Tina Turner, whose modest beginnings balanced out her emergence as one of the most admired entertainers in the world, died on May 24, 2023. She was 83.
David Lindley, who died on March 3, 2023 at the age of 78, pursued a peculiar—some would say nutty—path through more than five decades of music making. His encyclopedic knowledge of traditional [...]
Burt Bacharach died on February 8, 2023 at the age of 94. Spoken of with such names as Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers, Bacharach’s hit-single track record ran the gamut from rock and soul to [...]
Tom Verlaine, whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the New York’s CBGB punk scene in the late ’70s, died on January 28, 2023. He was 73.
Jeff Beck, one of the respected and influential guitar heroes who made it happen for the classic rock generation, died on January 10, 2023, after contracting bacterial meningitis.
Kim Simmons, the leader and founder of Savoy Brown, died on December 13, 2022. The seminal blues-rock boogie band from England recorded a live album of greatest hits at Denver’s Rainbow Music [...]
There’s a whole lot less shakin’ goin’ on these days. Rock ’n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis—whose pounding piano, impassioned vocals and raw, uninhibited performing style captured the rebellious [...]
