It was 50 years ago this month that Paul McCartney told the world that the Beatles had broken up. “Personal differences, business differences, musical differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family,” he wrote in a “self-interview” that accompanied the release of his debut …
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By and large, major music companies will be thankful not to be Disney right now. The “Happiest Place on Earth” has had fair reason for glumness of late, due to the economic turmoil evinced by, you guessed it, the knock-on effects of COVID-19. Disney’s annual revenue in fiscal 2019 stood …
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Paul McCartney’s handwritten lyrics for “Hey Jude,” used in the studio when the Beatles recorded the 1968 classic, sold for $910,000 at auction Friday. The lyric sheet, which McCartney used during the July 1968 recording session at London’s Trident Studios and then gifted to a studio engineer, had a pre-auction …
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Iggy Pop’s fruitful collaboration with David Bowie in Berlin, Germany — resulting in the Stooges singer’s acclaimed 1977 solo albums The Idiot and Lust for Life — will be the focus of an upcoming 7-CD box set. The Bowie Years features The Idiot and Lust for Life and the 1978 …
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A cadre of music’s heaviest hitters will lead the Grammy Music Education Coalition’s nine-hour fundraising telethon, dubbed Oh Say Can You Stream, on Saturday. Alice Cooper, DMC and host Megadeth‘s David Ellefson will all make appearances during the broadcast, which will take place at 4 p.m. ET on several online …
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Charlotte Figi — the young girl who became a leading symbol for the medical benefits of cannabis and CBD after it helped treat her rare form of epilepsy — died Wednesday. She was 13. Figi’s death was confirmed in a message posted on her mother Paige’s Facebook page by a …
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Hal Willner — the respected producer who worked with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull, was a long-time Saturday Night Live staffer and compiled a series of offbeat and creative all-star tribute albums — died Tuesday at the age of 64. A rep for Willner confirmed the producer’s death to Rolling …
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Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong continued his “No Fun Mondays” quarantine series with a cover of the Bangles’ “Manic Monday,” recruiting that band’s Susanna Hoffs for a video cameo on electric guitar. The duo put a power-pop spin on the Prince-penned 1986 hit, replacing the original’s twinkling synths and clean …
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Eric Church offered the debut of a new song during the ACM Presents: Our Country special on Sunday night, along with a hopeful speech about persevering through the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Like most of the performances in the two-hour show, Church sang the inspiring “Never Break Heart” alone at home, …
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As a child, Ashley McBryde learned a valuable lesson about how to present herself to people. In order to compensate for being shy, she developed a way of walking right up to an adult and introducing herself like a fully grown person might, momentarily holding her insecurities at bay. “I …
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