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☆ John Mayall, influential Blues musician, has died at 90
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Dan Heching | Dalia Faheid | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —John Mayall, a pioneering Blues musician who was recently announced as a 2024 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died. “It is with heavy hearts that we bear the news that John Mayall passed away peacefully in his California home yesterday, July 22, 2024, surrounded by loving family. John Mayall gave us ninety years of tireless efforts to educate, inspire and entertain,” the message said. Called “the godfather of British blues” by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader was a pioneer of Blues music in England during the 1960s. Mayall was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2016.

Persons: CNN — John Mayall, Mayall’s, John Mayall, John, Queen Elizabeth II, Mayall, “, ”, Eric Clapton, Joe Walsh, Steve Van Zandt, Alex Lifeson, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Jack Bruce, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Aynsley Dunbar – Mayall Organizations: CNN, Roll Hall of Fame, Blues, Blues Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame, of Fame, Facebook Locations: California, England, British, Cheshire, Los Angeles, United States, Europe

OVIEDO, Spain (AP) — American actor Meryl Streep on Friday received Spain’s prestigious Princess of Asturias Arts Award at a ceremony presided over by the Spanish royal family in the northern city of Oviedo. “Empathy may be a radical form of outreach and diplomacy useful in other theaters of endeavor” she said. Others honored at the ceremony were bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami, who won the literature prize and U.S. biologists Jeffrey Gordon, Peter Greenberg and Bonnie Bassler, who received the scientific and technical research prize. Sports award winner, Kenyan marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge, said in a speech that running for him was much more than a physical exercise. “We must make our world a running world, because a running world is a happy world.

Persons: Meryl Streep, Streep, “, Haruki Murakami, Jeffrey Gordon, Peter Greenberg, Bonnie Bassler, Gordon, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, Nuccio Ordine, Eliud Kipchoge, ”, Joan Miró, Princess Leonor, _____ Ciarán Giles Organizations: Asturias Arts, Diseases, Sports, Kenyan Locations: OVIEDO, Spain, American, Oviedo, Scottish, Spanish Catalan, Madrid

☆ Michael Gambon, British actor who played Dumbledore, dies aged 82
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Gambon began his acting on the stage in the early 1960s and later moved into TV and film. Gambon played down the praise for his performance and said he simply played himself "with a stuck-on beard and a long robe". Michael John Gambon was born on Oct. 19, 1940, in Dublin to a seamstress mother and an engineer father. Gambon left school aged 15 to begin an engineering apprenticeship and by 21 he was fully qualified. He revealed in an episode of "The Late Late Show" in Ireland that he convinced his mother he was friends with the pope.

Persons: Michael Gambon, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Laurence Olivier, Gambon, Peter Greenaway's, Cook, King George V, Tom Hooper's, Dumbledore, Richard Harris, Michael John Gambon, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Olivier, Derek Jacobi, Maggie Smith, Galileo, John Dexter's, Robert De Niro, Anne Miller, Philippa Hart, Sarah Young, William Schomberg, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: PA Media, Camden Town, Herald, National Theatre, Thomson Locations: Irish, Dublin, London, American, British, Ireland

☆ Amazon, Target, and Walmart will be the biggest winners from Bed Bath & Beyond's demise
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bed Bath & Beyond has filed for bankruptcy and is conducting an "orderly wind down" of its stores. 1 in several of the categories that Bed Bath & Beyond is best known for: kitchen and bathroom supplies, decor, storage, and bedding. Consumers will have fewer options with the demise of Bed Bath & Beyond, said Peter Greene, Numerator's Insights Practice Director for General Merchandise, in a statement. "Bed Bath & Beyond was slow to embrace and adopt the e-commerce boom, which was pioneered, advanced, and utilized to great success by direct competitors like Target, Walmart, and Amazon," Bed Bath & Beyond CFO Holly Etlin wrote in bankruptcy filings. Bed Bath & Beyond's sales plummeted from $11.1 billion in 2019 to an estimated $5.4 billion in 2022.

☆ Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac dead at 79
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“There are no words to describe our sadness at the passing of Christine McVie,” the band’s statement read. “Chicken Shack used to open for [Fleetwood Mac],” she told The Guardian in June 2022. Then of course I started to miss it,” McVie told The Guardian about her 16 year hiatus from Fleetwood Mac. She will be so very missed.”Gutted to learn about the passing of Christine McVie. 🩸 — Garbage (@garbage) November 30, 2022“Gutted to learn about the passing of Christine McVie,” the rock band Garbage tweeted from their verified Twitter account.

☆ Going For Sale By Owner? How to Sell Your Home Without a Real-Estate Agent
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Emily Nonko | Illustrations Peter Greenwood | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

For Sale By Owner listings bypass the broker entirely, leaving the seller to market, show and close their home. Going FSBO? Here are some things to know so you’re at the top of your game.

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