15 September 2024
John William Cummings aka JOHNNY RAMONE was born in Forest Hills, Queens, NY on 8 October 1948. The iconic Ramones guitarist passed away 20 years ago today, on 15 September 2004 in Los Angeles at the age of 55, following a five-year battle with prostate cancer. R.I.P.
JR: Story
18 August 2024
Iconic French movie actor ALAIN DELON passed away today
at the age of 88. He was surrounded by his three children.
28 July 2024
Martin Phillipps and The Chills in Ghent, Belgium – 2014, photo by Turn Up The Volume
MARTIN PHILLIPPS, singer/songwriter and driving force of New Zealand‘s
indie heroes THE CHILLS has passed away unexpectedly, aged 61.
The band broke the very sad news on their socials.
No cause of death has been given.
— T H E C H I L L S (@TheChills) July 28, 2024
The highly praised indie guitar-pop band released 7 LPs in their almost 45-year-long
career (some short hiatuses here and there). Scatterbrain was their final one. It came
out in 2021.
Footage from the 2016 documentary
The Chills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Martin Phillipps.
THE CHILLS: Story
So great to have met the legend after his gig in my hometown Ghent, Belgium some years ago
3 July 2024
JIM MORRISON was born, named James Douglas Morrison on December 8, 1943.
The utterly charismatic frontman of classic rock band THE DOORS was found death
in his bathtub in his and his girlfriend Pam‘s apartment in Paris on July 3, 1971.
He was 27.
BRIAN JONES was born, named Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones on 28 February 1942.
At around midnight on the night of 2–3 July 1969, Jones was discovered at
the bottom of his swimming pool at. By the time the doctors arrived, it was
too late, and he was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital at the age
of 27.
The coroner’s report stated it was a drowning, later clarified as “death by misadventure“, and noted his liver and heart were greatly enlarged by past drug and alcohol abuse.
12 June 2024
Yesterday, French chansonnier FRANCOISE HARDY
at the age of 80, following a battle with cancer.
In the 60s/70s she had lots of success with her melancholic, sensitive
love songs in her homeland as well as in other European countries (she
also sang in English, Italian and German). She had a gorgeous, sensual
voice and looked like a gorgeous movie star (which she was).
She met her equally French famous pop/rock partner Jacques Dutronc
in 1967, had a son in 1973, married in 1981, split up in 1998, but never
divorced officially.
Thanks to my parents (God bless them) I got to know/hear
several French stars, including Hardy, as a little boy.
My absolute fav song of hers is Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles
(All Boys And Girls – more than 50 million streams on Spotify).
Salut, Françoise.
Françoise Hardy: Story
8 May 2024
Sad, really sad news
Steve Albini, the noise rock pioneer with Big Black and Shellac who helped craft some of the greatest alternative rock albums of all time, has died at 61
More: https://t.co/FwyrSZQjhA pic.twitter.com/jAWeXe1Rta
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 8, 2024
You can read a Rolling Stone tribute to Steve Albini right HERE.
It’s only 2 months ago that Albini announced a new Shellac album via
social media, their 6th and first in 10 years. They titled it To All Trains
and is/was planned to come out, next week, on May 17.
It was so great to see Shellac playing live
back in 2017 in Kortijk, Belgium on one of
their rare tours.
Photos by Turn Up The Volume
21 April 2024
Art Official Cage album cover
PRINCE passed away 8 years ago today, due to an accidental overdose of painkiller fentany (50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine).
Chuck D (Public Enemy) watching Prince at work: “It looked like he was making
a salad. He threw tape around like a chef. He knew every aspect of that studio.”
Two timeless and imperishable classics to remember a musical genius.
– 1999 –
– PURPLE RAIN –
20 April 2024
The charismatic British singer/songwriter/guitarist/frontman STEVE MARRIOTT
of the Small Faces (1965-1969, 1975-1978) and Humble Pie (1969–1975, 1979–1983), featuring Peter Frampton, died in a fire at his home in Essex, UK this day in 1991, only aged 44. R.I.P.
SMALL FACES
HUMPLE PIE
Steve Marriott: Story
(Image: Cover of his self-titled 1976 solo LP)
18 April 2024
Singer-songwriter/guitarist FORREST RICHARD ‘DICKEY’ BETTS has passed away at 80. He’s best known as co-founder along with Gregg and Duane Allman, back in 1969, of the legendary Florida group ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND.
The news came in a couple of hours ago via his Instagram account.
The band’s live LP At Filmore East from 1971 still is lauded as a classic.
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ABB: Story – Albums
