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Byline: Geoff Edgers So here we are, not particularly shocked that Shane MacGowan is gone - the man gargled whiskey for decades, and recent hospital photos were not encouraging - [...]

Byline: John Lingan In the spring of 1965, Lou Reed was barely 23 and less than a year removed from his college graduation. He had just experienced his first musical [...]

Byline: Ken Budd On a gray 30-degree morning at Graceland, Priscilla Presley speaks on a black stage next to a four-foot-tall white cake emblazoned with piano keys, paisley designs, blue-and-gold [...]

Byline: Adela Suliman Tributes have flowed in from across the world after the death of idiosyncratic rock star Meat Loaf was announced by his family Friday. Meat Loaf, whose given [...]

Byline: Geoff Edgers 'Danny, he's dead.' It was March 4, 1994, and David Geffen, the record mogul who had signed Nirvana just three years earlier, was calling band manager Danny [...]

Byline: Hank Stuever Really, what better name for a rock band at that particular moment than the Cars? Cars were all we dreamed about in the farthest-flung American suburbs, the [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews It was 1968, and the King was all but dead. The Summer of Love came and went, leaving the man once seated on the throne of [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Rock 'n' roller Fats Domino kept his hometown New Orleans - and the rest of the world - dancing throughout the 1950s and '60s with his [...]

Byline: Karen Heller TULSA, Okla. - Robert Zimmerman was born in northern Minnesota, made a name for himself - specifically, Bob Dylan - in Greenwich Village and lives on a [...]

Byline: Chris Richards 'My musical quest [is] to get more and more purity into the music.' That's something Tom Petty told me over the telephone once. Years later, I wonder [...]

Byline: Chris Richards When you hear a siren wail, it's a warning. Something big is brewing. Chris Cornell was lucky enough to be born with a siren in his throat, [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi The news of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell's death, which his publicist called 'sudden and unexpected,' reverberated throughout the music world Thursday morning. Cornell, who died Wednesday at [...]

Byline: Stephanie Merry By the time Soundgarden released 'Superunknown' in 1994, the band already had a platinum album (1991's 'Badmotorfinger') and helped shape the defining sound of '90s rock music. [...]

Byline: Matt Bonesteel Tom Petty was widely hailed as an American music icon upon his death Monday at age 66, with salutes rolling in from just about everywhere. On Saturday, [...]

Byline: Terence McArdle Sonny Burgess, a boisterous rockabilly singer and guitarist who toured with Johnny Cash and counted Bruce Springsteen among his admirers, died Aug. 18 at a hospital in [...]

Byline: Matt McClain OCEAN CITY, Md. - David King and nine other men with the same pitch-black hair and long sideburns - his attached to his skin with adhesive - [...]