“Modern music begins with The Velvets, and the implications and influence of what they did seem to go on forever,” Lester ...

IN 1970, RIGHT AFTER THE BEATLES broke up, George Harrison released his sprawling masterpiece All Things Must Pass. It felt like an announcement that there is an undiscovered Beatle, and he has got a ...

Other covers included the song’s author Neil Sedaka, The Tubes, Tracy Huang, and Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter. Elvis Presley ... Blue” (1977) and “Promised Land” (1974).

Been to the promised land and found it empty ... George loves all the usual suspects: Elvis, Little Richard, and, crucially, Chuck Berry. It is not reductive to say that Berry’s catalogue ...

He agreed after being promised that his role would improve from ... In 1996, Entertainment Weekly ran a cover story about Kilmer titled “The Man Hollywood Loves to Hate.” ...

Val Kilmer died from pneumonia. He had recovered after a 2014 throat cancer diagnosis that required two tracheotomies.