Diana Ross stopped by the 61st Annual Grammy Awards to celebrate her 75th birthday. The legendary singer was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Before Ross took the stage, an Alicia Keys-narrated video package highlighted Ross’ varied, successful and still strong career. Ross’ grandson took the stage to …
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Rising British rapper Cadet was killed in an early Saturday morning car crash in central England, his family revealed. He was 28. The Associated Press reports that the rapper born Blaine Johnson was the passenger in a taxi en route to Keele University in Straffordshire, where Cadet had a late-night …
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After apologizing and admitting he appeared in a photo of two people—one in blackface, the other in a Ku Klux Klan hood—that was published on his personal page in his medical school yearbook, Virginia governor Ralph Northam will now claim it is not him in the image, theNew York Times’sJonathan …
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The strings swirl, Sid Vicious descends a staircase and begins doing his best Chairman of the Board impression (even if it sounds a bit more like Dracula than Sinatra), and then everything implodes in his cover version of “My Way.” The bassist gave the song a punk-rock makeover for his …
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More than half a century after he joined Pink Floyd, David Gilmour will be auctioning off about 120 of the iconic guitars he played both with the band and on his solo releases. “Everything has got to go,” he jokes. “It’s the spring sale.” The instruments that will be on …
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Bon Scott, the late AC/DC singer who fronted the band from 1974 to 1980, vents about financial struggles, hard drinking and the band’s grueling tour schedule in a handwritten August 1978 letter headed to auction. The note, addressed to Valerie Dalli, his girlfriend at the time, is set to start …
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Jeff Bridges humorously and humbly accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2019 Golden Globes on Sunday. The award is bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to honor “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.” After an introduction by presenter Chris Pine and a montage of Bridges’ scenes …
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Penny Marshall, from the Bronx, had a voice you didn’t forget. She talked in a molasses-slow, nasal whine, but her mind moved like a torpedo, finding every laugh where it was needed and the time to talk you through whatever got you down. Penny suffered from depression. She was a …
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Saturday Night Live took an It’s a Wonderful Life approach to the Trump White House, imagining an alternate reality where Donald Trump didn’t become president. “It’s awful. Everything’s falling apart. Sometimes I wish I’d never been president,” Alec Baldwin‘s Trump tells Kenan Thompson’s heaven-sent Clarence, who then presents Trump, like …
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Jamaican dancehall singer Buju Banton, one of reggae‘s most popular artists before his career was curtailed by a 10-year prison sentence, was released from a federal prison Friday after serving seven years behind bars. The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Banton had been released from Georgia’s McRae Correctional Facility, …
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