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Annie Lennox said she was ‘delighted’ to be involved in the project.

US R&B legend Big Mama Thornton is one of the forgotten "originators", to use Dr John's term for Professor Longhair, of rock'n'roll. The late Alabama native, who died almost exactly 38 years ago on July 25, 1984, recorded the first version of Leiber and Stoller's Hound Dog in 1952. After…

‘Was she in the running to be cast in the Madonna biopic? Where is her Madonna Boot Camp video???’ one fan questioned

DALLAS — Dallas actor Brian Gonzales has come down with COVID three different times. Unable to work, like thousands of actors across the country — indeed, around the world — he lived in his in-laws’ house in Garland and made deliveries for Uber Eats for more than a year.

When I think of the legendary concerts in music history — the Beatles at Shea Stadium in New York City; Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and other rock giants at Woodstock; me as the guest triangle player for the Stamford Symphony Orchestra — the one I remember as the greatest was…

There’s an episode of “30 Rock” that features the character Jenna Maroney announcing she’s been cast in an unauthorized Janis Joplin biopic, but since the filmmakers don’t have the rights to Joplin’s life, Maroney is playing a Joplin-like character named “Jackie Jormp-Jomp.” But what was a silly gag for the…