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Mr. Ashford and his songwriting partner and later wife, Valerie Simpson, composed hits for Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan and themselves.

A storm swept through an open air music festival in eastern Belgium on Thursday killing at least three people and injuring more than 70 others, an official said.

If there was ever any doubt, it's gone now. Jennifer Lopez will be back at the judge's panel for the 11th season of "American Idol."

"You and I" is the fourth video off of Gaga's chart-topping Born This Way. She's already dazzled fans with high-concept clips for "Born This Way" and "Judas" and then kicked it more lo-fi and old school in her video for "The Edge of Glory," which co-starred the late Clarence Clemons.

Silent mourners with heads bowed and yellow-orange candlelight leading the way paid their respects to Elvis Presley at his grave at Graceland, his longtime Memphis home, to remember the 34th anniversary of his sudden death....

It was supposed to be a comeback of sorts, this strange, disjointed album, Sly Stone’s first release of new material since 1982. “I’m Back! Family & Friends” is part star-studded collaborations disc meant to evoke Carlos Santana’s career-reinvigorating “Supernatural,” part remix disc and part redone greatest hits, with a few new tracks tacked on near the end.

Since their release in 1978, hit albums like Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” the Doobie Brothers’ “Minute by Minute,” Kenny Rogers’s “Gambler” and Funkadelic’s “One Nation Under a Groove” have generated tens of millions of dollars for record companies. But thanks to a little-noted provision in United States copyright law, those artists — and thousands more — now have the right to reclaim ownership of their recordings, potentially leaving the labels out in the cold.

The death of the Warrant singer is being investigated as a possible accidental overdose but may also have been from natural causes, the site reported.

An executive producer of the hit musical reality TV show "American Idol" says celebrity judge Jennifer Lopez will return for another season. Lopez hasn't said anything....

Ever wonder what happened to Jaleel White, the actor best known for playing nerd king Steve Urkel on ABC’s “Family Matters”?