When Meghan Markle and Prince Harry married in 2018, they made their day uniquely theirs. They shared how their two lives merged in a ceremony filled with passion and inspiration. However, details regarding their private reception for family and friends later in the evening remained under wraps until the couple spilled details in Netflix’s Harry & Meghan. A fun fact included their non-traditional wedding song that Meghan said left her “spinning like a whirlwind.”
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s untraditional wedding song
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding song was significant. It also wasn’t traditional.
The couple wanted to share a moment as husband and wife that reflected their personalities. Therefore, they chose a rather untraditional first wedding dance.
In a clip from the Netflix series Harry & Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex revealed they wanted the music for their reception to be “fun.” She added, “Even our first dance.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s untraditional wedding song
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding song was significant. It also wasn’t traditional.
The couple wanted to share a moment as husband and wife that reflected their personalities. Therefore, they chose a rather untraditional first wedding dance.
In a clip from the Netflix series Harry & Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex revealed they wanted the music for their reception to be “fun.” She added, “Even our first dance.
- 12/26/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Some opinions just don’t age well. A member of a pioneering 1960s band said The Beatles‘ “Hey Jude” didn’t live up to the Fab Four’s early songs. One of his bandmates told him he was wrong. That bandmate went on to become a star in his own right.
Kenny Loggins clashed with his bandmate over The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’
Superstar Kenny Loggins was once a member of the psychedelic rock band The Electric Prunes. Today, The Electric Prunes are most known for their early hits “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” and “Get Me to the World on Time.” During a 2022 interview with Stereogum, he named “Hey Jude” as his favorite composition by Paul McCartney.
“I was probably just joining The Electric Prunes when ‘Hey Jude’ came out,” Loggins recalled. “I was writing with a keyboardist named Jeromy Stuart. He was really ready to try...
Kenny Loggins clashed with his bandmate over The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’
Superstar Kenny Loggins was once a member of the psychedelic rock band The Electric Prunes. Today, The Electric Prunes are most known for their early hits “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” and “Get Me to the World on Time.” During a 2022 interview with Stereogum, he named “Hey Jude” as his favorite composition by Paul McCartney.
“I was probably just joining The Electric Prunes when ‘Hey Jude’ came out,” Loggins recalled. “I was writing with a keyboardist named Jeromy Stuart. He was really ready to try...
- 9/24/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The story of Stax records has long been smoothed over and sculpted into a neat bundle of Southern aphorism and marketing copy: The Memphis home of “Soul Man” and Shaft and the Staple Singers was the more authentic (insert adjective like “gritty” or “greasy” or “Southern-fried” here), counterpart to the pop-oriented Motown; a rare space of multiracial utopia in a segregated Sixties South; a locus, for Blacks in Memphis at the time, for the expressions and dreams of a better American future that lost its way in 1968 when those dreams...
- 6/22/2023
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Myron Elkins is one of those guys who seems to have stepped out of another time. At just 22, the former welder from the small town of Otsego, Michigan — closest city: Kalamazoo — drops names like Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Al Green when recounting his musical mileposts. But he’s also fully aware that he’s a white man from the Midwest and that any claim he has to vintage soul music goes through one of his state’s most celebrated blue-collar singers.
“I have this thing, almost like a ‘worthy...
“I have this thing, almost like a ‘worthy...
- 5/5/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Paul McCartney Wanted The Beatles’ ‘Got to Get You Into My Life’ to Sound Like American R&b and Soul
Paul McCartney wanted The Beatles‘ “Got to Get You Into My Life” to sound like an American R&b and soul song. The song is Paul’s ode to pot.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon, writers of The Beatles’ ‘Got to Get You Into My Life’ | Jeff Hochberg/Getty Images The Beatles’ ‘Got to Get You Into My Life’ is an ode to pot
In 1964, Bob Dylan introduced The Beatles to marijuana, and they fell in love with it. After that, it was always around. Paul loved marijuana so much that he made “Got to Get You Into My Life” an ode to pot.
In The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that he thought it would be a good idea to write a song with “Got to get you into my life,’ and only he would know he was talking about pot.
Years later, Paul told people what the song was about.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon, writers of The Beatles’ ‘Got to Get You Into My Life’ | Jeff Hochberg/Getty Images The Beatles’ ‘Got to Get You Into My Life’ is an ode to pot
In 1964, Bob Dylan introduced The Beatles to marijuana, and they fell in love with it. After that, it was always around. Paul loved marijuana so much that he made “Got to Get You Into My Life” an ode to pot.
In The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that he thought it would be a good idea to write a song with “Got to get you into my life,’ and only he would know he was talking about pot.
Years later, Paul told people what the song was about.
- 2/7/2023
- by Hannah Wigandt
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
A new trailer for volume two of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Netflix docuseries, “Harry & Meghan”, highlights a “fun” moment from the couple’s past.
The video, released on Saturday, teases the final set of episodes as The Duke and Duchess of Sussex reflect on their first dance years after they wed on May 19, 2018.
Read More: Prince Harry And Meghan Markle’s Spokesperson Responds Amid Documentary Backlash, Insists Decision To Step Down As Senior Royals Wasn’t About ‘Privacy’
Set to Wilson Pickett’s “Land of 1000 Dances”- the name of the song they danced to- the video also features photos of Meghan and Harry dancing during their private wedding reception, which was held at Windsor’s historic Frogmore House. The candid photographs see Markle in her stunning Stella McCartney gown and Harry dressed in a classic tuxedo.
The actress even sings a few lyrics from the upbeat track before saying,...
The video, released on Saturday, teases the final set of episodes as The Duke and Duchess of Sussex reflect on their first dance years after they wed on May 19, 2018.
Read More: Prince Harry And Meghan Markle’s Spokesperson Responds Amid Documentary Backlash, Insists Decision To Step Down As Senior Royals Wasn’t About ‘Privacy’
Set to Wilson Pickett’s “Land of 1000 Dances”- the name of the song they danced to- the video also features photos of Meghan and Harry dancing during their private wedding reception, which was held at Windsor’s historic Frogmore House. The candid photographs see Markle in her stunning Stella McCartney gown and Harry dressed in a classic tuxedo.
The actress even sings a few lyrics from the upbeat track before saying,...
- 12/11/2022
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
In an utterly accidental way, a box set devoted to the Archies, the infamous TV cartoon band of the Sixties, couldn’t have arrived at a timelier moment. Earlier this month, we lost the Monkees’ Michael Nesmith. The band’s musical gatekeeper, the one most preoccupied with the TV-generated combo being allowed to write its own songs and play on its own records, Nesmith famously rejected “Sugar, Sugar” — a bubblegum pop song as basic as it gets, brought to them by producer Don Kirshner.
As the late Kirshner told Rs...
As the late Kirshner told Rs...
- 12/22/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Just past the halfway point in the documentary Mr. Soul!, poet Felipe Luciano calls Ellis Haizlip “the most effective, insidious revolutionary that I have ever met.” It isn’t meant as a specific accolade, but it is a badge of honor for a man who honored the true meaning of sedition. Subversion in the arts is a skill which can be expressed as simply as putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. Seditious political expression is rarely so subtle. The creator and host of the all-too-short lived public television variety program Soul! achieved a dream mix of diverse thought, some which went under the radar, some designed to be unnoticed, all of which was riveting, and everything absolutely accessible.
Soul! captured everyday insurrection. Melvin Van Peebles’ 1971 independent feature Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song proclaimed to be unapologetically Black, Haizlip saw no reason to bring apology into the equation. Nothing he was doing,...
Soul! captured everyday insurrection. Melvin Van Peebles’ 1971 independent feature Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song proclaimed to be unapologetically Black, Haizlip saw no reason to bring apology into the equation. Nothing he was doing,...
- 7/31/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Director Stan Lathan’s 1973 film documents a concert held during Jesse Jackson’s Operation Push exposition. Like Woodstock, it’s long for a concert film but with over 25 acts it needed to be. Featuring a once in a lifetime lineup of Motown greats including Marvin Gaye, Wilson Pickett, Issac Hayes, and the Jackson 5.
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- 5/31/2021
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Roger Hawkins, a drummer who powered the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on hits by Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and the Staple Singers, died Thursday following an extended illness. He was 75 and his death was announced by the Muscle Shoals Music Foundation on Facebook.
As part of the Muscle Shoals Music Section – affectionately known as the Swampers – Hawkins was the backbone of scores of pop, soul, R&b, and rock hits.
The 2013 documentary, Muscle Shoals, spotlighted the talent of the recording team. Hawkins most notable successes included working with Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, on the massive hits Respect, Think, Chain of Fools, Mustang Sally and Land of 1000 Dances. He also played drums on the Staple Singers’ iconic I’ll Take You There.
Hawkins was born in Indiana and moved to Alabama as a teenager. Hawkins backed local singer Percy Sledge on When a Man Loves a Woman, which quickly...
As part of the Muscle Shoals Music Section – affectionately known as the Swampers – Hawkins was the backbone of scores of pop, soul, R&b, and rock hits.
The 2013 documentary, Muscle Shoals, spotlighted the talent of the recording team. Hawkins most notable successes included working with Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, on the massive hits Respect, Think, Chain of Fools, Mustang Sally and Land of 1000 Dances. He also played drums on the Staple Singers’ iconic I’ll Take You There.
Hawkins was born in Indiana and moved to Alabama as a teenager. Hawkins backed local singer Percy Sledge on When a Man Loves a Woman, which quickly...
- 5/21/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Roger Hawkins, the drummer in the legendary Swampers and Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section who played on hits like Aretha Franklin’s “Respect,” Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally,” and Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman,” has died at the age of 75.
The Muscle Shoals Music Foundation announced Hawkins’ death Thursday. Al.com reports that Hawkins died following an extended illness; the drummer suffered from numerous illnesses later in life, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
“Our hearts are breaking today as the heartbeat of ‘The Swampers’ drummer Roger Hawkins...
The Muscle Shoals Music Foundation announced Hawkins’ death Thursday. Al.com reports that Hawkins died following an extended illness; the drummer suffered from numerous illnesses later in life, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
“Our hearts are breaking today as the heartbeat of ‘The Swampers’ drummer Roger Hawkins...
- 5/20/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
The Mountain Goats have released a tender new song, “Mobile,” from their upcoming album, Dark in Here, out June 25th via Merge.
“Mobile” boasts a nimble mix of guitars and piano, and the lyrics find frontman John Darnielle recounting the Biblical story of Jonah, recast with a Southern twist and ostensibly set on the coastal town of Mobile, Alabama. “I’m on a balcony in Mobile, Alabama, waiting for the wind to throw me down,” Darnielle sings, “Lord, if you won’t keep me safe and warm/Then send down...
“Mobile” boasts a nimble mix of guitars and piano, and the lyrics find frontman John Darnielle recounting the Biblical story of Jonah, recast with a Southern twist and ostensibly set on the coastal town of Mobile, Alabama. “I’m on a balcony in Mobile, Alabama, waiting for the wind to throw me down,” Darnielle sings, “Lord, if you won’t keep me safe and warm/Then send down...
- 4/19/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
A few weeks ago, Paul Stanley texted Gene Simmons a link to a long-forgotten soul song called “The 81” after his obstinate Kiss bandmate questioned its existence.
“He said, ‘There’s no song called that.’ I said, ‘Yeah, there is!’ I sent him the song and he said, ‘It sounds just like Martha and the Vandellas,'” Stanley tells Rolling Stone, going on to relay the history of “The 81,” the band that cut it, Candy and the Kisses, and why Simmons’ comparison to Martha Reeves was an accurate one. “It was about a dance.
“He said, ‘There’s no song called that.’ I said, ‘Yeah, there is!’ I sent him the song and he said, ‘It sounds just like Martha and the Vandellas,'” Stanley tells Rolling Stone, going on to relay the history of “The 81,” the band that cut it, Candy and the Kisses, and why Simmons’ comparison to Martha Reeves was an accurate one. “It was about a dance.
- 3/17/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
“As long as I am strong, I am young,” Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, the reggae architect whose deified, six-decade musical career helped popularize the genre, told Rolling Stone earlier this year. The ska-reggae legend sounds stronger than ever on Got to Be Tough, his first album in more than a decade.
Co-produced by Zak Starkey for his Trojan Jamaica label – with contributions from Starkey’s dad Ringo Starr – Got to Be Tough is the result of two rum-fueled, round-the-clock recording sessions that blends incendiary, soul-inspired resistance music (“Freedom Train”) and horn-driven...
Co-produced by Zak Starkey for his Trojan Jamaica label – with contributions from Starkey’s dad Ringo Starr – Got to Be Tough is the result of two rum-fueled, round-the-clock recording sessions that blends incendiary, soul-inspired resistance music (“Freedom Train”) and horn-driven...
- 8/31/2020
- by Jason Newman
- Rollingstone.com
In November 1984, Billy Ocean’s “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)” dethroned Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You” to take the Number One spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was a brash fusion of soul, reggae, R&b, and pop unlike anything that had been heard before on Top 40 radio, and the singer followed it up with equally eclectic hits like “Loverboy,” “Suddenly,” and “When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going.”
But just as MTV and teenagers across America were...
But just as MTV and teenagers across America were...
- 8/25/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
llis Haizlip was never one to miss a beat, and Mr. Soul! is right on time. Innovative, political, and openly gay before Stonewall, Haizlip was America’s first Black nighttime talk show host. Before Oprah and Arsenio, his show aired live on public television from 1968 to ‘73, during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Black Lives Matter is now louder than ever, speaking volumes on racism in a meaningful manner. But in the days before cell phone journalism, Haizlip’s weekly television show promised “the revolution would be televised.” That revolution was Soul!. Directed, written and produced by Melissa Haizlip, Mr. Soul! had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and is slated to open in over 50 theaters in the virtual cinema space on Aug. 28.
Soul! was a weekly television show celebrating Black American culture, art, life, love, and community. The series “was the first national show to provide...
Soul! was a weekly television show celebrating Black American culture, art, life, love, and community. The series “was the first national show to provide...
- 8/17/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
A guitar that Jimi Hendrix played in the early Sixties — when the guitar god was an R&b sideman and fledgling rocker based in New York City — sold at auction Saturday for $216,000, nearly four times its pre-auction estimate.
According to Gws Auctions, Hendrix began playing the Japanese sunburst electric guitar after he was discharged from the U.S. Army in 1962. “After leaving Fort Campbell Jimi moved to Clarksville, Tennessee for a short time where he played on the Chitlin’ Circuit with the likes of Wilson Pickett, Slim Harpo, Sam Cooke, Ike...
According to Gws Auctions, Hendrix began playing the Japanese sunburst electric guitar after he was discharged from the U.S. Army in 1962. “After leaving Fort Campbell Jimi moved to Clarksville, Tennessee for a short time where he played on the Chitlin’ Circuit with the likes of Wilson Pickett, Slim Harpo, Sam Cooke, Ike...
- 8/9/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Choosing and justifying a list of essential Grateful Dead shows — 20, 200, or even 2,000 — is treacherous work. Passionate challenge from fans, especially hardcore Deadheads and veteran tape traders, is guaranteed. Endless debate over set-list minutiae is inevitable. In fact, there is only one definitive list of the Dead’s greatest concerts — and it includes every show they played, in every lineup, from their pizza-parlor-gig days as the Warlocks in 1965 until guitarist Jerry Garcia‘s death in 1995.
That long, strange trip was a continually unfolding tale of highs and trials, dedicated evolution and surrender to the moment,...
That long, strange trip was a continually unfolding tale of highs and trials, dedicated evolution and surrender to the moment,...
- 8/8/2020
- by David Fricke
- Rollingstone.com
“Back in my day, nobody chose to be the bass player,” Geddy Lee says. “You were always a guitarist, and somebody said, ‘Well, we need a bass player,’ so they had a vote and you became the bass player.” With a laugh, the legendary Rush bassist adds, “That’s how I became a bass player: I was voted in. I think that was pretty common for the period, because everybody wanted to be Jimi Hendrix; everybody wanted to be Eric Clapton; everybody wanted to be Jimmy Page.”
Lee, who published...
Lee, who published...
- 7/2/2020
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
David Cross has joined the cast of the upcoming third season of “Genius” at Nat Geo, which will focus on music legend Aretha Franklin.
Cross will star as music producer Jerry Wexler. Cynthia Erivo is set to play Franklin, with Courtney B. Vance, Malcolm Barrett, Patrice Covington, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Sanai Victoria also set to star in the eight-episode season.
Cross’ Wexler is described as a scrappy, Bronx-born legendary producer who is one of the first to spot Franklin’s incredible talent and potential. He’s a street savvy music man with great ears who isn’t afraid to go into segregated clubs to find talented performers like Ray Charles and Wilson Pickett. He even coined the term “rhythm and blues.” He poached Franklin from Columbia to Atlantic Records and works with her from 1966-79 during which time she records some of her most iconic hits.
Cross will star as music producer Jerry Wexler. Cynthia Erivo is set to play Franklin, with Courtney B. Vance, Malcolm Barrett, Patrice Covington, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Sanai Victoria also set to star in the eight-episode season.
Cross’ Wexler is described as a scrappy, Bronx-born legendary producer who is one of the first to spot Franklin’s incredible talent and potential. He’s a street savvy music man with great ears who isn’t afraid to go into segregated clubs to find talented performers like Ray Charles and Wilson Pickett. He even coined the term “rhythm and blues.” He poached Franklin from Columbia to Atlantic Records and works with her from 1966-79 during which time she records some of her most iconic hits.
- 11/20/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Huey Lewis hasn’t performed live in nearly two years due to severe hearing loss caused by Ménière’s disease. But he did record an album’s worth of new songs before coming down with the condition that’s slated to finally come out sometime early in 2020. Thankfully, he’s still able to hear music and when we sat down with him recently, he shared his five favorite soul songs, occasionally even taking out his iPhone and singing along.
Ray Charles, “Hallelujah, I Just Love Her So”
This is a flat-out gospel song.
Ray Charles, “Hallelujah, I Just Love Her So”
This is a flat-out gospel song.
- 11/13/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Jimmy Johnson, the guitarist for the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (a.k.a. “the Swampers”) whose foundational R&b-based playing could be heard on hundreds of records, including iconic hits by Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon, Wilson Pickett and Lynyrd Skynyrd, died at the age of 76. His death was confirmed by his son Jay Johnson, who did not reveal a cause of death. “He is gone,” his son wrote on Facebook. “Playing music with the angels now.”
“The mighty Jimmy Johnson has passed,” Jason Isbell, who grew up in the Shoals area,...
“The mighty Jimmy Johnson has passed,” Jason Isbell, who grew up in the Shoals area,...
- 9/5/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Fifty years ago, a handful of milestone albums set the tone for rock of the following decade. Crosby, Stills & Nash initiated a fresh approach to harmonies and looser group names; the eponymous debut by the Allman Brothers Band laid the foundation for the Southern rock of the Seventies. And setting the scene for the white soul-pop that would explode with the likes of Hall and Oates was Boz Scaggs’ self-titled album, which Atlantic Records rolled out on this day in August 1969.
Technically, Boz Scaggs wasn’t a debut; Scaggs had...
Technically, Boz Scaggs wasn’t a debut; Scaggs had...
- 8/27/2019
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Bruce Springsteen was the guest of honor at the Wednesday night (Aug. 7) premiere of “Blinded by The Light” at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Springsteen walked the red carpet with his wife, Patti Scialfa, and stopped to take a photo with stars Viveik Kaira and Aaron Phagura, writer/director/producer Gurinder Chadha, and screenwriter/author Sarfraz Manzoor, whose story is the basis of the film.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was seated inside the theatre with 1,500 guests to screen the movie, which is set for release on Aug. 16. The film follows a Pakistani-British teenager and his life-changing journey through Springsteen’s music.
“It was so cool watching it with Bruce,” Chadha said to the audience. “We want the whole world to understand the music and the words of Bruce Springsteen. … The reason why I wanted to make this film is because of what is happening in the world.
Springsteen walked the red carpet with his wife, Patti Scialfa, and stopped to take a photo with stars Viveik Kaira and Aaron Phagura, writer/director/producer Gurinder Chadha, and screenwriter/author Sarfraz Manzoor, whose story is the basis of the film.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was seated inside the theatre with 1,500 guests to screen the movie, which is set for release on Aug. 16. The film follows a Pakistani-British teenager and his life-changing journey through Springsteen’s music.
“It was so cool watching it with Bruce,” Chadha said to the audience. “We want the whole world to understand the music and the words of Bruce Springsteen. … The reason why I wanted to make this film is because of what is happening in the world.
- 8/8/2019
- by Michele Amabile Angermiller
- Variety Film + TV
Bruce Springsteen fans that flocked to Asbury Park, New Jersey on Wednesday evening for the premiere of Blinded By The Light got an incredible surprise near the end of the evening when Springsteen himself showed up to perform four songs. Joined by Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, they played “Talk to Me,” the Wilson Pickett classic “634-5789,” “Sherry Darling” and Sam Cooke’s “We’re Having a Party.”
Blinded By the Light is an adaptation of Sarfraz Manzoor’s memoir Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock N’ Roll.
Blinded By the Light is an adaptation of Sarfraz Manzoor’s memoir Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock N’ Roll.
- 8/8/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Steve Cropper, the guitarist for Booker T. and the MGs and songwriter of such soul staples as “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” and “In the Midnight Hour,” was honored with the Bmi Icon Award at Tuesday night’s Bmi Awards in Nashville, a loose Golden Globes-type party that finds artists loudly mingling at tables and the bar. Cropper, a Music City resident, was in attendance as a diverse group of singers — including one surprise guest — paid musical tribute.
Nashville soul powerhouse Mike Farris and songwriter Lucie Silvas kicked...
Nashville soul powerhouse Mike Farris and songwriter Lucie Silvas kicked...
- 11/14/2018
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
“We’ve been doing new tracks that are really fantastic and we’ve just been getting into them,” Jimi Hendrix told Rolling Stone in February 1968, right after he and the Experience had played San Francisco’s Fillmore West. “You have these songs in your mind. You want to hurry up and get back to the things you were doing in the studio, because that’s the way you gear your mind….We wanted to play [the Fillmore], quite naturally, but you’re thinking about all these tracks, which is completely different from what you’re doing now.
- 10/16/2018
- by Dan Epstein
- Rollingstone.com
“I think of Aretha as Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows,” Jerry Wexler once said of Aretha Franklin. Wexler was the Atlantic Records producer who, in 1967, helped raise the singer to her sudden and incomparable soul heights. “Her eyes are incredible, luminous eyes covering inexplicable pain. Her depressions could be as deep as the dark sea. I don’t pretend to know the sources of her anguish, but anguish surrounds Aretha as surely as the glory of her musical aura.”
Those doleful eyes were sometimes mistaken for shyness. That was how...
Those doleful eyes were sometimes mistaken for shyness. That was how...
- 9/27/2018
- by Mikal Gilmore
- Rollingstone.com
In a development as unfortunate as it is unsurprising, Kacey Musgraves is the only female artist up for Album of the Year at the 52nd annual Cma Awards, which announced its nominees on Tuesday. Musgraves — whose acclaimed third full-length Golden Hour is in the running with releases from Chris Stapleton, Keith Urban, Thomas Rhett and Dierks Bentley — is also, by little coincidence, the only artist in that group that fans can still catch in the intimacy of a 686-capacity theater in Northern Alabama.
That was the case Saturday night at...
That was the case Saturday night at...
- 8/28/2018
- by Adam Gold
- Rollingstone.com
Aretha Franklin had an often-combative approach to interviews, especially with Rolling Stone over the years. But she couldn’t have been more fun to talk to when she got on the phone in 2014 for our annual Playlist Issue, where musical icons spoke about the songs that meant the most to them. “I’m just giving you some of my favorites – you can’t cite all of them,” said Franklin. It was clear she hadn’t lost any enthusiasm for music – her playlist had songs ranging almost 60 years, from 1957 to 2013. She...
- 8/16/2018
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Muscle Shoals, a drama based on the life of Rick Hall, producer of the legendary Muscle Shoals sound, has sold to ABC for development under a straight-to-series model, Deadline has learned. The project hails from Global Road Entertainment, Johnny Depp and Christie Dembrowski’s Infinitum Nihil, Richard Branson’s Virgin Produced, and Joshua D. Maurer and Alixandre Witlin’s City Entertainment. The drama has been in development at Global Road since 2016.
Emmy-nominated Bettina Gilois (Bessie) is writing the drama based on Hall’s life as chronicled in his autobiography The Man from Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame and the acclaimed Sundance documentary Muscle Shoals.
Depp, Dembrowski and Bobby DeLeon of Infinitum Nihil are executive producing along with Jason Felts, Justin Berfield and Rene Rigal at Branson’s Virgin Produced; and City Entertainment’s Maurer and Witlin. Nancy Wilson of the seminal group Heart serves as Executive Music...
Emmy-nominated Bettina Gilois (Bessie) is writing the drama based on Hall’s life as chronicled in his autobiography The Man from Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame and the acclaimed Sundance documentary Muscle Shoals.
Depp, Dembrowski and Bobby DeLeon of Infinitum Nihil are executive producing along with Jason Felts, Justin Berfield and Rene Rigal at Branson’s Virgin Produced; and City Entertainment’s Maurer and Witlin. Nancy Wilson of the seminal group Heart serves as Executive Music...
- 4/26/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The 1960s had Beatlemania, but the 1980s had the Freddy frenzy. In the decade when many teenagers wanted their MTV, the bladed boogeyman from Springwood slashed his way out of the big screen to bring his sinister sounds and killer style to the music scene, with a collection of his greatest hits coming back from the dead this week courtesy of Mondo and Strange Disc.
Initially released in 1987, Freddy's Greatest Hits features the voice of Robert Englund accompanied by the talented musicians known as The Elm Street Group. This Wednesday at 12:00pm Ct, Mondo will unleash a special striped vinyl variant of the nine-track collection from Strange Disc. Priced at $25 and limited to 400 copies, the special vinyl release is slated to ship out in January, giving horror fans something to listen to as they drift off to sleep in the post-holiday weeks...
From Mondo: "Hey everyone - this...
Initially released in 1987, Freddy's Greatest Hits features the voice of Robert Englund accompanied by the talented musicians known as The Elm Street Group. This Wednesday at 12:00pm Ct, Mondo will unleash a special striped vinyl variant of the nine-track collection from Strange Disc. Priced at $25 and limited to 400 copies, the special vinyl release is slated to ship out in January, giving horror fans something to listen to as they drift off to sleep in the post-holiday weeks...
From Mondo: "Hey everyone - this...
- 11/20/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett By Tony Fletcher (Oxford University Press)
The art of writing bios is no easy feat, but for British-born/NY-based scribe Tony Fletcher, well, he makes it seem all so easy even though he's research is exhaustive. His bios on R.E.M (Remarks Remade - The Story of R.E.M.), Keith Moon (Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon), The Smiths (A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of The Smiths, to name but a few, are must-reads. His latest on the turbulent life of R&B legend Wilson Pickett -- In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett -- may be his best yet.
For the charismatic '60s crossover icon "Wicked" Wilson Pickett, Fletcher pulls no punches with interviews with his family, business partners, musicians, etc., to shed light on his troubled legacy.
The art of writing bios is no easy feat, but for British-born/NY-based scribe Tony Fletcher, well, he makes it seem all so easy even though he's research is exhaustive. His bios on R.E.M (Remarks Remade - The Story of R.E.M.), Keith Moon (Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon), The Smiths (A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of The Smiths, to name but a few, are must-reads. His latest on the turbulent life of R&B legend Wilson Pickett -- In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett -- may be his best yet.
For the charismatic '60s crossover icon "Wicked" Wilson Pickett, Fletcher pulls no punches with interviews with his family, business partners, musicians, etc., to shed light on his troubled legacy.
- 5/15/2017
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
A blazing Black Crowes redo. An overnight transformation. Rehearsal-room drama. Robyn unplugged. Hmm. Night 3 of The Voice’s Battle Rounds must’ve been pretty decent, especially for what you’ve mentioned is a subpar Season 12, because by the end of it, even Adam Levine’s Gwen Stefani-blond ‘do was starting to grow on me. Let’s review Monday’s performances, shall we, then you can play favorites in the comments.
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- 3/28/2017
- TVLine.com
By Dawn Dabell
Can it really be 25 years since the release of The Commitments? An acclaimed hit with audiences and critics alike when first seen, it quickly grew in stature into something of a modern classic and has remained perennially popular ever since. It has also inspired touring bands, a major stage production and a few million sub-standard karaoke renditions of the iconic Mustang Sally (and other ditties) in pubs up and down the land.
Unemployed Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins) dreams of being a band manager, and places an ad in the local paper – “Have you got soul? If so the world’s hardest working band is looking for you.” Various losers, opportunists and drop-outs turn up at his door to audition, but bit by bit he manages to put together an inexperienced band comprising ten members: men, women, backing singers, guitarists, saxophonists, a drummer and an unlikely lead vocalist...
Can it really be 25 years since the release of The Commitments? An acclaimed hit with audiences and critics alike when first seen, it quickly grew in stature into something of a modern classic and has remained perennially popular ever since. It has also inspired touring bands, a major stage production and a few million sub-standard karaoke renditions of the iconic Mustang Sally (and other ditties) in pubs up and down the land.
Unemployed Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins) dreams of being a band manager, and places an ad in the local paper – “Have you got soul? If so the world’s hardest working band is looking for you.” Various losers, opportunists and drop-outs turn up at his door to audition, but bit by bit he manages to put together an inexperienced band comprising ten members: men, women, backing singers, guitarists, saxophonists, a drummer and an unlikely lead vocalist...
- 10/3/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Mack Rice, the soul legend who was best known for his 1965 hit “Mustang Sally,” has died. He was 82. The musician passed away on Monday at his Detroit, Michigan, home from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. His death was confirmed by family friend Pat Lewis in a statement to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. Bonny “Mack” Rice, who was also known as Sir Mack, was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and broke onto the R&B music scene during the 1950s, performing with the Five Scalders and the Falcons, a group whose members included Eddie Floyd, Wilson Pickett and Joe Stubbs.
- 6/29/2016
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
“Time won’t let me, oh, no.” • The Outsiders, 1965
“Time is on my side, yes it is.” • Kai Winding and his Orchestra (featuring Cissy Houston, Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick), Irma Thomas, The Rolling Stones, Michael Bolton, Cat Power, Blondie, Wilson Pickett, the O’Jays, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Kim Wilson, Tracy Nelson, Patti Smith, others
I just finished reading my buddy Johnny O’s column about the currently ubiquitous genre of time travel – and by the way, Johnny O, one of my favorite movies is Time After Time as well, which, by the way, was directed by Nicholas Meyer. On the strength of this he got to direct Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, thus reviving the franchise both on the big and small screens.
St has had some great time-travel stories – “Tomorrow is Yesterday” in the first season, and of course “The City on the Edge...
“Time is on my side, yes it is.” • Kai Winding and his Orchestra (featuring Cissy Houston, Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick), Irma Thomas, The Rolling Stones, Michael Bolton, Cat Power, Blondie, Wilson Pickett, the O’Jays, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Kim Wilson, Tracy Nelson, Patti Smith, others
I just finished reading my buddy Johnny O’s column about the currently ubiquitous genre of time travel – and by the way, Johnny O, one of my favorite movies is Time After Time as well, which, by the way, was directed by Nicholas Meyer. On the strength of this he got to direct Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, thus reviving the franchise both on the big and small screens.
St has had some great time-travel stories – “Tomorrow is Yesterday” in the first season, and of course “The City on the Edge...
- 5/9/2016
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Johnny Depp’s production company Infinitum Nihil, alongside Richard Branson, are working with Im Global TV to develop a limited music drama series based on the Rick Hall autobiography “The Man From Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame.” “Muscle Shoals” is inspired by the life of the legendary musician, record producer, songwriter, publisher and founder of Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Hall is responsible for the “Muscle Shoals Sound” and creating songs such as “Brown Sugar,” “When A Man Loves A Woman” and many more. The series will take a close look at his legacy and work with artists such as Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Percy Sledge, Dixie Chicks and Otis Redding, among others. Read More: Watch: Johnny Depp Is Donald Trump In 50-Minute Mock Doc 'The Art Of The Deal: The Movie' “Muscle Shoals is an extraordinary story in which, through adversity, some...
- 4/28/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Lee Daniels will direct a new documentary, The Apollo Theater Film Project, that will chronicle the history of the famed Harlem concert hall.
To make the film, Daniels is seeking the help of the public, requesting any film footage, photographs, audio recordings or other memorabilia related to either Harlem or the Apollo. Details and a submission form are available on the documentary's website.
The Apollo Theater Film Project marks Daniels' first documentary. "I used to go to the Apollo Theater as a kid and never in a million years would...
To make the film, Daniels is seeking the help of the public, requesting any film footage, photographs, audio recordings or other memorabilia related to either Harlem or the Apollo. Details and a submission form are available on the documentary's website.
The Apollo Theater Film Project marks Daniels' first documentary. "I used to go to the Apollo Theater as a kid and never in a million years would...
- 1/28/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Neil Young and Bluenote Café: Bluenote Café (Reprise)
This is Performance Series 11 from the Neil Young Archives project, a two-cd set of live recordings from eleven 1987-88 shows with his Bluenotes band, which had to be renamed because of a lawsuit by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. (The new name better reflects Neil's original inspiration, a beloved Winnipeg bar called, yes, Blue Note Café, shown on the cover.) The first two tracks on Bluenote Café are from the year before This Note's for You was released, the rest (oddly, presented in chronological order of recording date, with just one exception) coming from the tour to promote its release.
There has never been a consensus about This Note's for You, which marked Young's return to Reprise Records after his contentious tenure at Geffen, when his stylistic shifts into genre tangents (rockabilly, electronica) led to Geffen actually suing Young.
On the one hand,...
This is Performance Series 11 from the Neil Young Archives project, a two-cd set of live recordings from eleven 1987-88 shows with his Bluenotes band, which had to be renamed because of a lawsuit by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. (The new name better reflects Neil's original inspiration, a beloved Winnipeg bar called, yes, Blue Note Café, shown on the cover.) The first two tracks on Bluenote Café are from the year before This Note's for You was released, the rest (oddly, presented in chronological order of recording date, with just one exception) coming from the tour to promote its release.
There has never been a consensus about This Note's for You, which marked Young's return to Reprise Records after his contentious tenure at Geffen, when his stylistic shifts into genre tangents (rockabilly, electronica) led to Geffen actually suing Young.
On the one hand,...
- 11/21/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
I have a Mustang. I love my Mustang – a 1967, inline 6 engine. There is no other classic car like it. No doubt about it – we Mustang owners have a deep emotional connection to our cars.
Even have the original owner’s manual.
Now comes the trailer for the upcoming film A Faster Horse.
Director David Gelb cuts in a rigorous, high-energy look at the history of Ford and the definitive muscle car. We all know it had a chassis cool enough for Steve McQueen in Bullitt (it is still the greatest chase scene of all time! It was a Highland Green 1968 Ford Mustang Gt 390 fastback), James Bond drove a 1971 Mustang Mach 1 in Diamonds Are Forever and there was a song written by Wilson Pickett in 1966 called “Mustang Sally.”
This film goes way beyond a car lover’s documentary making it a resonant examination of American ingenuity, workmanship, and resilience.
Director David Gelb...
Even have the original owner’s manual.
Now comes the trailer for the upcoming film A Faster Horse.
Director David Gelb cuts in a rigorous, high-energy look at the history of Ford and the definitive muscle car. We all know it had a chassis cool enough for Steve McQueen in Bullitt (it is still the greatest chase scene of all time! It was a Highland Green 1968 Ford Mustang Gt 390 fastback), James Bond drove a 1971 Mustang Mach 1 in Diamonds Are Forever and there was a song written by Wilson Pickett in 1966 called “Mustang Sally.”
This film goes way beyond a car lover’s documentary making it a resonant examination of American ingenuity, workmanship, and resilience.
Director David Gelb...
- 9/2/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
If there's one thing that can make or break your New Year's Eve party, it's the tunes. So People tapped Las Vegas resident DJ Ruckus, 31 - who has collaborated with stars like Rev Run and Jermaine Dupri - to help you ring in 2015. Ruckus started headlining major clubs in Miami when he just was 16 and Lenny Kravitz and Kanye West are among his biggest fans. To get you pumped up before the ball drops, he picked tracks ranging from classics like Bon Jovi's "It's My Life" to some of the biggest hits of the year like Iggy Azalea's "Fancy.
- 1/1/2015
- by Ana Calderone, @anacalderone
- PEOPLE.com
If there's one thing that can make or break your New Year's Eve party, it's the tunes. So People tapped Las Vegas resident DJ Ruckus, 31 - who has collaborated with stars like Rev Run and Jermaine Dupri - to help you ring in 2015. Ruckus started headlining major clubs in Miami when he just was 16 and Lenny Kravitz and Kanye West are among his biggest fans. To get you pumped up before the ball drops, he picked tracks ranging from classics like Bon Jovi's "It's My Life" to some of the biggest hits of the year like Iggy Azalea's "Fancy.
- 1/1/2015
- by Ana Calderone, @anacalderone
- PEOPLE.com
Reviewed by Kevin Scott
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The Midnight Hour (1985)
Written by: William Bleich
Directed by: Jack Bender
Cast: Shari Belafonte Harper (Melissa), Lee Montgomery (Phil), Jonna Lee (Sandy), LeVar Burton (Vinnie), Peter DeLuise (Mitch), Deedee Pfeiffer (Mary), Jonelle Allen (Lucinda Cavender), Kevin McCarthy (Judge Crandall), Dick Van Patten (Martin Grenville)
This is the very first time I’ve featured a TV movie on any of my reviews. I’m really surprised that it is. Some solid entries in the annals of horror and sci fi history made their debut on the small screen. “Salem’s Lot” is the first one to come to mind. Although the film that I’m going to talk about isn’t even remotely close to being anything like “Salem’s Lot” (except for having vampires), it does come from a bygone era where things might have been a little tighter on what could be shown on TV.
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The Midnight Hour (1985)
Written by: William Bleich
Directed by: Jack Bender
Cast: Shari Belafonte Harper (Melissa), Lee Montgomery (Phil), Jonna Lee (Sandy), LeVar Burton (Vinnie), Peter DeLuise (Mitch), Deedee Pfeiffer (Mary), Jonelle Allen (Lucinda Cavender), Kevin McCarthy (Judge Crandall), Dick Van Patten (Martin Grenville)
This is the very first time I’ve featured a TV movie on any of my reviews. I’m really surprised that it is. Some solid entries in the annals of horror and sci fi history made their debut on the small screen. “Salem’s Lot” is the first one to come to mind. Although the film that I’m going to talk about isn’t even remotely close to being anything like “Salem’s Lot” (except for having vampires), it does come from a bygone era where things might have been a little tighter on what could be shown on TV.
- 10/28/2014
- by admin
- MoreHorror
ETonline takes a look at this week's 'DWTS' routines.
This week's episode of DWTS was a special My Jam Monday edition, where the songs were chosen by contestants who were able to dance to any music they chose. The routines were hot, the judges were excited, and the stars were ready to show how much they had improved from last week.
Let's take a look at the individual dance numbers and see whose gotten better and who the judges think need more work.
Mma Fighter and Expendables 3 star Randy Couture and pro Karina Smirnoff
Dance: Cha Cha
Song: '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' (cover)
As new host Julianne Hough said, "What a great way to start the night." The audience loved the military-themed routine and were on their feet cheering their hearts out as the number ended. It energized the crowd. Len, Julianne and Bruno all agreed that it was tremendously entertaining, but Couture...
This week's episode of DWTS was a special My Jam Monday edition, where the songs were chosen by contestants who were able to dance to any music they chose. The routines were hot, the judges were excited, and the stars were ready to show how much they had improved from last week.
Let's take a look at the individual dance numbers and see whose gotten better and who the judges think need more work.
Mma Fighter and Expendables 3 star Randy Couture and pro Karina Smirnoff
Dance: Cha Cha
Song: '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' (cover)
As new host Julianne Hough said, "What a great way to start the night." The audience loved the military-themed routine and were on their feet cheering their hearts out as the number ended. It energized the crowd. Len, Julianne and Bruno all agreed that it was tremendously entertaining, but Couture...
- 9/23/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
A new star has jived her way to the top of the "Dancing with the Stars" leaderboard.
On "My Jam Monday," the theme of Week 2 of Season 19, actress Lea Thompson and her professional ballroom partner, Artem Chigvintsev, showed off some fast footwork that helped them lead the pack.
And their routine to "The Land of 1000 Dances" (Wilson Pickett), left the judges buzzing with glee.
Photos: 'Dancing's' Derek Hough
"You're killing it every single step," Carrie Ann Inaba said. "That was so exciting."
"You gave me chills more than one time during that ...
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On "My Jam Monday," the theme of Week 2 of Season 19, actress Lea Thompson and her professional ballroom partner, Artem Chigvintsev, showed off some fast footwork that helped them lead the pack.
And their routine to "The Land of 1000 Dances" (Wilson Pickett), left the judges buzzing with glee.
Photos: 'Dancing's' Derek Hough
"You're killing it every single step," Carrie Ann Inaba said. "That was so exciting."
"You gave me chills more than one time during that ...
Copyright 2014 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
- 9/23/2014
- by access.hollywood@nbcuni.com (AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff)
- Access Hollywood
Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, Al Green, Box Tops, Carl Perkins, Big Bill Broonzy, Bobby Womack, Booker T. & The MGs. These soul artists created a body of work that to this day stands with distinction, so what better way to honor them than to team up some of those musicians with.....hip hop artists? That's the central premise of the upcoming documentary "Take Me To The River," that finds director Martin Shore chronicling the making of an album featuring veteran artists like Mavis Staples, Bobby Rush and Otis Clay, teaming with folks like Snoop Dogg, Lil' P-Nut and Yo Gotti. Uh...okay. "Take Me To The River" opens on September 12th, and if you need a little push to see it, the doc scored an Audience Award at SXSW this spring. Watch below. [EW]...
- 8/15/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The story of iconic soul label Stax Records is en route to stage and screen with Evergreen Media Holdings and Oscar-winning 20 Feet From Stardom director Morgan Neville. Neville will executive produce a feature adaptation of author Robert Gordon’s 2013 book Respect Yourself: Stax Records And The Soul Explosion, tracking the inception of the influential record label that created in 1960s Memphis by a white banker and a black radio DJ amid the civil rights movement.
Evergreen also has inked a separate deal with Rondor Music International, a Universal Music Group company, for rights to use the Stax music catalog that put out such soul classics as Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” Wilson Pickett’s “In the Midnight Hour,” the Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There” and tracks from the likes of Booker T. and the MGs, Sam and Dave, Isaac Hayes and more.
Armed with the Stax musical library,...
Evergreen also has inked a separate deal with Rondor Music International, a Universal Music Group company, for rights to use the Stax music catalog that put out such soul classics as Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” Wilson Pickett’s “In the Midnight Hour,” the Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There” and tracks from the likes of Booker T. and the MGs, Sam and Dave, Isaac Hayes and more.
Armed with the Stax musical library,...
- 8/13/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Bobby Womack, a colorful and revered R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, has died. He was 70. Womack's publicist Sonya Kolowrat said Friday that the singer had died, but she could provide no other details. With an incomparable voice few could match, Womack was a stirring singer and guitarist in his own right and a powerful songwriter whose hits like "Across 110th Street," ''If You Think You're Lonely Now" and "I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much" captured the imagination of future stars in rock 'n' roll and R&B. "He had a...
- 6/28/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Bobby Womack, a colorful and revered R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, has died. He was 70. Womack's publicist Sonya Kolowrat said Friday that the singer had died, but she could provide no other details. With an incomparable voice few could match, Womack was a stirring singer and guitarist in his own right and a powerful songwriter whose hits like "Across 110th Street," ''If You Think You're Lonely Now" and "I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much" captured the imagination of future stars in rock 'n' roll and R&B. "He had a...
- 6/28/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
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