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Jim Dyson/Getty Images; Phillip Massey/Getty ImagesThe music world said goodbye to many influential and beloved artists in 2021, including two Rock &a...
Jim Dyson/Getty Images; Phillip Massey/Getty Images; Paras Griffin/Getty ImagesThe music world said goodbye to many influential and beloved artists in...
Feb 15, 2021 1968 - John and Cynthia John Lennon, along with George and Patti Harrison, flew to India to study meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Paul and Ringo joined them a few days later, but Starr would become bored and leave on March 1st, comparing the experience to be like a 'Butlins holiday camp.' (Butlin's is a chain of large seaside resorts in the United Kingdom to provide affordable holidays for ordinary British families.) Much of the Beatles' The White Album was written during their stay. 1969 - Rolling Stone's front cover features an article on "groupies" - introducing a new t...
Photo credit: Yannick Beauvalet/Downchild Blues Band official Facebook Michael Fonfara, best known as the late Lou Reed‘s longtime keyboardist and member of Downchild Blues Band, died aged 74 in Toronto last week after a two year battle with cancer. The musician’s publicist Eric Alper confirmed the news to The Canadian keyboardist was born in Stevensville, Ontario in 1946, and began his musical career in 1963 with early R&B outfit Jon and Lee & The Checkmates. Following that band’s dissolution, he toured and recorded with Electric Flag in the late 1960s and was chosen to be part of th...
Michael Fonfara, Keyboardist for Lou Reed, Dead at 74 Michael Fonfara, the keyboardist best known for his tenure alongside Lou Reed, has died at the age of 74. The Canadian musician passed away in a Toronto hospital on Jan. 8, the tragic culmination of a two-year battle with cancer. The keyboardist’s death was confirmed by his publicist. Between 1974 and 1980, Fonfara played on a total of six Lou Reed albums: Sally Can’t Dance, Rock and Roll Heart, Coney Island Baby, The Bells and The Bells and co-wrote and co-produced Growing Up in Public. Beyond working together, Fonfara and Reed ...