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Michael Lang, the concert impresario who helped conceive the landmark, generation-defining 1969 music festival Woodstock, died Saturday night at Sloan Kettering hospital in New York. He was 77. Michael Pagnotta, a rep for Lang and longtime family friend, confirmed the promoter’s death to Rolling Stone,adding that the cause was a …

“You know, being together every week is getting to be a very, very nice habit. I hope you’ll keep it up, will ya?” https://youtu.be/gjkIo4WTMBo?t=1483 This was Betty White‘s line at the end of each episode of her very first sitcom, Life with Elizabeth, in which she and Del Moore played …

Jean-Marc Vallée, the director of the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club and HBO hit show Big Little Lies, died Sunday at his home in Quebec City, Canada at the age of 58. Vallée’s publicist, Bumble Ward, confirmed the news to CNN, though a cause of death was not immediately available. “He …

Ronnie Wilson, co-founding member and multi-instrumentalist for the legendary R&B and funk group the Gap Band, has died at the age of 73. Wilson’s wife Linda Boulware-Wilson confirmed her husband’s death on Tuesday on social media, “The love of my life was called home this morning, at 10:01 a.m. Please …

Eric Carle, revered by generations reared on his children’s books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died. He was 91. He died on Sunday at his summer studio in Northampton, Massachusetts from kidney failure, as The New York Times reports. Carle wrote and illustrated more than 70 children’s books over …

Prince Markie Dee, a member of the pioneering hip-hop group the Fat Boys, died on Thursday, the group’s manager, Louis Gregory confirmed. He was 52. No cause of death has been given. “Forever in my Heart. Prince Markie Dee was more than a rapper; he was one of my very …

Jim Weatherly, the country singer-songwriter who penned the Gladys Knight and the Pips hit “Midnight Train to Georgia,” among other hit songs, died Wednesday at his home. He was 77. Music publisher and family friend Charlie Monk, “the Mayor of Music Row,” confirmed Weatherly’s death to the Tennessean. No cause …

Leslie West, the towering guitarist who created the hard-rock milestone “Mississippi Queen” with his band Mountain, died Wednesday morning. West’s brother, Larry West Weinstein, confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone. He was 75. The cause of death was cardiac arrest. On Monday, West was rushed to a hospital after …

Johnny Bush, the Texas country-music veteran who co-wrote Willie Nelson‘s signature opening number “Whiskey River,” has died at 85. Bush’s manager confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone. Born in Houston in 1935 as John Bush Shinn III, Bush received his big break from Nelson, who helped him land a …

W.S. “Fluke” Holland, longtime drummer for Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins and the original drummer in Cash’s famed Tennessee Three backing band, died Wednesday at the age of 85. Dubbed the “Father of the Drums” by Cash, Holland died at his home in Jackson, Tennessee, following a short illness, the …