Pin Itemailprint Nick Ashford, the songwriter who, along with wife Valerie Simpson, set the bar for R&B duets, died of throat cancer on Monday in New York at 69 years of age. Ashford & Simpson wrote and produced almost all of the 1960s-era hits for Motown’s Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, including “Ain’t No Mountain [...]
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Here are your famous & celebrity birthdays for today: Never miss a celebrity birthday again with the Celebrity Birthday Directory 1978 Audrey Tautou (actress) 1976 Jessica Capshaw (actress) 1970 Arion Salazar (singer) 1968 Eric Bana (actor) 1968 Gillian Anderson (actress) 1963 Whitney Houston (singer, actress, director) 1960 Aimee Mann (singer, guitarist) 1958 Amanda Berse (actress) [...]
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Oh sure, it may have looked like just another nut job storming the field in the top of the fifth inning during the third game of the ALCS looking for his 15 minutes of fame, but this story gets a whole lot creepier. Grim LeRogue ran onto the baseball field at Yankee Stadium on Monday [...]
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Here are your famous & celebrity birthdays for today: Check out these shocking Celebrity Secrets! 1970 Arion Salazar (singer) 1968 Gillian Anderson (actress) 1963 Whitney Houston (singer, actress, director) 1960 Aimee Mann (singer, guitarist) 1958 Amanda Berse (actress) 1957 Melanie Griffith (actress) 1944 Sam Elliott (actor) 1942 David Steinberg (comic writer, comedian) 1939 Billy Henderson [...]
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Things don’t seem to be improving any for Whitney Houston. Fans reportedly walked out of her show in Sydney on Wednesday night after her voice began to fail. The diva was previously under the microscope for putting on a humdrum show in Brisbane on Monday. Many say that she coughed her way through her set [...]
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There was a brief Whitney Houston wardrobe malfunction on the British show “The X Factor” on Sunday night. The diva was belting out “Million Dollar Bill” when one of the straps on her gown came loose. “I sang myself out of my clothes,” she said after her performance. This was a relatively minor wardrobe malfunction, [...]
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For the first time in 13 years, Pearl Jam has the #1 album in the USA. So far, the group’s ninth studio album “Backspacer” has sold 189,000 copies. It is also the fourth time they have held the #1 slot. The group’s previous effort, the self-titled “Pearl Jam”, debuted at number 2 but had sold [...]
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Whitney Houston wasn’t ready. The often-troubled diva had to cut short her much-anticipated comeback performance on Good Morning America on Tuesday after the singer lost her voice. Houston managed to get through only three songs from her new CD I Look to You before apologizing to the fans for not being able to sing. “I’m [...]
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