Reuters - Apr 16, 2007
Some of the biggest names in rock music, including Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, will attend a private memorial in New York on Tuesday for their late...
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Singer Ruth Brown, whose recordings of Teardrops in My Eyes, 5-10-15 Hours and (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean shot her to rhythm-and-blues stardom in the 1950s, has died. She was 78. Brown, who...
More »Reuters - Jun 13, 2004
At a time when Music Row is routinely accused of playing it safe, Warner Bros. has gone out on a limb with a completely different kind of country act in duo Big & Rich. As the name implies, this is...
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Ray Charles is being remembered as a musical innovator who blended genres of music to create a new style. Charles died on Thursday of acute liver disease at age 73. Ray Charles had a string of hits...
More »USRN - May 4, 1998
(5/4/98) - The W.C. Handy Awards were announced April 30th at Memphis s Orpheum Theatre, an event that traditionally kicks off the Memphis In May festival each year. Among the big winners was the late...
More »USRN - Apr 29, 1998
(4/30/98) - Blues giant Ruth Brown will join relative youngsters Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt and Keb Mo as the live headliners for the 19th annual W.C. Handy Blues Awards, scheduled today at the Orpheum...
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(4/6/98) - Bo Diddley, Ruth Brown, Ike Turner, Sam Phillips and Little Richard were among the legends who showed up Thursday at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Museum in Cleveland to celebrate the...
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