Bruce Swedien, the celebrated audio engineer and producer who worked on records by Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Donna Summer, Duke Ellington, Paul McCartney and many more, died Tuesday at the age of 86. Swedien’s daughter, the musician Roberta Swedien, confirmed his death on Facebook, writing, “A legend in the music …
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Barbra Streisand issued a statement Saturday clarifying her controversial comments regarding the two men who accused Michael Jackson of sexual abuse in the documentary Leaving Neverland. In comments made to the Times UK that were immediately met with condemnation on social media, Streisand seemed to downplay the molestation accusations and …
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Warning: This piece contains spoilers for Netflix’sAbducted in Plain Sightand HBO’sLeaving Neverland. **** There’s a moment toward the end of Abducted in Plain Sight, the Netflix documentary about the repeated abduction and rape of the then-12-year-old Jan Broberg, when Bob Broberg, Jan’s father, explains how his family managed to cope …
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Were it not for Michael Jackson, it’s quite possible that “Weird Al” Yankovic would have gone down in history as the oddball that sang “Another One Rides the Bus” on The Tom Snyder Show and then faded into complete obscurity. It was his 1984 Jackson parody “Eat It” that introduced …
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