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Eddie Vedder, o vocalista dos Pearl Jam, nasceu há sessenta anos...!

     

Edward Louis Severson III (Evanston, 23 de dezembro de 1964), mais conhecido como Eddie Vedder, é um cantor, compositor e músico norte-americano. Vocalista e guitarrista da banda grunge Pearl Jam, cresceu em San Diego, na Califórnia, mas mudou-se, nos anos 90, para Seattle, onde integrou a citada banda.

    

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Morreu Alfa Anderson, a vocalista dos Chic...

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Alfa Anderson (Augusta, Georgia, September 7, 1946 – December 17, 2024) was an American singer and educator, best known as one of the lead vocalists of the 1970s band Chic. 

 

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Joe Cocker morreu há dez anos...

 

John Robert Cocker (Sheffield, 20 de maio de 1944 - Crawford, 22 de dezembro de 2014) foi um cantor britânico de rock, influenciado pela soul music no início da carreira.

Em 22 de dezembro de 2014 morreu, aos 70 anos de idade, vítima de um cancro do pulmão, na sua casa no Colorado.

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Frank Zappa nasceu há oitenta e quatro anos...

   

Frank Vincent Zappa (Baltimore, 21 de dezembro de 1940 - Los Angeles, 4 de dezembro de 1993) foi um cantor, guitarrista, produtor de gravação e realizador. Numa carreira de mais de trinta anos, a sua obra musical estendeu-se pelo rock, fusion, jazz, música eletrónica, música concreta e música clássica. Também dirigiu longas-metragens e telediscos e desenhou capas dos seus álbuns. Zappa produziu quase todos os seus 60 álbuns, que lançou com a banda Mothers of Invention, grupo que o acompanhou boa parte da sua carreira e que teve sua formação alterada muitas vezes, e como artista a solo.
   

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A maioria dos projetos de Zappa pararam em 1990, quando lhe foi diagnosticado um cancro da próstata terminal. A doença tinha-se desenvolvido, sem sintomas, durante dez anos e era considerada inoperável. Depois do diagnóstico, Zappa devotou a maior parte da sua energia a trabalhos orquestrais modernos e no Synclavier. Em 1993, ele completou Civilization, Phaze III pouco antes de sua morte. Foi o maior trabalho no Synclavier que ele tinha começado desde os anos 1980.

Em 1991, Zappa foi escolhido para ser um dos quatro compositores apresentados no aclamado Festival de Frankfurt, em 1992 (os outros eram John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen e Alexander Knaifel). Zappa foi abordado pela orquestra moderna de câmara Ensemble Modern, que estava interessada em tocar a sua música no evento. Mesmo doente, Zappa convidou-os para Los Angeles para ouvirem as novas composições e novos arranjos de materiais antigos. Além de ficar satisfeito com as apresentações do conjunto tocando a sua música, Zappa também se deu bem com os músicos, e os concertos na Alemanha e na Áustria foram preparados para o final do ano. Em setembro de 1992, os concertos aconteceram como previstos, mas Zappa pode aparecer somente em dois, em Frankfurt, devido à sua doença. No primeiro concerto conduziu "Overture" na abertura, e no final "G-Spot Tornado", assim como as teatrais "Food Gathering in Post-Industrial America, 1992" e "Welcome to the United States" (o resto do programa foi conduzido pelo maestro regular do conjunto Peter Rundel). Zappa foi ovacionado por 20 minutos. Essa seria a última aparição profissional em público, já que o cancro estava se espalhando para uma extensão que lhe causava muita dor para desfrutar um evento que por outro lado ele consideraria "estimulante". Gravações desses concertos aparecem em The Yellow Shark (1993), o último lançamento de Zappa durante a sua vida, e algum material de estúdio apareceu no álbum póstumo Everything Is Healing Nicely (1999).

Frank Zappa faleceu a 4 de dezembro de 1993, em sua casa, rodeado pela sua esposa e filhos. Numa cerimónia privada no dia seguinte, Zappa foi enterrado num túmulo, não marcado, no Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, em Westwood, Los Angeles. Na segunda-feira, 6 de dezembro, a sua família anunciou publicamente que "o compositor Frank Zappa foi para a sua última turnê pouco antes das 18.00 horas de sábado".

   

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Carl Wilson nasceu há 78 anos...

   

Carl Dean Wilson (Hawthorne, 21 de dezembro de 1946 - Los Angeles, 6 de fevereiro de 1998) foi um cantor e guitarrista americano, mais conhecido como um membro fundador e guitarrista da banda de rock americana The Beach Boys, colocado no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame em 1988, juntamente com toda a banda.

No início de 1997 foi-lhe diagnosticado cancro no pulmão e cérebro. Apesar da sua doença e tratamentos de quimioterapia, Carl continuou a fazer shows após o diagnóstico, tocando durante toda a turnê de verão dos Beach Boys que terminou no outono de 1997. Apresentava-se sentado na maior parte do tempo e precisava de oxigénio depois de cada canção, mas ainda tinha a sua voz marcante. A única vez que ele ficava de pé durante os concertos era quando cantava "God Only Knows" para os seus fãs.

Carl Wilson perdeu a batalha contra o cancro a 6 de fevereiro de 1998, apenas dois meses depois da morte de sua mãe, Audree Wilson.

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Reginaldo Rossi, o Rei do Brega, morreu há onze anos...

   

Reginaldo Rossi, nome artístico de Reginaldo Rodrigues dos Santos (Recife, 14 de fevereiro de 1944 - Recife, 20 de dezembro de 2013), foi um cantor e compositor brasileiro, conhecido como o "Rei do Brega".

 

Reginaldo Rodrigues nasceu em Recife, capital de Pernambuco, em 14 de fevereiro de 1944. Foi estudante de engenharia civil durante quatro anos e ensinava física e matemática. Com a influência de Elvis Presley e dos Beatles, começou a carreira artística cantando rock e foi crooner em boates.

Reginaldo Rossi iniciou a sua carreira artística em 1964, comandando o grupo de rock "The Silver Jets", depois integrando-se na Jovem Guarda. No início abria shows de Roberto Carlos.

No dia 9 de novembro de 2013 passou por um procedimento chamado toracocentese, que retirou dois litros de líquido acumulados entre a pleura e o pulmão. O resultado da biopsia, divulgado a 11 do mesmo mês, confirmou o diagnóstico de cancro do pulmão. Morreu no dia 20 de dezembro de 2013. O corpo do cantor foi sepultado no dia 21 de dezembro de 2013 no Cemitério Morada da Paz em Paulista, Região Metropolitana do Recife em Pernambuco.

    

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Hoje é dia de ouvir Alan Parsons...

Alan Parsons faz hoje 76 anos

   

Alan Parsons (Londres, 20 de dezembro de 1948) é um engenheiro de áudio, compositor, músico e produtor musical inglês, filho de Alexander Denys Herbert (Denys) Parsons e Jane Kelty (Kelty) MacLeod. O pai de Parsons foi o desenvolvedor do Parsons Code. O seu bisavô foi ator de teatro e gerente do teatro Herbert Beerbohm-Tree, e o ator de cinema Oliver Reed, primo em primeiro grau, embora nunca se tenham conhecido.

Parsons esteve envolvido na produção de vários álbuns, incluindo Beatles: Abbey Road (1969) e Let It Be (1970), Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), e do homónimo álbum de estreia dos Ambrosia, em 1975. O próprio grupo de Parsons, The Alan Parsons Project, bem como as suas gravações a solo subsequentes, também tiveram sucesso comercial. Ele foi indicado para 13 prémios Grammy, tendo obtido a sua primeira vitória em 2019 para o "Melhor Álbum de Áudio Imersivo" com Eye in the Sky (edição de 35º aniversário).

   

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Pedro Abrunhosa celebra hoje 64 anos

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Pedro Machado Abrunhosa (Porto, 20 de dezembro de 1960), é um cantor e compositor português.

   

Biografia

Inicia cedo os estudos musicais mas mais seriamente em 1976. Termina o Curso de Composição do Conservatório de Música do Porto, após o que estuda e trabalha com os professores Álvaro Salazar e Jorge Peixinho. Faz o Curso de Pedagogia Musical com Jos Wuytack. Aos dezasseis anos já dava aulas na Escola de Música do Porto. Pouco depois ensinava também no ensino oficial, na Escola do Hot Clube, em Lisboa, e na Escola de Música Caiús. Desenvolve os estudos de contrabaixo. Funda a Escola de Jazz do Porto e a Orquestra da mesma, que dirige e para a qual escreve.

Trabalha nesta área por toda a Europa com Joe Hunt, Wallace Rooney, Gerry Nyewood, Steve Brown, Todd Coolman, Billy Hart, Bill Dobbins, Dave Schnitter, Jack Walrath, Boulou Ferré, Elios Ferré, Ramon Cardo, Frankie Rose, Vicent Penasse e Tommy Halferty.

Em abril de 1994 é editado o álbum “Viagens”, gravado conjuntamente com os “Bandemónio”. O disco é um enorme sucesso atingindo a marca de tripla platina. Neste álbum conta com a participação especial do saxofonista de James Brown, Maceo Parker. Faz mais de duzentos espetáculos em apenas dois anos. Apresenta-se ainda nos Estados Unidos, Canadá, Brasil, Macau, França, Suíça, Espanha, Luxemburgo, Itália e outros.

 

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Hoje é dia de recordar Alvin Lee...

Alvin Lee nasceu há oitenta anos...

      

Alvin Lee, born Graham Anthony Barnes (Nottingham, 19 December 1944 – Estepona, Spain, 6 March 2013) was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After. 

     

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Lee died on 6 March 2013 in Spain. He died from "unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure" to correct an atrial arrhythmia. He was 68. His former bandmates lamented his death. Leo Lyons called him "the closest thing I had to a brother", while Ric Lee (no relation) said "I don't think it's even sunk in yet as to the reality of his passing". Billboard highlighted such landmark performances as "I'm Going Home" from the Woodstock festival and his 1971 hit single "I'd Love to Change the World".

  

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Kirsty MacColl morreu há vinte e quatro anos...

     

Kirsty Anna MacColl (Croydon, 10 October 1959 – Cozumel, Quintana Roo, 18 December 2000) was an English singer and songwriter. She wrote and recorded several pop hits between the early 1980s and the 1990s. In addition, she sang on hit recordings produced by her then-husband Steve Lillywhite, notably on tracks by The Smiths and The Pogues.

At the age of 41, MacColl died after being hit by a boat in Mexico.

Early career

Kirsty MacColl was the daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl and dancer Jean Newlove. She and her brother, Hamish MacColl, grew up with their mother in Croydon, where Kirsty attended Park Hill Primary School, Monks Hill High School and John Newnham High School, making appearances in school plays. At the time of her birth, her father had been in a relationship with folk singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Peggy Seeger since 1956 (a relationship that would continue until his death in 1989), and already had a son with her.

She came to notice when Chiswick Records released an EP by local punk rock band the Drug Addix with MacColl on backing vocals under the pseudonym Mandy Doubt (1978). Stiff Records executives were not impressed with the band, but liked her and subsequently signed her to a solo deal.

  

Debut single

Her debut solo single "They Don't Know", released in 1979, peaked at number two on the Music Week airplay chart. However, a distributors' strike prevented copies of the single getting into record stores, and the single consequently failed to appear on the UK Singles Chart.

MacColl recorded a follow-up single, "You Caught Me Out", but felt she lacked Stiff's full backing, and left the label shortly before the song was to be released. The single was pulled, and only a few "white label" promo copies of the single are known to exist.

MacColl moved to Polydor Records in 1981. She had a UK number 14 hit with "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis", taken from her critically acclaimed debut album Desperate Character. In 1983, Polydor dropped her just as she had completed recording the songs for a planned second album (to be called Real) which used more synthesizers and had new wave-styled tracks. She returned to Stiff, where pop singles such as "Terry" and "He's On the Beach" were unsuccessful but a cover of Billy Bragg's "A New England" in 1985 got to number 7 in the UK charts. This included two extra verses specially written for her by Bragg. Also around this time, MacColl wrote and performed the theme song "London Girls" for Channel 4's short-lived sitcom Dream Stuffing (1984).

In the United States, MacColl was probably most recognisable as the writer of "They Don't Know". Tracey Ullman's version, reached #2 in the UK in 1983 and #8 in the United States in early 1984; Ullman's video for the song featured a cameo by Paul McCartney near the end. MacColl also sang back-up on the track, providing the "Baay-byy" as the range was too high for Ullman to reach. It was also played over the closing credits of Ullman's HBO show Tracey Takes On... in 1996. Ullman also recorded three more of MacColl's songs, "You Broke My Heart In 17 Places" and "You Caught Me Out", as the title tracks of her first and second albums respectively, and "Terry" which was released as a single in 1985.

Chart re-emergence

When Stiff went bankrupt in 1986, MacColl was left unable to record in her own right, as no record company bought her contract from the Official Receiver. However, she had regular session work as a backing vocalist, and she frequently sang on records produced or engineered by her husband, Steve Lillywhite, including tracks for Robert Plant, The Smiths, Alison Moyet, Shriekback, Simple Minds, Talking Heads, Big Country, Anni-Frid Lyngstad (of ABBA), and The Wonder Stuff among others. She appeared in the videos "Welcome to the Cheap Seats" for The Wonder Stuff and "(Nothing But) Flowers" for Talking Heads (along with ex-The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr).

MacColl re-emerged in the British charts in December 1987, reaching Number 2 with The Pogues on "Fairytale of New York", a duet with Shane MacGowan. This led to her accompanying The Pogues on their British and European tour in 1988, an experience which she said helped her temporarily overcome her stage fright. In March 1989, MacColl sang backing vocals on the Happy Mondays' Hallelujah EP.

After the contract issue was resolved, MacColl returned to recording as a solo artist and received critical acclaim upon the release of Kite (LP) in 1989. The album was widely praised by critics, and featured collaborations with David Gilmour and Johnny Marr. MacColl's lyrics addressed life in Margaret Thatcher's Britain on "Free World", ridiculed the vapidity of fame in "Fifteen Minutes", and addressed the vagaries of love in "Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim!" Although Kite contained many original compositions, MacColl's biggest chart success from the album was the cover of The Kinks' song "Days", which gave her a UK Top 20 hit in July 1989. A bonus track on the CD version of Kite was a cover of the Smiths song "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby".

During this time, MacColl was also featured on the British sketch comedy French and Saunders, appearing as herself, singing songs including "15 Minutes" and "Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sunny Jim!" (from Kite), "Still Life" (the B-side of the "Days" single), "Girls On Bikes" (a reworking of B-side "Am I Right?") and, with comedy duo Raw Sex, the Frank and Nancy Sinatra hit "Somethin' Stupid". She continued to write and record, releasing the album Electric Landlady (coined by Johnny Marr, a play on the Jimi Hendrix album title Electric Ladyland), including her most successful chart hit in North America, "Walking Down Madison" (co-written with Marr and a Top 30 hit in the UK), in 1991. Despite the song's U.S. chart success, Landlady was not a hit for Virgin Records, and in 1992, when Virgin was sold to EMI, MacColl was dropped from the label.

Later work

She released Titanic Days, informed by her failing marriage with Lillywhite, in 1993, but ZTT Records had agreed only to release the album as a "one-off" and declined to sign her to a contract. In 1995, she released two new singles on Virgin, "Caroline" and a cover of Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" (a duet with Evan Dando), together with the "best of" compilation Galore.

Galore became MacColl's only album to reach the top 10 in the UK Albums Chart, but neither of the new singles, nor a re-released "Days", made the Top 40. MacColl did not record again for several years; her frustration with the music business was exacerbated by a lengthy case of writer's block. MacColl herself admitted that she was ready to give up her music career and become an English teacher in South America.

In 1998, the album What Do Pretty Girls Do? was released, containing BBC Radio 1 live sessions (featuring Billy Bragg on two songs) that were broadcast between 1989 and 1995.

After several trips to Cuba and Brazil, MacColl recorded the world music-inspired (particularly Cuban and other Latin American forms) Tropical Brainstorm, which was released in 2000 to critical acclaim. It included the song "In These Shoes?", which garnered airplay in the U.S., was covered by Bette Midler and featured in the HBO show Sex and the City. After MacColl's death it was adopted by Catherine Tate as the theme tune for her BBC TV show and featured on the soundtrack to British film Kinky Boots.

TV work

MacColl featured regularly in the third series of the French and Saunders Show, a comedy show on the BBC. Unlike other guests on the show, she was not part of any of the sketches but sang her songs whilst performing as in a music video. She also made regular appearances on Jools Holland's TV shows, also on the BBC, singing during the 1995 Hootenanny a rendition of "Miss Otis Regrets" with the Pipes and Drums of the Irish Guards.

MacColl appeared in the 1991 Channel 4 historic musical fantasy The Ghosts of Oxford Street as Kitty Fisher, performing "Fairytale of New York" opposite Shane MacGowan as the Duke of York.

Death

In 2000, following her participation in the presentation of a radio programme for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Cuba, MacColl took a holiday in Cozumel, Mexico, with her sons and her partner, musician James Knight. On 18 December 2000 she and her sons went diving at the Chankanaab reef, part of the National Marine Park of Cozumel, in a designated diving area that watercraft were restricted from entering. With the group was a local veteran divemaster, Iván Díaz. As the group were surfacing from a dive a powerboat moving at high speed entered the restricted area. MacColl saw the boat coming before her sons did; Louis (then 13) was not in its path, but Jamie (then 15) was, she was able to push him out of the way (he sustained minor head and rib injuries) but in doing so she was struck by the boat and died instantly. MacColl's body was repatriated back across the Atlantic Ocean to the United Kingdom, and was cremated after a humanist funeral at Mortlake Crematorium in South-West London.

The powerboat involved in the collision was controlled by Guillermo González Nova, multimillionaire president of the Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain, who was on board with members of his family. The boat was owned by Carlos González Nova, brother and founder of the chain. One employee of Guillermo González Nova, boathand José Cen Yam, stated that he was in control of the boat at the time of the incident. Eyewitnesses said that Cen Yam was not at the controls and that the boat was travelling much faster than the speed of one knot that González Nova said.

Cen Yam was found guilty of culpable homicide and was sentenced to 2 years 10 months in prison. He was allowed under Mexican law to pay a punitive fine of 1,034 pesos (about €63, £61 or US$90) in lieu of the prison sentence. He was also ordered to pay approximately US$2,150 in restitution to MacColl's family, an amount based on his wages. People who said they spoke to Cen Yam after the killing said he received money for taking the blame.

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Keith Richards celebra hoje oitenta e um anos

 

Keith Richards (Dartford, 18 de dezembro de 1943) é um músico, compositor e ator britânico, considerado um dos grandes nomes do rock do século XX, Richards é mais conhecido como integrante e fundador dos The Rolling Stones. Foi considerado o terceiro melhor guitarrista do mundo pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

                

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Chas Chandler, primeiro baixista dos The Animals, nasceu há 86 anos...

       

Bryan James "Chas" Chandler (Heaton, 18 December 1938 – Newcastle upon Tyne,  17 July 1996) was an English musician, record producer and manager, best known as the original bassist in The Animals. He also managed the band Slade and Jimi Hendrix, about whom he was regularly interviewed until his death in 1996.

     

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Chandler died of an aortic aneurysm at Newcastle General Hospital on 17 July 1996, days after performing a solo show. Chandler's former home at 35 Second Avenue, Heaton, hosts a blue plaque placed on the wall by Newcastle City Council, which reads: "Chas Chandler 1938–1996. Founder member of the 'Animals'. Manager of Jimi Hendrix & Slade. Co-founder of Newcastle Arena. Lived in this house 1938–1964."

Chandler had one son, Steffan, from his first marriage. He later married Madeleine Stringer, with whom he had a son, Alex, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Katherine.

     

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