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The Shaggs disbanded in 1975 after Austin's death. Over the decades, Philosophy of the World circulated among musicians and found fans such as Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain . Following a 1980 reissue on Rounder Records , it received enthusiastic reviews for its uniqueness in Rolling Stone and The Village Voice .
All three Cushing sisters married into wealth and prominence: Her older sister, Mary "Minnie", married Vincent Astor, [5] the heir of a $200 million fortune, in 1940, and her younger sister Barbara "Babe" was married to Standard Oil heir Stanley Mortimer Jr., and later to CBS founder William S. Paley. Both of her sisters died of cancer within ...
Shaggs' Own Thing is a 1982 compilation album by the American band the Shaggs, containing unreleased recordings made between 1969 and 1975. In 1988, Shaggs' Own Thing and the Shaggs' first album, Philosophy of the World , were remastered and rereleased by Rounder Records as the compilation The Shaggs .
Betty Lou Bredemus, mother of Julia Roberts and grandmother of young starlet Emma Roberts, died Thursday morning at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica after suffering from lung cancer. She ...
Garrison Brown’s official cause of death has been revealed by the coroner. Brown died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to an autopsy report obtained by People on Wednesday, May 15. His ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The Shaggs were formed in 1965 by the teenage sisters Dorothy ("Dot"), Betty and Helen Wiggin in the small town of Fremont, New Hampshire. [3] They formed at the behest of their father and manager, Austin Wiggin Jr. [3] When Austin was young, his mother had read his palm and made three predictions: he would marry a strawberry-blonde woman, he would have two sons after she had died, and his ...
While hospitalized, she was diagnosed with cancer, which had metastasized in her pancreas, liver and lungs. [6] She died at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California on April 11, 2006, at the age of 52. A family statement said June died "in the arms of her sisters Ruth and Anita and her brothers Aaron and Fritz by her side". [7]