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Donna summer has died after losing a battle with cancer. Another music icon is gone.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... attle.html

Jim Marshall has died. He created the famous Marshall guitar amplifiers that were chosen by a long list of famous guitarists, including Jimi Hendrix.

More from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17625335

RIP and thank you.

A 1960 hit and still played by guitartists:

A great classic from 1970:

November Rain:

Wish You Were Here is my favourite from Pink Floyd. It was played and sung at the funeral of a friend of mine by one of his close buddies and there's wasn't a dry farang eye in the house. Such a wonderful guitar piece to play.

George Michale has pneumonia and any suggestion that he has AIDS is, apparently, untrue:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15898241

Yeah Hi there guys and gals, here's the countdown on the top five in Bangers (5) "how deep is my love" BeeGee's, (4) "cry me a river" Ella Fitzgerald, (3)"Singing in the rain" Gene Kelly, (2) "Raindrops fallin on my head", B J Thomas and still at (1) for the fourth week on a run, and likely to be there for at least another week too , "Bridge over troubled water" Simon and Garfunkel ...

An early recording of 'All Right Now'.