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Songwriter Jerry Ragovoy Dead At 80

4877 days ago
ContactMusicGrammy award-winning songwriter Jerry Ragovoy has passed away at the age of 80. He died of complications from a stroke on Wednesday (13Jul11), according to the New York Times. Ragovoy composed a number of hit songs including Janis Joplin's Piece of M... more info

Songwriter Jerry Ragavoy dies of stroke

4878 days ago
TopixJerry Ragavoy wrote many of the hit songs that made Janis Joplin famous. Jerry RagavoyA who wrote Janis Joplin 's signature hit "Piece of My Heart" as well as "Cry Baby" and "Time Is On My Side," died Wednesday from complications of a stroke. more info

Alice Gold: Seven Rainbows – review

4894 days ago
Guardian Music(Fiction)Details of English newcomer Alice Gold's past are sparse; she seems to have simply materialised, fully-formed, at age 28, with an album of pop-rock she says was modelled on Janis Joplin. While Joplin's hard-living raunchiness surfaces in a... more info

Stevie Nicks: Soundtrack of my life

4899 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Fleetwood Mac veteran and solo star picks the music that has inspired her through her 40-year careerFrom Florence Welch to Courtney Love, Sheryl Crow to Taylor Swift, there are plenty of artists who owe a debt to Stevie Nicks (63). She began as h... more info

Janis Joplin dies

4913 days ago
Guardian Music4 October 1970: Number 22 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicTime magazine called Janis Joplin "probably the most powerful singer to emerge from the white rock movement", thanks to her recordings both solo and with Big Bro... more info

Scarlett Johansson records song with Massive Attack

4931 days ago
Guardian MusicHollywood actor teams up with Bristol band to cover George Gershwin's Summertime for Mexican movie soundtrackMassive Attack have collaborated with actor Scarlett Johansson on the soundtrack to a forthcoming Mexican thriller. Dias de Gracia (Days of G... more info

955 Dreams on turning Woodstock and jazz history into iPad timelines

4945 days ago
Guardian MusicCo-founder Kiran Bellubbi talks mashing up recorded music and interactive books.There was relatively little jazz being played at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969, but there's a thoroughly modern link between the two in 2011 in the form of US de... more info

Cyndi Lauper - Cyndi Lauper Sings The Blues At Jazz Festival

4950 days ago
ContactMusicPop superstar Cyndi Lauper returned to her bluesy roots on Thursday night (05May11) when she played a set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The True Colors hitmaker fronted a Janis Joplin covers band before she hit the big time in the 1... more info

Frazey Ford - Obadiah (album stream)

4963 days ago
Totally Fuzzy Let's leave the pop and rock scene for while and turn to some lazy and relaxing Easter Week-end music. Did you ever wonder what a white Ann Peebles might have sounded like? Well, just hit the play button and you'll know. This is one amazing and a... more info

Ronnie Wood: Second life

4963 days ago
Guardian MusicThere's the young girlfriend, the Hoxton flat, the new veneers, the radio show... At 63, Ronnie Wood is starting againIf there's one thing more surprising than Rolling Stone Keith Richards surviving into his 60s, it's that his bandmate Ronnie Wood ha... more info

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