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  • **FILE** Legendary country singer George Jones arrives Dec. 7, 2008, for the Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center in Washington. (Associated Press)

    George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81

    George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic "He Stopped Loving Her Today," has died. He was 81.


  • Russian prosecutors ask for 3 years in punk case

    Prosecutors on Tuesday called for three-year sentences for the members of a feminist punk band who performed an anti-Vladimir Putin stunt in Moscow's main cathedral, ignoring demands by human rights groups that the three women be set free.


  • Yekaterina Samutsevich (left), a member of feminist punk group Pussy Riot, is escorted Aug. 7, 2012, to a courtroom in Moscow. Samutsevich and two other members of the group are facing trial on charges of hooliganism for performing a "punk prayer" at Moscow's main cathedral against Vladimir Putin's return to the Russian presidency. (Associated Press)

    Russian prosecutors ask for 3 years in punk case

    Prosecutors on Tuesday called for three-year sentences for the members of a feminist punk band who performed an anti-Vladimir Putin stunt in Moscow's main cathedral, ignoring demands by human rights groups that the three women be set free.


  • Top British rockers seek release of Russian band

    Some of Britain's leading musicians have published a letter calling for Russian officials to release a punk band that has been jailed following a protest in Moscow's main cathedral.


  • Correction: The Who-Old Tickets story

    In a story July 31 about fans of the band The Who trading in tickets from a canceled 1979 concert, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the band's guitarist. He is Pete Townshend, not Townsend.


  • The Who fans trade in 1979 tickets 33 years later

    It was December 1979 when Emery Lucier learned the concert he was eagerly awaiting in Rhode Island by British rock band The Who had been canceled over safety concerns. The 17-year-old was so angry he knocked over a chair in his high school classroom.


  • ** FILE ** In this July 2, 2006 photo, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who are shown during their performance at the Hyde Park Music Festival, in London. Daltrey and Townshend are taking "Quadrophenia" and other Who classics on the road for a U.S. tour this fall, but first plan what Daltrey calls a great finale for the Olympic Games in London. (AP Photo/ Max Nash, File)

    The Who: Olympics to be tour tuneup

    The Who's Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are taking "Quadrophenia" and other Who classics on the road for a U.S. tour this fall, but first plan what Daltrey calls a great finale for the Olympic Games in London.


  • Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall amps, dies at 88

    Ears still ringing from the 1960s? Jim Marshall might be to blame.


  • Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall amps, dies at 88

    Ears still ringing from the 1960s? Jim Marshall might be to blame.


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