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Connie Francis dead at 87: Pretty Little Baby singer dies after health battle

The news of her passing was confirmed on Thursday by her close friend Ron Roberts

Evening Standard

Iconic rock band shockingly explodes in multi-million dollar brawl and lawsuits after onstage chaos

A new legal mess has shattered a legendary band, with claims of assault, emotional distress, and bullying after a viral onstage fight ended their reunion

Evening Standard

Connie Francis Dies At 87: Singer Had Just Gone Viral Among Gen Z For Song 'Pretty Little Baby'

Legendary singer Connie Francis has passed away at age 87 after just recently going viral on TikTok for one of her songs from the 1960s.

International Business Times UK

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Who was Connie Francis? Pretty Little Baby singer dies at 87

Francis suffered from health complications weeks before her death

Evening Standard

“I said, ‘Eureka! ...You’ve found that elusive thing, a low-watt amp which reacts perfectly to a guitar”: Sundragon and Jimmy Page team up for the Nymph, a single-watt tube combo for nailing Led Zep tones at home

The Nymph is a one-watter with a 1/4-watt setting and a line out – and Page says he used his double neck to test it out

MusicRadar

Breakups, booty calls and bare-all balladry: SZA’s 20 best songs – ranked!

As her European tour with Kendrick Lamar continues in the UK, we rate the former Glastonbury headliner’s best tracks, from 2012’s debut to this year’s collaboration with Don Toliver

The Guardian - UK

“Hardcore innovators, soulful rockers and, frankly, the best band in the world you’re not listening to”: Every Thrice album ranked from worst to best

From scrappy debut Identity Crisis to refined latest album Horizons/East, we rank the back-catalogue of one of the most underrated bands on the planet right now

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Star-crossed singer Connie Francis, whose hits included 'Pretty Little Baby' dead at 87

Connie Francis, the wholesome pop star of the 1950s and 1960s whose hits include “Pretty Little Baby” and who would later serve as an ironic title for a personal life filled with heartbreak and tragedy, has died at age 87

The Independent UK

“I remember Eddie Van Halen asking me, ‘What’s wrong with you? Where’s that fire, dude?’ But I didn’t want to explain it to him”: George Lynch, the guitar hero who connected with EVH but got burned by Ozzy Osbourne

He almost got the gig to replace Randy Rhoads

MusicRadar

Billie Marten’s Dog Eared is a brilliant, soothing album with a sense of looming danger

5/5 The Yorkshire-born singer-songwriter changes her approach for a hypnotic new record

The Independent UK

“Social media was aroused, then curious, then hooked on the rest of Sleep Token’s material”: How The Summoning turned a faceless cult into metal’s most surprising breakout band

Sleep Token seemed to be too weird for mainstream success – then The Summoning turned them into overnight sensations

Metal Hammer

“This powerhouse pedal authentically recreates the complex sonic magic of its inspiration”: Boss puts psychedelic Hendrix and Gilmour rotating speaker sounds on the menu with the RT-2 Rotary Ensemble

What do you do when everyone loves that trippy rotating speaker sound but no has the space (or budget) for one? Boss has the answer – and it has three modes and lots of features

MusicRadar

French town withdraws music festival funding after Kneecap booking announced

The Saint-Cloud city hall said the money had been agreed before the final Rock-en-Seine line-up was announced

The Independent UK

"A transparent attempt to control the narrative and present themselves as the good guys": Jane’s Addiction – Farrell and the band are suing each other

Band are trying to “isolate and bully” frontman, says his lawyer

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Guitar World

“It all came to a screeching halt and forever destroyed the band’s life”: Dave Navarro and the rest of Jane’s Addiction sue Perry Farrell for $10 million following last September's on-stage altercation

Farrell filed his own 30-page complaint against his former bandmates – citing a years-long campaign of bullying and harassment

Louder

Bruce Springsteen’s latest world tour sold 4.9 million tickets and grossed $730 million, more than double the takings of any previous tour in his career

Springsteen's recently-completed world tour is officially the most successful of his storied career

Guitar World

“‘Blues approved’ licks that work well both as embellishments to rhythm parts or as phrases within a solo”: Sue Foley shows you to breathe new life into your 12-bar blues

Foley returns with four ways you can freshen up those blues licks and assert your personality upon the material

Guitar World

“I have a rule: I never argue with a woman holding a knife. So I’m like, ‘All right, Bonnie, I’ll bite...’” How a blues legend ended up engraving her name into Joe Bonamassa’s favorite 1955 Fender Strat

It has been his number one road Strat for years, but until the iconic singer put her Dremmel to the back of its body, it didn’t have a name

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"He was being very naughty under the piano with a woman at the same time he was singing": The epic story of the ‘stolen’ song that could be the next Stranger Things hit

Deep Purple's Child In Time has a long and complicated history – and now a whole new audience are hearing it for the first time

Louder

“I don’t set out to be the one everyone looks at. But when people are watching me, the others can get on with playing, away from the pressure”: Remembering Kansas’ Robby Steinhardt, one of the most important Americans in prog

He didn’t write many songs and he admitted the way he played on stage was detrimental to his performance. But the violinist and vocalist was the link between the band’s music and their success

The Independent UK

Jane's Addiction bandmates sue each other over onstage fight that ended tour

The members of alternative rock band Jane’s Addiction have filed dueling lawsuits after an onstage scuffle last year prompted the cancellation of the band's tour

Louder

"This album's really good, why wouldn't we do another one?": Reunited Alice Cooper Band release new single Up All Night

Up All Night is the third release from The Revenge Of Alice Cooper, the band's first album in over half a century

Louder

Six years after their first shows, Robert Plant's Saving Grace finally announce debut album

Robert Plant and Saving Grace’s version of Low’s Everybody’s Song is out now - US tour also confirmed

The Independent UK

Jane’s Addiction suing lead singer Perry Farrell for $10m after brawl halted tour and album

The frontman is also suing the band for assault and battery

The Guardian - US

Jane’s Addiction members sue singer Perry Farrell over onstage altercation

US rock band claim reunion tour and album was derailed by Farrell’s ‘repeated and unprovoked attack’ in 2024 – but the singer lodged his own legal complaint hours later

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