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The '27 Club' is a MYTH: Untimely deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse at the same age were a 'coincidence', study claims
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The '27 Club' is a MYTH: Untimely deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse at the same age were a 'coincidence', study claims

Daily Mail  

Since the Seventies, the untimely deaths of influential musicians has led to a popular belief in the so-called '27 Club' phenomenon. Unfortunate members include Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Janis Joplin, who all died at the same young age. Since the Seventies, the untimely deaths of influential musicians has led to a popular belief in the so-called '27 …

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The 15 greatest posthumous albums, ranked
2 months, 4 weeks ago

The 15 greatest posthumous albums, ranked

The Independent  

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Review: ‘When Evil Lurks’ calls back to the times when possession movies kept you guessing
1 year, 2 months ago

Review: ‘When Evil Lurks’ calls back to the times when possession movies kept you guessing

LA Times  

“When Evil Lurks,” an enjoyable bit of torture by the filmmaker Demián Rugna, opens with five gunshots in a lonely stretch of rural Argentina. Rugna’s taken demonic possession, that increasingly threadbare horror trope, and twisted it around until he found his own angle of attack. There’s a tumorous, oozing, bedridden young man — a rotten, the locals call him — …

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Label Erode’s apparel blends the GI-tagged jamakkalam with Jimi Hendrix’s music
1 year, 4 months ago

Label Erode’s apparel blends the GI-tagged jamakkalam with Jimi Hendrix’s music

The Hindu  

Once a prominent decor artefact, the tightly knit jamakkalam carpets in bright shades of navy blue, red, green, and white now don a new avatar courtesy Mayank Bhutra’s label, Erode. The GI-tagged Bhavani jamakkalam, crafted in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district is on the verge of extinction, and Mayank says his label’s first collection — launched in May this year — …

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The 35 greatest debut albums of all time, from Arctic Monkeys to Joy Division
2 years, 4 months ago

The 35 greatest debut albums of all time, from Arctic Monkeys to Joy Division

The Independent  

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Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole: Last words of hero who died saving woman drowning in Thames
2 years, 5 months ago

Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole: Last words of hero who died saving woman drowning in Thames

The Independent  

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Cynthia Plaster Caster, artist known for rock-star penis sculptures, dies at 74
2 years, 8 months ago

Cynthia Plaster Caster, artist known for rock-star penis sculptures, dies at 74

LA Times  

Cynthia Albritton, who as Cynthia Plaster Caster successfully channeled a teenage desire to lose her virginity to a rock star into a lifelong project creating casts of their erect penises, died on Thursday in her native Chicago after an undisclosed illness, according to a press release. “My teacher asked us to plaster cast something that could retain its shape, and …

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Jimi Hendrix, fire hazards and Saturday Night Live: Rock’n’roll’s raucous history of trashing guitars
2 years, 8 months ago

Jimi Hendrix, fire hazards and Saturday Night Live: Rock’n’roll’s raucous history of trashing guitars

The Independent  

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Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang dies aged 77
2 years, 11 months ago

Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang dies aged 77

Daily Mail  

Michael Lang, one of the co-founders of the legendary Woodstock music festival that is widely regarded as having defined 1960s pop culture, died Saturday. Dearly departed: Michael Lang, one of the co-founders of the legendary Woodstock music festival that is widely regarded as having defined 1960s pop culture, died Saturday Acts ranging from Joan Baez and the Grateful Dead to …

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Lithofayne Pridgon, a muse to musicians and likely inspiration for Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Foxy Lady,’ dies
3 years, 5 months ago

Lithofayne Pridgon, a muse to musicians and likely inspiration for Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Foxy Lady,’ dies

LA Times  

Lithofayne Pridgon, Jimi Hendrix’s long-term girlfriend and the likely inspiration for one of his most popular and enduring songs, “Foxy Lady,” spent most of her life in a hallowed orbit of music stars. “She was nobody’s concubine,” said musician and cultural critic Greg Tate, author of “Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience,” who first became aware of Pridgon …

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From San Francisco to the Haçienda to... 2021: Why we need a new Summer of Love
3 years, 6 months ago

From San Francisco to the Haçienda to... 2021: Why we need a new Summer of Love

The Independent  

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BRIT Awards 2021: Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall leads partying stars
3 years, 7 months ago

BRIT Awards 2021: Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall leads partying stars

Daily Mail  

It is typically the most wild night in the showbiz calendar - laden with boozy bashes and raucous displays. Yet the 2021 BRIT Awards - like all big scale events to come - were certainly different this year, although that did not stop the stars having a wild time, with Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall leading the way in sensational style …

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Dad of ‘hero’ son who died in River Thames urges UK honor
3 years, 7 months ago

Dad of ‘hero’ son who died in River Thames urges UK honor

Associated Press  

LONDON — The father of a 20-year-old man who died after jumping into the River Thames near London Bridge to save a woman joined a campaign Tuesday to persuade the British government to honor his son for his brave and selfless act. “I want the government to honor him,” the young man’s father, Michael Adewola, said on the ITV channel’s …

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The death of Jimi Hendrix: the unanswered questions
4 years, 3 months ago

The death of Jimi Hendrix: the unanswered questions

The Independent  

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‘They booed Joni Mitchell and threw s**t at Jimi Hendrix’: The amazing story of the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival
4 years, 4 months ago

‘They booed Joni Mitchell and threw s**t at Jimi Hendrix’: The amazing story of the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival

The Independent  

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