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Thursday, September 19, 2024
by Don Mooney 6-24-2023 Memphis, TENN—As the sun slowly set on the Overton Shell the lawn filled with chairs and blankets of patrons of all ages, being teased by the Stax sound as they eagerly anticipated hearing familar sounds that created what the world has come to know as Soulville. […]
23rd May 2023 By Abiodun Sanusi Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti has been released on Tuesday night on bail, from the detention of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Lagos. The development was confirmed by his attorney, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, SAN, in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Tuesday night. “Yes, Ṣeun […]
The actor – who was perhaps best known for playing Cedric Daniels in ‘The Wire’ – passed away suddenly on Friday morning (03.17.23). Mia Hansen, his publicist, said in a statement: “Acclaimed actor Lance Reddick passed away suddenly this morning from natural causes. Lance will be greatly missed. Please respect […]
Chris Rock has spoken at length for the first time about being slapped by Will Smith during the Oscars, almost a year since the scandal that shocked millions watching around the world. Comedian lays into victimhood, Jada Pinkett Smith and her husband during his new standup show, saying ‘she hurt him way […]
PHARRELL IS TAKING OVER LOUIS VUITTON MENSWEAR FOR VIRGIL ABLOH 13 HOURS AGO IN STYLEWORDS BY JAKE SILBERT It’s official: Pharrell Williams is taking over the late Virgil Abloh’s role as Louis Vuitton’s menswear creative director. The news was first confirmed on February 14 by longstanding French newspaper Le Figaro before Pharrell and Louis Vuitton […]
by Don Mooney Memphis, TENN—Burt Bacharach, By all musical standards of the 60s was magic! The pop composer, arranger, conductor, record producer and occasional singer whose hit songs in the 1960s distilled that decade’s mood of romantic optimism, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94. […]
by Don Mooney 2-6-2023 MEMPHIS, TENN—In the 70s hit spin-off The Jeffersons, the destination was get that bag and take it to get that deluxe apartment in the sky. Fast forward 2023, figure in inflation, cost of living on the upper eastside these days, that deluxe apartment got folks like […]
Brian Contreras, Anousha Sakoui Sat, January 14, 2023 at 9:00 AM Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, earns more in death than most people ever will in life. But since the rock legend’s death in 1977, that posthumous payload has seen its share of twists and turns, with everything from […]
Robbie Bachman, founding drummer of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died at the age of 69. The news of Robbie’s death was broken by his brother and former bandmate, Randy Bachman. “Another sad departure,” Randy wrote on social media on Thursday (January 12). “The pounding beat behind BTO, my little brother Robbie has […]
Ben Beaumont-Thomas@ben_bt Fri 28 Oct 2022 12.56 EDT Jerry Lee Lewis, the rock’n’roll pioneer who became one of the most infamous figures in popular music, has died aged 87, his publicist has said. He died of natural causes at his home in DeSoto County, Mississippi. “Judith, his seventh wife, was […]