Reuters - Aug 17, 2006
Attention Elvis impersonators: you may soon have a new way to make a living. Cirque du Soleil said on Thursday it plans to create a permanent Elvis Presley show for the CityCenter hotel/casino now under...
More »Reuters - May 12, 2006
Jerry Lee Lewis will inaugurate Time Life s Legends of American Music with the three-disc boxed set Jerry Lee Lewis: A Half Century of Hits. The June 13 release was overseen by Lewis and features the...
More »Reuters - Dec 16, 2005
Here is a look at some of the notable artists who died in the past year. Swing-era clarinetist/bandleader ARTIE SHAW, 94, died December 30, 2004, in Thousand Oaks, Calif. By some accounts, Shaw sold...
More »Reuters - Sep 15, 2005
Now that he s a beloved musical icon, turning 80 and embraced by both blacks and whites, it s difficult to understand that B.B. King comes from a time when there were two Americas. Before the 13 Grammys...
More »AP - Sep 13, 2005
Joaquin Phoenix did not have to learn just to sing and play guitar. He had to learn to strum the strings in the distinctive freight-train rhythms of Johnny Cash and sing in his sonorous storytelling style...
More »Reuters - Aug 5, 2005
Singer-guitarist Little Milton Campbell, whose career as a soul-blues star spanned five decades, died Thursday in Memphis. He was 70. Campbell was hospitalized after suffering two strokes in late July...
More »Reuters - Dec 18, 2004
The third chart entry proves to be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the Billboard Hot 100 with Let Me Love You (3rd Street/J). The single moves 3-2, eclipsing the No. 4 peak of his...
More »AP - Dec 15, 2004
Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can t get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV s Pimp My Ride ? Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician Xzibit was before becoming an actor...
More »Reuters - Sep 16, 2004
A three-day auction of items owned by the late Johnny and June Carter Cash raised nearly $4 million, more than twice the amount expected, as over 1,000 bidders snapped up property from the country...
More »Reuters - Aug 2, 2004
Comedian Chris Rock is preparing to release his first album in five years, Never Scared, featuring a parody of OutKast s Grammy-winning anthem Hey Ya! Due Aug. 31 via Geffen, the set culls material...
More »AP - Jul 1, 2004
As far as Elvis Presley songs go, That s All Right, his very first record, wasn t among his biggest hits. In fact, the 1954 song wasn t even a hit at all. Yet on July 5, 50 years to the day after it...
More »Reuters - May 31, 2004
Glen Campbell has signed a one-off deal with Universal South Records for a two-CD set due June 8. Love Is the Answer: 24 Songs of Faith, Hope and Love contains one disc of pop standards and one of gospel...
More »AP - Jan 27, 2004
A New Jersey company is offering Elvis Presley fans a chance to buy what it says is a slice of history. And it really means a slice — 2-inch snips of a tape reel featuring some of the King s earliest...
More »Reuters - Dec 3, 2003
The Rhinestone Cowboy wants to ride off into the sunset. Not long before his recent arrest on charges of drunk driving and leaving the scene of a car accident, country crooner Glen Campbell told Reuters...
More »Reuters - Nov 5, 2003
Pegging the day Elvis Presley recorded a version of Arthur Big Boy Crudup s That s All Right -- July 5, 1954 -- at as the date rock and roll were married, Memphis will celebrate 2004 as the 50th anniversary...
More »USRN - Apr 10, 1998
(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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