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Music producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector died has died in prison. He was 80. CNN reports the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Spector had died of natural causes on Saturday. The medical examiner for the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office will determine an official cause of death at a later date. Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life for fatally shooting actress Lana Clarkson. The Bronx, New York native produced recordings by The Beatles, Cher, the Ramones, and Ike and Tina Turner.
Country Music Legend George Jones passed away at the age of 81 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after a bout with fever and blood pressure issues. Many country music stars have called him one of the greatest country singers of all time.
Chrissy Amphlett, the lead singer of Australian rock band the "Divinyls", whose song "I Touch Myself" rocketed to the near top of the billboard charts sadly passed away at 53 after battling MS and breast cancer.
Fans of the South Korean band BTS wait outside River Plate's Monumental stadium where band member Kim Seok-jin, also known as Jin, is set to make a guest appearance with Coldplay on the Argentine leg of the British rock band's tour. Kim is set to start military service in South Korea later on. IMAGES
Lausanne (Switzerland), Sep 23 (EFE).- (Camera: Antonio Broto) A new musical instrument, the largest ever built and reaching 45 meters high, is currently being erected on the campus of the School Lausanne Federal Polytechnic (EPFL), where it is presented as a “sound pavilion” that offers an experience that is both auditory, architectural and scientific, very embedded in the current of contemporary music.FOOTAGE OF THE NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. SOUNDBITES IN FRENCH OF BEAT GYSIN, SWISS COMPOSER.TRANSLATION:1- "What we see here is a really large architectural sculpture, much larger than the largest instrument known so far, an organ is about 10 meters long and this one has. We have joined other instruments such as bells, flutes, trombones to the architectural sculpture, electronic instruments... all united in this structure, which emits sound in all directions. Collect that sound "2- "We did this installation before in Basel and Zurich. In Basel, it was done in the Kunstmuseum, an artistic environment, so many people came to see Klimt, Picasso, and after seeing this sculpture they related it with art. In Zurich, it settled inside a church, and the people who came made a different relationship with this project. Here, in a science environment, people are interested in how it works, its rules, its physiology, the physics of the project ... So the reaction has been very different in Basel, Zurich, or Lausanne. "