Nick Drake was not fully appreciated during his lifetime. Here, music critic and author Jim DeRogatis, co-host of National Public Radio’s Sound Opinions, remembers the musician’s music and legacy.
Died 1974
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Duke Ellington is one of the best known figures in jazz history. But did you know he was a movie star, too?
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Legendary comedian Jack Benny, who died Dec. 26, 1974, at age 80 of pancreatic cancer, enjoyed a stunning 50-year career, transitioning from vaudeville to radio to film and television – …
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For more than 20 years, most Americans knew what they were doing on Sunday nights: watching “The Ed Sullivan Show” on CBS, eager to see which new talent or old …
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Agnes Moorehead bewitched a generation of television viewers with her funny, haughty portrayal of magical matriarch Endora on the 1960s and ’70s hit sitcom Bewitched.
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Both of Tim Horton’s careers focused on small round objects: one hard, flat and fast, the other soft, fried and sweet.
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Right up there among the greatest genuine singing cowboys was Tex Ritter, multi-talented star of movies, radio and beyond.
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Thirty-eight years after Jacqueline Susann’s death, her books somehow manage to be both dated and relevant at the same time…
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One of the most pervasive untruths of the celebrity world is the myth of how Cass Elliot died.
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What happened to plutonium-plant worker turned union activist Karen Silkwood?