(FOX NEWS) – Denny Laine, co-founder of Wings with Paul
McCartney, died Tuesday after battling lung disease. He was
79.
The "Band on the Run" singer formed two of the biggest rock
bands of all time, both with The Moody Blues and McCartney’s
Wings.
Denny Laine with Linda and Paul McCartney…Wings.
NEW YORK (TND) — KISS plans to "rock and roll all nite and
party everyday" no more, as the band said it will perform its
"final live shows ever" in New York City in just a few weeks.
They said will take the stage two last times on December 1st
and December 2nd at Madison Square Garden.
Ringo Starr, left, and Paul McCartney both commented in a
press release about their new song, referring to the
experience of creating the song as "emotional."
The remaining Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have
completed the band’s final song, decades after their breakup
and the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison.
The band announced the song, titled "Now and Then," will be
available worldwide Thursday, Nov. 2, paired with a re-release of
their very first single, "Love Me Do," which debuted in 1962.
"Now and Then" features vocals from Lennon as well as guitar
performed by Harrison, recorded six years before his 2001 death.
The Beatles in Abbey Road Studios in 1963. (Apple Corps Ltd)
WASHINGTON (TND) — Rock star and philanthropist Jon Bon
Jovi (61) has been named the 2024 "MusiCares" Person of the
Year for his efforts to establish a successful nonprofit that helps
people in need.
Bon Jovi, who is the lead singer of the band with the same name,
said a former member of The Beatles, Paul McCartney, told him
about the honor.
Paul McCartney (81)
In the summer of 1977, members of the rock band Aerosmith
inspected an airplane they were considering chartering for
their upcoming tour—a Convair 240 (above) operated out of
Addison, Texas. Concerns over the flight crew led Aerosmith
to look elsewhere. a decision that saved one band but doomed
another. The aircraft in question was instead chartered by the
band Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were just setting out that autumn
on a national tour that promised to be their biggest to date.
On October 20, 1977, however, during a flight from Greenville,
South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s
tour plane crashed in a heavily wooded area of southwestern
Mississippi during a failed emergency landing attempt, killing
band-members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie
Gaines as well as the band’s assistant road manager and the
plane’s pilot and co-pilot. Twenty others survived the crash.
