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Roderick “Pooh” Clark, an original member of the ’90s R&B boy band Hi-Five who was paralyzed in a 1993 car crash, died Sunday. He was 49.

TV presenter Kate Abdo left her new husband Malik Scott in tears with a heart-warming gesture on their wedding day.

David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’ at 40: Producer Nile Rodgers and Engineer Bob Clearmountain on the Making of the Singer’s First Superstar Album “Bowie had this wonderful saying,” Nile Rodgers recalls. “He’d say, ‘Nile, darling, it’s all the same, but different.’” It’s a remarkably simple way of summing up a musical career that has become the go-to reference for artists who are continually changing and challenging themselves. And one of the biggest in his long string of shocking sound-and-vision pivots is the one that brought him true superstardom and his first platinum album: “Let’s Dance,” which was released 40 years ago today. Rodgers, who spoke with Variety about the album in 2018, was already a multiplatinum hitmaker via his work with Chic and Diana Ross. But “Let’s Dance,” which he co-produced with Bowie, was the album that vaulted him into the mainstream — and within a year he’d be helming Madonna’s smash breakthrough album, “Like a Virgin,” and overhauling Duran Duran’s original muddled mix of “The Reflex” into a global smash single.

Original High-Five member Roderick 'Pooh' Clark - who had the hit 1991 song I Like The Way - died in Waco, Texas on Sunday.The artist was only 49-years-old when he passed fromcomplications from a longtime infection as well as pneumonia, which he had been battling for the past two weeks, according to a Tuesday report from TMZ.One of his Hi-Five members Marcus Sanders told the site that Clark had been in and out of the hospital for weeks.The star had already been struggling for decades as he had been paralyzed from the neck down for the past 30 years after being involved in a bad car accident in 1992. Sad loss:Original High-Five member Roderick 'Pooh' Clark - who had the hit 1991 song I Like The Way - died in Waco, Texas on Sunday His famous band:The quintet was comprised of musicians Roderick, Marcus Sanders, Tony Thompson, Russell Neal and Toriano EasleyThe crooner was best known for the 1991 songI Like The Way (The Kissing Game) that he recorded with his R&B quintet.Their other hit tunes were I Just Can't Handle It and I Can't Wait Another Minute from the eponymous debut album.

Jimmy Page has said that it was a mistake to enlist Phil Collins to fill in on drums for Led Zeppelin at Live Aid.Collins and drummer Paul Martinez both played live with the reunited Led Zep – Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones – at the legendary 1985 concert, as did bassist Tony Thompson.Speaking in a new interview with The Times and The Sunday Times, Page admitted it was “not very clever” to reform the band, who had split in 1980 following the death of their drummer John Bonham.“The drummer couldn’t get the beginning of ‘Rock And Roll’,” Page explained about Live Aid.