ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Vic Chesnutt, the folk-rocker whose sometimes dark reflections on life were influenced in part by a car wreck that left him paralyzed, has died. He was 45.
Family friend Christina Stuckey, who answered the phone at Chesnutt’s home, confirmed the death to The Associated Press. Chesnutt’s record label, Constellation Records, said in a statement on its Web site that Chesnutt died on Christmas
PARIS (AP) — France’s top rocker and entertainment icon Johnny Hallyday has left a Los Angeles hospital after riveting France for some two weeks of hospitalization for back surgery.
Hallyday’s press agency says the 66-year-old star left Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday, in time to join his wife and two daughters for Christmas at their Los Angeles home. The 96b agency says he must continue “indispensable medical
PARIS (Reuters) – Veteran French rocker Johnny Hallyday has been released from a Los Angeles hospital where he underwent a back operation earlier this month, his publicists said on Wednesday.
“The doctors judged that Johnny Hallyday's current state of health has improved and justifies a return home to his family while he continues to receive the medical treatment he needs,” they said in a statement.
He will
BRISBANE, Australia (Billboard) – Guitarist Mick Cocks, a founding member of Australian hard rock bandRose Tattoo, died in a Sydney hospital on Tuesday after a battle with liver cancer. His age was not known.
Cocks becomes the fourth member of a Rose Tattoo line-up to pass away in as many years, following bass player Ian Rilen and guitarist Pete Wells, both in 2006, and guitarist Lobby Loyde in 2007. All had suffered from
PARIS – France’s top rocker and entertainment icon Johnny Hallyday has left a Los Angeles hospital after riveting France for some two weeks of hospitalization for back surgery.
Hallyday’s press agency says the 66-year-old star left Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday, in time to join his wife and two daughters for Christmas at their Los Angeles home. The 96b agency says he must continue “indispensable medical treatment.”
PARIS (AP) — Johnny Hallyday’s press relations office says the French rocker has emerged from a medically induced coma he had been in since last week.
In an e-mail, the Paris-based 96b press relations office said doctors at L.A.’s Cedars Sinai hospital woke Hallyday up on Monday.
Doctors at the hospital had induced the coma following an operation last Wednesday to fix lingering back trouble from an
PARIS (Reuters) – Veteran French rocker Johnny Hallyday has had surgery in Los Angeles, where he was admitted to the Cedars-Sinai hospital on Monday, his publicists said on Thursday.
Hallyday, one of France's most popular entertainers in a career spanning almost 50 years, has been suffering health problems recently and underwent surgery in France last month for a herniated disc.
He was admitted to hospital
It was 60 years ago today that Bruce Springsteen was “Born In The U.S.A.” and love him or loathe him, there’s no question the rocker is a living legend.
Still touring, releasing hit albums and writing hit songs from the heart, one of America’s favorite sons is still as relevant today as he was when he first wowed fans with classic albums like Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle back in the early 1970s.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote “The Basketball Diaries,” died Friday. He was 60.
He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York Times.
In the 1970s, Carroll was a fixture of the burgeoning downtown New York art scene, where he mixed with artists such as Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Larry Rivers and Robert Mapplethorpe.
MIAMI – Less than a week before his “Peace Without Borders” concert in Havana, Colombian rocker Juanes and his wife, Karen, welcomed their first son over the weekend.
The singer announced on his Twitter page Saturday that his wife had given birth to the couple’s third child, a boy, Dante, in Miami.
Juanes, 37, posted in Spanish: “Dante was born very well, healthy and beautiful! Thank God for this blessing!”
