WBLS in New York City released a statement Wednesday night announcing the death of radio personality Harold “Hall” Jackson. The station’s vice president and general manager said Jackson died Wednesday at a hospital. The cause of death was not immediately known. Until a few weeks ago, 96-year-old Jackson did a regular show on WBLS called [...]

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After a long battle with cancer singer Robin Gibb passed away at a hospital in England. Reports say Gibb, who was one-third of the singer group the Bee Gees, died after undergoing intestinal surgery on Sunday. A spokesperson for the Bee Gees released a statement saying in part: “The family of Robin Gibb, of the [...]

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An American college student on an archaeological research project in the Shetland Islands died over the weekend after going for a swim at a Scottish beach. Bates College student Evan Dube was in the UK with a group of 10 other students from the Maine school when they took advantage of the beautiful day on [...]

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Singer Donna Summer, the queen of disco, has died at the age of 63. Reports say the Grammy winner, who had been battling cancer, was in her Florida home at the time of her death. TMZ is reporting that Summer died of lung cancer, which she believed she contracted by inhaling toxic particles after the [...]

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Singer Chuck Brown, who was known as the Godfather of Go-go music, died on Wednesday at a Maryland hospital. Brown’s manager released a statement today saying the 75-year-old musician died of multi-organ failure from sepsis at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Brown began his musical career in the 1960s playing the guitar with Jerry Butler [...]

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