Meat Loaf (legally known as Michael)
(born Marvin Lee Aday)
(September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022)
According to his agent, the Rock’n’roll superstar
died at home with his family by his side.
No cause of death was shared but unconfirmed
reports suggested he had died of Covid-related
complications.
They were the most successful American pop group of the 1960s—
a group whose 12 #1 hits in the first full decade of the rock and roll
era places them behind only Elvis and the Beatles in terms of chart dominance. They helped define the very sound of the 60s, but like
fellow icons the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel, they came apart
in the first year of the 70s. The curtain closed for good on Diana
Ross and the Supremes on January 14, 1970, at the Frontier Hotel
in Las Vegas, Nevada.
SANDY KOZEL
Introducing… The Beatles is the first Beatles album released in the United States. Originally scheduled for a July 1963 release, the LP
came out on 10 January 1964, on Vee-Jay Records, ten days before Capitol‘s Meet the Beatles!. The latter album, however, entered the
U.S. album chart one week before the former. Consequently, when
Meet The Beatles! peaked at #1 for eleven consecutive weeks, Introducing…The Beatles stalled at #2 where it remained nine consecutive weeks. It was the subject of much legal wrangling,
but ultimately, Vee-Jay was permitted to sell the album until late
1964, by which time it had sold more than 1.3 million copies. On 24
July 2014 the album was certified gold and platinum by the RIAA.
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.
ED DANAHUE
Actress Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone)
is 87years young today.
