Musical celebrities who passed away this year include Tony Bennett, Tina Turner, Robbie Robertson, Harry Belafonte, Jimmy Buffett, Sinead O'Connor, Gordon Lightfoot, David Crosby, Tommy Smothers, Astrud Gilberto, Burt Bacharach, Tom Verlaine, Jean Knight, Shane MacGowan, Wayne Shorter and Jeff Beck.
CBS celebrated Willie Nelson's 90th birthday with an edited version of the two-day Willie Nelson 90 concerts in Los Angeles on April 29-30. The spirited two-hour show aired December 17.
Melissa Etheridge dedicates her second memoir "Talking to My Angels" to her son Beckett. In her one-woman Broadway show "My Window," Beckett's OD death hangs over the performance like a shroud.
Most people think the music that came out the San Francisco Bay Area in the late '60s-early '70s was strictly psychedelic, but the two-part MGM+ series "San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time" considerably expands on that subject.
Bill Kreutzmann will not be playing in the band when Dead & Company kick off their final tour on May 19 in Los Angeles. The group made the announcement about the 76-year-old Grateful Dead co-founder and co-drummer's departure on Apr. 22.
