In 2002, Larry King sat down with the Bee Gees to talk about how they came up their music for "Saturday Night Fever."
Within hours of the announcement that Levon Helm was in the final stages of cancer, fans flooded his Facebook page with messages of support and fond recollections of the drummer and backbone of The Band.
Levon Helm, drummer and backbone of The Band, is in the final stages of cancer, his family said Tuesday.
Walking into Cleveland, Ohio's Public Auditorium for the 27th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony last night, it was hard to not think of the Titanic striking an iceberg on the very same day 100 years ago.
For classic rocker Tom Petty the waiting is the hardest part after five guitars were stolen from a soundstage where the Heartbreakers were rehearsing for their upcoming U.S. tour.
Axl Rose sent a "Thanks, but no thanks" letter to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for its induction of Guns N' Roses in Cleveland next weekend.
Axl Rose sent a "thanks, but no thanks" letter to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for its induction of Guns N' Roses.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will make up for past oversights at this year's induction ceremony by admitting the backing groups of six first-generation rock stars.
ABBA have announced plans to reissue their final album, "The Visitors," with a previously unreleased song on April 23.
Legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin is engaged to her "longtime friend and confidant," William 'Willie' Wilkerson, Franklin's spokeswoman said in a statement.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Wednesday named its latest inductees, adding talent such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and 1960s singer-songwriter Donovan.
Some legendary names in music and art are voicing their support for the Occupy movement, with a music compilation record called "Occupy This Album," the album producers say.
The Boss is back, and "things are starting to heat up down on E Street," the band said on its website.
"Good news coming from sunny LA," says the singer, who'll tie the knot with Katie McNeil
Neil Diamond has found his muse, and she happens to be his manager.
Songwriter and record producer Jerry Leiber, who penned hits for Elvis Presley, Ben E. King and the Coasters, died in a Los Angeles hospital Monday. He was 78.
Hells Bells! What are classic rockers AC/DC up to now?
Four people were shot, one of them fatally, after a young man pulled a gun during a fight in Cleveland and began firing into a crowd after a festival, police said.
The infamous meat dress Lady Gaga was grilled for wearing at the MTV Video Music Awards last year will be unveiled Thursday as the main course in a sizzling new display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
For the first time, Gaga speaks about her controversial "Idol" performance and has a blunt message for her critics.
The rockers will join Darlene Love, Dr. John and Tom Waits in 2011's class
Soul singer Solomon Burke has died at the age of 70 in the Netherlands, his Dutch representative said Sunday.
Leonard Skinner, the gym teacher who inspired the name of the legendary southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died.
Music has the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Visual arts have the Met, Louvre and Guggenheim. Radio and TV have the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
Marvin Isley, youngest member of the soulful Isley Brothers R&B group, has died from complications with diabetes, hospital officials said Monday. He was 56.
Iggy Pop, the Godfather of Punk, has crashed the flower-power party.
Iggy Pop reflects on his long and tumultuous career and the reissue of "Raw Power."
Music superstars gab backstage about this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday welcomed its newest inductees:Jimmy Cliff, ABBA, Genesis, The Hollies and the Stooges.
Pop supergroup ABBA will join icons of the '60s and '70s -- Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, the Hollies and the Stooges -- as they are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year, the Hall announced Tuesday.
And who does the Wolverine hunk want to follow him? He tells PEOPLE!
Two weeks after a Virginia Tech student vanished from their concert, the band is keeping positive
The Boss thrills fans in New York City just days after his longtime road manager is found dead
The groups, along with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and LL Cool J, are tapped as possible inductees
Thanking the "angel on my shoulder," the 61-year-old rocker expresses relief at surviving a nasty fall from stage
Motown founder Berry Gordy says he was 'numbed and shocked' at the passing of Michael Jackson.
Following is a sampling of reactions from Michael Jackson's friends and admirers to his death:
Ventures lead guitarist Bob Bogle, whose fretwork on such instrumental hits such as "Walk -- Don't Run" and "Hawaii Five-O" influenced countless bands, died Sunday in Vancouver, Washington.
In compiling a new George Harrison greatest-hits collection, the idea was to focus on the flow, his widow, Olivia, told CNNRadio Monday.
Steven Van Zandt did not mince words.
The souvenir booth at the 2009 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival said it all.
Flea will honor the hard-rocking band at Saturday's ceremony in Cleveland
Ron Asheton, the guitarist for the influential punk rock band The Stooges, was found dead this morning, police tell the Detroit Free Press.
Monstrosities, eyesores, nightmares of architecture -- call them what you like, ugly buildings are sadly all around us.
Metallica goes back to basics on their 9th CD, "Death Magnetic." Denise Quan went behind-the-scenes on their new video.
How's this for a twist: Of all the No. 1 songs in the 50 years of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Chubby Checker's The Twist ranks as the most popular single
VIDEO: The influential musician helped the blues evolve into rock 'n' roll
Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll and an inspiration for legions of musicians, died Monday at the age of 79
Showbiz editor Sam Mann joins CNN to discuss Madonna's 11th studio album "Hard Candy."
She's a musician, a poet and she draws and takes photos, too. A new exhibit in France displays the lesser known artistic side of the punk rock priestess.
She is arguably the most influential female recording artist of all time. With hits spanning over three decades and her recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Madonna has had a staggeringly successful music career.
Eugene Hutz, the lead singer of wildly popular New York gipsy punk band Gogol Bordello plays at the Berlinale Film Festival.
The pop superstars team up for the premiere of her new single "Four Minutes"
Inducting her into Rock Hall, Timberlake tells of the day she played doctor
Madonna is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. CNN's Lola Ogunnaike says some aren't happy about it.
Mike Smith, the lead singer of The Dave Clark Five, has died at age 64.
Justin Timberlake and Madonna have a date next month – at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, organizers of the event have announced.
Her acting has taken a critical beating, but it'll take more than that to dampen Madonna's big-screen blonde ambitions.
Heartland rocker John Mellencamp has a special message to Republican front-runner John McCain this Super Tuesday: Stop playing my songs!
Music legend Ike Turner died of a cocaine overdose, the San Diego medical examiner’s office confirmed Wednesday.
Madonna will be inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it was announced Thursday.
Madonna and the Beastie Boys are among those up for consideration for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Bo Diddley was in stable condition at a Florida hospital after suffering a heart attack, his publicist said Tuesday.
Legs McNeil remembers the night back in 1975 when he walked into the dingy storefront club perched in the even dingier Bowery neighborhood. The band onstage, four guys in leather jackets and torn jeans, was the Ramones. McNeil sat at a nearby table, watching their set with Lou Reed.
Singer Gene Pitney has died in the middle of his UK tour, his agent said.
Those gruesome news reports from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony the other night remind me of a conclusion I came to a few years back. Rock and roll is dead. Rest in peace.
Former Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten has nothing but disdain for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is why he won't be attending Monday's induction ceremony.
Rocker Neil Young was treated for a "dangerous brain aneurysm" this week but is expected to make a full recovery, his agent said Friday.
Fortune: Work really rocksupdated: Mon Nov 01 2004 00:01:00
For most corporate citizens, leather vests and press-on tattoos aren't exactly wardrobe staples, but at the Fourth Annual FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands--held in October at the Rock and Roll...
Fortune: Band Campupdated: Mon Nov 10 2003 00:01:00
It's the school of rock for grownups! At FORTUNE's battle of the corporate bands held Oct. 18 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, bands from Oklahoma to Minnesota to California showed t...
Fortune: The Playlistupdated: Mon Jul 21 2003 00:01:00
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Do corporate rock & roll bands reflect the inner soul of a company? I would argue yes. Fortunately I had the perfect proving ground to confirm this hypothesis: FORTUNE's second annual Battle of the...
Every college has a student who turns out to be the self-anointed music authority, and at my school that student was me. I was the college newspaper's rock columnist, I managed the on-campus record...
Okay, so this Rustbelt city isn't Nashville or Woodstock or even Motown. Elvis first rolled his pelvis thousands of miles away, and about the best-known band to spring up hereabouts was the nerdy i...
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