Bley's pieces could be ethereally beautiful or subversively brash, but always found a grandeur without tilting into pretension.

He was among the Isleys inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

The singer of such hits as "Walking on the Sun" and "All Star" died of acute liver failure in his home in Boise, Idaho.

The singer-songwriter, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist song and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions, has died.

With Herb Alpert, Moss presided over one of the industry's most successful independent labels with hits by the Carpenters, the Police, Janet Jackson, Carole King, Janet Jackson and hundreds of others.

Clarence Avant boosted the careers of a vast array of influential figures, including Michael Jackson, Jim Brown and Barack Obama. He came back into the news after his wife was murdered in 2021.

Sixto Rodriguez, who lived in obscurity as his music career flamed out early in the U.S. only to find success in South Africa and a stardom he was unaware of, died Tuesday in Detroit. He was 81. 

Robbie Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who, in such classics as “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” mined and and helped reshape American music, died Wednesday at 80. 

The Chicago native, born Willie Perry Jr., wrote the song as an exercise track for his nephew in the late 1990s before it exploded in popularity and became a worldwide hit.

She became a sensation in 1990 with her cover of Prince's ballad “Nothing Compares 2 U,” a seething, shattering performance that topped charts from Europe to Australia.