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  Bobby Womack Suffering From Alzheimer's Symptoms

  January 2, 2013 – "I'm doing fine now, but I've been quite sick," Bobby Womack told SPIN in June, upon the release of his electronic-leaning Damon Albarn collaboration The Bravest Man in the Universe. "I had prostate cancer. I had colon cancer. I had my lungs completely cave in. I had walking pneumonia twice and I'm a diabetic."Sadly, Womack can now likely add Alzheimer's disease to that litany of misfortunes. …
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  Muse Win 'Best Act in the World Today' at 2012 Q Awards

  October 23, 2012 – Worst New Music rockers Muse are the Best Act in the World Today, according to the 2012 Q Awards. The U.K. …
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  Bobby Womack: What He's Learned From a Wild Life in Music

  June 19, 2012 – In a career spanning more than 50 years, Bobby Womack has experienced it all. He's written hits for himself ("Across 110th Street") and others (the Rolling Stones went to No. 1 with his "It's All Over Now"), seen the lives of friends cut tragically short (Sam Cooke) and derailed by drugs (Sly Stone), and nearly succumbed to addiction himself. Throughout, his deep rasp has remained one of soul music's most unique and enduring voices. …
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  Soul Survivor: Hear Bobby Womack's Spare, Confessional 'Please Forgive My Heart'

  March 8, 2012 – "He ain't what you call one of the silken voices of soul," SPIN wrote of Bobby Womack in 1985. "More like sandpaper. Or true grit, with the grease still sizzling on top." Having survived the mysterious shooting death of his mentor Sam Cooke, the death of brother Harry in a domestic dispute, and the deaths of two sons, Womack has lived a life that more than matches the weariness and pain in his inimitable, gravelly croon. …
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  LISTEN: Gorillaz Track with Mos Def

  January 20, 2010 – Blur's short-lived reunion is kaput, so the limelight is shifting from singer Damon Albarn to his virtual band Gorillaz. The animated quartet's third studio album, Plastic Beach, is now confirmed to drop on March 9 -- but its lead single, "Stylo," featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack, just leaked online. Listen below. "Stylo" finds Gorillaz in their signature dub and trip-rock sound, but now with more flowing soul grooves and vocals. …
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  Gorillaz Tap Snoop, Mos Def for New Album

  November 30, 2009 – With the Blur reunion behind him, Damon Albarn is returning to his virtual side-project Gorillaz, recruiting Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb, Mos Def, and more for Plastic Beach, "the most pop record I've ever made," he said. "[It's] sort of about the mythical aspects of Britain," Albarn told the Guardian of the album, the follow-up to 2005's multi-platinum-selling Demon Days, due next year via EMI. …
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  Do Metallica and Run-DMC Deserve Rock Hall?

  January 16, 2009 – How seriously are we supposed to take the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions? Certainly, plenty of the musicians who make the cut are inarguably great. But a conception of classic rock'n'roll that makes room for solid journeymen like Percy Sledge and the Dave Clark Five, but doesn't include more talented, slightly more obscure singers like O.V. …
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