The British Royal Mail just unveiled a series of ten classic record covers made into stamps. The selection was based on the artwork, not the music, and includes the last record Brian Jones played on with the Rolling Stones, 1969’s Let It Bleed. The cover features the tone arm of a phonograph and a cake [...]

Wendy O’Connor, Kurt Cobain’s mother, has been granted temporary custody of her grandchild (and Kurt’s daughter), Frances Bean Cobain. The court papers does not specify why Wendy O’Connor and Kurt’s sister Kimberly Dawn Cobain were granted the temporary guardianship, nor is Courtney Love mentioned by name. Frances Bean Cobain is currently 17 years old. Her [...]

Congrats to Britney on her 28th birthday yesterday. A year-and-half ago it looked like she was headed for trouble, but she cleaned up and is ready for the rest of her life. Author Ian Halperin claimed last year that she feared dying at 27, thereby joining the ranks of The 27 Club. Share on Facebook

Nirvana’s last UK gig remastered on CD: “Live at Reading” Kurt Cobain and Nirvana played one of their most famous performances in 1992 at the Reading Festival in England. The concert took place a few days after Cobain’s daughter Frances Bean was born and the new parents were under heavy attack. Kurt’s mental condition was the [...]

Turning thirty is a big deal. Many experience the last years of their twenties as a transitional phase between youth and maturity. Thirty marks the real entry to adulthood—an age where most people have completed their university degrees, found their vocation, and are comfortably settled in a relationship—or not. Renowned astrologer Rob Tillett, who spent the [...]

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Stan Polley (1922-2009), one of rock’s allegedly most crooked managers died July 20, 2009, in California.During the 1960s and 1970s he managed <a href=”http://www.the27club.net/tag/badfinger”>Badfinger</a>, Al Kooper, Lou Christia, and Charles Calello and others. Over the years, Polley’s reputation as a ruthless manager has been documented in books by Al Kooper and Dan Matovina, and according [...]

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A couple of years ago Tin Alley drummer Peter Hofbauer hit a kangaroo (yea, they’re an Australian band) while riding his motorcycle. He nearly died the same way Echo & the Bunnymen’s Pete de Freitas did, but three weeks in intensive care put him back on track to recovery. Hofbauer was 27 years old at [...]

Louis Chauvin (”Bird Face”) Born: March 13, 1881, in St. Louis, Missouri Died: March 26, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois Heliotrope Bouquet – Joshua Ri… Today, ragtime’s best-remembered musician is Scott Joplin, but at the time his friend Louis Chauvin was equally famous within the tightly knit rag scene. Chauvin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and although he [...]