Daily entertainment news covering The Byrds en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/07/13/celebrity_birthdays_july_118 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 126337@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to Italian DJ Benny Benassi (1967), R&B singer Gerald Levert (1966), bluegrass singer Rhonda Vincent (1962), film director Cameron Crowe (1957), South African musician Johnny Clegg (1953),

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/07/13/celebrity_birthdays_july_75 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 86785@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to Italian DJ Benny Benassi (1967), R&B singer Gerald Levert (1966), bluegrass singer Rhonda Vincent (1962), film director Cameron Crowe (1957), South African musician Johnny Clegg (1953),

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/10/12/hard_core_country_veteran_merle_haggard_ Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:18:52 EST Entertainment News 63606@http://www.starpulse.com/news NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Appalachian music might seem a strange fit for a guy so closely linked to the hard electric twang of country's Bakersfield Sound, but don't tell that to Merle Haggard.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/07/13/celebrity_birthdays_july_45 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 46656@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to Italian DJ Benny Benassi (1967), R&B singer Gerald Levert (1966), bluegrass singer Rhonda Vincent (1962), film director Cameron Crowe (1957), South African musician Johnny Clegg (1953), Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard (1951), "Nash Bridges" actor Cheech Marin (1946), The Byrds singer Roger McGuinn (1942), "Indiana Jones" star Harrison Ford (1942), "Jackie Brown" actor Robert Forster (1941), soul singer Bobby Freeman (1940), "X-Men 3" actor Patrick Stewart (1940), "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane (1928; d. 1978), and actor Ben Johnson (1918; d. 1996).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/13/bryan_ferry_to_release_entire_album_of_b Sun, 13 May 2007 11:00:00 EST Entertainment News 41764@http://www.starpulse.com/news There is a racing, joyous intensity to Bryan Ferry's interpretations of the songs of Bob Dylan. Just as his legendary version of 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall', recorded back in 1973, exchanged apocalyptic vision for exuberant swagger, so at the heart of these new recordings lies Ferry's brilliance in both paying homage to the original track, and reinventing it as entirely and iconically his own.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/07/so_real_songs_from_jeff_buckley_is_the_f Mon, 07 May 2007 18:00:00 EST Entertainment News 41275@http://www.starpulse.com/news One of rock's hardest lessons is that the impact of an artist's career is often not measured by the time he spends among us, but rather by the intensity with which his music reverberates after he is gone.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/03/20/leonard_cohen_s_40th_anniversary_as_a_co_2007 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:37:07 EST Entertainment News 34573@http://www.starpulse.com/news "Cohen, who was born in Montreal in 1934, was 33 years old when Songs of Leonard Cohen came out, old enough to embrace the creative momentum of the '60s counterculture without falling prey to its more naïve aspects.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/09/12/carbon_leaf_s_latest_album_love_loss_hop Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:32:21 EST Entertainment News 15706@http://www.starpulse.com/news Carbon Leaf's Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat, the long-awaited follow-up to their 2004 label debut, Indian Summer, and seventh album, is set for release Sept. 12th. The album was recorded in Nashville with producer Peter Collins (Bon Jovi, Jewel, Lisa Loeb, Queensryche).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/08/25/prolific_modern_jazz_guitarist_lee_riten Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:12:24 EST Entertainment News 14157@http://www.starpulse.com/news True to its intriguing and provocative title, Lee Ritenour's latest CD Smoke N' Mirrors takes listeners on a magical, multi-faceted global journey unlike any other in the legendary guitarist's three decade, nearly 40 album career. Inspired by his very first trip to South Africa in 2005, where he performed five hugely successful concerts at festivals in Johannesburg and Capetown, with Smoke N' Mirrors,

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/08/01/we_are_the_80s_series_celebrates_the_hit Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:24:30 EST Entertainment News 11743@http://www.starpulse.com/news A quarter century after the premiere of MTV at 12:01 a.m., on August 1, 1981, the cataclysmic changes brought about by the first decade of the video revolution are continuing to be seen and heard in the music of today's twenty-somethings' artists. Celebrating Bangles, Loverboy, Eddie Money, and Scandal (all on Columbia/ Legacy), Bow Wow Wow and Rick Springfield (on RCA/Legacy), and A Flock Of Seagulls (on Jive/Legacy), the first seven We Are The '80s collections arrived in stores on July 18.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/07/13/celebrity_birthdays_july_14 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:00:47 EST Entertainment News 8688@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to Italian DJ Benny Benassi (1967), R&B singer Gerald Levert (1966), bluegrass singer Rhonda Vincent (1962), film director Cameron Crowe (1957), South African musician Johnny Clegg (1953), Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard (1951), "Nash Bridges" actor Cheech Marin (1946), The Byrds singer Roger McGuinn (1942), "Indiana Jones" star Harrison Ford (1942), "Jackie Brown" actor Robert Forster (1941), soul singer Bobby Freeman (1940), "X-Men 3" actor Patrick Stewart (1940), "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane (1928; d. 1978), and actor Ben Johnson (1918; d. 1996).

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/05/18/new_book_about_rock_and_roll_s_legendary_25 Thu, 18 May 2006 23:00:29 EST Entertainment News 7119@http://www.starpulse.com/news Director Cameron Crowe says Michael Walker's "Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-And-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood" is "hilarious and true and bittersweet." In the late sixties, musicians like Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Carole King, Frank Zappa, the Eagles, and the Mamas and the Papas came together for the first time to meld folk, rock, and American pop into something completely new,

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/02/21/starsky_and_hutch_s_david_soul_releases_ Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:05:30 EST Entertainment News 3470@http://www.starpulse.com/news Starsky And Hutch star David Soul is recording a new music album - almost 30 years since he last topped the charts. The 62-year-old actor, who has garnered critical acclaim for his performance in stage musicals in London's West End, promises to stay true to his roots.

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