Reuters - May 7, 2008
Turning 60, Steve Winwood is starting to believe rock 'n' roll may be a younger man's game. Maybe. I think to be a musician (at 60) is fine, but to be a rock 'n' roller at a ripe...
More »Reuters - Nov 13, 2007
After a rare on-stage reunion at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in July, former Blind Faith members Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood will team for three shows early next year at Madison Square Garden....
More »Reuters - Dec 5, 2006
Steve Winwood, Pete Townshend, Paul Weller and Bill Wyman are among those taking part in an all-star celebration of the late Jim Capaldi, a former member of Traffic. The show will take place January...
More »Reuters - Aug 9, 2006
Kinks frontman/co-founder Ray Davies will be honored with a lifetime achievement award from American performing rights organization BMI in London on October 3 The BMI Icon honor, to be presented during...
More »AP - Apr 6, 2006
Thom Bell, Mac Davis, Will Jennings, Sylvia Moy and Henry Cosby have been tapped as inductees by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The prolific songwriters will accept their awards at the 37th annual induction...
More »Reuters - Mar 14, 2006
Short-lived supergroup Blind Faith s live debut will be chronicled on the DVD London Hyde Park 1969, due April 10 in Europe and the following month in North America via Sanctuary. The DVD features renditions...
More »AP - Jun 10, 2005
Roots is a term that gets thrown around quite a bit in music, particularly for those bands digging into its most cavernous tradition. In the case of the North Mississippi Allstars, that concept just happens...
More »AP - May 6, 2005
In 1999, a group of concert promoters claimed to have reinvented Woodstock, resulting in another example of how attempts to replicate the past tend to produce something grotesque in the present. Woodstock...
More »Reuters - Mar 28, 2005
When Internet file-sharing services and the entertainment industry square off in the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, the outcome will likely rest on a nearly obsolete technology -- the videocassette recorder...
More »E! Online - Feb 14, 2005
Sharon Stone s new basic instinct: helping victims of the tsunami disaster. The actress is ready to her best We Are the World rendition, joining forces with socialite music producer Denise Rich...
More »E! Online - Jan 28, 2005
Jim Capaldi , who kept the beat for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Traffic, died Friday of stomach cancer at a London hospital. He was 60. The cofounder of the legendary 1960s/1970s English band...
More »Reuters - Jan 28, 2005
Rock drummer Jim Capaldi , whose driving rock rhythms helped make Traffic a household name in the 1960s and 70s, died Friday after a brief fight with stomach cancer, his publicist said. The 60-year-...
More »E! Online - Jan 20, 2005
Elton John , Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Collins and Rod Stewart are piping up for tsunami relief. The quartet is among several music stars who have begun recording a new version of Eric Clapton s somber...
More »AP - Jan 10, 2005
At a downtown club, Tommy Ramone listened carefully to a band unlike any other. On drums: The U.S. ambassador to Russia. On lead guitar: The Hungarian ambassador to the United States. They re great...
More »E! Online - Jan 7, 2005
The music world may have been slow to respond to the tsunami tragedy, but a wave of upcoming events aims to help make up the difference. While several large-scale events are reportedly in the planning...
More »Reuters - Dec 16, 2004
Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop from the top of Billboard s Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as his hit tune Drop It Like It s Hot featuring Pharrell logged a third week at No. 1. The cut stems from Snoop...
More »Reuters - Dec 13, 2004
U2, the Pretenders, Buddy Guy, Percy Sledge, and the O Jays will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at its 20th annual induction ceremony, to be held March 14 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel...
More »Reuters - Dec 12, 2004
Same Bonnaroo time, same Bonnaroo place. The fourth annual Bonnaroo Music Festival will be held June 10-12, 2005, returning to the 700-acre site in rural Manchester, Tenn., about 60 miles south of Nashville...
More »Reuters - Nov 9, 2004
Vintage rock trio Cream will reunite for a string of shows next year at London s Royal Albert Hall, sources tell Billboard. The group -- guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton , drummer Ginger Baker and bassist...
More »Reuters - Oct 17, 2004
Swedish DJ Eric Prydz rebounded to the top of the UK pop charts Sunday, bouncing heart-throb Robbie Williams down to number three. Prydz s Call on Me regained its hold on the number one spot after...
More »Reuters - Sep 21, 2004
Capitol Records on Tuesday said it will soon release a new DVD with performances by George Harrison as well as archival footage featuring the ex-Beatle talking about his solo career and formation of...
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