LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – The Knack's lead singer Doug Fieger, who co-wrote the 1979 hit song “My Sharona,” died on Sunday, aged 57, after battling lung cancer for six years.
His family said in a statement that Fieger passed away at his home in Woodland Hills, California, after outliving his doctors' prognoses “for many, many years.”
“Doug did not suffer. He is in a better place. And wherever he is,
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit “My Sharona,” died Sunday. He was 57.
Fieger, a Detroit-area native, died at his home in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles after battling cancer, according to The Knack’s manager, Jake Hooker.
Fieger formed The Knack in Los Angeles 1978, and the group quickly became a staple of Sunset Strip
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Authorities in north Louisiana say two people in a pickup truck were killed when the truck ran head-on into a tour bus carrying members of country singer Trace Adkins‘ band.
Cindy Chadwick of the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office says five band members were treated for minor injuries in the Saturday morning accident.
Adkins was not on the bus. Chadwick says he drove to the scene after
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Etta James’ manager said the R&B singer remains hospitalized in Southern California as she recovers from sepsis, an infection.
Lupe De Leon said Monday that James is stable and he doesn’t know when the 72-year-old singer will be released from the Riverside Community Hospital.
Her son, Donto James, said Friday that his mother has been hospitalized for about a week with sepsis caused by a urinary
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Etta James‘ son says the 72-year-old R&B singer is hospitalized in Southern California with a serious infection but he expects her to be released soon.
Donto James says his mother has been at Riverside Community Hospital for about a week and is recovering from sepsis caused by a urinary tract infection.
He says James, who lives in Woodcrest, entered a treatment program about
NASHVILLE (Billboard) – In her self-penned biographical sketch, singer-songwriter Sarah Buxton says she “had a whole plan mapped out” when she signed with Lyric Street Records in 2005. Then reality revised her best-laid plans, as her bio further notes: “What's the old adage? 'If you wanna hear God laugh, tell him your plans?' Well … I told him. And he laughed!”
Buxton is thankful her career didn't take off
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Aerosmith has begun its search for a singer to replace Steven Tyler — though whether it's permanent or temporary is uncertain.
Guitarist Joe Perry told Canada's QMI Agency that the group is “already getting the word out there. The word's been out there for a while.”
After his Canadian swing with Motley Crue — which ends February 5 in Montreal — Perry said that Aerosmith will
DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — Fiddler-guitarist Charlie Daniels is recovering after suffering a mild stroke while snowmobiling in Colorado, his spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Daniels, 73, suffered the stroke Friday and was treated at a hospital in Durango, 230 miles southwest of Denver, spokeswoman Paula Szeigis said. He then was airlifted to a Denver hospital and released on Sunday.
“It was a scary moment there
The All-American Rejects star Tyson Ritter has sworn off marriage until he hits his 30s - because he’s fed up with women who want him to make a serious commitment. The 25 year old broke up with his model girlfriend of six years, Kim Smith, earlier this year and he admits he has been struggling to find a partner “with substance”.
Now he’s vowing not to settle down for a few more years - so he can enjoy the single life for as long as possible.
He tells Kerrang! magazine, (more…)
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Vic Chesnutt, a paralyzed singer-songwriter whose painful and poignant songs caught the attention of R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, has died after an apparent suicide attempt. He was 45.
Chesnutt died at a hospital his hometown of Athens, Ga., on Christmas Day, two days after taking an overdose of muscle relaxants.
“In the few short years that we knew him personally, Vic transformed our sense
