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Akron, Ohio born and bred Christine Ellen Hynde has led the Pretenders from the top of the charts since the band’s debut single, a 1979 rethink of Ray Davies’ “Stop Your Sobbing” that killed the Kinks’ 1964 Mersey Beat-ish original on contact. Sort of a spiritual big sister to Joan Jett, she led that gang […]

Legendary blues guitarist B.B. King died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 89. According to the New York Times, Mr. King, who had diabetes and “other health problems,” had been placed in hospice care. King’s death was reported on his official website, which said he died in his sleep. “Mr. King passed peacefully in his […]