Music
When a reader called this week to ask which Curtis Mayfield album to buy, the answer seemed easy enough.
Jan. 1, 2000
Tribute to Mayfield: A concert tribute to soul singer Curtis Mayfield, who is rehabilitating after a freak accident, will be staged at the Palace in Hollywood on Sept. 25.
Sept. 14, 1990
DVD celebrates the influential and inspirational music from the civil rights era.
May 6, 2008
New DVD is packed with vintage footage of the singer-songwriter and his group from the civil rights movement.
Mayfield Day in L.A.: This is Curtis Mayfield Day in the city of Los Angeles, honoring the veteran soul singer/composer who was paralyzed from the neck down in a freak accident last fall.
Feb. 28, 1991
Mayfield Moved: Soul singer Curtis Mayfield was transferred Friday from a New York hospital to a spinal center in Georgia less than two weeks after a freak accident left him paralyzed from the neck down.
Aug. 27, 1990
Soul singer Curtis Mayfield is paralyzed from the neck down and remains in serious condition after being hit by a lighting scaffold blown down by a gust of wind during an outdoor concert Monday night in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Aug. 15, 1990
Archives
Benefit Doesn’t Deliver: Veteran soul singer Curtis Mayfield, who was paralyzed from the neck down in a concert accident in Brooklyn, N.Y., this summer, is out the $7,500 raised from an all-star benefit rap concert held at the Palace in Hollywood last August.
Dec. 4, 1990
Entertainment & Arts
The Curtis Mayfield shows Feb. 2 and 3 at Hampton’s in Santa Ana are postponed indefinitely.
Jan. 24, 1990
CURTIS MAYFIELD “People Get Ready!”
March 1, 1996