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This year has featured a lot of heartbreaking celebrity deaths. In 2017, we lost some incredibly beloved musicians like Tom Petty, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, former "Partridge Family" star ...
The Opies have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early versions, there are ...
Bo Diddley was born in McComb, Mississippi, [nb 1] as Ellas Otha Bates (also stated as Otha Ellas Bates or Elias Otha Bates). [15] He was the only child of Ethel Wilson, a sharecropper's teenaged daughter, and Eugene Bates, [16] whom he never knew.
Little was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the middle of three sons, older brother Fred and younger brother Chris.His father, Lawrence Peniston Little, was a surgeon who served as a lieutenant commander in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II and then worked for the Department of Veterans' Affairs until his death in 1959. [3]
The name was later shortened to The Cure because frontman Robert Smith felt the name was too American and "too hippyish". [105] °C-ute (Cute) – The Japanese girl group was named by its producer Tsunku. According to him and the band's official website, the English word cute means "(little and) lovely, pretty". Wanting to somehow express the ...
In 1998, "Bo Diddley" received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award [7] and it is included on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll". [8] In 2011, the A and B-side pair were added to the Library of Congress 's National Recording Registry list of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" American sound ...
Courtesy of Pretty Pastel Please/Instagram The popular Australian YouTuber Pretty Pastel Please has died at age 30. “We come to you today with a devastating announcement. It is with a heavy ...
Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), known professionally as Little Richard, was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter.He was an influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades.