Harold Eugene Clark (Tipton, Missouri, November 17, 1944 – Sherman Oaks, California, May 24, 1991) was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk rock band the Byrds. He was the Byrds' principal songwriter between 1964 and early 1966, writing most of the band's best-known originals from this period, including "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better", "She Don't Care About Time", "Eight Miles High" and "Set You Free This Time".
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Petty had many hit records. Hit singles with the Heartbreakers include "Don't Do Me Like That" (1979), "Refugee" (1980), "The Waiting" (1981), "Don't Come Around Here No More" (1985) and "Learning to Fly" (1991). Petty's solo hits include "I Won't Back Down" (1989), "Free Fallin'" (1989), and "You Don't Know How It Feels" (1994). Solo or with the Heartbreakers, he had hit albums from the 1970s through the 2010s and sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Petty was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in February 2017 for his contributions to music and for his philanthropy. He also had a minor acting career, most notably starring in a recurring role as the voice of Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt in the animated comedy series King of the Hill from 2004 to the show's end in 2009.
In 2017, Petty died of a cardiac arrest, at the age of 66, one week after the end of the Heartbreakers' 40th Anniversary Tour.
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Clyde Jackson Browne (Heidelberg, 9 de outubro de 1948) é um cantor e compositor norte-americano. O seu interesse político e as suas angústias pessoais têm sido o centro de sua carreira, resultando em canções populares como “Somebody’s Baby”, “These Days”, “The Pretender” e “Running On Empty”. Em 2004, Browne foi introduzido no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame pelo seu amigo Bruce Springsteen. No mesmo ano, Browne recebeu um doutoramento honoris causa em Música do Occidental College de Los Angeles por “uma notável carreira musical que combina com sucesso uma arte intensamente pessoal com uma visão mais ampla de mudança social e de justiça”.
Petty had many hit records. Hit singles with the Heartbreakers include "Don't Do Me Like That" (1979), "Refugee" (1980), "The Waiting" (1981), "Don't Come Around Here No More" (1985) and "Learning to Fly" (1991). Petty's solo hits include "I Won't Back Down" (1989), "Free Fallin'" (1989), and "You Don't Know How It Feels" (1994). Solo or with the Heartbreakers, he had hit albums from the 1970s through the 2010s and sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Petty was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year in February 2017 for his contributions to music and for his philanthropy. He also had a minor acting career, most notably starring in a recurring role as the voice of Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt in the animated comedy series King of the Hill from 2004 to the show's end in 2009.
In 2017, Petty died of a cardiac arrest, at the age of 66, one week after the end of the Heartbreakers' 40th Anniversary Tour.
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Danny co-fundou os Asking Alexandria com o guitarrista Ben Bruce em 2008. A banda já lançou seis álbuns de estúdio, dois EP, um álbum de remixes e uma curta-metragem. Ele já trabalhou com artistas como I See Stars, com One Last Breath, Memphis May Fire e Breathe Carolina, fornecendo vocais em diversas canções. Com o passar do tempo, Danny veio tendo mudanças no seu vocais limpos e guturais, tendo um vocal agressivo e profundo de metalcore no início de sua carreira, hoje tendo um alcance vocal drive alto e rouco, mais voltado para o hard rock.
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James William Buffett (Pascagoula, Mississippi, December 25, 1946 – Sag Harbor, New York, September 1, 2023) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. Buffett was known for his tropical rock sound and persona, which often portrayed a lifestyle described as "island escapism" and promoted enjoying life and following passions. Buffett recorded many hit songs known as "The Big 8": "Margaritaville" (1977), which is ranked 234th on the Recording Industry Association of America's list of "Songs of the Century"; "Come Monday" (1974); "Fins" (1979); "Volcano" (1979); "A Pirate Looks at Forty" (1974); "Cheeseburger in Paradise" (1978); "Why Don't We Get Drunk" (1973); and "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" (1977). His other popular songs include "Son of a Son of a Sailor" (1978), "One Particular Harbour" (1983), and "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" with Alan Jackson (2003). He formed the Coral Reefer Band in 1975.
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n May 2023, Buffett was hospitalized to "address some issues that needed immediate attention" and rescheduled tour dates. In late August, he entered hospice care and had a final meeting with family and friends. Buffett died on September 1, 2023, at age 76, at his home in Sag Harbor, New York, due to complications from Merkel-cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer, with which he had been diagnosed four years earlier. Prior to his death, he had kept his illness private and continued to tour while undergoing treatment.
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Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (San Francisco, 1 de agosto de 1942 - Forest Knolls, California, 9 de agosto de 1995) foi guitarrista, vocalista e letrista da lendária banda de rock psicadélico Grateful Dead. Foi considerado o 46º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.
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Jerry Garcia por vezes teve a saúde ameaçada por causa do seu peso instável, e, em 1986, entrou em coma diabético, que quase lhe custou a vida. Apesar da sua saúde ter melhorado após esses incidentes, ele também teve que lutar contra o vício do consumo de heroína e cocaína. Morreu em 1995 quando estava internado num centro de reabilitação para dependentes químicos na Califórnia, vítima de um ataque cardíaco. O seu corpo foi cremado e parte de suas cinzas espalhadas no Rio Ganges na Índia e a outra parte por baixo da Ponte Golden Gate, Califórnia no Estados Unidos. Desde então tornou-se uma figura muito respeitada na cultura musical americana.
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After the Eagles disbanded in 1980, Henley pursued a solo career and released his debut studio album I Can't Stand Still, in 1982. He has released five studio albums, two compilation albums, and one live DVD. His solo hits include "Dirty Laundry", "The Boys of Summer", "All She Wants to Do Is Dance", "Sunset Grill", "Not Enough Love in the World", "The End of the Innocence", "The Last Worthless Evening" and "The Heart of the Matter".
The Eagles have sold over 150 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy Awards, had five number one singles, 17 top 40 singles, and six number one albums. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and are the highest selling American band in history. As a solo artist, Henley has sold over 10 million albums worldwide, had eight top 40 singles, won two Grammy Awards and five MTV Video Music Awards. Combined with the Eagles and as a solo artist, Henley has released 25 top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. He has also released seven studio albums with the Eagles and five as a solo artist. In 2008, he was ranked as the 87th greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
Henley has also played a founding role in several environmental and political causes, most notably the Walden Woods Project. From 1994 to 2016, he divided his musical activities between the Eagles and his solo career.
Ronstadt lançou 24 álbuns de estúdio e 15 compilações ou álbuns de maiores sucessos. Ela alcançou 38 singles na Billboard Hot 100 dos Estados Unidos. Vinte e um desses singles chegaram ao top 40, dez chegaram ao top 10 e um alcançou o número um ("You're No Good"). O seu sucesso, entretanto, não se traduziu no Atlântico até ao Reino
Unido. Embora os duetos de Ronstadt, "Somewhere Out There" com James Ingram
e "Don't Know Much" com Aaron Neville, tenham chegado aos números 8 e 2
respetivamente em 1987 e 1989, o single "Blue Bayou" foi o seu único
single solo a alcançar o Top 40 do Reino Unido.
Ronstadt colaborou com artistas de diversos géneros, incluindo Bette Midler, Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Carla Bley (Escalator Over the Hill), Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Warren Zevon, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash, e Nelson Riddle. Ela emprestou a sua voz a mais de 120 álbuns e vendeu mais de 100 milhões de discos, tornando-a uma das artistas mais vendidas do mundo de todos os tempos.
Ronstadt reduziu a sua atividade depois de 2000 quando sentiu a sua voz a deteriorar-se, lançando o seu último álbum completo em 2004 e realizando o seu último show ao vivo em 2009. Ela anunciou a sua retirada em 2011 e revelou logo depois que não é mais capaz de cantar, como resultado de uma condição degenerativa, posteriormente referida como paralisia supranuclear progressiva. Desde então, Ronstadt continuou a fazer aparições públicas, indo numa série de turnês para falar em público nos anos 2010. Ela publicou uma autobiografia, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir, em setembro de 2013. Um documentário, baseado nas suas memórias, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, foi lançado em 2019.
Linda Ronstadt gravou mais de 40 álbuns, vendeu mais de 100 milhões, e colaborou com vários artistas, nomeadamente, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, The Eagles, James Taylor, Neil Young e Elvis Costello.
