Two daughters of a formerly enslaved landowner, a Baltimore gangster-turned-businessman, an Annapolis disc jockey, and stars such as James Brown and Ella Fitzgerald transformed a beach on the Chesapea...
06.03.2023 Washingtonpost.comSimply Red star Mick Hucknall (Image: European Press News) When i ask Mick Hucknall about his favourite memories, the Simply Red star doesn’t miss a beat. “The Grammy Awards in 1987, that’s very vivid...
06.04.2023 Newsconcerns.com and 4 sitesConstantine Maroulis Rock & Roll Man , a new biomusical centered on the life story of legendary DJ Alan Freed, begins its New York premiere Off-Broadway at New World Stages' Stage 3 June 3, with openi...
06.02.2023 Playbill.com and 1 sitesLeave it to Hank Davis to write a book about 1950s rock music that barely mentions Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis or Bill Haley & His Comets. In his 38-chapter, 360-page tribute to the lesser lights o...
05.31.2023 Thestar.comThirty-one years is a very long time between life events. Bush the first was still president, and Bill Clinton was knocking on the White House door. Los Angeles was rioting (having grown up there, I found this both sad and inevitable—LAPD’s reputation for brutality was well-known by then). A guy named Jay Leno had just taken over The Tonight Show from the legendary Johnny Carson. And the Cure—straight outta Crawley, Sussex—was touring behind Wish, its ninth(! ! ) studio album, which saw the band...
06.01.2023 Newsbreak.com and 1 sitesBelow is a selection of New York theater opening* in June, presented in a day-by-day calendar and featuring two Broadway shows (one a comic solo play about antisemitism, the other a Britney Spear juke...
06.01.2023 Newyorktheater.me455: King Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome. 575: Benedict I begins his reign as Pope. 1740: Birth of the Marquis de Sade in Paris. 1780: An anti-Catholic demonstration attacks the Houses of Parliame...
06.02.2023 Yellowad.co.ukJohn Bonham would’ve turned 75 today (May 31st. ) While no one has ever really filled the void left by the Led Zeppelin drummer, his son, Jason, has proudly taken the reigns for years and has carried ...
05.31.2023 Wrif.com and 2 sitesSpread the love For more than two decades, Eureka Springs was host to an annual Blues Festival that brought big-name musicians and blues fans from all over the country to its unique resort town. Notew...
06.01.2023 Eglobaltravelmedia.com.auBill Hice has lived life by the numbers, both musical and mathematical. Hice, 84, has played gigs all over Arkansas and beyond, meeting some of the biggest names of the '60s and '70s, but he has made a career out of income tax preparation. It all beg...
06.04.2023 Dispatchist.com and 2 sites