Kris Kristofferson had already established himself as a top songwriter-for-hire in the late ’60s when he received a phone call from Fred Foster, who was looking for material for his company Monument ...

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Hawaii mourned the loss in 2024 of people who influenced island life in ways that changed the course of Hawaii history, ...

From the world of music, film, politics, and more, this year saw the passing of many that were household names ...

We remember those we lost in December, including producer Richard Perry, followed by our tributes from the prior months of ...

Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against Russian President Vladimir Putin, former President Jimmy Carter, U.S. congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, actress Maggie Smith and hall-of-fame baseball player Willi ...

On the all-genre Billboard 200, Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree: The Decca Christmas Recordings jingles 19-15, surpassing its prior No. 17 high – and marking a new best rank for Lee over her 61-plus ...

In a year saturated with politics in an ever more polarised world, where the obituary many feared they’d be reading would be ...

One Direction star Liam Payne, Oscar-winning Harry Potter and ‘Downton Abbey’ actor Maggie Smith and ‘Charmed’ star Shannen Doherty were among the notable figures who died this year ...

Charley Crockett talks busking around Europe, riding the rails, and open heart surgery ahead of his New Year's Eve concert at ...

As another year draws to a close, it's time to commemorate those we have said goodbye to over the last 12 months ...

It’s time to look back in anger – or at least mild despair – as our columnist conducts his annual alphabetical autopsy of the ...