Bonnie Raitt was raised a Quaker and spent eight childhood summers attending a Quaker camp in New York State. "It changed my life," she told Billboard magazine. "It's where I got a lot of my humanism,...
In 2004 she founded, Bonaparte's Retreat a no-kill dog rescue that takes in adoptable dogs at risk of being euthanized at Nashville's animal shelters. Named for one of Harris' own dogs who died in 2002,...
Seen here Patti Smith reacts after being named by French culture minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres a Commander of Arts and Letters during the Solidays music festival at the Longchamp racecourse in 2005
In 1985, after the success of her first charted album “I’m In Love Again,” LaBelle changed her image, and began dressing flamboyantly in an effort to carve out an original persona. Here,...
Her career started during World War II while she worked as a radio entertainer on BBC Radio. She also worked with Anthony Newley on the film Vice Versa.
The bad “Chicago” got a regular gig at the Los Angeles club Whisky a Go Go, where in 1968 they played on Sunday and Monday nights. This is where Jimi Hendrix found them; he brought them on...
They were named after a fire engine. The name "REO Speedwagon" refers to Ransom Eli Olds, the founder of Oldsmobile. He also owned the The REO Motor Truck Company, which made a model in 1915 called the...
Eddie Van Halen the legendary rock guitarist and founder of Van Halen appeared in the TV series Two and a Half Men season 7 in 2009.658PAGESEddie has a brief cameo at the end. Here in the picture,...
Billy Idol was the first musician to include an email address in the liner notes for an album.Idol was technologically fore thinking, recording his 1993 album Cyberpunk on an Apple Macintosh...
After some mean kids knocked his books out of his hands one day, as teen on his way to a piano lesson, Billy decided to add boxing lessons to his schedule and went on to win some Golden Gloves amateur...
Lionel Richie seriously considered studying divinity to become a priest with the Episcopal Church, but ultimately decided he was not “priest material” and decided to continue his musical career.
Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” became the first rock and roll song to win a Grammy Award for Record of the Year and hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Poco was part of the first wave West Coast country rock band genre, since their beginning in 1968. The lineup has changed over the years, but Poco has been around and making music now for 49 years.
British instrumental group 'The Shadows' in London, they were also Cliff Richard's backing band from 1958 to 1968. They had hit singles such as "Apache" and "Riders in the Sky" in the 60's.
Trisha Yearwood wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing," Yearwood said once. "I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair and I wanted to weigh five pounds." Later,...
Tanya Tucker had a passion for acting as well. She was the lead in the made-for-TV flick Follow That Car (1980) and co-starred in the 1981 film Hard Country, which featured Jan-Michael Vincent,...
The next Colonel Sanders is giving the character a little bit of “country music flair.” KFC has picked singer Reba McEntire to play the founder of the fried chicken chain, the first female...