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Grateful Dead Exhibit Coming To The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead's career will be the focus of an upcoming tribute exhibition at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. The show will feature memorabilia including guitars...


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Jerry Garcia Documentary In The Works

Jerry Garcia

The Grateful Dead star Jerry Garcia is to be the subject of a new musical documentary. Filmmaker Malcolm Leo and veteran manager John Hartmann have secured the music rights to the band's extensiv...


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Grateful Dead Bassist Phil Lesh Joins Celebrity Restaurateurs

Phil Lesh

Rocker Phil Lesh is to open a restaurant and performance space in San Rafael, California. The Grateful Dead bassist has spent years looking for the ideal spot for Terrapin Crossroads, according to...


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Celebrity Birthdays - August 1, 2011

Jerry Garcia

Happy Birthday to: Grateful Dead guitarist/singer Jerry Garcia (1942; d. 1995) Puerto Rican actress Valery Ortiz (1984) O-Town singer Ashley Parker Angel (1981) Conan the Barbarian star Jason ...


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The 'Forever 27 Club' - Music's Growing List Of Stars Who Died At 27 Years Old

Amy Winehouse

The 'Forever 27 Club' has become more than a legend since the dawn of music recording. As it turns out, some of music's most influential artists who were taken from us much too soon all parted with...


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Grateful Dead's Massive 72-Disc 'Europe 72' Set Sells Out Months Before Release

Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead’s monumental boxed set EUROPE ’72: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS has sold out of the 7200 individually numbered, limited edition version just weeks after it was first announced. The dead....


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Grateful Dead Unveil 'Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings' 60-Disc Box Set!

Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead slipped the shores of America and crossed the pond for its first-ever major European tour in April 1972. The legendary 22-show run spawned Europe ’72, a live triple album that remai...


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Symphonic Orchestra To Play Grateful Dead Music With Bob Weir

Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead star Bob Weir has teamed with a symphonic orchestra to rework his former supergroup's music for an upcoming "once-in-a-lifetime" concert. The singer/songwriter has announced plans f...


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Federal Drug Agents Storm 'Jam Cruise' Featuring Taylor Hicks & Bob Weir

Taylor Hicks

A New Year cruise ferrying fans of "American Idol" star Taylor Hicks and funk icon Maceo Parker from Florida to the Caribbean and back has returned after a drug raid. Reports suggest federal drug...


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Celebrity Birthdays - October 16, 2010

Bob Weir

Happy Birthday to: Grateful Dead / Ratdog founder Bob Weir (1947) Singer/songwriter John Mayer (1977) Red Hot Chili Pepper Flea (1962) Mystic River star Tim Robbins (1958) Actress/entrepreneur...


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Buy Jerry Garica's Home For $4 Million

Jerry Garcia

The last home Grateful Dead star Jerry Garcia lived in before he died is on the market for $4 million. The musician served as lead guitarist and vocalist of the group before his tragic death in 1...


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Jerry Garcia's Estate Refuses To Release Songs For Movie

Jerry Garcia

A movie based on the life of Grateful Dead star Jerry Garcia has been thrown into jeopardy after the late rocker's estate refused producers permission to feature the rocker's music. The guitarist...


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Celebrity Birthdays - August 1, 2010

Jerry Garcia

Happy Birthday to: Grateful Dead guitarist/singer Jerry Garcia (1942; d. 1995) O-Town singer Ashley Parker Angel (1981) Avenged Sevenfold singer M. Shadows (1981) "The Cosby Show" actress Te...


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Adam Lambert Praises Liberal Parents

Adam Lambert Praises Liberal Parents

Gay singer Adam Lambert is grateful to his parents for accepting his sexuality and supporting him throughout his younger years, insisting he is "fortunate" to have grown up in such a liberal househ...


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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Launch 'Virtual' Tour

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers have launched The Superhighway Tour, a first of its kind online-only music experience that delivers 24 of the 48 tracks from the forthcoming "Live Anthology" as high...


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Celebrity Birthdays, October 16

Bob Weir

Happy Birthday to: Grateful Dead / Ratdog founder Bob Weir (1947) Singer/songwriter John Mayer (1977) Red Hot Chili Pepper Flea (1962) Mystic River star Tim Robbins (1958) Actress/en...


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Celebrity Birthdays, October 3

Ashlee Simpson

Happy Birthday to: Actress/singer Ashlee Simpson (1984) Actor Seann William Scott (1976) Wild Thing Neve Campbell (1973) No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani (1969) Motley Crue drummer Tommy...


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Celebrity Birthdays, September 11

Ludacris

Happy Birthday to: Rapper / actor Ludacris (1977) "Jurassic Park" actress Ariana Richards (1979) Chimaira drummer Andols Herrick (1979) Singer/songwriter Ben Lee (1978) Coldplay guit...


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Celebrity Birthdays, September 8

Pink

Happy Birthday to: Pop star Pink (1979) Home Improvement" actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas (1981) Keane drummer Richard Hughes (1975) Actor David Arquette (1971) Model / TV host Brooke B...


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Celebrity Birthdays, August 22

Tori Amos

Happy Birthday to Simple Plan guitarist Jeff Stinco (1978), Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough (1973), "Lost" actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley (1967; d. 2002), s...


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Celebrity Birthdays, August 1

Jerry Garcia

Happy Birthday to MTV! (1981); O-Town singer Ashley Parker Angel (1981), Avenged Sevenfold musician M. Shadows (1981), "The Cosby Show" actress Tempestt Bledsoe (1973), film director Sam Mendes (19...


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Animal Collective Becomes First Band Allowed To Sample Grateful Dead

Animal Collective

Animal Collective have scored a music coup - they're the first band ever allowed to sample rock legends Grateful Dead. The New York-based group will use a segment of 'Unbroken Chain' in new trac...


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Unexpected, Untimely And Shocking Deaths In Music

Shocking music deaths

Heart attacks. Plane crashes. Car crashes. Drug overdoses. Murder. Over the years, these have become some of the most common causes of the often shocking deaths in the music industry. On a lighter ...


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Celebrity Birthdays, June 23

Joss Whedon

Happy Birthday to singer Jason Mraz (1977), "A Dirty Shame" actress Selma Blair (1972), French footballer Zinedine Zidane (1972), DeBarge singer Chico DeBarge (1966), TV screenwriter Joss Whedon (1...


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Check Out 'Woodstock: 3 Days Of Peace & Music' On DVD June 6

Woodstock

"Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music" – the four-hour director’s cut of the 1970 Oscar®-winning documentary about the landmark music event that featured some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll performers...


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Celebrity Birthdays, May 7

Eagle Eye Cherry

Happy Birthday to Swedish musician Eagle Eye Cherry (1969), actress Traci Lords (1968), late WWE star Owen Hart (1965; d. 1999), film director Amy Heckerling (1954), singer/songwriter Janis Ian (19...


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More Rock Stars Have Died At 27 Than Any Other Age

Jimi Hendrix

"The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll," which comes out today, reveals that more rock stars have died at 27 than at any other age. Famous 27s include Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Jopl...


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Two New Grateful Dead Music Collections Out April 7

Grateful Dead

Pinpointing the creative zenith of the Grateful Dead's career would be a challenge fit for even Sisyphus. That said, one could do a lot worse than looking to the fabled spring tour of 1977, long co...


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Celebrity Birthdays, March 15

Eva Longoria

Happy Birthday to G-Unit rapper Young Buck (1981), "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria (1975), Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath (1968), Poison singer Bret Michaels (1963), singer Terence Trent D'...


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It's A Beautiful Day (Links & Stuff)

U2

Check out some of the best links and viral videos found around the web today. And be sure to visit our On the Web section where we're constantly adding interesting links all the time. YOU ca...


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