Netflix first popped up on our computers in August 1997, but in the last year it seems the wind has finally gotten under its sails. Once you subscribe, you’ll never want to visit the rental store again.
Bobby Hatfield, who with partner Bill Medley pioneered “blue-eyed soul” as the Righteous Brothers with hits like “Unchained Melody” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” died Wednesday night of undetermined causes at a hotel, his manager said. He was 63.
Hatfield’s body was discovered in his bed at 7 p.m. EST, a half-hour before the duo was to perform at Miller Auditorium on the Western Michigan University campus, manager David Cohen said.
“It’s a shock, a real shock,” Cohen said during a telephone interview. Medley, who teamed with Hatfield 42 years ago, was “broken up. He’s not even coherent,” Cohen said.
Hatfield’s body was taken from the hotel about 10 p.m. directly to Lansing, where an autopsy was to be performed, Joe Hakim, an executive with the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Kalamazoo, told the Kalamazoo Gazette.
Miller Auditorium executive director Bill Biddle told the audience at 7:05 p.m. that the 7:30 p.m. show had been canceled because of “a personal emergency of an unspecified nature.”
Hatfield had been sleeping most of the day in his room, Hakim said. When he didn’t answer a wakeup call about 6 p.m., hotel staff and authorities entered the room and found the singer’s body.
The Righteous Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year.
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They’ve been laying low since playing a few weeks’ worth of shows in the U.S. last spring, but Gomez are hardly hibernating this winter. And now the British quintet is heading for American shores again beginning early next year. Dates include shows at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club, NYC’s Irving Plaza and The Fox in Boulder, CO among other select markets.
More dates are likely.
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Hip-hop ensemble Arrested Development has filed a trademark-infringement suit against Fox claiming ownership of the moniker, which the network is using for one of its new series. Filed October 16 in Georgia’s DeKalb County Superior Court, the suit claims that use of the name by Fox is “not only confusing to the public but also has the potential to significantly dilute what the
