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Legendary star guitarist, songwriter, and producer Eddie Van Halen has passed away after a decade long battle with throat cancer. He was 65 years old. I can’t believe I’m having to write this, but my father, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, has lost his long and arduous battle with cancer this morning,” his son, Wolfgang Van…

Lead singer of the Irish band The Cranberries, Dolores O’Riordan, passed away at the age of 46 while in London. The reason for her death has not yet been revealed. O’Riordan was in London for a recording session on a new album, said in a statement from her publicist. It added: “Family members are devastated to…

Chester Bennington, lead singer of Linkin Park, committed suicide at his private Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles County on Thursday. His body was found by his housekeeper around 9 am. He was 41. Bennington’s interest in music began at a young age, with bands like Stone Temple Pilots and Depeche Mode being his early…

On October 18th, 1926, the world gained a man named Chuck Berry—a man who would go on to be one of the great pioneers of music, a fiery soul whom Bob Dylan once called “the Shakespeare of Rock ‘n’ Roll”. And on Saturday, March 18th of 2017, the world lost him: Berry passed away in…

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