Reuters - Apr 3, 2004
The city s best-known recording facility, Polar Studios, is set to close its doors May 1 after 26 years in operation. For us, and many in the music world, it is the end of an era, studio co-owner Marie...
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Doris Troy, best known for the 1963 Atlantic R&B/pop crossover hit Just One Look, died Monday in Las Vegas. The 67-year-old singer/songwriter had suffered from emphysema. Born Doris Payne in Harlem,...
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(2/7/03, 5 p.m. ET) -- Vanessa Carlton will appear on Sunday s (February 9) episode of the NBC nostalgia drama, American Dreams. The artist will portray Dusty Springfield in the episode titled Heartache...
More »USRN - Apr 15, 2001
(4/15/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- Tomorrow (April 16) marks the birthday of the incomparable Dusty Springfield. It was in 1961 that Mary O Brien changed her name to Dusty Springfield when she joined her brother...
More »USRN - Apr 14, 2000
(4/16/00, 7 a.m. ET) - Today marks the birthday of the incomparable Dusty Springfield. Springfield died at the age of 59 on March 2, 1999, after a long battle with breast cancer. Born Mary O Brien, she...
More »USRN - Mar 15, 1999
(3/15/99, 1 a.m. PST) - Elvis Costello, Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys, and Lulu were among the hundreds of mourners Friday on hand to bid adieu to singer Dusty Springfield, who died of breast cancer...
More »USRN - Mar 5, 1999
(3/5/99, 1 a.m. PST) - A private funeral for English pop singer Dusty Springfield will be held at a church near her home at Henley-On-Thames in England on March 12, three days before Springfield, who...
More »USRN - Mar 3, 1999
(3/3/99, 1 p.m. PST) - Dusty Springfield, the 1960s pop star once described as Britain s finest white soul singer, died Tuesday night at her home near London after a nearly five-year battle with breast...
More »USRN - May 28, 1998
(5/28/98) - Cancer-stricken pop singer Dusty Springfield has announced a deal in which she would get millions of dollars in exchange for future royalties from her hit songs. Springfield s plan is merely...
More »USRN - Apr 1, 1998
(4/1/98) - Marilyn Manson guitarist Twiggy Ramirez will team with 60s supermodel Twiggy to record a cover of Dusty Springfield s I Only Wanna Be With You, which will appear on the soundtrack to Dead...
More »USRN - Feb 11, 1998
(2/12/98) - Dusty Springfield, the white soul singer who hit in the 60s with You Don t Have To Say You Love Me, I Only Want To Be With You and Son Of A Preacher Man, is seriously ill with cancer. The...
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