Page 31 - Hal Willner News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

In Memoriam: 2020 Deaths We're taking a look at the music, movies and cultural figures who passed away during 2020 in the gallery below. The year had barely begun when we learned that Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist for Rush, had died from a brain tumor that had been diagnosed more than three years prior, but hadn't been made public until after he was gone. Over the next few months, we lost Left Banke frontman Steve Martin Caro, the father of Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, Gang of Four leader Andy Gill and country legend Kenny Rogers. By the middle of March, the deadly coronavirus pande...

Posted: Dec 28, 2020 3:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 4 We said goodbye to many greats in 2020, including the one and only Little Richard.(Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Stringer/Getty Images; design by Andrea Warner/CBC Music.) comments This year took and it took and it took. Great musicians and talented artists were no exceptions. In 2020, we said goodbye to pioneers of everything from reggae to conga to rock; virtuosos and geniuses alike; and artists who broke through racial barriers and gender binaries, trailblazers who changed music for everyone that followed. In 2020, the "global experien...

Pioneering country music singer Charley Pride (1934-2020) dies of COVID-19 Country music singer Charley Pride died from the COVID-19 virus on December 12 in Dallas at age 86. He was the first African American artist to achieve major success in country music, signing with the RCA Victor label in 1966. He produced at least 30 chart-topping country songs through the late 1980s and sold over 70 million records worldwide. Pride is best known for songs of love and heartache, including “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’,” “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone?”, “All I Have to Offer You (Is Me),”...

Brittany, I found your recap of 2020 as the year of Stevie Nicks incredibly refreshing—a real relief from the relentless drumbeat of the new that so often drives music coverage. It brought up tons of thoughts, so strap in, this is going to be a long last letter to you all. Advertisement When I consider veterans who made a difference over the past 12 months, an obvious candidate is Dolly Parton. As with Nicks, Parton’s star has been ascendant among new generations of listeners for several years now, but she had a lot of highlights this year, including the petition to replace Confederate st...

Photofest; Al Pereira/Getty Images The 300,000 Americans who have died from the disease this year included actors, art directors, animators and playwrights — even an iconic movie villain. Rachel Bloom, Lee Daniels, Nathan Lane, John Mulaney and others celebrate the lives of their friends and collaborators. Broadway Playwright Terrence  McNally A chat from the afterlife with the gifted dramatist leaves an actor feeling lucky to have ever known him By Nathan Lane So I think I may have chatted briefly with my dear and recently departed friend, Terrence McNally, the other day. Perhaps I sho...