MUMBAI: Founding member of legendary rock group The Doors Ray Manzarek, has died. He was 74.
Manzarek died Monday 20 May in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family publicist Heidi Robinson Fitzgerald said. He was suffering from bile duct cancer.
Born in Chicago in 1939, Manzarek formed The Doors with Jim Morrison while studying in film in UCLA in 1965 and the original lineup included drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robbie Krieger.
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MUMBAI: Yahoo Inc will pay $ 1.1 billion cash for blogging service Tumblr in its attempt to connect with younger generation of users.
The deal which was announced on Monday 20 May is seen as a ‘bold’ bet by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to revitalize the company by co-opting a Web property, report said.
Tumblr is one of the Web's most popular hubs of so-called user-generated content, has more than 100 million blogs in its network.
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MUMBAI: Latest offering by 'Ya Ali' famed singer- Zubeen Garg is a new album inspired by 1972 classic film 'Pakeezah'.
Garg who has invested six years into crafting the eight tracks of 'Pakeeza' (Times Music) considers his labour of love as his own 'child'.
Speaking with Radioandmusic.com, Garg says, "It is my dream project and my own child. I have taken so long to complete it. It's an album with purpose and it's not done in one month or so. I have worked for six years on this"...
MUMBAI: Digital music services in India have been growing by leaps and bounds, leading to a high level of consumer engagement and in turn content development as well. The segment is witnessing a lot of action with many streaming services launching various subscription models indicating that a paid ecosystem is here to stay.
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MUMBAI: Indian handset maker Lava has unveiled quad core smartphones Lava 458q in the India market.
The device sports 4.5-inch display with a revolution of 480x854 pixels, android 4.2 Jelly Bean, 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 512MB RAM, 8-MP rear camera, VGA front facing camera, 4GB internal memory, expandable via microSD card, 3G, WiFi, bluetooth 3.0 and 2,000mAh battery.
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MUMBAI: The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the world's largest and most prestigious annual awards and celebration of creative excellence in advertising and communications. Every year, the Festival organisers present The Media Person of the Year Award to a prominent personality who is an influential figure in the development of today's media landscape, ultimately playing an integral part in shaping the future of the industry.
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Entertainment Network (India), leading private FM radio operator, under the Radio Mirchi brand, has decided to hike its airtime rates in select key markets with immediate effect. Radio is repeatedly proving its efficacy and its efforts towards evangelizing the medium. In the last two months, three leading radio stations have announced the hike with an aim to add more value to clients and innovate better for listeners. The industry also avers that the hike is a reflection of the changing marke...
There’s music and there’s music from Goa. The fusion of cultures, the sea, surf, beaches and the air must have conspired beautifully to inspire its habitants to create the most joyous music. Goa has contributed immensely in enriching the musical kaleidoscope of the country- from studio musicians to bona fide stars. A new talent is in the horizon- Silvia Fernandes.
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MUMBAI: DJ-producer-singer Romanthony, best known as the voice behind the 2000 hit 'One More Time' of Daft Punk, passed away at his Austin home earlier this month.
Aged 46, Romanthony's family confirmed that he died from complications of kidney disease but the cause of Romanthony aka Anthony Moore death has yet not been released.
His sister, Mellony Moore wrote on her Facebook, ''My baby brother Romanthony AKA Anthony Moore passed away 7 May 2013 at his home in Austin, Texas. Th...
MUMBAI: More than three decades after their last album (The Visitors, 1981), Swedish pop super group Abba is in the news again. Their Greatest Hits collection released in 1992 has overtaken greatest hits The Beatles' iconic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band in sales to become the UK's second biggest selling album of all time.
According to the Official Charts Company, while both albums have sold over 5.1 million copies in the UK, the Swedish band's 1992 Best Of collection has now ...
