News: Band News
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
Singer Sam Smith who recently performed at this year’s MTV VMAs, will play eight shows in May, kicking off his tour at Glasgow’s O2 Academy.
Sam Smith will then hit Manchester and Wolverhampton, before wrapping up his tour in London on May 25 – 26.
He will also play...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2014
US girl group singer Simone Battle took her own life by hanging herself, a Los Angeles county coroner has said.
The 25-year-old G.R.L. singer’s death was determined two days after she was found dead in her West Hollywood home.
On Sunday, G.R.L.’s debut single Ugly Heart reached...
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Friday, September 5th, 2014
As a child, when Ilse Gevaert was teased for having a prosthetic forearm her father bluntly advised: “If you get bullied just take your arm off and hit them on the head with it.”
Unlike many amputees who eventually reject the idea of wearing a prosthetic arm due to it being cumbersome...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2014
South Korean singer Go Eun-bi, better known as EunB, died after a van carrying her group Ladies’ Code crashed into a guard rail on a rain-drenched highway near Seoul.
The 22-year-old Go’s bandmate RiSe, whose real name is Kwon Ri-sae, was seriously injured in the accident early...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
Jimi Jamison, the lead singer of 1980s bands Cobra and Survivor, died on Sunday night at age 63.
The singer’s booking manager Sally Irwin said he died of a heart attack, according to an article on Monday in TMZ.
He had performed with Survivor on Saturday night in Northern California,...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2014
A last-minute hearing was scheduled for Friday in D.C. Superior Court in which Brown was due to appear and plead guilty to misdemeanor assault charges that he punched a photograph-seeking fan in the face outside the W Hotel in downtown Washington in October 2013.
But Friday’s hearing was...
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Friday, August 29th, 2014
Ralph Morman, the singer best known for his work as a frontman for the Joe Perry Project and Savoy Brown, has died at the age of 65 following what reports are describing as a long illness.
Morman had a history with the Aerosmith crowd before joining up with Perry, singing for the Jack Douglas-produced...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2014
Hundreds of Kate Bush fans gathered outside Hammersmith Apollo for her opening show, this was simply the final moments of what has been a 35-year wait.
Returning to the same venue where she played the final show of her only other proper tour, in 1979, aged just 20, Bush, now 56, opened the...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2014
The Scottish singer Jean Redpath has died. She was 77 and in an Arizona hospice. A huge champion of Scottish folksongs, she moved to the US as a young woman.
She performed alongside Bob Dylan and was a regular on Garrison Keillor’s radio show A Prairie Home Companion.
She spent...
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Friday, August 15th, 2014
The Saturdays singer Frankie Bridge is the first star to join the line-up for the new series of Strictly Come Dancing.
The pop star, who said she is “a huge fan” of the hit ballroom show, is married to former England footballer Wayne Bridge.
She said: “I’ve always...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2014
Pop singer Justin Bieber has pleaded guilty to charges of careless driving and resisting arrest seven months after he was held in Miami Beach following what police initially called a drag race.
The 20-year-old pop star’s plea deal with prosecutors, detailed at a court hearing, includes...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
As news of the sudden death of Hollywood star Robin Williams spread, it appears some Twitter users have firmly grasped the wrong end of the stick.
Perhaps hitting their phones and laptops before checking the news, they spoke of their shock at the death of Robbie Williams, the former Take That...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
80s synthpop singer-songwriter Lewis has been found alive and well after a reissue campaign.
Real name Randall Wulff, Lewis’s forgotten 1983 album L’Amour was recently re-released by Light in the Attic Records to high acclaim.
However, Wulff’s whereabouts remained unknown...
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Monday, August 11th, 2014
A young singer aspiring to a playback career died of electric shock on a rain-drenched stage moments after he had belted out a popular Tamil number that asked “are you fine?”
Singer Raghu Kumar, 30, wasn’t wearing footwear, which could have absorbed the shocks from a faulty wire in...
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Saturday, August 9th, 2014
Rascal Flatts announced the cancellation of three upcoming shows from their “Rewind Tour” on Wednesday.
The band said a combination of their busy tour schedule and a number of media days in New York City led to “unforeseen illnesses” affecting lead singer Gary LeVox.
This...
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