US TV host Dick Clark has died after suffering a massive heart attack earlier today (April 18).
The 82-year-old fronted the popular live music show American Bandstand from 1956 until 1989. The music driven television programme saw appearances from the likes of , Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Link Wray. Clark also hosted the game show Pyramid.
In the early 1970s Clark began hosting Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve,
a New Year's Eve broadcast direct from New York's Times Square, which
he appeared on every year until his death - aside from 2004, after he
suffered a stroke. The show has recently been co-hosted by Ryan
Seacrest.
Clark – who was nicknamed America's Oldest Teenager - leaves
behind a wife and three children. The veteran presenter and businessman
was undergoing a medical procedure when he suffered the heart attack
which killed him. His death was announced by his agent, Paul Shefrin,
reports ABC.
Clark was the winner of several Emmy Awards and is a member of the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Men At Work flute player Greg Ham has passed away at the age of 58.
Ham was discovered at his home in Melbourne, Australia today (April 19) by two friends who had not heard from him in over a week, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Ham's cause of death has not been confirmed and local police are currently refusing to comment on the situation. Detective Senior Sergeant Shane O'Connell, who is investigating, said: "At this point in time, because of the early stages of our investigation, we're not prepared to go into the exact details of what has occurred,"
Men At Work achieved international success in the 1980s with their huge hit single 'Down Under', which you can hear by scrolling down to the bottom of the page.
The track, and in particular the song's flute riff, went on to become the subject of a long-running copyright dispute, with Australia's Federal Court in 2010 finding it was lifted from the children's folk tune 'Kookaburra', penned more than 75 years ago.
As a result, Men At Work were forced to hand over five per cent of the song's royalties from 2002 onwards to the owners of 'Kookaburra'. Ham admitted after the ruling that he was devastated, saying at the time: "It will be the way the song is remembered and I hate that. I'm terribly disappointed that that's the way I'm going to be remembered - for copying something."
Ham also worked as an actor and had a long-running part in Australian series While You're Down There.
Linkin Park has revealed a brand new track, titled "Burn It Down", which will be the first new song the band has released off their upcoming album, 'Living Things'. The new record is set to drop on June 26.
Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg headline Coachella alongside Tupac hologram!
Photo: Getty
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg headlined Coachella alongside a hologram version of Tupac as the first weekend of the festival drew to a close last night (April 15) – scroll down and click below to watch fan footage.
Eminem, 50 Cent, Warren G, Wiz Khalifah and Kendrick Lamar also all appeared during the hip-hop heavyweights' weekend-closing show, which also included a tribute to late rapper Nate Dogg.
The hologram of Tupac - who was shot and killed in 1996 - addressed the Coachella crowd and also performed 'Hail Mary' as a duet with Snoop Dogg. In a hit packed set, Snoop and Dre performed 'Gin and Juice', 'In Da Club', 'Still D.R.E', 'I Need A Doctor', 'Young, Wild and Free' and 'California Love' amongst other classics. Even Frank Sinatra made an appearance in the show, singing a few bars on the big screens as part of the set.
Earlier, At The Drive-In played their first major show of their reunion, following their warm-up gigs earlier this week. Frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala appeared to mock the Coachella crowd and some of the more ludicrous festival fashion choices saying: "This is dedicated to all the people who decided that because you were going to come out to the desert, you were going to dress like it was Cirque de Soleil."
The energetic singer jumped down into the photopit early on in the gig, which included 'Pattern Against User' and finished up with 'One Armed Scissor'. The frontman of the El Paso band also spat into the video cameras and leapt off the drumkit to the delight of the crowd.
Meanwhile, Rihanna appeared onstage with Calvin Harris in the Sahara tent to perform their Number One single 'We Found Love'.
The Hives played a mixture of new and old material in a late afternoon main Coachella stage set, with the garage rockers' top hat-wearing frontman Howlin' Pelle asking the crowd: "People say I'm an annoying asshole - do you agree Coachella?" before 'Main Offender'. The Swedes also played current single 'Go Right Ahead' and new track 'Wait A Minute'.
Earlier in the day, Wild Flag played a set based on their self-titled 2011 debut album and Santigold, Metronomy, Wild Beasts, Justice, The Weeknd, Florence and the Machine and First Aid Kit also performed.
Saturday (14) saw the likes of Radiohead and Kasabian play at the festival - scroll down and click below to watch footage of the latter playing their 2004 single 'LSF' at a pre-Coachella Mulberry Firepit party - while The Black Keys headlined on Friday night (13) following sets from Arctic Monkeys and Pulp.
Stone Temple Pilots will be releasing their first-ever live DVD/Blu-Ray entitled 'Alive In The Windy City' on June 5. The film contains the band's entire set from their March 27, 2010 show at the Riviera Theater in Chicago, Illinois. Check out the tracklist and cover below: (via Blabbermouth)
"Alive In The Windy City" track listing:
01. Vasoline
02. Crackerman
03. Wicked Garden
04. Hollywood Bitch
05. Between The Lines
06. Hickory Dichotomy
07. Big Empty
08. Sour Girl
09. Creep
10. Plush
11. Interstate Love Song
12. Bagman
13. Huckleberry Crumble
14. Sex Type Thing
15. Dead And Bloated
16. Lounge Fly
17. Piece Of Pie
18. Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder pulls solo tour dates due to injury
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Eddie Vedder has postponed a string of North American tour dates due to injury.
The Pearl Jam frontman had been due to kick off a run of shows in Las Vegas on April 10. The gigs will now take place this autumn because of temporary nerve damage to the rocker's right arm as the result of a back injury. His show at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has been cancelled outright.
A statement on Pearljam.com by Pearl Jam's manager Kelly Curtis reads:
After having worked aggressively with doctors and physical therapists for the last eight weeks to repair the damage, the intensity of the injury and time needed to heal has made it impossible to play the shows as scheduled. There was hope up until the last minute that the treatments would be successful.
Last month Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard gave an update on their progress in recording their 10th studio album. The axeman said that the band are "not in a rush", but that they may only be "a song or two away" from finishing.
Speaking to Rolling Stone about the follow-up to 2009's 'Backspacer', Gossard said: "We've recorded some songs, and we're going to record and write some more. It might be that we're a song away or two, or it might be that we're going to record six or seven more songs."
Asked if he could describe the songs for the band's new record, Gossard said that the album was "refreshingly cool" and that the band would make sure it didn't sound too polished.
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