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¿Dónde está “Donda”? Kanye West realizó una mega fiesta para estrenar su décimo álbum en un estadio de Atlanta el 22 de julio pasado y transmitió el evento en vivo a través de Apple Music. Pero desde el viernes por la tarde, no ha publicado el álbum después de que su hora de lanzamiento a las 9 p.m. del Pacífico llegara y pasara ese mismo jueves por la noche. “El evento en Atlanta fue mucho más sombrío que su estridente evento de ‘The Life of Pablo’ en el Madison Square Garden de Nueva York en 2016", escribieron August Brown y Mikael Wood de The Times en un artículo so...

Eddie Johns, whose 1979 track 'More Spell On You' was sampled by Daft Punk for their hit single 'One More Time', has never received royalties from the French duo's track. Johns' story has been uncovered in a new profile by the Los Angeles Times, who tracked him down in LA, where he's been living in a supportive housing facility after struggling with homelessness for over a decade. Johns suffered a stroke ten years ago, which left him unable to work. "I help Eddie use the computer sometimes, and he showed me some of his music," Johns' case manager Alyssa Cash told the Los Angeles Times. "He sh...

7 May 2021 Eddie Johns, 70, who has struggled with homelessness for a decade, was a 1970s disco star who recorded the horn section that is sampled on Daft Punk’s classic dance hit “One More Time” — but he reportedly has never been paid his royalties. The original song is “More Spell on You,” the title track of an album Johns released in Europe at the time: Over the years, Daft Punk fans have explained how Johns’s sound was sampled and edited to form the basis for “One More Time”: The  Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that Daft Punk has paid royalties to a French music co...

Wednesday, April 21. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. After a devastating fall and winter surge that filled hospital intensive care units with COVID-19 patients and forced funeral homes to turn away grieving families, California’s coronavirus case rate is now the lowest in the continental U.S...

Print Thank you to Mary McNamara for her column about bullying in Hollywood [“Hey Hollywood, Stop the Bully Act,” April 13]. Bullies also exist in families, schools, neighborhoods, the military, the police and other workplaces. As a victim of bullies as a youngster and teenager, I have felt their power. Walking from school one day, an absolute stranger walking across the street called me a name. For reasons I cannot explain, I intuitively found it humorous that this stranger felt that I was a threat to his sense of self. And suddenly my stomach pain disappeared and I stood tall, realizin...