Eric Clapton has pulled out of this week's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York after undergoing gallstone surgery. Kristen Foster, a publicist for the guitarist,...
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Eric Clapton has pulled out of this week's Rock and Roll Hall concert extravaganza in New York to have gallstones removed, organizers said on Monday. Bruce...
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It took nearly 40 years, but the supergroup Blind Faith returned to Madison Square Garden on Monday night for the first of a three-night stand. Well, OK, it was really just...
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LONDON (AP) — North Korean officials have invited rock guitarist Eric Clapton to play a concert in the communist state, a diplomat at the country's embassy in London...
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North Korea invited guitar legend Eric Clapton to play in its capital, the communist country's embassy in London said on Tuesday as the New York Philharmonic gave a...
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Eric Clapton may be going where no rocker has gone before: North Korea. The government of North Korean dictator Kim Jung Il has extended a special invitation...
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After a rare on-stage reunion at the
Crossroads Guitar Festival in July, former Blind Faith members
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood will team for three shows early
next year...
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Back in the 1960s, when London graffiti proclaimed "Clapton is God," the brilliant British guitarist was descending into a personal hell. Eric Clapton traded a heroin...
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Pattie Boyd is the A-list musicians' muse. A convent schoolgirl turned swinging London fashion model, Boyd was married to Beatle George Harrison, then to guitar god Eric...
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It's almost as familiar as the
Weather Channel's man-on-the-beach, Jim Cantore: the music that
plays in the background six times per hour during the...
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Jack Bruce says Cream is once again rising to the top. The bassist for the legendary rock group told The Associated Press on Thursday that he agreed recently to play an...
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Some of the biggest names in rock
music, including Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and
the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, will attend a private
memorial in New...
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Eric Clapton is having a jam session with more than a dozen of his favorite guitar-playing pals, and everyone is invited. Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, scheduled...
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The Allman Brothers Band is back at
New York's Beacon Theater this week for its annual residency, a
stand which guitarist/vocalist Warren Haynes promises will be
full of...
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"I want it!" squealed 13-year-old Hiiaka Kaneao, pointing to a sparkly, hot pink, star-shaped bass guitar hanging inside a pink fur-lined booth.
Her high-pitched voice is...
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Trey Anastasio is down with disease. And he's doing everything in his power to get better.
The ex-Phish guitarist pleaded not guilty Tuesday in upstate New York to a...
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Eric Clapton will perform in Shanghai later this month, the latest rock legend to take the stage in China's business and entertainment hub.
Clapton, 61, will appear Jan....
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If you were to line them up according to their new royal assignations, Rod Stewart would outrank Hugh Laurie, but the good doctor has one up on the Beatles.
Stewart...
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We know that the Rolling Stones,
Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw/Faith Hill and Dave Matthews Band
will sell the heck out of tickets in 2007.
But there is always a dark horse...
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Don Bernstine travels the world
visiting rock stars in their homes and backstage and spends
tens of thousands of dollars of his employer's money buying
guitars, concert...
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Don Bernstine travels the world
visiting rock stars in their homes and backstage and spends
tens of thousands of dollars of his employer's money buying
guitars, concert...
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Paul McCartney, U2 and Eric Clapton joined thousands of other musicians Thursday in an appeal to the government to extend the British copyright protection on their...
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Here's the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles:
Album Of The Year
Taking the Long Way,...
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The Seminole Tribe of Florida is buying the Hard Rock business, including its massive collection of rock 'n' roll memorabilia, in a $965 million deal with British casino and...
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Ronnie Lippin, a veteran publicist and manager who worked with rock icons such as Eric Clapton, Brian Wilson and Prince, died Monday.
Lippin died of a rare form of breast...
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Keyboardist Ian McLagan
says of Ronnie Lane, his late friend and bandmate in the Small
Faces and the Faces, "It's time people woke up to him,
absolutely, but it's way...
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A musical set to the songs of Bob Dylan will close less than a month after it opened on Broadway,
the show's public relations firm said in a statement on
Wednesday.
"The...
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On display in a Paris
exhibition tracing the development of the guitar, it is almost
a surprise to see Pete Townshend's Les Paul Deluxe intact and
undamaged.
The fiery...
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In his 40-year-plus career, Eric Clapton has rolled up plenty of honors: He's had numerous hits, 18 Grammys and is the first musician inducted three times into the Rock and...
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Eric Clapton's concert scheduled for Saturday night at The Palace of Auburn Hills was postponed because the three-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has a sore...
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When his "Modern Times"
debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last week, 65-year-old
Bob Dylan became the oldest artist to top the album chart.
Dylan benefited from...
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Tori Amos' radical reworking of
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" and the camp rendering of "Dancing in
the Street" by David Bowie and Mick Jagger are among the tracks
collected for...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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Layla brought Eric Clapton to his knees. She's got nothing on the
Russian bureaucracy.
The aging guitar god was scheduled to
put on a concert for approximately 20,000...
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Rock guitar legend Eric Clapton has
canceled a concert in Moscow after officials withdrew his
permit to perform on the city's landmark Red Square, he said on
his Web...
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Eric Clapton's scheduled concert on Red Square next week has been canceled after Russian authorities abruptly withdrew their permission, the guitarist's publicist said.
A...
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The Robert Cray Band will release
the first live album of its career, a project that also marks
the debut release on the bluesman's own Nozzle Records label.
"Live From...
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Twenty years ago, a camera crew and
some of the world's biggest rock stars ventured to St. Louis to
help Chuck Berry celebrate his 60th birthday.
They were lucky to...
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Jerry Lee Lewis will inaugurate Time
Life's "Legends of American Music" with the three-disc boxed
set "Jerry Lee Lewis: A Half Century of Hits."
The June 13 release was...
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In 1970, Eric Clapton joined Duane
Allman and three other musicians as Derek and the Dominos to
record one of rock-and-roll's masterwork albums, "Layla and
other Assorted...
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Even without a surprise
appearance from high-profile fan Jack White of the White
Stripes, Cincinnati-based power trio the Greenhornes held their
own Friday with an hour-plus...
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Rascal Flatts, a group some
initially branded as a country "boy band," has achieved in six
short years what many acts can only hope for in the length of a
career.
In...
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Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder and B.B. King are officially immortal.
The late rock god, Motown superstar and blues icon are joining
a handful of artists whose masterworks...
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Thom Bell, Mac Davis, Will Jennings, Sylvia Moy and Henry Cosby have been tapped as inductees by the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The prolific songwriters will accept their...
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It looks like there won't be another day in paradise for Phil Collins and his wife of six years, Orianne.
The
couple announced they were splitting in a joint statement...
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Short-lived supergroup Blind Faith's
live debut will be chronicled on the DVD "London Hyde Park
1969," due April 10 in Europe and the following month in North
America via...
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Legendary rock trio Cream, which
reunited last year for a handful of concerts in London and New
York after a bitter break-up in 1968, has scheduled more shows,
bassist and...
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Thirty years after they met and fell in
love through music, blind Malian singing duo Amadou and Mariam
have swept onto the international stage with their soothing
message of...
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Singer-songwriter and keyboardist Billy Preston is recovering from a recent bout with a serious infection of sack encasing his heart.
"Billy had a very catastrophic...
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It's official: David Bowie has entered his golden years.
The British rock legend, along with late comic genius Richard Pryor,
power rock trio Cream, country singer Merle...
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David Bowie, blues pioneer Robert Johnson and the late comedian Richard Pryor are among the recording artists slated to receive lifetime achievement honors during next...
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One measure of an
artist's merit is the ability to take a song originated
elsewhere and give it a unique and identifiable stamp. It's
been a hallmark of such artists as Ray...
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Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned Western music from Iran's radio and TV stations, reviving one of the harshest cultural decrees from the early days of 1979...
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Here is a look at some of the
notable artists who died in the past year.
Swing-era clarinetist/bandleader ARTIE SHAW, 94, died
December 30, 2004, in Thousand Oaks, Calif....
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Once again, DMC is in the place to be.
The 41-year-old rapper and former Run-DMC member is preparing to release his first solo album, "Checks, Thugs & Rock and Roll,"...
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A collection of poems written by Minnesota college student Robert Zimmerman — later to become the "voice of a generation" as Bob Dylan — sold for $78,000 at an...
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Kanye West will receive the Artist Achievement Award at the 2005 Billboard Music Awards, which will be presented Dec. 6 in Las Vegas.
Past recipients of the award, which...
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Without a shaman or some supernatural help, Carlos Santana's
All That I Am didn't have enough to beat back the latest Now
That's What I Call Music! for chart supremacy this...
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Long before Katrina and tsunami
relief, Live 8 and Live AID, former Beatle George Harrison
assembled an all-star concert that cast the mold for celebrity
charity, and with a...
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Work has taken place at a Los
Angeles recording studio in the past few days for a Michael Jackson-penned single to benefit victims of the recent
hurricanes, Billboard.com...
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Nothing like a stripped-down Alicia Keys to get music fans in a
tizzy.
The nine-time Grammy-winning R&B songstress--known
for such hits as "If I Ain't Got You," "You...
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How big of impact did the hurriane-wrought devastation have on
Hollywood? So big even miserly record labels are coming together to help
out hurricane victims.
Like the...
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The memoirs of Eric Clapton, a tell-all story that has been one of the most sought manuscripts in publishing, will be released by Doubleday in 2007.
Financial terms were...
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Take it from Peter Frampton. Or from Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Peter Townsend or Jimmy Page — they all owe a debt to Les Paul, father of the electric guitar.
"They all...
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The Rolling Stones' keyboardist has carved out a new role as the Bush administration's idea of the model conservationist.
Chuck Leavell took time from the Stones' "A...
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Think of it as satellite radio without the satellite. Or the disc jockeys. Or the monthly fees.
The owners of three Long Island radio stations unveiled a new format...
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Now that he's a beloved
musical icon, turning 80 and embraced by both blacks and
whites, it's difficult to understand that B.B. King comes from
a time when there were two...
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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the singer and guitarist who built a 50-year career playing blues, country, jazz and Cajun music, died Saturday in his hometown of Orange, Texas,...
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Kanye West was top of the class
on Wednesday as his second release "Late Registration" opened
at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts.
After a few weeks of relatively low-key...
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All Sheryl Crow and Lance Armstrong wanna do is have some
fun--oh, and get hitched, too.
The two announced their
pending nuptials on Monday, after Armstrong popped the...
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With 90 years of life experience
under his belt, Les Paul can and does draw from a deep well of
stories whenever the mood is right.
He is, in fact, as accomplished at...
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Had Les Paul "only" invented the
solid-body electric guitar, he would be hailed as one of the
great pioneers of the music industry -- the guy who built the
engine that drove...
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A DVD chronicling power-rock trio
Cream's May reunion run at London's Royal Albert Hall will be
released October 4 via archival label Rhino Records.
The shows found...
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Members of Iron Maiden will put their handprints and signatures alongside the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Aerosmith on Aug. 19 as the band gets inducted into the...
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For this year at least, Richard Thompson looks like the hardest-working man in the folk-rock business.
First came the spring CD and DVD release of a performance for Austin...
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BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Bruce Willis, Dr. John and Kenny Wayne Shepherd were among the artists on stage with blues legend B.B. King during a special birthday benefit to...
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Jimi Hendrix might have stayed in the Army. He might have been sent to Vietnam. Instead, he pretended he was gay. And with that, he was discharged from the 101st Airborne in...
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Buddy Guy made blues
history with harmonica man Junior Wells, but always reached out
to younger partners like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck.
His choice for Wednesday's...
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It's an odd cast of characters: an
Armenian-American thrash-rock quartet; a cartoon band that
exists mainly in cyberspace; a pair of supposed siblings (or
exes) with a...
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Many of Italy's biggest pop stars have
shaken off their initial skepticism about Live 8 and agreed to
perform on the Rome stage of the international anti-poverty
rock...
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Through his agile fingers, still soft despite decades of making love to the taut strings of his guitar, B.B. King becomes immersed in his music.
The high-pitched wail of...
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Guitar legend Les Paul will
celebrate his 90th birthday with his first new studio album
since 1978's "Guitar Monsters," a collaboration with the late
Chet Atkins. Les Paul &...
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Keyboard player Chuck Leavell of the Rolling Stones plans to be here this week for the 25th anniversary of an organization outspoken on environmental issues.
Leavell, set...
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Starbucks Hear Music,
the record arm of the coffee retailer, is launching two
projects with Concord Records, its partner in the wildly
successful 2004 Ray Charles album...
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As told by the label's late founder,
Carl Jefferson, the Concord Records story began "accidentally."
Jefferson was a Lincoln Mercury dealer in the small
California town of...
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After waiting more than 35 years for the sunshine of their love, Cream fans were treated to the reunion of Eric Clapton's rock supergroup at a concert at Royal Albert...
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That Whitney Houston's out of a court-imposed drug rehab program
less than a month after checking in is news in itself. That it was her
mother, Cissy Houston, who allegedly...
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Rock 'n roll legend Chuck Berry had just returned from a European tour when he learned at Chicago's O'Hare Airport that his longtime friend and collaborator Johnnie Johnson...
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To paraphrase the old Chuck Berry tune, bye-bye, Johnnie.
Johnnie Johnson, the rhythm-and-blues piano wizard whose
pioneering partnership with Berry produced such...
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Johnnie Johnson, a rock 'n' roll pioneer who teamed with Chuck Berry for hits like "Roll Over Beethoven" and "No Particular Place to Go," died Wednesday. He was...
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Elton John has found Sanctuary.
The British pop icon
has agree to sell Twenty-First Artists Ltd., the management company he
co-owns, to Sanctuary Group, a British based...
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This column began as a
celebratory piece spotlighting the Blind Boys of Alabama's new
album, "Atom Bomb." But just after it was written, there came
news that founding member...
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On Monday (March 14) at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame held its twentieth annual induction ceremony. The Class Of 2005 featured...
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U2 may have found what they're looking for...immortality.
After a quarter-century of pushing musical boundaries in an everlasting
bid to lay claim to the title of...
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Irish rockers U2 were inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, led by their charismatic singer
Bono, whose work on behalf of Africa's poor have also earned
him status...
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Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, and Neil Young have signed on as inductors for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony on March 14 in New York City. According...
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Scotland's musical elite
joined forces on Saturday for a benefit concert in aid of Asian
tsunami victims.
Franz Ferdinand, Belle and Sebastian, Deacon Blue and
Travis...
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Sharon Stone's new basic instinct: helping victims of the tsunami
disaster.
The actress is ready to her best "We Are the World"
rendition, joining forces with socialite...
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Sharon Stone and Denise Rich are producing a song to benefit victims of the Dec. 26 tsunami disaster in Asia.
The "Basic Instinct" actress and the socialite-songwriter are...
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Musicians want tsunami victims to know that the tragedy has not
been forgotten.
With news coverage fading fast six weeks
after the earthquake-generated waves killed...
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Eric Clapton 's wife has given birth to the couple's third child, a spokesman for the rock guitarist said Friday.
The Sun newspaper reported that Clapton's American wife,...
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Apparently hands are about the only slow thing on Eric Clapton .
The aging guitar god, whose rock peers are busy becoming
grandfathers, is a father again at the age of...
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Headline acts including rocker Eric Clapton , pianist Jools Holland and The Manic Street Preachers drew more than 60,000 people to a charity concert raising money for Asian...
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NBC raised more than $18 million for the American Red Cross to send to tsunami victims with its benefit broadcast last weekend, the network said Friday.
Individual...
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Virgin Megastore pulled off a mega fundraiser Thursday.
The chain hosted concerts in every one of its U.S. stores in an effort
to raise money for the unprecedented...
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Elton John , Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Collins and Rod Stewart are piping
up for tsunami relief.
The quartet is among several music
stars who have begun recording a new...
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Elton John and Andrea Bocelli are joining several other major recording artists to produce a single to aid victims of the Asian tsunami.
John was to record his...
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Rock stars are combining forces around
the world to record Eric Clapton 's "Tears in Heaven" and raise
money for the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster.
First up to...
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Madonna , Elton John , Nelly, Kenny Chesney and other musicians converged on an NBC Universal studio Saturday for a hastily arranged TV benefit concert for tsunami...
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The future is temporarily on hold for Jermaine Dupri.
The
star rapper-producer had been planning to record the charity single "We
Are the Future," a 20th-anniversary...
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Who knew Simon Cowell had a cuddly side?
Okay,
"cuddly" might be pushing it, but the notoriously nasty American
Idol judge showed off his softer side Friday, revealing...
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"American Idol" judge Simon Cowell said Friday he is working with Sharon Osbourne on producing a single to raise money for tsunami relief.
Cowell said he and Osbourne...
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First Old Navy brings back leg warmers and now this.
Proving the '80s are gone but definitely not forgotten, several of that
decade's top musical acts were among the top...
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Eric Clapton 's ready for some fresh Cream.
Old Slow Hand
revealed to BBC Radio 2 last week that he and his former mates in rock's
first supergroup, singer-bassist Jack...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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The soulful New
York-bred trio the Holmes Brothers lead the nominees for the
2005 W.C. Handy Blues Awards, presented annually by the
nonprofit Memphis-based Blues...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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The Rock and Roll Hall of fame has found what it's looking
for...and then some.
U2 leads the list of rock royalty
set for enshrinement next spring. Joining the Irish...
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The Mississippi Supreme Court has reopened litigation over who owns photographs and writings of bluesman Robert Johnson, nearly 14 months after declaring his son sole heir...
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The Rolling Stones recently
concluded recording sessions for a new album in Paris with
producer Don Was, who worked with them on their two previous
studio releases.
The...
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Chicago rapper Kanye West, who
survived a near-fatal car crash to score one of the biggest
hits of the year with his debut album, led an eclectic field of
commercially...
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61. Salsa/Merengue Album: "Valio La Pena," Marc Anthony; "Travesia," Victor Manuelle; "Autentico," Gilberto Santa Rosa; "Creciendo," Son de Cali; "Across 110th Street,"...
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Kanye West was "robbed" at the American Music Awards. On
Tuesday, he found his reward, nominated for a field-best 10 Grammy
Awards.
The rapper's The College...
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Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson will
be the honoree at music charity group MusiCares' annual
pre-Grammys bash in Los Angeles on Feb. 11, organizers said
Wednesday.
The...
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Vintage rock trio Cream will reunite
for a string of shows next year at London's Royal Albert Hall,
sources tell Billboard.
The group -- guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton ,...
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After almost two decades of refusing to rebroadcast the Live Aid famine-relief concert, organizer Bob Geldof said he changed his mind because of the large number of bootleg...
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After almost two decades of refusing to rebroadcast the Live Aid famine-relief concert, organizer Bob Geldof said Sunday he had, reluctantly, changed his...
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Rock guitarist Eric Clapton set aside his "rebellious streak" to become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or CBE.
The 59-year-old singer-songwriter...
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Broadening the scope of Eric
Clapton 's recent album of Robert Johnson interpretations, "Me
and Mr. Johnson," the guitarist will unveil the CD/DVD package
"Sessions for...
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A string of top musicians, including
Paul McCartney , Sting and Eric Clapton will launch an album on
Tuesday dedicated to Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San
Suu Kyi,...
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When Rod Stewart and Clive Davis
decided to inaugurate the singer's J Records deal with a
collection of gems from the Great American Songbook, did you
ever imagine that...
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Turns out Slow Hand has a lead foot.
Eric Clapton has been banned from driving in France after police busted the
rocker for whizzing down a highway at 134 mph.
...
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Thirty-four years after his death,
Jimi Hendrix continues to enthrall his fans and attract new
ones.
In a control room at Electric Lady Studios, the facility
Hendrix was...
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Paul McCartney , Eric Clapton , Sting and U2 are joining forces on a benefit album for Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
R.E.M ., Avril Lavigne , Coldplay and...
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Capitol Records on Tuesday said it
will soon release a new DVD with performances by George
Harrison as well as archival footage featuring the ex-Beatle
talking about his...
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Live tracks from Pearl Jam, R.E.M .,
Ben Harper , Paul McCartney , Bonnie Raitt and Indigo Girls
highlight the track list for "For the Lady," a benefit album
for imprisoned...
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Guitar string maker Ernie Ball,
famed for strings that almost single-handedly allowed rock
groups in the 1960s to play wailing riffs and belt out endless
vibratos, has died...
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A career-best week for Tim McGraw
should net the country king his third No. 1 on the Billboard
200 for the week ending Aug. 29.
McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying" (Curb)...
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Back in the 1980s, when Bruce Hornsby couldn't flip on the radio without hearing one of his tunes, the singer-songwriter failed to impress one listener: himself.
"It was...
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Add Babyface and Missy Elliot to the growing list of artists
looking to get out the vote in the months before the Nov. 2 presidential
election.
The R&B star and hip-hop...
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There appears to be two types of people when it comes to Robert Randolph: those who haven't heard his music and those like, for example, Eric Clapton , who swear he's the...
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The heavy lifting is about to begin
for BMG and Sony Music.
With the European Commission 's July 19 clearance of the
proposed merger of the two music giants, approval by...
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"It's the sound of the instrument
and the way the neck feels. It's unlike any other instrument."
So says Bryan Adams of the Fender Stratocaster. "My pride
and joy is a...
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The historic 1985 Live Aid concert
will finally be released on DVD in the fall.
Earlier this year, the Band Aid Trust agreed to auction the
global rights for the concerts...
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One of Eric Clapton 's prize guitars sold for a record $959,500 at an auction that raised more than $7.4 million for a drug treatment center, auction house officials...
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Is the Boss born to run the GOP out of town?
That's the question being put to Bruce Springsteen by an ambitious
concert promoter who has launched an online petition to...
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Ray Charles is being remembered as a musical innovator who blended genres of music to create a new style. Charles died on Thursday of acute liver disease at age 73.
Ray...
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Eric Clapton will host a three-day festival this weekend featuring 60 guitarists, including B.B. King, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck , Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Joe Walsh , J.J....
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WHO: Eric Clapton . After several unfulfilled "retirement" promises, the legendary guitarist and ethereal rock star will hit the stage yet again, performing tracks from his...
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Glen Campbell has signed a one-off
deal with Universal South Records for a two-CD set due June 8.
"Love Is the Answer: 24 Songs of Faith, Hope and Love" contains
one disc...
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Obsessives often make excellent
indie-label operators, so Mike Stax probably has a good shot at
success.
Stax has been editing and publishing his San Diego-based
magazine...
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The last time Eric Clapton hosted an all-star benefit concert for his addiction recovery center in the Caribbean it was 1999 at Madison Square Garden with about six...
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Courtney Love , Wilco's Jeff Tweedy,
Whitney Houston , Kelly Osbourne , Jo Dee Messina , Scott Weiland .
The list goes on.
All are creative rock or pop stars and veterans...
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To see and hear the documentary film
"Tom Dowd and the Language of Music" is to experience the
history of American music.
Perhaps more than anyone else, Dowd, who died...
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A number of veteran artists have
inked new label deals and have their first releases in many
years forthcoming.
Brian Wilson 's album "Gettin' in Over My Head" will be...
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John Mayer will head out soon on
his fourth headlining tour in a year. But he says he's just
getting warmed up.
"I'm the first person to throw up my hat and hang out...
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ZZ Top will celebrate its 35th
anniversary with a North American summer tour.
The shows begin June 25 at Kay Yaeger Coliseum in Wichita
Falls, Texas, and will include...
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It's a good thing Eric Clapton invited Vince Gill to perform at his Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas this June, because Gill would have a hard time staying away if he...
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Janet
Jackson might say there's been a "sales malfunction" on the charts.
Despite all of her publicity, good and bad, Janet Jackson 's
string of chart-topping studio...
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Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne will be at Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony Monday (March 15) at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City to honor George Harrison....
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On January 23rd, 1958, Brunswick Records released "Maybe Baby" backed with "Tell Me How" by The Crickets.
In 1970, singer Judy Collins was denied permission to sing her...
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This month marks the 15th
anniversary of Country Cares for St. Jude Kids, a national
fundraising program for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
in Memphis.
The country...
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Singer-songwriter Ray Davies of the celebrated British rock band the Kinks was shot in the leg while chasing thieves who snatched a purse from a woman he was with, police...
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Could Queen Elizabeth II be a rock 'n roll fan?
Legendary guitarist Eric Clapton and Kinks founder Ray Davies received royal honors Wednesday, becoming Commanders of...
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The pressure of following up a multiplatinum, Grammy-winning album is enough to give even veteran artists nervous fits.
So 22-year-old Alicia Keys — whose debut...
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The Rhinestone Cowboy wants to ride
off into the sunset.
Not long before his recent arrest on charges of drunk
driving and leaving the scene of a car accident,...
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When Belfast's
George Lowden built a rudimentary guitar at the age of 10,
little did he know that one day some of the world's biggest
rock stars would be lining up to pay...
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The quiet Beatle's voice hasn't been forgotten.
Two years after his death,
George
Harrison will become the third Beatle enshrined in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame as a...
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Michael Kamen, the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer who fused hard-rock riffs with classical styling in albums for Pink Floyd and provided music for the "Lethal...
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Sting, Sarah McLachlan , Eric Clapton
and Barbra Streisand are among the artists who have donated
songs to a new compilation aimed at raising funds for Save...
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Two Beatles-oriented DVD
projects that are being released Nov. 18 pay tribute to the
departed members of the Fab Four.
George Harrison and John Lennon are remembered in...
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Brian McKnight, Marc Anthony, Eric Clapton, and Mary J. Blige are among the artists featured on the new Universal/Motown Records tribute compilation, Conception: An...
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Legendary record producer Tom Dowd--who worked with such artists as Eric Clapton, Ray Charles, the Allman Brothers, and Aretha Franklin, among others--died Sunday (October...
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Eric Clapton joined Brian Wilson and his band onstage during a benefit for the Carl Wilson Foundation on Sunday (October 6) at Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA in Los...
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Eric Clapton, Sugar Ray, Matthew Sweet, Van Dyke Parks, and In Bloom have been added to the bill for the upcoming Carl Wilson Benefit Concert. The show, set for October 6 at...
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Rock legend Eric Clapton collaborates with platinum R&B singer Kelly Price on the song "Again" from Price's third album, Priceless, which is due out on June 25 on Def Soul...
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Never one to court a high public profile, Eric Clapton quietly married 25-year-old American Melia McEnery on New Year's Day at St. Mary Magdalen Church in the town of Ripley...
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Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Billy Joel are among the latest additions to the Concert For New York, the Paul McCartney-led benefit show set for October 20 at Madison...
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According to his publicist, reports of Eric Clapton's imminent retirement are greatly exaggerated, even if they're coming from Clapton himself. Responding to the firestorm...
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Eric Clapton has announced that his current world tour would be his last major outing, but he's certainly not the first star to make such a declaration. Ozzy Osbourne and...
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Eric Clapton will soon be holding something other than a guitar in his hands, if published reports are to be believed. Clapton is to become a father within the next two...
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Eric Clapton wraps his European tour tonight (April 10) in Moscow, and it may be his last trip to the continent until much later this year. The singer-guitarist has...
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Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Diane Warren, and Paul Williams will be recognized for their musical contributions at the...
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The new Eric Clapton album Reptile is out today (March 13), and fans can now check out the myriad musical styles contained in its 14 songs. With such a diverse range of...
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Eric Clapton is set to bring his current tour to North America this year. He'll open the first leg on May 10 at the Reunion Arena in Dallas, with shows scheduled for the...
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Eric Clapton's forthcoming album Reptile is dedicated to his uncle Adrian and aunt Sylvia Clapp, relatives who were particular favorites of the guitar legend when he was a...
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Rock and blues guitar legend Eric Clapton will return to the record racks on March 13 with a new studio album called Reptile. Clapton recorded the album last summer in Los...
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When singer-songwriter Rick Danko died last December, he was in the middle of recording a new studio album--a follow-up to his 1999 live solo album, Live On Breeze Hill....
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Riding With The King, the successful new joint album between guitar heroes Eric Clapton and B.B. King, is the culmination of a long friendship that's seen occasional live...
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Eric Clapton rarely talks to the press, but he will open up a bit to fans in his first-ever Internet chat, which is slated for 7:00 p.m. ET (July 24) on America Online. To...
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Remastered albums from Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, and Rod Stewart will be featured in the first batch of what Warner Bros. Records is calling Warner Remasters....
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You'll soon be able to hear your favorite song from the Eric Clapton-B.B. King album Riding With The King in your favorite neighborhood establishment. Warner Bros. Records...
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Eminem may consider himself shady, but his latest release The Marshall Mathers LP is anything but. In its fourth week of release, the rapper's latest album outsold all...
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The evening-ending jam at last night's (March 6) Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Fifteenth Annual Induction Ceremony in New York was the usual all-star affair, with a marching...
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Robbie Robertson, former guitarist and
chief songwriter with the Band, induced Eric Clapton
into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame last night (March 6) in New York...
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Stars and fans came out to pay tribute to Curtis Mayfield
today (Feb. 22) in Los Angeles. In a public service at the First AME Church, musicians including Stevie Wonder...
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Stars and fans came out to pay tribute to **Curtis Mayfield** today (Feb. 22) in Los Angeles. In a public service at the First AME Church, musicians including **Stevie...
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Eric Clapton, whose work to help those fighting addiction appears tireless, will be honored by the Musicians Assistance Program (MAP) with the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award,...
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Eric Clapton and B.B. King will once again join substantial guitar forces, this time for a new album. A spokesperson for Reprise Records, Clapton's label, confirms that the...
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Eric Clapton's next musical project is the soundtrack to The Story Of Us, the new Rob Reiner-directed film that follows a couple--played by Bruce Willis and Michelle...
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The official ballots are out in the mail for the Performer category of the next class of Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees. This year's short list includes Aerosmith,...
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Sheryl Crow will spend one of the days between her final date with the Lilith Fair tour Tuesday (Aug. 31) and a planned Oct. 9 appearance at NetAid (LAUNCH, 8/19) with a...
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These days is seems as if Eric Clapton is devoting more time to raising money for his Crossroads Centre in Antigua, the drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic that he...
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"Brownie," the 1956 Fender Stratocaster used by Eric Clapton on the classic rock song "Layla," sold for a record-setting $497,500 Thursday (June 24) to cap off an auction...
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Carlos Santana's long-awaited and star-studded new album, Supernatural, was released today. The album features a number of guests from the rock world, including Eric...
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Eric Clapton has rounded up an impressive list of talent to perform at "Eric Clapton And Friends," a benefit for his Crossroads Centre in Antigua, West Indies. Joining...
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Alcohol will likely be present at all the star-studded New Year's Eve celebrations, from Barbra Streisand's gig at the MGM in Las Vegas, the New York celebration featuring...
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In an effort to give a boost to Crossroads Center, the Antigua-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic he founded last year (LAUNCH, 10/9/98), Eric Clapton has...
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From Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to Kurt Cobain and Blind Melon's Shannon Hoon, drug abuse has silenced some of rock's most popular and important musicians. Now one...
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The song "Sick And Tired" from Eric Clapton's new album Pilgrim has sparked protests from several women's groups, over the lines "I'm gonna get me a shotgun, baby/ Keep it...
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Eric Clapton is building a 36-bed drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility, patterned after the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs, on the West Indies island of Antigua, to...
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One-time record industry kingpin Warner Bros. Records, home to Neil Young, Green Day, Madonna and Eric Clapton, has sliced 35 people from its payroll.
In an ongoing effort...
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Eric Clapton, who gives interviews about as infrequently as he puts out albums of new music, is hitting the circuit in support of his first album of original sounds in five...
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SoundScan, which tallies the weekly charts for Billboard magazine, has determined that WEA, home to Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Green Day and Prodigy, was 1997's top U.S....
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Pete Bennett, a record promoter who worked albums by the Beatles, Michael Jackson and the Rolling Stones, is shopping a book proposal that promises to tell all about some...
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George Martin, the legendary 71-year-old Beatles producer who was the helm for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, is organizing a star-studded charity concert to...
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Some of pop music's biggest names are banding together for a Princesss Diana tribute album, the proceeds of which will go to the Princess Diana Memorial Fund. It promises...
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