The year was 2002, in Henderson, Nevada, and no one at the bar that night realized they were watching what would become one of the biggest bands in the world: The Killers. No one, that is, except maybe Brandon Flowers, who was barely 23 years old when The Killers shot to stardom with their first…
Harry Houdini, the greatest escape artist who ever lived, has been the subject of hundreds of books and movies. A pop icon, even today. He died 100 years ago this week, on Halloween – a coincidence that did nothing to diminish his mystique. But we’ll get to that. Erik Weisz was born in Hungary, in…
In this extended conversation, Luke Burbank talks with singer-songwriter Noah Kahan about how his home state of Vermont has inspired his music; dealing with stardom; the process of writing his latest album, “The Great Divide”; and founding his mental health non-profit, The Busyhead Project. Source link
Duncan Sheik, the singer behind the ’90s hit “Barely Breathing” and later the Tony Award-winning composer of Broadway’s “Spring Awakening,” has died at 56 years old, his family said Friday. Sheik died Thursday from cardiac arrest, his mother Suzanne Sheik told The New York Times. Sheik’s family said on Instagram he died on Thursday “surrounded by…
Stella Parton says her sister Dolly Parton was “definitely prepared” and at peace when she died late last month after battling cancer. “I know she was at peace,” Stella Parton told “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King in an exclusive interview. “I could always tell by looking at her face, even if I hadn’t seen her…
Dolly Parton‘s sister, Stella Parton, said the country music superstar chose to keep her battle with cancer private before she died late last month because she didn’t want people to worry. “She did not want people sad,” Stella Parton told “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King in an exclusive interview. “She’d be really happy and delighted…
The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.) “Sunday Morning” presents a rebroadcast of its annual edition touching on all aspects of design, hosted by Jane Pauley. Jane Pauley at Ardrossan…
Dolly Parton, one of the most groundbreaking and successful musicians in the history of country music, with a hitmaking career that spanned six decades and launched her into TV and movie stardom, has died, her family announced Tuesday. She was 80. Since breaking onto the country music scene with her 1967 debut “Hello, I’m Dolly,”…
In 50 years on screen, Tim Curry, star of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Clue” and “It,” has played roles campy, comical, and menacingly sinister, yet his most inscrutable role is still Tim Curry. The actor talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about his memoir “Vagabond” (which is decidedly not a Hollywood tell-all);…
The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.) Guest host: Seth Doane Autumn Mowery owns and maintains the Ellsworth Candlepin Bowling Alley in Ellsworth, Maine. CBS News COVER STORY: Rescuing a…
