Browsing: RIP – Rock In Perpetuity

She earned international acclaim in the ’60s for film roles including Blow-Up and the sexually explicit single, “Je t’aime… moi non plus,” sung in French with her longtime romantic partner, Serge Gainsbourg

Though she was not a professional singer at the time, the bossa nova recording became a worldwide hit, ultimately earning a Grammy Award for Record of the Year.

With her husband, Barry Mann, she formed one of the most successful songwriting teams in history with hits that include “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'”

Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr called former bandmate Rourke “a kind and beautiful soul…and a supremely gifted musician.”

Along with his brothers Randy and Robbie, and Fred Turner, he was there at the very beginning of the Canadian hard-rock band.

He was instrumental in organizing the vastly successful 1985 all-star recording, “We Are the World,” which raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia

The much-honored exec was an early champion of the punk and new wave music that was breaking out of the downtown New York City clubs

With his brothers Derek and Phil, and several other members, the band released 11 studio albums during the 1970s

“We skip the light fandango”: The man who wrote the words for “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” , and all of the British band’s songs, has passed.

He played with such fellow jazz greats as Miles Davis and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers before going on to form the jazz fusion band