E! Online - Aug 24, 2007
What with Paris Hilton, Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart and many, many more on the guest list, it could be the biggest collection of stars since Diddy's last birthday party. And, yes, Diddy's...
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The sound was never exactly polished, but it had plenty of soul, and the Memphis sound created at Stax Records has found its own special place in the history of American music. Some of pop s most cherished...
More »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...
More »Reuters - Feb 21, 2007
Guitarist Steve Cropper loves to tell how he auditioned Otis Redding, but there is nothing but pain when he recalls the day the soul-music giant died in a plane crash 40 years ago this year. For Cropper...
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The quintessential jam band. Opera s most renowned diva. An L.A. quartet whose flame still burns bright 35 years after the death of their frontman. The first lady of folk rock. The...
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Phil Walden, the colorful and oft-controversial founder of the pathfinding Southern rock label Capricorn Records and manager of Otis Redding and the Allman Brothers Band, died Sunday of lung cancer at...
More »Reuters - Apr 14, 2006
Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans-based music festival the Ponderosa Stomp will take place May 8-10 at the Gibson Guitar factory in downtown Memphis. The festival is organized by the Mystic...
More »Reuters - Feb 8, 2006
The biggest mystery at Wednesday night s Grammy Awards has nothing to do with how many of music s top prizes leading nominees Mariah Carey, Kanye West and John Legend will take home. Rather, everyone...
More »AP - Jan 28, 2006
Wilson Pickett was remembered by friends and family Saturday as a singer who fell somewhere between a poet and a preacher, laying the groundwork for artists after him. One way or another, Wilson was...
More »E! Online - Jan 20, 2006
Without Wilson Pickett, everything from AM radio to The Commitments would have sounded considerably less soulful. The singer, whose signature tracks included In the Midnight Hour Mustang Sally, and...
More »AP - Jan 20, 2006
Wilson Pickett, the soul pioneer best known for the fiery hits Mustang Sally and In The Midnight Hour, died of a heart attack Thursday in a Reston, Va., hospital, according to his management company....
More »Reuters - Jan 19, 2006
Veteran soul singer Wilson Pickett, known for such hits as Mustang Sally and In the Midnight Hour, died on Thursday of a heart attack in Virginia, his manager said. He was 64. Pickett, an Alabama native...
More »AP - Jan 19, 2006
Wilson Pickett, the soul pioneer best known for the fiery hits Mustang Sally and In The Midnight Hour, died of a heart attack Thursday, according to his management company. He was 64. Chris Tuthill of...
More »AP - Aug 9, 2005
Pixies lead singer Frank Black takes the prize in this year s derby for Oddest Duet, inviting his ex-wife to sing about their failed relationship on his new solo album. Strange Goodbye is by turns...
More »Reuters - Jun 18, 2004
It is no wonder that the debut album from Ricky Fante is titled Rewind. The R&B singer s music harks back to 1960s soul. Rewind, which Virgin Records releases July 13, includes first single It Ain...
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