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Happy Tuesday, and a very early Happy New Year! We’re off for the holiday tomorrow, but first we’re tallying up all of our ...

Reflect on the lives of influential figures we lost this year. From music legends to cultural icons, explore the legacies of ...

In our house the Christmas music is still a collection of CDs, kept in a big covered basket that comes up from the basement ...

Richard Perry, whose many successes included Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" and a Ringo Starr album featuring all four ...

From a helicopter pilot-turned-janitor-turned-country star to a dancer who travelled the world and lived to 110, these men and women made their mark.

Toni Fitzgerald is a Pennsylvania-based reporter who has covered the media industry since 2002. She currently focuses her coverage on streaming and book publishing. She also works as a freelance ...

If Sinatra is the king of Christmas classics, Ella Fitzgerald is the queen (all respect to Mariah Carey, who is more like the empress of it all). Fitzgerald’s “Jingle Bells,” from the 1960 ...

During his career he performed and recorded with, among others, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie ... Some of the artists who influenced Peterson during the early years ...