George Pérez, the beloved and influential comic book artist and writer known for his vital work on titles like Wonder Woman and The New Teen Titans, has died at the age of 67. The prolific penciler’s death Friday was confirmed in a statement on his Facebook page, noting that complications …
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Leonard “Hub” Hubbard, the Roots’ former bassist who spent 15 years in the Philadelphia collective, has died at the age of 62. Philadelphia’s ABC 6 first reported Hubbard’s death Thursday; with the Philadelphia Inquirer adding that the cause was multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer; “Hub” had been battling …
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David Lander, the comic actor best known for playing “Squiggy” on Laverne & Shirley, has died at the age of 73 following a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis. The actor’s family confirmed to Variety that Lander died Friday evening at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife Kathy by …
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Peter Green, guitarist and co-founding member of Fleetwood Mac, has died at the age of 73. Green’s family confirmed his death in a statement to the BBC, “It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep. A further statement …
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DaBaby paid tribute to George Floyd and channeled the nationwide protests against police brutality in response to his death with his hit “Rockstar” at the 2020 BET Awards. The song first landed at Number One on RS Top 100 Songs chart in May. DaBaby launched his performance on the ground, …
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Paul McCartney, who learned “everything he knows” from Little Richard, penned a tribute to the rock pioneer Sunday following Little Richard’s death at the age of 87. “From ‘Tutti Frutti’ to ‘Long Tall Sally’ to ‘Good Golly, Miss Molly’ to ‘Lucille’, Little Richard came screaming into my life when I …
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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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Harry Connick Jr. has already heard enough people ask him, “Cole Porter, who’s that?” He even says a younger person mistook Porter for Nat King Cole (No, Porter did not write “The Christmas Song”). Fortunately, this won’t stop younger audiences from enjoying Harry Connick Jr: A Celebration of Cole Porter …
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Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts have rolled out dates for a massive 2020 tour that will take them to stadiums all over North America. It kicks off July 7th at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium and wraps up September 5th at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. …
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Genius filed a lawsuit against Google in Brooklyn court on Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal. Genius, a site known for crowd-sourcing hip-hop lyrics (and related annotations) from listeners and occasionally artists, is accusing the massive search engine of “misappropriating content from Genius’s website” and using it “for [Google’s] …
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