Category Archives: Rock’n'Roll

Peter Frampton reunited with guitar 31 years after plane crash

By doris | Published: January 5, 2012

Full Story at Entertainment.msnbc.com Peter Frampton has an axe to grind. A long lost axe. The legendary guitarist has been reunited with his prized Gibson electric guitar 31 years after it was presumed lost in a cargo plane crash in Caracas, Venezuela. Frampton, who used the black 1954 Gibson Les Paul on the 1976 solo [...]

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Fred Milano of Dion and the Belmonts dies at 72

By doris | Published: January 4, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK (AP) — Fred Milano, who made rock and roll history on doo-wop hits with Dion and the Belmonts in the 1950s and continued to perform while starting a late-in-life career with the New York City Department of Correction, has died. He was 72. Milano died Sunday, three weeks after [...]

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Van Halen unveils new tour with David Lee Roth

By doris | Published: December 28, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com LOS ANGELES — Veteran rockers Van Halen unveiled plans on Monday for a tour with original lead singer David Lee Roth returning to the stage. In a video posted on the band’s website, http://www.van-halen.com, Eddie Van Halen, brother Alex and son Wolfgang play the hit “Panama” while Roth runs around on [...]

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Sold! Auction sells furnishings from Michael Jackson’s last house

By doris | Published: December 19, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles (CNN) — A mirror that Michael Jackson looked into as he dressed in his final months and onto which he scribbled a message to himself sold for $18,750 at auction in Beverly Hills this weekend. Julien’s Auctions sold 524 items that furnished the 100 North Carolwood mansion in Los [...]

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KISS front man Paul Stanley undergoes vocal cord surgery

By doris | Published: October 27, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles (CNN) — KISS lead singer Paul Stanley underwent successful surgery for “recurring vocal cord issues” Tuesday that the musician said Wednesday “come with 40 years of preaching rock ‘n’ roll.” His doctors say Stanley, who’s been touring and recording with KISS for nearly 40 years, will make a “swift [...]

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R.E.M. announces they’re calling it quits

By doris | Published: September 21, 2011

Full Story at Scoop.today.com Fans of the long-running rock band R.E.M. got a bit of a shock Wednesday when the group announced on its website that they were calling it quits. “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band, [...]

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Paul McCartney, Nancy Shevell to wed in London

By doris | Published: September 18, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney is set to tie the knot at the venue where he first married more than 40 years ago. Officials said Friday that the former Beatle and fiancee Nancy Shevell have posted a notice of intention to marry at London’s Marylebone Town Hall. Westminster Council, which oversees the [...]

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Pop ladies of the ’80s have still got the beat

By doris | Published: September 12, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com Here’s some pop music news. Guess the year it takes place. Blondie has announced a North American hall tour and has a new album coming Sept. 13. The Human League has a new album getting a physical release that same day. The Bangles have a new album on the way Sept. [...]

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Another Grateful Dead tour? ‘Never say never’

By doris | Published: August 24, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com Last year, Bob Weir told Rolling Stone why Grateful Dead drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann weren’t part of the new Dead offshoot band Furthur. “Phil [Lesh] and I were boldly pursuing new musical directions onstage, and some of the guys weren’t picking up on it,” Weir said. “Phil and I [...]

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Oasis singer suing his own brother

By doris | Published: August 20, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com LONDON — The Gallagher brothers, who stormed British pop in the 1990s when they were together in rock band Oasis, have taken their increasingly bitter war of words to court. Younger sibling Liam, former lead singer of the group who now fronts Beady Eye, issued a statement on Friday confirming he [...]

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