Ongoing History Daily: Celebrity post-death wishes
When you finally shuffle off this mortal coil, what do you want your funeral wishes to be? Here are some suggestions. When Tupac died, he was cremated. Members of the band Outlawz smoked
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Here’s a roundup of news and reaction to the death of Sinead O’Connor
The death of Sinead O’Connor is front page news around the world today. Reaction and analysis has been widespread.
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RIP Sinead O’Connor. She was 56.
Sinead O’Connor, the immensely talented but deeply troubled Irish singer, has passed away. I met her just the one time back in early 1988, when she was on a promo tour for her
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Twenty years ago today, we lost Joe Strummer. Here was his cause of death.
Twenty years ago today–December 22, 2002–former Clash frontman and all-round punk icon Joe Strummer took his dog for a walk in Quantock Hills, Somerset, England. When he returned to the house, he walked
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How many band members must die off before it’s not the same group?
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca this week. – AC] When I was growing up in Winnipeg, there was an old-fashioned Good Fellas-type supper club at 579 Portage Ave. called Club Morocco. Opened
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RIP Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie, dead at 79
There isn’t a person alive with a copy of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album that hasn’t sobbed to “Songbird” during a period of heartache. Written and performed by Christine McVie, it’s one of the
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 965: Michael Hutchence, 25 years later
Being a music fan was much different in the era before the internet. News traveled slowly, passing through many, many filters–so many, in fact, that a tremendous amount of information was either stripped
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How TMZ accidentally killed off Jerry Lee Lewis (He’s fine, by the way.)
I was sitting on the porch with the bull terrier after supper last night (Oct 26) when my phone started buzzing with news that rock’n’roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis had died. I wasn’t
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Of COURSE there are Taylor Hawkins death conspiracies. Here’s a summary.
There are those who believe that nothing–and I mean nothing–is ever what it seems. Why believe the most simple, logical explanation for something when you can choose to believe some kind of complicated
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Here’s what the BBC did to announce the passing of Queen Elizabeth II
With her death at 96, Queen Elizabeth, the longest-ruling monarch in the history of Britain, a certain age of history of history has brought to a close. It’s hard to imagine a UK,
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2022 has been another rough year when it comes to losing our musical heroes. And it’s still only June.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca – AC] It started with David Bowie on Jan. 10, 2016, and before the first quarter was over, we had lost Glen Frey (The Eagles), Paul
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