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☆ Lisa Marie Presley felt like her mom Priscilla Presley 'didn't want me,' according to memoir
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Lisa Marie Presley wrote in her posthumous memoir that she felt unwanted by her mom, Priscilla Presley. AdvertisementLisa Marie Presley wrote in a new posthumous memoir about feeling unwanted by her mom, Priscilla Presley. Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley, and Riley Keough in 2022. Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley in September 2013. AdvertisementPriscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, and Riley Keough in May 2015.

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☆ Taylor Swift previously said she was uninspired by politics in her music. Now, she’s singing a different tune
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“I don’t get melodies and ideas in my head that have to do with the issues of our economic climate,” Swift added. Swift, now 34, has since written a number of songs that reflect her feelings on politics and societal causes that are important to her. Rick Diamond/Getty Images/FileThat same year, Swift endorsed the Biden-Harris ticket, an endorsement punctuated by the singer expressing regret in “Miss Americana” for not speaking up about political causes sooner. Swift initially captivated her fans with her music, creating a loyal Swiftie base that seems to hang on her every word. Regardless of whether she chooses to directly sing about politics or social causes, she now seems to know all too well how powerful her music can be.

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☆ Joe Bonsall, a 50-year member of The Oak Ridge Boys, dead at 76
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Joe Bonsall, who left the legendary singing group The Oak Ridge Boys after 50 years in January due to a neuromuscular disorder, has died, his management team announced Tuesday. Bonsall died from complications of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), according to his representatives. Bonsall announced on social media about six months ago that he was leaving the group. “Many of you know I have been battling a slow onset (over 4 years now) of a neuromuscular disorder,” he wrote. During his long career, Bonsall became a member of the Grand Ole Opry and was inducted into the Philadelphia Music Hall of Fame, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, and the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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☆ Dickey Betts, co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band, dead at 80
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Dickey Betts, a guitarist and the co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band, has died, according to a family statement shared with CNN on Thursday by his longtime manager. “It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that the Betts family announce the peaceful passing of Forrest Richard ‘Dickey’ Betts,” the statement reads. Credited with helping define the sound and of Southern rock genre of the ’60s and ‘70s, Betts, bass guitarist Berry Oakley, drummers Butch Trucks and Jaimoe joined brothers Gregg and Duane Allman to form the Allman Brothers Band in 1969. Betts left the Allman Brothers Band in a highly publicized split in the year 2000. When asked what he loved most about music, Betts told the Sarasota Herald Tribune in 2020 that it was primarily the effect it had on his audience.

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☆ Analysis: Tony Bennett sang in a key that Jason Aldean’s song can’t reach
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

White jazz artists were antiracists before the term was inventedMany of the tributes to Bennett mentioned his disdain for bigotry. Many White jazz artists were antiracists, long before the word was invented. Frank Sinatra, Bennett’s musical mentor, recorded with and relentlessly championed Black jazz artists like Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie. He hired a Black jazz bassist, Eugene Wright, and refused to play in segregated venues. There are countless photos of a beaming Bennett hanging out with Black jazz artists.

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☆ Matt Onofrio made $35 million helping everyday people invest in real estate. Then he was indicted. Was it all a scam?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Daniel Geiger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

The MMA fighter Michael Chandler, pictured with his wife, Brie Willett, bought a $16 million property from Matt Onofrio in 2021. Then, in November 2022, federal prosecutors indicted Onofrio on charges involving three deals he'd arranged in Minnesota the year before. The federal complaint doesn't involve the property Onofrio sold to Chandler. Unbeknownst to Hermann, Onofrio had already tied up the warehouse in contract for $4.75 million. "Matt was finding a deal for $4 million and selling it for $5 million," Stageberg said.

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Jerry Lee Lewis, the rock ’n’ roll trailblazer and piano virtuoso who electrified audiences with his raucous, free-wheeling performances but attracted scandal after he married his 13-year-old cousin, died Friday, his publicist said. Jerry Lee Lewis in 1957. He is a defiant, reckless, indefatigable wild man that can rock you into oblivion,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame said when he was inducted in 1986. Jerry Lee Lewis with Myra Gale Brown in 1962. Jerry Lee Lewis performs in 1986.

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