LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disco Queen Donna Summer, a five-time Grammy award winner famous for 1970s hits like "Hot Stuff" and "She Works Hard for the Money," died on Thursday after a long battle with cancer. She was 63. Following are some key facts about Summer: - Along with the titles above, her best-known hits [...] ...
Disco Legend Donna Summer died early Thursday due to complications from lung cancer. The five time Grammy winner's hits include songs such as "Last Dance," "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls," and "She Works Hard for the Money" and "This Time I Know It's for Real." [More from Mashable: Ryan Montbleau Band Makes Live Webcasts for All [...] ...
(Reuters) - Actor George Lindsey, who played bumbling Goober Pyle on the 1960s TV series "The Andy Griffith Show," died on Sunday. He was 83. Lindsey died in Nashville, Tennessee, after a brief illness, according to a statement from the Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home. Lindsey was asked in 1962 to audition for the role of a [...] ...
AFP Relax News – 3 hrs ago Adam Yauch, a co-founder of Grammy-winning hip-hop giants the Beastie Boys, died Friday three years after being diagnosed with cancer, media reports said. The cause of death of the 47-year-old, better known by his stage name MCA, was not immediately clear, said the TMZ celebrity news website. His death was [...] ...
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Former NFL star Junior Seau was found dead Wednesday of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home north of San Diego, authorities said. Frank McCoy, chief of police in suburban Oceanside, said the 43-year-old Seau was found with a gunshot wound to the chest at his beachfront home north of San Diego by "a [...] ...
Former NFL star Junior Seau was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home north of San Diego, authorities said. Frank McCoy, chief of police in suburban Oceanside, said the 43-year-old Seau was found with a gunshot wound to the chest at his beachfront home north of San Diego by "a young [...] ...
OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Junior Seau, a homegrown superstar who was the fist-pumping, emotional leader of the San Diego Chargers for 13 years, was found shot to death at his home Wednesday morning in what police said appeared to be a suicide. He was 43. Police Chief Frank McCoy said Seau's girlfriend reported finding him [...] ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Much of the Band's innovative sound was born in the "Big Pink." It was a house in idyllic Woodstock, N.Y., rented for $125 a week and nicknamed for its distinctive pink paint job. The group would gather for hours at a time to create songs. Musicians would walk by a typewriter [...] ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Painter Thomas Kinkade, whose works of luminescent, homespun scenes captivated millions of Americans even as some critics scoffed, died at his home in Northern California at age 54, a spokesman said. Kinkade died alone on Friday at his residence in Los Gatos, a small town about 45 miles south of San [...] ...
(Reuters) - Ultra-marathon runner Micah True, missing for four days in the rugged wilderness of New Mexico, was found dead on Saturday, police said. True, 58, was found in the mountainous Gila National Forest in southwest New Mexico, near the Arizona border in the early evening, said Tom Bemis, incident commander with the New Mexico [...] ...
Andrew Breitbart, the noted Internet publisher and author, has died, according to a source at Big Journalism. He was 43. A statement posted on his website said that Breitbart died "unexpectedly from natural causes" this morning. The Los Angeles Coroner's Office confirmed to ABC News Radio that Breitbart died shortly after midnight at UCLA Medical [...] ...