Michael Jackson performs "Dangerous" during a taping of the American Bandstand's 50th-anniversary show Saturday, April 20, 2002, in Pasadena, Calif. (Kevork Djansezian/AP) The King of Pop is moonwalking to Broadway. The Michael Jackson Estate and Columbia Live Stage announced Tuesday that they are developing a new jukebox musical inspired by the life [...]
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the Last Poets in London in 1984. He delivered some of the group’s most urgent and incisive verses.CreditDavid Corio/Redferns, via Getty Images By Giovanni Russonello June 13, 2018 Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, who helped establish the foundation for hip-hop as a member of the Last Poets and in his own solo [...]
EMI Music Publishing owns or administers more than two million songs, ranging from contemporary artists like Drake to classics by Queen, Carole King, and the Motown catalog.CreditRichard Perry/The New York Times By Ben Sisario Seven years ago, Sony entered a complex deal with Abu Dhabi for control of the EMI Music Publishing catalog, a trove of [...]
Vocalist Amanda Cruz during a project recording session for Bring Down the Walls. Photograph: César Martínez In 1986, British artist Phil Collins (not the singer, but the Turner prize-nominated artist) was 16 years old when he first attended his first acid house party, and he noticed two things upon stepping inside the Haçienda nightclub in Manchester – [...]
By Anna Codrea-Rado May 3, 2018 WEIL AM RHEIN, Germany — In May 1985, the Palladium nightclub opened its doors to a Who’s Who of the New York art world. Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Larry Rivers were all there to check out the new club billed as a successor to Studio 54, the infamous nightspot that had [...]