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Mick Jagger, left, and Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones perform "Street Fighting Man" at Soldier Field on June 21, 2019, in Chicago.

Bob Dylan and Charlie Watts will soon turn 80. More music legends are rocking out long past retirement age

April 27, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.

You think I'm over the hill/ Think I'm past my prime/ Let me see what you got/ We can have a whoppin' good time — Bob Dylan, "Spirit On the...

Blues guitarist Peter Green, who was a co-founder of the famed musical group Fleetwood Mac, has died; he was 73. Green left the band in 1970 to work on his mental health struggles, which led to a schizophrenia diagnosis years later. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 1998.

Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green saluted in new film, album: ‘This is about celebrating him,’ says Mick Fleetwood

March 23, 2021 at 10:36 a.m.

Few music legends have burned as brightly or faded as quickly and tragically as the late Peter Green, the brilliant guitarist, singer and songwriter who in 1967 founded the English...

Actor Bob Newhart appears on the set of "The Big Bang Theory" for a dialogue with members of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at Warner Bros. Studios on August 15, 2013 in Burbank, California.

Bob Newhart toasts his chart-topping 1960 debut album: ‘It was back to accounting if comedy didn’t work out’

May 11, 2020 at 8:40 a.m.

Bob Newhart encountered a major setback when he recorded his chart-topping, Grammy Award-winning debut comedy album, "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart," at a Texas nightclub in early 1960. The...

Festivalgoers running toward the main stage at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. April 13, 2012.

Review: Coachella, meet Couchella: New documentary is a breezy desert daze

April 10, 2020 at 2:41 p.m.

The timing couldn't have been worse when Coachella, now the world's biggest annual music festival and pop-culture phenomenon, debuted in 1999 on the grassy fields of the Empire Polo Club...

Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, famous for his years playing in John Coltrane's quartet in the late '50s and early '60s, died on March 6, 2020; he was 81.

McCoy Tyner, jazz piano giant, dead at 81; revisit 3 interviews with the music legend

March 6, 2020 at 6:01 p.m.

McCoy Tyner, one of the greatest and most influential pianists in modern jazz history, has died at the age of 81. The death of the keyboard giant, who rose to...

Santana performs on stage at the Pre-Grammy Gala And Salute To Industry Icons at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Santana and Earth, Wind & Fire will tour together this summer tour in Chicago

February 25, 2020 at 9:42 a.m.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Santana and Earth, Wind & Fire are teaming up for a joint summer tour that comes 46 years after they first joined forces...

Kraftwerk performs at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago.

Kraftwerk announce 2020 North American 3-D concert tour, with a stop in Chicago

February 24, 2020 at 10:38 a.m.

Kraftwerk, the pioneering German electronic music group that this year celebrates its 50th anniversary, has announced a 27-city North American tour this summer that will have a strong multimedia focus....

Alicia Keys arrives at Billboard's Women in Music at the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, in Los Angeles.

Alicia Keys announces new album, ‘Alicia,’ and world tour, including Chicago date

January 21, 2020 at 3:36 p.m.

Alicia Keys is wasting no time promoting her upcoming seventh studio album, "Alicia," which will be released March 20. On Tuesday morning, the 15-time Grammy Award-winner announced her "Alicia —...

Kesha arrives at the American Music Awards on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Kesha ready to raise hell on new ‘High Road’ tour, with a stop in Chicago

January 7, 2020 at 2:54 p.m.

Pop vocal star Kesha, who in October released a gospel-tinged single called "Raising Hell," will perform across the U.S. and Canada on her 2020 "The High Road Tour." The 26-city...

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Rascal Flatts will end 20-year career with ‘Life is a Highway’ farewell tour, with a stop in Chicago

January 7, 2020 at 11:09 a.m.

It's "adios!" for top country-pop trio Rascal Flatts, which on Tuesday morning announced that its 2020 "Life is a Highway Tour" will mark the 20-year-old group's farewell. The tour will...

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