Jonathan Richman: Last News

Jonathan Richman.Richman, the former frontman of The Modern Lovers was booked to headline the LoveOly Summer Fest event on Saturday night (August 28), before organisers discovered it was a scam, as The Olympian reports.The hack was uncovered when local DJ Mark ‘Markly’ Morrison contacted Richman’s publicist Debbie Gulyas on Friday (August 27) to organise an interview with the artist at the festival.When receiving the request, neither Gulyas or Richman knew anything about the singer’s supposed booking at the festival, and his headline set was then cancelled.The festival is booked by the Olympia Film Society, who say they were contacted on the phone by someone purporting to be Richman, asking to be booked for the festival.“We are all

the Hollywood Reporter. His family did not wish to disclose the location of his death.Kihn helped define the 1980s power-pop era with his blend of folk, classic rock, blues and melodic pop.The singer’s first hit, “The Breakup Song,” reached No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Greg Kihn, the rock singer-songwriter who scored with “Jeopardy” and “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)” and helped definite an era of power pop in the 1980s, died Tuesday at age 75, his family announced in a statement. The cause of death was complications from Alzheimer’s disease. With the Greg Kihn Band, the singer reached No.

The Brighton band will follow-up their self-titled debut this spring