Pandit Ravi Shankar was George Harrison's link into the Vedic world.A fascinating excerpt from Kavita Das's Poignant Song: The Life And Music Of Lakshmi Shankar to mark Pandit Ravi Shankar's birth......
Oh Lord, won't you buy me / a Mercedes-Benz / My friends all have Porsches / I must make amends / So Lord, won't you buy me / a Merceeeeedes-Benz...' Not my words, but Rock queen Janis Joplin's.......
Ageing is a funny process.After rebelling and exploring, the human being drifts to the ordered arrangement, he/she once left.As a youngster I outgrew ABBA while my mother continued to like them.In......
This is by now means a complete list of rock n rollers who died young.Death and popular music have an unhealthy fascination for each other. 53: George Michael. Cause of death: Suspected heart......
In the world of music, the ripe old age is 27. The terminal age is common to great musicians like Kurt Cobain, James Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and now Amy Winehouse, the newest entrant......
Amy Winehouse's untimely death at the age of 27 took us back to the curse of 27. As is widely known, some of the greatest musicians in the world passed away at the age of 27. In fact, as many as......
Woke up and logged on to the news to read a headline that made me read it thrice, and then think it was a particularly tasteless Warner Brothers marketing stunt. 'Heath Ledger found dead,' it said.......