The drummer and founding member of The Pogues has died. Andrew Ranken was 72 years old. The Pogues announced his death on Feb. 10 on social media, but did not share how or where he died. He had ...
Andrew Ranken, drummer and a founding member of London-based Celtic punk band the Pogues, has died. He was 72.
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The guitarist, singer and songwriter, who died at 78, cut his own path among his elders in the Grateful Dead, and beyond. By David Browne As the youngest member of the original Grateful Dead, Bob Weir ...
“Stranger Things” pulled off a thrilling ending by using two Prince songs in the final episode of the beloved Netflix series. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer secured the rights to “Purple Rain” and When ...
Originally, “The Parting Glass” was attributed to Scottish poet Sir Alex Boswell, though a version of the song was documented earlier in the Skene Manuscript, a collection of 117 musical notations ...
Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the New York Daily News.
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