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Robin and Donna: If there's a disco heaven, you know they've got a heck of a party band!
And that band just got two new lead singers! Couples skate! The passing this week of Donna Summer and Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees not only chips away at the collective childhood memories of those of us born in the 1970s - I know now how my parents felt ...
Report: Godfather of 'go-go' genre of funk, Chuck Brown, dies at 75
According to The Washington Post, Chuck Brown, considered the driving force behind the subgenre of funk known as "go-go", died on Wednesday at the age of 75 in Baltimore. Brown developed the sound as an alternative to disco in the 1970s, and ended up with the music that has dominated ...
Maurice Sendak, "Really Rosie" and kid lit's urban diva
Maurice Sendak is being remembered, rightly so, for the breadth of his contribution to children's literature and its recognition of kids not as perfect little angels in an English garden but as, well, kids: selfish, impatient, wondrous, imaginative, raging, loving and wholly unpredictable. "Where The Wild Things Are" gets a ...
Dick Clark: He gave us music -- and memories
I was not a cool 13-year-old. Most 13-year-olds are not, but I was extra un-cool: Uncoordinated. Jheri curl. Bifocals thicker than the glass window at a check-cashing store. I needed to know, pronto, what the cool kids were doing, the bands they listened to, the must-know dances, the top tapes ...
Jonathan Frid, original Barnabas from 'Dark Shadows', dead at age 87
By PATRICK KEVIN DAY Jonathan Frid, the man known to fans around the world as Barnabas Collins, the suave vampire from the cult hit soap opera "Dark Shadows" has died at age 87. The Hamilton Spectator, of Hamilton, Ontario, reports the Canadian actor died in his hometown of Hamilton at ...
Artist Thomas Kinkade dies at 54; 'Painter of Light' worked to project 'serene simplicity'
By KIM CHRISTENSEN Thomas Kinkade, the self-styled "Painter of Light" who died Friday at 54, once said he worked to "create images that project a serene simplicity." But despite his astonishing commercial success with luminous seascapes and paintings of cottages and street scenes, Kinkade's life in many ways was neither ...
David Cassidy recalls friend Davy Jones
By BEN CRANDELL The death of actor, musician and pop icon Davy Jones on Wednesday reverberated with a unique poignancy in the Fort Lauderdale home of David Cassidy. “I lost a very good friend today,” said Cassidy, whose posters may have replaced Jones’ on many a young girl’s bedroom wall ...
A fan looks back at the Monkee she came to know as a friend
Jan Tuckwood with Monkees singer Davy Jones after the band's concert in June 2011. (Post file photo)Back in 1966, when The Monkees were big hits on TV, I was in sixth grade and on the safety patrol at North Grade Elementary School in Lake Worth. Every morning, I’d wait on ...
Monkees singer Davy Jones dead at 66
Davy Jones sang with the Monkees from the 1960s through several of the band\'s comebacks. Davy Jones, lead singer of the Monkees, has died, the Martin County Medical Examiner's office confirmed this afternoon. "The district 19 Medical Examiner's Office has been notified of the death of Mr. Davy Jones. We ...
Messed up Whitney news of the day: Nancy Grace hangs up on gospel legend
"Wanna know my theory about what happens during Reindeer Games? Why haven't we seen Blitzen since Christmas? What did Rudolph do and what does Santa know?" I had decided not to write anything Nancy Grace cutting off gospel legend Shirley Caesar last night mid-sentence during last night's episode of "Nancy ...
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