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Legendary Grand Funk Railroad frontman Mark Farner opens up about the day he died - TWICE - and what he saw on the other side. Farner shares his near-death experience (NDE), describing in vivid detail what it was like to "leave his body" and cross over into the afterlife. This is Mark Farner like you've never heard him before—reflecting on life, death, and his incredible journey back.Mark has a brand new album, Closer To My Home, his first new release since 2006, available to pre-order now, check it out!Grand Funk Legend Died & Saw the Afterlife – Mark Farner Tells...

Fifty years ago this week, the week of June 17, 1972, Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan debuted on the Billboard HOT 100 at number #88 with the song "Alone Again (Naturally)". Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)Also debuting that same week at #68 was "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)". Looking Glass - Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)Both these subtitled songs would compete each other later that summer for the number one spot and become two of the biggest pop hits of that year. "Alone Again" topped the charts for a total of six weeks with an initial run of four weeks...

"The Rain, The Park and Other Things" is a single and track from the 1967 album, "The Cowsills". The album was originally released on MGM Records . The album, with it's sunny mix of late 1960s pop, peaked at #31 on the Billboard albums chart in December 1967 . "The Rain, The Park and Other Things" was written by Steve Duboff and Artie Kornfeld. The single was released on MGM and reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending 16 weeks on the chart and has sold over 3 million copies worldwide."

William "Billy" Cowsill, lead singer of Sixties singing family the Cowsills, died on Friday at his home in Calgary at the age of fifty-eight. He had been in poor health, suffering from emphysema, Cushing's syndrome and osteoporosis. The Cowsills, the real-life family that inspired the hit TV series The Partridge Family, scored two Number Two hits, "The Rain, the Park and Other Things" and the title track to the hit rock musical Hair. The Newport, Rhode Island, band, which included brothers Billy (guitar), Barry (bass), Bob (guitar and organ) and John (drums), would later also feature brother Paul (keyboards) and...

The lead singer of the 1960s family band The Cowsills has died _ and his family learned it just after a memorial service for his brother. According to family members, William Cowsill died Friday in Canada. He had been suffering from emphysema, osteoporosis and other ailments. He was 58 years old. Cowsill was the frontman for the band bearing his family's name. The Newport group was discovered by an N-B-C producer in 1965. Soon after, they recorded three number-one hits including "Hair," "The Rain, The Park and Other Things" and "Indian Lake." News of his death came just after a...

The Cowsills got the news they had been dreading over the holidays. Barry Cowsill — missing since Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans — is dead. His body, positively identified through a DNA match, is in a morgue in Baton Rouge, where it has been since the storm. “It’s a sad ending to the search,” said family friend A.J. Wachtel. “FEMA won’t say how he died or where but he apparently had been underwater.” Cowsill, 51, who with the rest of his singing family belted out their vintage hit “Hair” at Fenway Park during the epic Red Sox-Yankees 2004 ALCS showdown,...

NEW ORLEANS - Barry Cowsill, a member of the popular 1960s singing family The Cowsills, was found dead on a wharf nearly four months after he disappeared when Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. He was 51. Cowsill's body, recovered Dec. 28 from the Chartres Street Wharf, was identified with dental records Tuesday, said Dr. Louis Cataldie, head of the state hurricane morgue in Carville. The coroner had not determined the cause of death but believed it was related to the devastating storm, which struck the city Aug. 29. Cowsill, who lived on and off in New Orleans, had not been...

We are deeply saddened to report that a DNA match has been found for Barry in Baton Rouge, LA. Unfortunately, this means with a 99% certainty that Barry has passed away. The Cowsill family was just informed of the match and more information will be available on the site as it becomes available.