Guardian Music — Motown hero laid down basslines on many of the label's most memorable hitsThe Motown session musician Bob Babbitt, one of the legendary Funk Brothers studio team, ghas died aged 74. Babbitt's bass playing pounded through sauch Motown classics as the ... more info

Guardian Music — Sophisticated and witty actor who triumphed on Broadway and won an OscarCeleste Holm, who has died aged 95, was the original Ado Annie in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's groundbreaking musical Oklahoma! which opened on Broadway in 1943. In I... more info

Guardian Music — For the first time the composer's best-known orchestral music can be heard with words to accompany itA project to put words to the best-known orchestral music of George Gershwin is to be launched this summer, following 15 years of work by one of Brit... more info

ContactMusic — Ted Danson was left cringing during a dinner with Larry David when the funnyman insulted a restaurant full of Mexicans by translating an English-speaking Frank Sinatra impersonator The comic plays an exaggerated version of himself in hit U S comedy s... more info

Guardian Music — Singer intends to 'avoid the things that take away any chance for an artist to have financial success'. Good luck with thatNot content with pop stardom, Katy Perry has decided she intends to be a music mogul as well.The 27-year-old singer has sold 3.... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — “My name is Frank Sinatra,” sings Kelly Hogan on the M. Ward-penned “Daddy’s Little Girl,” a tune she delivers with gripping drama. And there are 12 more gems on Hogan's "I Like To Keep Myself In Pain." more info

Prefix — Beatles or Rolling Stones? So went the old debate, yet the Beach Boys beat back the Brits to set a ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/beach-boys-beat-beatles-on-billboard/66334/ more info

ContactMusic — The one-time home of the Emmy and Grammy Awards is on the market The Hollywood Palladium which has also housed gigs by Jay Z and Frank Sinatra is expected to fetch 60 million 37 5 million The fabled Sunset Boulevard property is currently bein... more info

Guardian Music — 1959: A perfect example of the rock ballad, this is a slice of pure pop music with a lilting Latin beatBobby Darin – born Walden Robert Cassotto in the Bronx – may have looked like a junior-league Frank Sinatra. But when you heard Dream Lover you... more info

Guardian Music — Dancefloor pioneers Donna Summer and Robin Gibb both died recently, but the beat goes on – disco has become the foundation of all modern popTowards the end of Whit Stillman's 1998 movie The Last Days of Disco, Matt Keeslar's manic depressive charac... more info