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Judas Priest, Rick Springfield, John Oates and Bob Geldof reflect on 40 years of Live Aid

Read full article: Judas Priest, Rick Springfield, John Oates and Bob Geldof reflect on 40 years of Live Aid

Forty years ago, the legendary Live Aid concerts simulcast from Philadelphia and London aimed to do a lot of good.

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Roy Ayers, a jazz legend who influenced hip-hop and R&B musicians, dies at 84

Read full article: Roy Ayers, a jazz legend who influenced hip-hop and R&B musicians, dies at 84

Roy Ayers, a legendary jazz vibraphonist, keyboardist, composer and vocalist known for his spacy, funky 1976 hit โ€œEverybody Loves the Sunshineโ€ has died.

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The Wayans family to be inducted into the NAACP Awards' Hall of Fame

Read full article: The Wayans family to be inducted into the NAACP Awards' Hall of Fame

The Wayans family, who through film, TV, sketch and stand-up comedy, have both entertained and created countless jobs both on and off camera in Hollywood, will be feted at this yearโ€™s NAACP Image Awards.

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Richard Perry, record producer behind 'You're So Vain' and other hits, dies at 82

Read full article: Richard Perry, record producer behind 'You're So Vain' and other hits, dies at 82

Hitmaking record producer Richard Perry has died at 82.

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AP's top music documentaries of 2024: Taylor Swift, ABBA, the Boss and more โ€” and where to watch

Read full article: AP's top music documentaries of 2024: Taylor Swift, ABBA, the Boss and more โ€” and where to watch

Here are some of The Associated Pressโ€™ favorite music documentaries of the year โ€” in no particular order โ€” along with where to find them.

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Rock pioneer Brenda Lee shines in new documentary. 'I just wanted to sing'

Read full article: Rock pioneer Brenda Lee shines in new documentary. 'I just wanted to sing'

Come and take a trip to the giddy birth of rock โ€˜nโ€™ roll through the eyes of one of its pioneers โ€” Brenda Lee.

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Jamie Foxx gets stitches after a glass is thrown at him during dinner in Beverly Hills

Read full article: Jamie Foxx gets stitches after a glass is thrown at him during dinner in Beverly Hills

A representative for Jamie Foxx says the actor required stitches after getting hit in the face with a glass while celebrating his birthday at a restaurant in Beverly Hills, California.

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Remembering Quincy Jones: 10 career-spanning songs to celebrate his legacy

Read full article: Remembering Quincy Jones: 10 career-spanning songs to celebrate his legacy

Few artists have legacies so mammoth their very name could be considered synonymous with the music industry, but then again, most musicians are not the prodigious producer Quincy Jones.

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Usher to headline the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show in Las Vegas

Read full article: Usher to headline the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show in Las Vegas

Usher has a new confession: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in Las Vegas.

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Louisiana folklorist and Mississippi blues musician among 2023 National Heritage Fellows

Read full article: Louisiana folklorist and Mississippi blues musician among 2023 National Heritage Fellows

Louisiana folklorist Nick Spitzer and Mississippi blues musician R.

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Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies

Read full article: Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies

Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful โ€œMemphis sound,โ€ has died at age 92.

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Pete Seeger gets own stamp; ceremony planned at Newport Folk

Read full article: Pete Seeger gets own stamp; ceremony planned at Newport Folk

Pete Seeger is the latest American musician to appear on a U.S. postage stamp.

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The Judds, Ray Charles join the Country Music Hall of Fame

Read full article: The Judds, Ray Charles join the Country Music Hall of Fame

Ray Charles and The Judds joined the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday, just a day after Naomi Judd died unexpectedly.

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New this week: 'Becoming Cousteau,' Gaga and Tony Bennett

Read full article: New this week: 'Becoming Cousteau,' Gaga and Tony Bennett

This weekโ€™s new entertainment releases include the first ever album of covers by Deep Purple, an acclaimed documentary about undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau on Disney+ and a concert video of Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga.

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Bing Crosby's heirs sell stake in estate to boost his work

Read full article: Bing Crosby's heirs sell stake in estate to boost his work

It's not just old rock stars benefiting from the current trend of artists selling off rights to their work.

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Ray Charles, The Judds to join Country Music Hall of Fame

Read full article: Ray Charles, The Judds to join Country Music Hall of Fame

R&B legend Ray Charles and Grammy-winning duo The Judds will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Black lawmaker hopes highway project can right an old wrong

Read full article: Black lawmaker hopes highway project can right an old wrong

Tennessee state Rep. Harold Love Jr.'s father put up a fight in the 1960s against rerouting Interstate 40 because he believed it would stifle and isolate Nashvilleโ€™s Black community.

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Usher: 'Confessions' sequel album coming out this year

Read full article: Usher: 'Confessions' sequel album coming out this year

Fans of Usher will not have to wait any longer for the sequel to his career-propelling 2004 album โ€œConfessions.โ€.

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Al Schmitt, Grammy winning engineer and producer, dead at 91

Read full article: Al Schmitt, Grammy winning engineer and producer, dead at 91

One of the worldโ€™s most honored musical producers and engineers has died.

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Eddie Murphy to be inducted into NAACP Hall of Fame

Read full article: Eddie Murphy to be inducted into NAACP Hall of Fame

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2020, file photo, Eddie Murphy accepts the lifetime achievement award at the 25th annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. Murphy will be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame this month. The NAACP announced Thursday, March 11, 2021, that Murphy will be inducted during the March 27 ceremony, which will air on CBS. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)LOS ANGELES โ€“ Eddie Murphy will be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame this month. The NAACP announced Thursday that Murphy will be inducted during the March 27 ceremony, which will air on CBS. The NAACP Image Awards honoring entertainers and writers of color will also simulcast on BET, MTV, VH1, MTV2, BET HER and LOGO.

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New this week: 'Coming 2 America,' Camilo and a dragon movie

Read full article: New this week: 'Coming 2 America,' Camilo and a dragon movie

(ABC/Paramount+/Amazon via AP)Hereโ€™s a collection curated by The Associated Pressโ€™ entertainment journalists of whatโ€™s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIESโ€” Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall are back in Queens as Prince Akeem and Semmi in โ€œComing 2 America,โ€ the sequel to the 1988 film, which is now coming straight to your living room Friday on Amazon Prime Video. Set to becoming the King of Zamunda, Murphyโ€™s character returns to the U.S. to find a son heโ€™s never met. Adโ€” A more family friendly streaming option this week is the Walt Disney Co.โ€™s computer animated โ€œRaya and the Last Dragon,โ€ featuring the voices of โ€œStar Warsโ€™โ€ Kelly Marie Tran as Raya and Awkwafina as a dragon. The big-voiced Grammy-winning singer self-produced โ€œBaby, Iโ€™m Hollywood!โ€ โ€“ which is a mix of soul music, piano ballads and funk sounds.

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Charley Pride overcame racial barriers as country music star

Read full article: Charley Pride overcame racial barriers as country music star

And he did it by winning over millions of country music fans. Until the early 1990s, when Cleve Francis came along, Pride was the only Black country singer signed to a major label. โ€œThen it was โ€˜first Negro country singer;โ€™ then โ€˜first Black country singer.โ€™ Now Iโ€™m the `first African-American country singer.โ€ฒ Thatโ€™s about the only thing thatโ€™s changed. Throughout his career, he sang positive songs instead of sad ones often associated with country music. Even a country singer,โ€ said country singer Rissi Palmer on Twitter.

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Carol Burnett puts variety, and music, back in her show

Read full article: Carol Burnett puts variety, and music, back in her show

FILE - Carol Burnett arrives at the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 6, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif.. Sixty-five episodes of The Carol Burnett Show have been restored and expanded and are streaming for the first time on services including Hulu and Tubi. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES โ€“ Carol Burnett is so glad we had this time together, as she sang in her signature song. And of course in television the โ€œvโ€ of vaudeville became the โ€œvโ€ of variety show," Burnett told The Associated Press this week. One restored episode from the showโ€™s first season ends with Burnett, Lawrence, comic Phyllis Diller and dancer Gwen Verdon wearing psychedelic โ€œSgt. โ€œItโ€™s just me and Vicki now,โ€ Burnett said with a sigh.

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Johnny Nash, singer of โ€˜I Can See Clearly Now,โ€™ dies at 80

Read full article: Johnny Nash, singer of โ€˜I Can See Clearly Now,โ€™ dies at 80

Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem โ€œI Can See Clearly Now,โ€ died Tuesday, his son said. Nash, who had been in declining health, died of natural causes at home in Houston, the city of his birth, his son, Johnny Nash Jr., told The Associated Press. Nash was in his early 30s when โ€œI Can See Clearly Nowโ€ topped the charts in 1972 and he had lived several show business lives. Music is for the ears and not the age,โ€ Nash told Cameron Crowe, then writing for Zoo World Magazine, in 1973. He had loved riding horses since childhood and as an adult lived with his family on a ranch in Houston, where for years he also managed rodeo shows at the Johnny Nash Indoor Arena.

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Toots Hibbert, beloved reggae star, dead at 77

Read full article: Toots Hibbert, beloved reggae star, dead at 77

Hibbert, frontman of Toots & the Maytals, had been in a medically-induced coma at a hospital in Kingston since earlier this month. Hibbert even recorded an album of American hits, โ€œToots In Memphis,โ€ which came out in 1988. Grammy nominations for Hibbert included best reggae album of 2012 for โ€œReggae Got Soulโ€ and best reggae album of 2007 for โ€œLight Your Light.โ€ Hibbert was ranked No. Married to his wife, Doreen, for nearly 40 years, Hibbert had eight children, including the reggae performers Junior Hibbert and Leba Hibbert. Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert ("Toots" was a childhood nickname) was born in May Pen, Parish of Clarendon.

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