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Bachman-Turner Overdrive “BTO” Drummer Robbie Bachman, Dead at 69

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2 years ago

2023-01-14

Bachman-Turner Overdrive "BTO" Drummer Robbie Bachman, Dead at 69

Robbie Bachman, the drummer for the Canadian hard rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive “BTO”, known for 1970s hits like “Takin’ Care of Business” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” died at the age of 69.

Randy Bachman, his brother and band-mate, announced his death on social media on Thursday, without elaborating on the cause.

“BTO’s pounding beat has left us,” Randy Bachman wrote. “He was a vital cog in our rock ‘n’ roll machine, and together we rocked the world.”

The Bachman brothers were Winnipeg natives who had grown up playing music.

Robbie Bachman first collaborated with his older brother Randy, a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, in the band Brave Belt, which the elder Bachman helped found in the early 1970s after leaving the chart-topping Guess Who.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive was formed in 1973 by the two Bachman’s, brother Tim Bachman on guitar (later replaced by Blair Thornton), and Fred Turner on bass, and sold millions of records over the next three years with their blend of grinding guitar riffs and catchy melodies. “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” was the band’s biggest hit, and it was followed by “Takin’ Care of Business,” “Hey You,” and “Roll On Down the Highway.”

Stephen King, a well-known fan, adopted the pen name “Richard Bachman” as a partial homage to BTO.

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Randy Bachman left the band in the mid-1970s, giving the remaining members permission to use the name BTO (But not Bachman-Turner Overdrive so as to distance himself from the band).

Robbie Bachman and the others continued to tour and record as BTO, but their popularity waned and they disbanded in 1980.

Over the next few decades, the band had sporadic reunions and legal squabbles as Randy Bachman and Robbie Bachman fought over royalties and the band’s name. After the early 1990s, the brothers rarely performed together, with Robbie Bachman telling The Associated Press that Randy had “belittled” the other band members and compared them to the fictional parody group Spinal Tap.

Robbie Bachman had been semi-retired in recent years. In 2014, Bachman-Turner Overdrive was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley's Only Child Dead at 54

Death of Lisa Marie Presley

Bachman’s death comes a day after the death of Lisa Marie Presley. She died Thursday, hours after being hospitalized for a heart attack. She will be buried at Graceland, Elvis Presley’s famed home, which became a gathering place for fans distraught over her death a day earlier on Friday.

According to a representative for her daughter and actor Riley Keough, the singer-final songwriter’s resting place will be next to her son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020. Elvis and other Presley family members are also buried at Graceland.

Fans paid their respects at Graceland’s gates on Friday, writing messages on the stone wall, leaving flowers, and sharing memories of Elvis Presley’s only child, who was one of the last remaining touchstones to the icon whose influence and significance continue to resonate more than 45 years after his own unexpected death.

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Lisa Marie, a singer-songwriter herself, did not live in Memphis, where she was born. She did, however, visit the city for her father’s birth anniversary and commemorations of his death, which stunned the world when he was discovered dead in his Graceland home on Aug. 16, 1977, at the age of 42. She was just in Memphis on what would have been her father’s 88th birthday.

Angela Ferraro was among those who visited Graceland on Thursday night, when the trees in the front lawn were lit up in green and red lights. On a chilly and windy evening, fans took photos and left flowers at the front gate.

Ferraro and her fiance drove from Olive Branch, Mississippi, 25 minutes to pay their respects. Ferraro said she liked Elvis’ music as well as Lisa Marie’s — the couple listened to Lisa Marie’s song “Lights Out” on the way to Graceland.

“Elvis died young, and she died young. “And her son’s death was also tragic,” said Ferraro, 32. “It’s difficult and devastating.”

Lisa Marie became the sole heir of the Elvis Presley Trust, which managed Graceland and other assets alongside Elvis Presley Enterprises until she sold her majority stake in 2005. She kept ownership of the mansion, the 13 acres surrounding it, and the c

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Maná Removes Song With Nicky Jam In Protest Of His Support For Trump

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2 days ago

2024-09-17

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MEXICO CITY — Maná, a Mexican pop-rock band, has pulled a 2016 song featuring Nicky Jam after the Puerto Rican reggaeton artist declared support for Republican presidential contender Donald Trump.

“Maná does not work with racists,” the group stated in an Instagram post explaining why they removed “De pies a cabeza” from online platforms. The song is a remix of the 1992 original from Maná’s iconic album “¿Dónde jugarán los niños?”

“For the past 30 years, Maná has supported and defended the rights of Latinos around the world. “No business or promotion is more valuable than the dignity of our people,” the band stated on Instagram.

Maná Removes Song With Nicky Jam In Protest Of His Support For Trump

Jam, best known for songs like “Travesuras,” “Voy a Beber,” and the J Balvin collaboration “X,” endorsed Trump during a rally in Las Vegas last Friday. When presenting the artist, Trump appeared to mistake him for a woman: “Latin Music superstar Nicky Jam!” Do you know Nicky? She’s hot. “Where is Nicky?” he asked.

Despite the uncertainty, Jam expressed his excitement in seeing Trump, who has threatened to close the border and has employed harsh anti-immigrant language since his first presidential campaign.

For more than 20 years, Maná has advocated for migrants in the United States. When they received the Latin Recording Academy’s Person of the Year award in 2018, its vocalist Fher Olvera promised: “We will continue to fight for the rights of migrants who have made this country great; in the last century, they were the difference in this country being as great as it is.”

A spokeswoman for Jam did not immediately reply to The Associated Press’s request for comment. Maná’s publicist acknowledged the band’s statement but declined to comment further.

Maná Removes Song With Nicky Jam In Protest Of His Support For Trump

Maná, founded in Jalisco, Mexico, has won six Latin Grammys and four Grammys, making it one of Latin America’s most prominent bands. It also has a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.

In addition to Maná, a lengthy list of artists have demanded that their music not be connected with or utilized by Trump, including ABBA, The White Stripes, Celine Dion, Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, Phil Collins, Pharrell, R.E.M., and Guns N’ Roses.

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Jane’s Addiction Cancels Its tour After Onstage Concert Fracas

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3 days ago

2024-09-16

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Cancelled tour! The move comes after videos emerged of Farrell lunging at Navarro during a Friday concert in Boston, hitting him with his shoulder before swinging at the guitarist with his right arm. Navarro is seen extending his right arm to keep Farrell away before he is hauled away by others on stage. The show ended soon after, and the band apologised.

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Jane’s Addiction Cancels Its tour After Onstage Concert Fracas

The band is most known for the edgy, punk-inspired singles “Jane Says,” “Been Caught Stealing,” and “Just Because” from the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the alternative rock and grunge music movements were emerging. It had three Top 5 hits on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay list.

“Perry’s frustration had been mounting, night after night, he felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band,” Etty Lau Farrell, Farrell’s wife, wrote in an Instagram post Saturday morning.

She stated that her husband had tinnitus and a sore throat, and “by the end of the song, he wasn’t singing, he was screaming just to be heard.” She stated that her spouse later broke down “and cried and cried.”

The band’s “Imminent Redemption” tour, which featured opening act English rock band Love and Rockets, began in early August and was scheduled to end on October 16 at the YouTube Theatre in Los Angeles.

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Jane’s Addiction Cancels Its tour After Onstage Concert Fracas

The North American gigs were the first time the original Jane’s Addiction lineup — Farrell, Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins, and bassist Eric Avery — had performed together for a prolonged period of time since 2010.

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Foo Fighters Frontman Dave Grohl Fathers Baby Girl Out of Marriage

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2024-09-11

Geoff Thomas

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has announced he has become the father to a baby girl - Getty Images

Dave Grohl, the frontman of the Foo Fighters, has disclosed that he has become the father of a baby girl who was delivered outside of his marriage to his wife Jordyn Blum whom he married in 2003. Grohl has three daughters with Jordyn.

Dave Grohl expressed his intention to be a “loving and supportive parent” to his new daughter in an Instagram post.

According to USA Today, Blum and Dave Grohl made a rare public appearance in July at the Wimbledon Championships in London.

The family of five had a rare outing at last year’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles after Nirvana received special recognition from the Grammys for their creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording.

During the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Award ceremony in February 2023, Pat Smear, Krist Novoselic, and Dave Grohl were each given a lifetime achievement award.

In promotion of their 2023 album “But Here We Are,” the rockers’ Everything Or Nothing at All Tour came to a close last month.