Reuters - May 27, 2007
Choosing a theme song for a political campaign may sound fun but can produce plenty of sour notes. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's online quest for help in picking a campaign song is evoking responses...
More »AP - Sep 7, 2006
If Moammar Gadhafi dropped by to check out the English National Opera s latest production, he might well be pleased. In Gaddafi: A Living Myth, the Libyan leader bestrides the stage of London s Coliseum...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
You may have seen the recent photos of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his 44th album, Modern Times, shares a title with Chaplin s 1936 classic about automation, big business and...
More »Reuters - Apr 14, 2006
Twenty years after U.S. forces bombed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi s home, U.S. singer Lionel Ritchie and Spanish tenor Jose Carreras will sing amid the ruins on Friday to commemorate the raid which...
More »AP - Nov 26, 2005
Jamie Foxx stepped into the spotlight at his latest movie premiere with more than the usual publicity drill in mind. Don t let it happen, the actor urged don t let the state of California execute...
More »AP - Jun 13, 2005
When Michael Jackson became a superstar more than three decades ago, irresistibly cute with his apple cheeks and dandelion afro, perhaps the most startling thing about the child phenom was just how adult...
More »AP - Jun 7, 2005
It was a long day s work for Bono, lead singer for the rock band U2 and dedicated lobbyist for the world s poor and AIDS-stricken. In Boston s FleetCenter on a Tuesday night, Bono and his band ...
More »Reuters - Oct 4, 2004
Days after the official all-star finale in Washington, D.C., Bruce Springsteen will steer the Vote for Change tour homeward to host a concert at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J...
More »AP - Sep 16, 2004
Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band The Ramones that influenced a generation of rockers, has died. He was 55. Ramone, who had been fighting a five-year battle with prostate...
More »Reuters - Sep 15, 2004
Johnny Ramone, the lead guitarist with influential U.S. punk rock band the Ramones, died on Wednesday after a five-year battle with prostate cancer, a long-time associate told Reuters. Ramone, 55, who...
More »AP - Sep 1, 2004
Match the performers with the presidential candidates they played for or otherwise supported. Hint: Some candidates here are associated with more than one performer or group. 1. Johnny Ramone 2. Hooley...
More »Reuters - Jun 23, 2004
Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond will sing together for the first time in 24 years on Thursday, bringing not flowers but millions of dollars for Democrat John Kerry s U.S. presidential campaign....
More »E! Online - Jun 23, 2004
Is the Boss born to run the GOP out of town? That s the question being put to Bruce Springsteen by an ambitious concert promoter who has launched an online petition to persuade New Jersey s native...
More »E! Online - Jun 10, 2004
Back when he was with the Smiths, Morrissey used to croon a little ditty called Bigmouth Strikes Again. Guess what? Bigmouth struck again. Music s guru of gloom isn t winning any fans in the...
More »Reuters - Jun 10, 2004
Ray Charles was one of American music s great innovators, blending the gospel of the black church with the sensuality of the blues to create an emotionally raw genre called soul. He died on Thursday...
More »Reuters - Jun 2, 2004
Artists are coming out in full force in support of Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Kerry . Two major concerts will be held next week -- one Monday in Los Angeles at the Walt Disney Concert...
More »AP - Jun 1, 2004
An exhibit of Frank Sinatra memorabilia, from letters to photographs to album covers, has opened to the public as part of an annual jazz series. The exhibition is running through June and July at the...
More »AP - May 14, 2004
Morrissey, former lead singer of The Smiths, is making a rare appearance on late-night television when he spends a week on The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn. The reclusive singer first appeared...
More »AP - Apr 22, 2004
A new group called the Music Row Democrats is trying to shake the perception that country music is full of Republicans. But it won t be easy. Like the 1967 Sonny James hit says, It s the Little Things...
More »Reuters - Feb 24, 2004
A planned ABC television movie about the life of singing great Lena Horne has become the latest casualty of Janet Jackson s breast-baring Super Bowl performance. Jackson bowed out of the TV movie,...
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