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re:  Paul Revere: We got the sad but inevitable news yesterday ... Paul Revere has officially retired from performing.  FH Reader Tom Cuddy sent us this official announcement: Having led The Raiders for five decades, Paul Revere announces he is hanging...

Dallas Taylor dies at 66; drummer for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Steve Chawkins 18 January 2015 Dallas Taylor liked to say that he made his first million — and his last million — by the time he was 21. The rock drummer was a key sideman for...

On the evening of August 8, 1974, Richard Milhous Nixon sat at his desk in the Oval Office and announced that he was resigning the office of the president. The next day, he submitted his letter of resignation to Henry Kissinger and left for Yorba Linda...

This past spring, SLJ contributing editor Rocco Staino attended several previews for major publishing houses based in the New York City area. From a get-together at the funky triangular-shaped offices of Macmillan in the Flatiron Building to the posh...

Photo Credit: Emilio Grossi/HBO Warning: Spoilers Ahead You may think you know the “Godfather of Soul,” but you have no idea what a complicated, conflicted man James Brown was. Charting his journey from rhythm and blues to funk, Mr. Dynamite: The Rise...