Turning 60, Steve Winwood is starting to believe rock 'n' roll may be a younger man's game. Maybe. "I think to be a musician (at 60) is fine, but to be a rock...
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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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Steve Winwood, Pete Townshend, Paul Weller and Bill Wyman are among those taking part in an
all-star celebration of the late Jim Capaldi, a former member
of Traffic.
The...
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Kinks frontman/co-founder Ray Davies
will be honored with a lifetime achievement award from American
performing rights organization BMI in London on October 3
The BMI Icon...
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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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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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"Roots" is a term that gets thrown around quite a bit in music, particularly for those bands digging into its most cavernous tradition. In the case of the North Mississippi...
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In 1999, a group of concert promoters claimed to have reinvented Woodstock, resulting in another example of how attempts to replicate the past tend to produce something...
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When Internet file-sharing services
and the entertainment industry square off in the U.S. Supreme
Court on Tuesday, the outcome will likely rest on a nearly
obsolete...
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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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Jim Capaldi , who kept the beat for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band
Traffic, died Friday of stomach cancer at a London hospital. He was
60.
The cofounder of the...
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Rock drummer Jim Capaldi , whose driving
rock rhythms helped make Traffic a household name in the 1960s
and 70s, died Friday after a brief fight with stomach cancer,
his...
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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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At a downtown club, Tommy Ramone listened carefully to a band unlike any other. On drums: The U.S. ambassador to Russia. On lead guitar: The Hungarian ambassador to the...
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The music world may have been slow to respond to the tsunami
tragedy, but a wave of upcoming events aims to help make up the
difference.
While several large-scale...
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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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U2, the Pretenders, Buddy Guy, Percy
Sledge, and the O'Jays will be inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame at its 20th annual induction ceremony, to be held
March 14...
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Same Bonnaroo time, same Bonnaroo
place.
The fourth annual Bonnaroo Music Festival will be held June
10-12, 2005, returning to the 700-acre site in rural
Manchester,...
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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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Swedish DJ Eric Prydz rebounded to the
top of the UK pop charts Sunday, bouncing heart-throb Robbie Williams down to number three.
Prydz's "Call on Me" regained its hold...
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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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The reunion tour of seminal U.K.
rock act Traffic has been canceled due to illness suffered by
founding member Jim Capaldi . The drummer was diagnosed last
week with a...
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Free-for-all music sharing online has drawn the ire of the recording industry, but some commercial online music providers and even a few recording artists are opting to...
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On some nights, within the condensed vibrancy of Greenwich Village, the memories of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis early morning jam sessions don't seem that far off. It's...
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Veteran rocker Steve Winwood has
tied up with "Access Hollywood" in an experimental marketing
tie-up intended to demonstrate the commercial potential of
file-sharing...
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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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The third annual Tribeca Film
Festival, which took place May 1-9 in the Lower Manhattan
neighborhood, had plenty of attractions for music fans. A
rundown of some of the...
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Prince was crowned as musical royalty
on Monday as he joined the late George Harrison among eight
inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Also honored at the 19th...
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The forecast called for purple rain at the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame Monday, where inductee Prince's
electrifying performance was a highlight of the ceremony that...
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Former Motown house band members the
Funk Brothers have corralled several guest artists to join them
on their upcoming North American and European tours.
Peabo Bryson and...
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Rock star-turned-talent scout Muff
Winwood is to retire at the end of March as senior VP of A&R
(artists and repertoire) at Sony Music U.K.
Winwood, 60, joined Sony...
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"It's just very cool," ZZ
Top bassist Dusty Hill told Billboard.com of his band's pending
induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "I'm very
excited about it and very...
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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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