RIP: Guitar legend Jeff Beck, taken by meningitis at age 78. Was he the greatest guitar hero of all time?
One of the longest-running debates in rock’n’roll is who is the best guitarist? For decades, arguments centered around three people:
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RIP Terry Hall, singer with The Specials, Fun Boy Three, and The Colourfield. It appears to have been pancreatic cancer.
Anyone who loves Second Wave ska knows Terry’s voice. His slightly pouty, somewhat snotty, always witty vocals powered all the
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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
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Olivia Newton-John has died at age 73
When I was in grade six, I became irrationally fixated on “Let Me Be There” by Olivia Newton-John. For about
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RIP Paul Ryder of The Happy Mondays
If I’m honest, no one had Paul Ryder being the first member of the Mondays to go. The smart(?) money
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Andy Fletcher, founding member of Depeche Mode, dead at 60
Andy Fletcher, a member of Depeche Mode since the very beginning has died. He was 60. We have no idea
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We lose another one: Yes drummer Alan White dies at age 72
Something seemed off about White. He was preparing for Yes’ upcoming UK tour, something that would mark his 50th anniversary
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Vangelis, the electronic composer who help take things mainstream with the Chariots of Fire theme, has died
His full name was Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou but the world knew him as Vangelis, the composer of electronic music. Born
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What can a band do when a key member dies? Let’s explore the Foo Fighters situation
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] One of the knocks against the Foo Fighters has been that
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Taylor Hawkins honoured in his hometown of Laguna Beach with a drum circle
It’s been a week since we heard the horrible news about Taylor Hawkins. On Thursday (March 31), he was honoured
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 948: Remembering Taylor Hawkins
Back in 2014, I was invited to the Foo Fighters headquarters, 606 Studios, the band’s hangout and nerve centre in
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