Her family said: “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she ...

Today in Music History for July 8: In 1792, Lowell Mason, Presbyterian pioneer of congregational singing, was born. He composed over 1,000 hymn tunes, including "Nearer, My God," "To Thee, Blest Be ...

June saw the death of a musician whose talent brought The Beach Boys from a local California band to hitmakers and ...

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was born in Hampstead in 1946, and by the mid-’60s, the singer and actress had become the teen queen of hip, swinging Lo ...