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On her best-selling studio album, Summer began to bring new influences into the disco sound that had made her a star.By 1979, Donna Summer had cemented her status as the “queen of disco.” Singles like “Love To Love You Baby” and “I Feel Love” had taken her into the upper echelons of the charts and made her a global star. She’d also gained a reputation as a master of the double album through 1977’s Once Upon A Time, a record that was described by critic Robert Christgau upon release as the first “disco opera.” Once Upon A Time showed...

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Lulu Roman, the brash Hee Haw comedian and gospel singer who delighted fans of the long-running country music variety show while turning her life around in the process, has died. She was 78. Roman died Wednesday in Bellingham, Washington, her son, Damon Roman, told The Hollywood Reporter. She had moved there to be with him seven months ago. No cause of death has been determined. < Roman appeared on the first episode of CBS’ Hee Haw in June 1969 and on the last one, with the show in syndication, in June 1993. During its impressive run, she reinvented herself as...

More timely than ever, its's Grandpa Jones singing about a true evil as only he could.

Keeley Hawes is set to star in a major new Channel 4 drama, Falling, written by BAFTA award-winning Adolescence writer Jack Thorne. The role will see Keeley (Scoop, Miss Austen) looking unrecognisable as she plays Anna, a devoted nun who unexpectedly falls in love with David, a Catholic priest, played by Paapa Essiedu (Black Mirror, The Lazarus Project). The new six-part drama is the first love story written by Jack Thorne and follows both Anna and David as they grow closer and find themselves caught up in a case of forbidden love. Anna and David are both deeply committed to...

6,111,471 views James Hetfield tells Howard about writing “Nothing Else Matters” before Metallica played the song live during their 2013 visit to the Stern Show studio.

Carlos Santana was taken to the hospital ahead of his San Antonio show. In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, a representative for Santana, 77, confirmed that the guitarist will postpone his shows scheduled for Tuesday, April 22 and Wednesday, April 23 after being treated for dehydration and testing positive for COVID. Michael Vrionis, president of Universal Tone Management and a representative for Santana, said, "It is with profound disappointment that I have to inform you all that tonight's show in San Antonio has been postponed. Mr. Santana was at the venue preparing for tonight's show when he experienced an event...

Music has always been political, so I wasn’t at all surprised by the, shall we say, expressiveness at this weekend’s Coachella festival. Nor was I surprised that the political sloganeering was aimed at denouncing the Jewish state—if you’re a band nobody’s ever heard of, and you don’t have the talent to change that with your music alone, you’ll be tempted to jump on the anti-Israel bandwagon and hope it can pull you farther than you were able to go on your own. The band itself is obviously not important, but I couldn’t help but think of how strange it is...

Cherie Currie was the lead singer of the 1970s hard rock band The Runaways. It’s the same group that launched the career of Joan Jett. These days, Cherie Currie still performs to adoring audiences, but she is also more focused on politics, and she has embraced MAGA and the conservative movement. A quick glimpse at Currie’s Twitter/X account lets you know exactly where she stands. Currie’s political transformation has been in the works for a while. Western Journal reported on this almost a year ago: Former Punk Rock Lead Singer Cherie Currie Renounces the Democratic Party After Realizing She ‘Fell...

This is a session/interview with Vince Guaraldi and his band with guest musician Bola Sete from Brazil. Bossa Nova style was big at the time and Vince hopped onboard. Of course, Vince and his band went on to make the music for the Charlie Brown cartoons and introduced a generation of kids to jazz.

Peter Frampton arrives in the press room at the Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony at Barclays Center on November 3, 2023, in New York City. The musician turns 75 on April 22.

<p>Kelly Tran’s The Wedding Banquet, which was advertised as a big, widely-released, queer, super-woke, gay remake died like few movies ever have at the box office this weekend.</p><p>This isn’t get woke, go broke.</p><p>This is get woke, shove a stick in your spokes, hit the ground, start to choke, have a stroke, and then croak broke.</p>

A Palestinian flag and the voice of Mahmoud Khalil: pro-Palestinian gesture on stage at Coachella Alternative band Blonde Redhead used performance at the popular festival to support the student who was arrested by the Trump administration and faces deportation after leading the pro-Palestinian movement at Columbia University; joins a string of pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli gestures at the music event

It would be pointless to try and introduce Gene Simmons in a comprehensive way. He’s done too much, lived too long, and reinvented himself too many times to be summed up in a line or two. And so, I’ll simply tell you that my conversation with this legendary rock star led me to conclude that he is, among a great many other things, a patriot and a Momma’s boy. Although, not necessarily in that order. I suspect you’ll reach a similar conclusion.

A song about depression...When I come home baby And I've been working all night long I put my daughter on my knee, and she say "Daddy what's wrong?" I put my head on her shoulder She whispers in my ear so sweet You know what she says? "Daddy you're a fool to cry You're a fool to cry And it makes me wonder why." You know, I got a woman And she lives in the poor part of town and I go see her sometimes And we make love, so fine I put my head on her shoulder She says,...

Watch the new official music video for The Beatles’ “Let It Be”, filmed on the day after the January 30th rooftop concert. The footage has been meticulously restored from the 16mm negative. Now streaming on Disney+. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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Disco music’s time in the sun may have passed, but the legacy of “The Hustle,” a mega hit in the genre, lives onOn April 18, 1975, Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony’s “The Hustle” was released and skyrocketed to become a massive dance hit of the decade, selling ten million records. The song and the dance it celebrated set the beat of the disco era. The record is known for its irresistible rhythm and its primary lyrical command: “Do the hustle,” which is said 11 times. The only other lyrics—said five times—are “Do it.” Before spending an hour to...

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This will not be a full series review, just a note to say I finished season one and it was fantastic. GREAT characters, including Samuel played by the great actor Stephen Lang ("Pickett" in "Gettysburg") and Oded Fehr (one of the protectors of the tomb in "The Mummy"). Michael Iskander is fantastic as David, who, almost alone among his family is willing to take the prophet's word. Ali Sulieman plays a deteriorating king, looking more and more like Biden with every episode. True to the Bible. I give it an A.