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  • Greg Kihn, Who Scored Hits With ‘Jeopardy’ and ‘The Breakup Song,’ Dead at 75

    10/09/2024 8:37:58 PM PDT · by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh · 42 replies
    Rolling Stone ^ | 8/15/2024 | Andy Greene
    Eighties hitmaker Greg Kihn, best remembered for his early MTV-era smashes “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)” and “Jeopardy,” died Tuesday at age 75. The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Kihn started his career as a folksy singer-songwriter in his hometown of Baltimore, but moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s where he formed the Greg Kihn Band alongside guitarist Robbie Dunbar, bassist Steve Wright, and drummer Larry Lynch. They released five albums on the indie label Beserkley Records that attracted little public attraction despite strong reviews and their reputation as a killer live act. “The rap...
  • Japan Premier Apologizes at WWII Ceremony

    08/15/2010 7:28:48 PM PDT · by AmericanInTokyo · 50 replies
    WSJ/AP ^ | 16 August 2010 | WSJ/AP
    Japan Premier Apologizes at WWII Ceremony TOKYO—Japan's new liberal prime minister shunned a visit to a shrine that has outraged Asian neighbors for honoring war criminals, breaking from past governments' tradition and instead apologizing Sunday for the suffering World War II caused. Members of the now-opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan nearly continuously since the end of the war, made a point by carrying out their own trip to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan bowed to offer prayers for the war dead at Budokan...
  • Elizabeth Smart case, August 15, 2002

    08/14/2002 8:33:31 PM PDT · by IamHD · 109 replies · 436+ views
    New thread for Elizabeth.