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Daft Punk sets record on Spotify with 'Get Lucky'
Daft Punk has set a record on Spotify. The music service says the French electronic duo's song "Get Lucky" had the biggest streaming day for a single ...
Major Beach Boys memorabilia being auctioned off
The material sat in a Florida storage facility for many years, apparently forgotten, until the storage company finally sold it off in bulk because ...
Pink Floyd album designer Storm Thorgerson dies
English graphic designer Storm Thorgerson, whose eye-popping album art for Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin encapsulated the spirit of 1970s psychedelia, ...
Thatcher Funeral: Guest list standouts
More than 2,300 guests attended the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday. In all, 11 ...
Britain's Iron Lady laid to rest with full pomp
Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Iron Lady, was laid to rest Wednesday with a level of pomp and protest reflecting her status as a commanding, polarizing ...
Thatcher Funeral: Attendees and No-Shows
More than 2,300 guests have confirmed they will attend the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Among the former U.S.
Ozzy Osbourne denies marriage split rumors
Rocker Ozzy Osbourne has denied rumors of a split from his wife Sharon and apologized to his family for returning to drink and drugs. The Black ...
Spanish singer sentenced for money-laundering
A Spanish court has sentenced popular Spanish folk singer Isabel Pantoja to two years in jail after convicting her of money laundering. Pantoja is not ...
Israeli ban on Galliano dress sparks uproar
Israel's national broadcast authority has banned the country's contestant in the upcoming Eurovision song contest from wearing a dress made by John ...
Turkish pianist receives suspended jail term
A Turkish court on Monday convicted top Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say of denigrating religion through comments he made on Twitter and handed ...
London Symphony conductor Colin Davis dies at 85
Colin Davis, the former principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and one of Britain's elder statesmen of classical music, has died at 85.
Rock and soul songwriter George Jackson dies at 68
Songwriter George Jackson, co-author of "Old Time Rock and Roll" and hundreds of other soul, rock and rhythm and blues tunes, has died. He was 68.
Jail inmates, orchestra perform behind bars in US
Strains of classical music echoed — not inside a concert hall, but in a bleak Chicago jail where teenage boys await trial on charges ranging from drug ...
Bieber criticized for Anne Frank comment
Justin Bieber wrote an entry into a guestbook at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, saying he hoped the Jewish teenager who died in a Nazi ...
New Glass opera "The Lost" premieres in Austria
Forget minimalist. It's a term Philip Glass never liked as a term for his musical style, and the rich complexity of "The Lost," his newest opera, ...
BBC in hot seat as anti-Thatcher song climbs chart
Opponents of the late Margaret Thatcher are taking a kind of musical revenge on the former prime minister, pushing the song "Ding Dong! The Witch is ...
Thatcher song joins list of tunes BBC censored
A 70-year-old song is giving the BBC a headache. The radio and television broadcaster has agonized over whether to play "Ding Dong! The Witch is ...
More than 2,000 invited to Thatcher funeral
Invitations to Margaret Thatcher's funeral are going out to more than 2,000 celebrities, dignitaries, colleagues and friends of the late British ...
List: Paul McCartney still UK's richest musician
Let it be — as in billionaire. Paul McCartney remains Britain's wealthiest musician, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. The newspaper estimated ...
Led Zeppelin, Van Halen producer Andy Johns dies
A sound engineer and producer who worked with Led Zeppelin, Van Halen and the Rolling Stones has died. Andy Johns' family says he died Sunday in Los ...
Bitcoin hacker currency bursts into mainstream
With $600 stuffed in one pocket and a smartphone tucked in the other, Patricio Fink recently struck the kind of deal that's feeding the rise of a new ...
Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony to celebrate Verdi
Italian conductor Riccardo Muti will launch the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's planned celebration of the bicentennial of composer Giuseppe Verdi's ...
Thatcher had profound effect on popular culture
Margaret Thatcher was not just a political titan, she was a cultural icon — skewered by comedians, transformed into a puppet and played to ...
Irish character actor Milo O'Shea, 87, dies in NYC
The Irish actor Milo O'Shea, whose many roles on stage and screen included a friar in Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet," an evil scientist in ...