Music

Nicki Minaj’s father has been killed by a hit-and-run driver in New York. In a statement police say Robert Maraj was walking along a road in Long Island on Friday night when he was hit, reports...

Chick Corea, the American jazz composer and electric keyboard trailblazer whose visionary fusion work stretched the traditional boundaries of genre, has died of a rare form of cancer. He was 79. Corea’s illness “was only discovered...

Bosnia’s most popular rock band, Dubioza Kolektiv, has a new recruit who sings and plays musical instruments – a humanoid robot called Robby Megabyte. Students from Sarajevo University’s electrical engineering school agreed to build Robby after...

US country singer-songwriter Jim Weatherly, best known for writing 1970s hit Midnight Train to Georgia, has died aged 77, his family say. Weatherly passed away at his home near Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday. Music publisher and...

Sylvain Sylvain, guitarist with trailblazing 1970s rock band New York Dolls, has died at the age of 69. One of the group’s founding members, his visceral riffs bridged the divide between punk and glam, and helped...

Irish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65. A family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly “passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home” on 1 January. Mr Reilly...

Pop star Taylor Swift was fooled by her former colleague Scooter Brown. He has sold master tapes of Swift’s songs for 2,500 crore taka. Not only that, but Brown will also make a profit from the...

American reggae and pop singer-songwriter Johnny Nash, best known for the 1972 hit I Can See Clearly Now, has died aged 80, his family has said. Nash, whose health had been in decline, died at his...

Mark Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon, has apologized to the late Beatle’s widow, Yoko Ono, 40 years after his death. Chapman shot Lennon four times outside his New York Manhattan apartment as Ono looked...

Lee Kerslake, former drummer of Ozzy Osbourne has passed away. He was 73. He had been undergoing Prostate Cancer treatment. Lee is best known for his performances on the Black Sabbath frontman’s critically-acclaimed debut album, Blizzard...