is in the eye of the beholder, and one of the fascinating aspects of the annual convention that brings together makers and sellers of all manner of musical gear for four days in Anaheim is that there are nearly as many...
Tags: Disc Jockeys, Neil Young, George Benson, Pete Townshend, Entertainment
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'Backbeat' creators go beyond the standard musical theater fare
Searching for his way into the new musical "Backbeat," which examines the Beatles' early days (and nights) in Hamburg, Germany, David Leveaux asked himself what he called "the Jerome Robbins question." It's a tactic he picked up in 2004 while overseeing...
Tags: Tony Awards, Genres, Thurston Moore, Germany, The Flaming Lips (music group)
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Ravi Shankar got by with a little help from his friends
Among the items the Grammy Museum included in its George Harrison “Living in the Material World” exhibit that opened about this time last year was a letter the ex-Beatle received following the all-star Concert for Bangladesh fundraiser he...
Tags: Woodstock Festival (1969), Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, Martin Scorsese
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121212: Bruce Springsteen kicks off Concert for Sandy Relief
After a hearty "1, 2, 3, 4!" Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band dived into "Land of Hope of Dreams," in which the rocker opened "121212: The Concert for Sandy Relief" on an inspiring note, singing: Leave behind your sorrows Let this day be the last...
Tags: Paul McCartney, Madison Square Garden, Pearl Jam (music group), Concerts, Sony Corp.
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Stream the 12-12-12 concert for Sandy relief here
On Wednesday night a heavyweight lineup of marquee acts will cram New York’s Madison Square Garden for a relief concert to benefit areas devastated by October's Superstorm Sandy. Billed as "12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief," the event will...
Tags: Bon Jovi (music group), Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, The E Street Band (music group), George Harrison
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12-12-12: A calendar date -- and a concert -- of a lifetime
12-12-12 is here: It's an eye-popping quirk of the calendar that has brides running for the altar, some wondering whether the world is going to come to an end and setting the stage for what is arguably the single greatest concert lineup -- and the...
Tags: Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Madison Square Garden, The Rolling Stones (music group)
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