Donna Summer dead at 63
5-time Grammy winner Donna Summer died Thursday after battling cancer.
The legendary disco singer had dominated the charts in the 70’s and 80’s with songs like “Bad Girls,” “Hot Stuff,” “Last Dance,” and “She Works Hard for the Money.”
She is survived by her husband, singer and producer Bruce Sudano, their daughters, Brooklyn and Amanda and Summer’s daughter, Mimi, from a previous marriage.
Her family released a statement Thursday saying Summer died and that they “are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continue legacy.”
Van Halen 2012 Tour
Van Halen recently released their first new album in fifteen years, Different Kind of Truth, with front man David Lee Roth.
Their initial single from the album “Tattoo” was met with mixed reviews:
“Crappy un-imaginative song, Crappy un-imaginative video………..This sucks! I really was hoping to like what I heard but I’m pretty let down that this is the best they could come up with. Van Halen 4?”
“it’s almost immediately forgettable regardless of a solid Eddie Van Halen guitar solo, but it’s otherwise bathroom-break material for the upcoming tour.”
When they released their new album fans started to change their tune. While the album continues to get some mixed reviews, it continues to gain ground. As of this week Different Kind of Truth is #2 on the Mainstream Rock charts, second to Black Keys.
Some of the positive feedback:
“After a couple of months since this album came out, I can’t believe how incredible it really is.”
“This album has truley (sic) come at a time in which “Rock and Roll” was really dead! As a singer in a band, trying to find modern rock n roll that could actually be sang live was almost impossible! The over processed music today is just…fake, uninspiring and talentless. “A Different Kind of Truth” is a roll down the window and turn it up kind of album.”
Putting aside all the reviews, you can judge for yourself as Van Halen kicks off their Van Halen 2012 Tour starting this month.
The original dates skipped Sacramento entirely, but they will be coming through on a later leg of their tour on August 25th at Power Balance Pavilion.
Be there – then decide.
It’ll be a trip seeing David Lee Roth bouncing around the stage regardless!
Randy Miramontez - Downtown Sacramento - Bay Area ConcertsBeastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch Dead at 47
Adam “MCA” Yauch, a member of the groundbreaking New York rap trio Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 47.
In 2009 Yauch had surgery for a cancer in a salivary gland and a lymph node. Information on the cause of Yauch’s death wasn’t immediately available.
Yauch’s death comes less than a month after the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Yauch was not in attendance due to his fight with cancer, but Adam “ad-Rock” Horowitz along with Michael “Mike D” Diamond read a letter from Yauch to the audience.
“I’d like to dedicate this to my brothers Adam and Mike,” Yauch wrote, according to Rolling Stone. “They walked the globe with me. It’s also for anyone who has ever been touched by our band. This induction is as much ours as it is yours.”
Yauch’s cancer delayed the release of their most recent album, “Hot Sauce Committee Part II,” for two years. It was supposed to come out in 2009, but instead was released in spring 2011.
The Beastie Boys’ debut album, 1986′s Licensed to Ill featuring the singles “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party),” “No Sleep Till Brooklyn,” ” Paul Revere,” and “Brass Monkey” was the first rap album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard album charts.
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