Wanda LaFaye Young (Rogers)
(August 9, 1943 – December 15, 2021),
(FoxNews) – Wanda Young, best known as a member of Motown’s
popular and chart-topping The Marvelettes, has died. She was 78.
Meta Ventress, Young’s daughter, told the New York Times that
her mother died on Dec. 15 in Garden City, Mich. She told the
outlet that the cause of the singers death had to do with
complications due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
the glasses rock legend Buddy Holly was wearing when his plane crashed February 3, 1959.
From left:The Big Bopper,Richi Valens and
Buddy Holly, February 2nd, 1959.
The crash site on February 3, 1959.
The Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas.
SANDY KOZEL
On December 15, 1791, the new United States of America ratified the
Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Robert Michael Nesmith
(December 30, 1942 – December 10, 2021)
(FoxNews) – Michael Nesmith, a singer/guitarist for the Monkees,
has died. .
"I’m heartbroken," bandmate Micky Dolenz told Fox News in a
statement on Friday. "I’ve lost a dear friend and partner. I’m so
grateful that we could spend the last couple of months together
doing what we loved best – singing, laughing, and doing shtick.
I’ll miss it all so much. Especially the shtick. Rest in peace, Nez.
All my love, Mick."
Rolling Stone reported the star passed away on Friday from
natural causes.
John Lennon, a former member of the Beatles, the rock group that transformed
popular music in the 1960s, was shot and killed by an obsessed fan in New
York City.Â
The 40-year-old artist was entering his luxury Manhattan apartment
building when Mark David Chapman (below) shot him four times at
close range with a .38-caliber revolver. Lennon, bleeding profusely,
was rushed to the hospital but died en-route. Chapman had received
an autograph from Lennon earlier in the day (above) and voluntarily
remained at the scene of the shooting until he was arrested by
police.
For a week, hundreds of bereaved fans kept a vigil outside the
Dakota–Lennon’s apartment building–and demonstrations of
mourning were held around the world.
New York City police hold spectators behind barricades the
day after former Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed in
front his residence at the Dakota in New York. (AP)
