Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 2000s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
On 20 March 1991, Clapton's four-year-old son, Conor, whom he had with Lory Del Santo, died after falling from the 53rd-floor window of a New York City apartment belonging to a friend of Conor’s mother. [2] [3] After isolating himself for a period, Clapton began working again, writing music for the film Rush (1991).
The similarity in surnames gave rise to the erroneous belief that Clapton's real surname is Clapp (Reginald Cecil Clapton was the name of Rose's first husband, Eric Clapton's maternal grandfather). [14] Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier and moved to Germany, [15] leaving Eric with his grandparents in Surrey. [16]
In the 1960s, British actress Julie Christie rose to fame as one of the world's most lusted-after bombshells. The leading lady of "Doctor Zhivago" and "Fahrenheit 451," Christie was not only a ...
Ormsby-Gore played a significant role in encouraging Clapton to play a concert, with a select backing group of rock star friends, at the Rainbow on 13 January 1973. His first live appearance for some time, it did not lead to any others. By August 1973 the health of Clapton and Ormsby-Gore was causing deep concern among friends and family.
He wrote for a variety of artists, including Steve Winwood, Whitney Houston, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Joe Sample, Rodney Crowell, Mariah Carey, Jimmy Buffett, Barry Manilow, and Roy Orbison. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In Nashville he worked with other composers, and his first big hit came when Manilow took his joint composition with Richard Kerr ...
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 ...
Julie Powell at the Premiere of ‘Julie and Julia’ Henry Lamb/BEI/Shutterstock Julie Powell, the food writer known for her Julia Child recipe blog, has died. She was 49. Celebrity Deaths in ...