Wilko Johnson, an English rock guitarist who played for the band Dr. Feelgood and influenced a generation of rockers, died this week at 75. Johnson died at his home in England on Monday, according to […]
Anti-conformist French film-maker Jean-Marie Straub died peacefully at his home in Switzerland on Sunday, the Swiss National Film Archive announced. He was 89. Straub was a peer of many greats from the French New Wave […]
Kymberly Herrin, who played the seductive “Dream Ghost” in the original Ghostbusters movie and starred in the music video for the ZZ Top hit “Legs,” has died at age 65. The actress and onetime Playboy […]
Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s hit sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died at his home in Beverly […]
R&B musician, B. Smyth, real name Brandon Smith, passed away on Thursday at the age of 28 following a lengthy battle with pulmonary fibrosis. B. Smyth’s death was confirmed by his older brother Denzil. 1 […]
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who famously inspired Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film The Terminal, died inside the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport, CNN reports. The Iranian refugee, who lived in the French airport from 1988 until he was hospitalized […]
Former UFC light heavyweight contender Anthony “Rumble” Johnson has passed away at the young age of 38. According to MMA journalist Ariel Helwani Johnson died on Sunday after “battling an illness” for quite some time […]
HOLLYWOOD Hillbillies star Delores Hughes has passed away at the age of 76. The reality star died of heart failure at a hospital in Grayson, Georgia last Wednesday, TMZ reported. 1 Dolores Hughes who starred […]
Nik Turner, the co-founder of the British space-rock band Hawkwind, has died aged 82. A statement on the saxophonist’s Facebook page said: “We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Nik Turner – the […]
Gallagher, the uninhibited prop comic best known for pulverizing watermelons — and assorted other food stuff — with a sledgehammer he called a Sledge-O-Matic, has died. He was 76. The comedian, whose first name was […]
ICONIC actor Kevin Conroy, who was best known as the voice behind the animated version of DC Comics vigilante Batman, has died at the age of 66. Conroy died on Thursday actress Diane Pershing – […]
Tyrone Downie, the Jamaica-born keyboardist for Bob Marley and the Wailers, died Saturday. He was 66. His partner, Bernadine Simpson, told Jamaican outlet The Gleaner that Downie “was feeling ill” on Saturday evening. He died […]
Gal Costa, the iconic Tropicália and música popular brasileira vocalist, has died, The Associated Press reports. A cause of death was not revealed, but the singer was recently forced to cancel a performance at Primavera […]
Gal Costa, an adventurous musician who was a pivotal figure in Brazil’s Tropicália movement in the 1960s, has died. She was 77. Costa, born Maria da Graça Penna Burgos, died Wednesday, according to the Associated […]
ICONIC Brazilian pop singer Gal Costa has died at 77 just days after canceling her Primavera Sound appearance due to surgery. Costa, who transcended Brazil‘s Tropicalia movement in the 1960s, died on Wednesday, her public […]
Guitarist Jeff Cook, who co-founded the successful country group Alabama and steered it up the charts with such hits as “Song of the South” and “Dixieland Delight,” has died at 73. Cook had Parkinson’s disease […]
Leslie Phillips, the screen veteran best known for his roles in the Carry On franchise and the voice of the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter, has died at the age of 98. The actor’s passing was confirmed by […]
Mimi Parker, drummer, vocalist and songwriter for the Minnesota indie band Low, has died, her husband and bandmate Alan Sparhawk has said. Parker was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December 2020. She was 55 years […]
Low drummer/vocalist Mimi Parker passed away on Saturday (November 5th) following a battle with ovarian cancer. In a statement posted to social media on Sunday, Parker’s husband and musical collaborator, Alan Sparhawk, announced his wife’s […]
Julie Powell, the food blogger best known for her cooking memoir, Julie & Julia, which inspired a film starring Meryl Streep, has died at the age of 49. Her husband, Eric Powell, confirmed to the […]