Music world rocked by tragedy as nearly 30 singers have died in 2025
It has been a heartbreaking year so far for the music world with nearly 30 singers or industry insiders having died already. Country music stars who could headline a Super Bowl halftime show The ...
Rock music world rocked by deaths of nearly 20 legendary performers to start 2025
Jackie Farry, who hosted an MTV show and rubbed shoulders with some legendary rock acts, died on Jan. 12. She was 58. Variety ...
The classic rock band that showed Stevie Nicks her future: “I thought: that’s me!”
No matter if you're in Fleetwood Mac or a double Hall of Famer like Stevie Nicks is, we all need that musical moment that sets us on our path to greatness.
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"Behind those dark glasses and unsmiling visage, he presented an inscrutable presence." Soft Machine's Mike Ratledge remembered
Mike Ratledge, who died yesterday aged 81, did exactly that. In the 49 years since he left Soft Machine, somebody, somewhere ...
The five greatest singing drummers of all time
From Don Henley to Karen Carpenter, we're running through the best singing drummers in history. From soft rock to pop and ...
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“If I were you, I’d get a haircut and disappear”: When author William Burroughs gave Daevid Allen permission to call his band The Soft Machine
A key moment in the Canterbury band’s history came when the future Gong mastermind made contact with his former collaborator ...