Van Cliburn died today at age 78.
The name lives on with the piano competition named after him.
RIP, tall Texan:
Renowned American classical pianist Van Cliburn died Wednesday morning at the age of 78 after a battle with bone cancer, publicist and longtime friend Mary Lou Falcone told The Associated Press.
Falcone announced in...
One of the greats. I have so many of his albums … in vinyl.
There are far too many great songs to embed them all, so here are two:
Even more than Rebecca Black’s Friday and Anne’s Chick-fil-A guys.
PSY’s Gangnam Style becomes most watched YouTube video of all time with 805 million views:
South Korean rapper PSY’s Gangnam Style has become YouTube’s most...
Just what the Obama campaign needed to reestablish its seriousness after as series of unserious campaign themes, like Big Bird, Binders and Bayonets.
A new music star-studded video to the theme FORWARD.
What I find most interesting is that there is a delusion to the video which cannot be overstated. These people act...
Bruce Springsteen is all in for Obama again:
If any doubt remained about how central the state of Ohio is to President Obama’s reelection campaign, the sight of Bruce Springsteen and former President Clinton on stage at Cuyahoga Community College on Thursday made it clear….
Springsteen, who sang solo...
We have featured The Iveys before to a very good reader reaction.
The band members are the cousins of LI reader, photographer (also, here, here) and West Texas correspondent Danelle, who also happens to be one of the first to email me whenever I get a national media reference, usually in real time.
Danelle’s children and...
Lyrical genius behind the Burt Bacharach legend, died yesterday:
Hal David, the renowned pop music lyricist whose prolific collaboration with composer Burt Bacharach produced a wealth of enduringly memorable hits in the 1960s and early ’70s, including “Walk On By,” “What the World Needs Now Is Love” and the Oscar-winning “Raindrops Keep...
Thanks to Windbag in the Tip Line for the link to this music video by the group The Voters.
Why hasn’t this video gone viral? It only has 9800 views on YouTube.
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This one hurts. I grew up knowing so many of the Bee Gees early songs by heart.
The New York Mining Disaster 1941 was one of my favorites, and one of the most underappreciated:
Robin Gibb passed away today. He will be missed.
From Rolling Stone:
Robin Gibb, one-third of the Bee Gees, died Sunday...
I ran a long string of Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson Videos of the Day recently.
Thanks to reader Scott who just forwarded to me this video of Tony Snow in a duet with Anderson.
Lead singer of The Monkees has died at age 66:
A rep for the singer tells us Jones suffered a heart attack at his home this morning … and was transported to a hospital where he...
Reader and frequent photographer Danelle sends this email:
This link is for a young Texas group, The Ivey’s. “Lady Made of Stone” is the first video and single release for their new album. I’d spend a couple of paragraphs bragging on these kids, but their music speaks for itself. The music they write is wonderfully complex...
