[youtube]kXVnjm-jrXc[/youtube] Malcolm McLaren, perhaps the only person to have ever worked with both KRS-One and Yanni, has died. Primarily known in America as the manager of the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols, McLaren was also responsible for the success of Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow, and he also released several […]
[youtube]wD9mCp8SifM[/youtube] Slouchy and gravelly, Mr. Chilton had a #1 hit at the age of sixteen with “The Letter.” He went on to a critically acclaimed (if not commercially very successful) career, first with Big Star and then solo; a younger generation knows his name best from a 1987 college rock hit by The Replacements, and
[youtube]TTOTop3At1c[/youtube] Pretty much everything in the world worth knowing can be found somewhere in this clip of Cyndi Lauper and the elastic-wearing Lou Albano on Rowdy Roddy Piper’s fake talk show from 1984. The big lug died this morning at the age of 76. Albano didn’t retire from the WWF until he was fifty-three, which
I can’t say I was actually a fan of much he did after the age of fourteen or so. This one gets me every time, though, and obviously he was hugely inspirational to millions of people with warmer hearts than mine: [youtube]aSqo17o2a1w[/youtube] (TMZ/the entirety of Twitter is reporting this. The LA Times and CNN are
[youtube]VqAJIvbnkZg[/youtube] Sad news for all you friends of Dorothy: Bea Arthur passed away this morning at the age of 86. Mainly known to younger people for playing Dorothy Zbornak on the Golden Girls, Arthur had an impressive, Tony-winning career on Broadway and also played the title character on Norman Lear’s great sitcom Maude (which was
Yma Sumac, the songstress who was either an Incan princess or a woman from New Jersey who wrote her name backwards, recently died at age 86. Though details of the woman’s mysterious life vary widely, her personal assistant claims that she was “born Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo in Cajamarca, Peru, on Sept. 13,