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The year 2025 brought heavy losses to the music world, with the passing of artists who defined genres and inspired generations. Their songs, riffs, and performances shaped the soundtrack of our lives.

This article honors each musician we lost, reflecting on their unique contributions. Let’s dive into their stories and the music that keeps their legacies alive.

Wayne Osmond – January 1, 2025 TMDb

Wayne Osmond, the baritone voice of The Osmonds, died at 73. Part of the family band from 1962 to 2007, he helped craft their cheerful pop sound.

His harmonies on hits like ‘One Bad Apple’ won hearts. Wayne’s warmth made the Osmonds beloved. His music remains a pop classic.

Bobby Sherman – January 10, 2025 TMDb

Bobby Sherman, teen idol and pop singer, died at 81. Known for his heartthrob charm in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he delivered hits like “Little Woman” and “Julie, Do Ya Love Me.”

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Bobby Sherman passed away from stage four cancer this week, and John Stamos paid him tribute. He was once a teen idol and a heartthrob singer who performed songs like “Easy Come, Easy Go.” He also acted, as does General Hospital alum, Stamos. They both shared a love for music, as John was also a musician and toured with The Beach Boys. This week, he penned a sweet tribute to his friend.

John And Bobby Got Different Breaks

John Stamos got his first major break as Blackie Parrish on the ABC television soap opera General Hospital. He was a member of a band named The Bad Boyz, but it was his time on Full House as Jesse Katsopolis that soared him into a higher popularity. Like his friend, Bobby, he became a teen idol.

John in his teen idol years on Gh – ABC Via Nicky Swift – YouTube

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Bobby Sherman, the beloved singer, actor, and humanitarian who stole hearts in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at the age of 81. As reported by multiple outlets, Sherman passed away on June 24, 2025, following a battle with cancer (via USA Today). His wife, Brigitte Poublon, had publicly shared news of his diagnosis in March 2025, and later revealed that the former teen idol had been receiving palliative care at home since April. Sherman’s death brings a wave of mourning to fans across generations who grew up watching him on TV and listening to his chart-topping hits.

Bobby Sherman’s passing was confirmed by longtime friend and Full House star John Stamos on Instagram. Stamos, who served as an ambassador for the Brigitte & Bobby Sherman Children’s Foundation, shared a heartfelt tribute on behalf of Brigitte Poublon that celebrated Sherman’s impact on and off screen. The announcement quickly spread across social media,...

They say time is a thief, but illness is a slow, cruel erasure. Bobby Sherman, the beloved teen idol of the ‘60s and ‘70s, didn’t just fade from the stage; he bowed out with grace, courage, and a quiet kind of heroism. On June 24, 2025, the voice behind Julie, Do Ya Love Me and Little Woman died at 81, after a devastating battle with stage 4 kidney cancer.

In his final days, he slipped from crossword puzzles to silence. His wife of 29 years, Brigitte Poublon, shared a deeply emotional account, painting a heartfelt picture of a man who kept his chin up, shining bright like a beacon.

A man who once made crowds roar now quietly fought a private war. Cancer had “spread everywhere”. And yet, in death as in life, Sherman left behind more than hit records. He left service, sacrifice, and soul.

Bobby Sherman’s wife opens up about his...

Bobby Sherman, the former teen star who appeared in Here Comes the Brides and recorded the Billboard Hot 100 hits “Julie, Do You Love Me” and “Little Woman,” has died. His wife, Brigitte Poublon Sherman, confirmed his death in a statement shared on social media by their family friend, actor John Stamos. Sherman was 81 years old.

“It is with the heaviest heart that I share the passing of my beloved husband, Bobby Sherman,” the statement reads. “Bobby left this world holding my hand — just as he held up our life with love,...

Bobby Sherman, a singer, actor and teen idol of the late 1960s/early 1970s, died on June 24. He was 81.

In addition to delivering more than 100 total songs — including “Little Woman” and several other Top 40 hits — and five gold albums, Sherman enjoyed acting, beginning in the mid-1960s with roles on Honey West, The Monkees and The F.B.I.

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Bobby Sherman, the blue-eyed, chestnut-haired pop singer, TV actor and teen idol of the 1960s, has died, his wife shared Tuesday on Instagram. He was 81.

“It is with the heaviest heart that I share the passing of my beloved husband, Bobby Sherman,” wrote Brigette Poublon Sherman. “Bobby left this world holding my hand — just as he held up our life with love, courage and unwavering grace through all 29 beautiful years of marriage … That’s who Bobby was — brave, gentle and full of light.”

Sherman scored Top 10 pop hits in the 1960s like “Julie, Do Ya Love Me,” “Easy Come, Easy Go” and “Little Woman,” and played a popular character on “Here Come the Brides,” which ran for two seasons spanning 1968 to 1970. Developed by Aaron Spelling, the show’s 52 episodes were loosely based on the play “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.”

Sherman played Jeremy Bolt, the youngest of three brothers, known...

Bobby Sherman, a hitmaking teen-idol singer and actor who starred in the ABC comedy Here Come the Brides and appeared on such hit series as The Partridge Family, Emergency! and Mod Squad, died Tuesday morning of cancer. He was 81.

His wife Brigitte Poublon Sherman announced the news on social media via her friend John Stamos (read his post below). She had said in March that her husband was fighting terminal Stage 4 cancer.

“He lived with integrity, gave without hesitation, and loved with his whole heart,” Poublon Sherman said in Stamos’ post. “And though our family feels his loss profoundly, we also feel the warmth of his legacy — his voice, his laughter, his music, his mission. Thank you to every fan who ever sang along, who ever wrote a letter, who ever sent love his way. He felt it. Rest gently, my love.”

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Bobby Sherman, a singer and actor who became a quintessential shaggy-haired teen idol of the late 1960s and early ’70s, died Tuesday at age 81.

His wife, Brigette Poublon Sherman, had announced three months ago that the entertainer had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.

In posting the news of his death to Instagram Tuesday morning, Poublon Sherman wrote, “It is with the heaviest heart that I share the passing of my beloved husband, Bobby Sherman. Bobby left this world holding my hand — just as he held up our life with love, courage, and unwavering grace through all 29 beautiful years of marriage. I was his Cinderella, and he was my prince charming. Even in his final days, he stayed strong for me. That’s who Bobby was—brave, gentle, and full of light.”

She continued, “As he rested, I read him fan letters from all over the world — words of love and...

Bobby Sherman, the pop singer and Here Come the Brides actor whose image graced bedroom posters, lunch boxes and fan magazines as a heart-fluttering teen idol of the 1960s, has died. He was 81.

Sherman’s death was announced Tuesday by his second wife, Brigitte Poublon. It was revealed in March that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer.

“Bobby left this world holding my hand — just as he held up our life with love, courage, and unwavering grace through all 29 beautiful years of marriage. I was his Cinderella, and he was my Prince Charming,” she wrote.

Discovered at a Hollywood cast party when he was 20, Sherman got a big break when he was signed as a regular vocalist for the ABC musical variety show Shindig! in 1964. He spent about 16 months on the program, which showcased the top acts and songs of the day, through January 1966.

The blue-eyed, brown-haired Sherman had...

There were plenty of fantastic sitcoms in the 1970s, but audiences barely remembered some of them. Several of the best sitcoms of all time were broadcast throughout the 1970s, including Fawlty Towers and The Jeffersons. However, even some of the most popular comedy titles of that decade were forgotten about over time. Their disappearance from the spotlight wasnt always immediate, though. Multiple 70s sitcoms were popular for years after they ended and then eventually faded from memory, whereas others were massively underrated and cut short too quickly.

Unfortunately, even some of the best sitcoms of the 70s were a victim of this. These shows were incredibly prominent while they were on the air, but their biggest names ended up gaining popularity for other roles, so new generations of viewers stopped discovering their older projects. These sitcoms were also remembered in parts, but audiences often didn't recall how long they were on the air,...

David Soul, who starred alongside Paul Michael Glaser on the 1970s’ ABC buddy cop show Starsky and Hutch and had a No. 1 hit with the song “Don’t Give Up on Us,” has died. He was 80.

Soul died Thursday after “a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family,” his wife, Helen Snell, said in a statement.

“He shared many extraordinary gifts in the world as actor, singer, storyteller, creative artist and dear friend,” she said. “His smile, laughter and passion for life will be remembered by the many whose lives he has touched.”

Soul also appeared for two seasons on the 1968-70 ABC show Here Come the Brides, played one of the corrupt young motorcycle cops brought down by Clint Eastwood’s Harry Callahan in the thriller Magnum Force (1973) and stood out as a terrified vampire hunter in the 1979 Stephen King CBS miniseries Salem’s Lot.

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Susan Tolsky, the comic character actress who sparkled as the winsome Biddie Cloom on Here Come the Brides and as the shy secretary Bernadette Van Gilder on Madame’s Place, has died. She was 79.

Tolsky died Oct. 9 of natural causes at her Toluca Lake home in Los Angeles, her sister, Noel Foreman, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Tolsky also portrayed the secretary of a high school football coach (Rock Hudson) bedding students in Roger Vadim’s Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) and was a regular performer on The New Bill Cosby Show, a 1972-73 CBS variety program produced by Laugh-In legend George Schlatter.

Onscreen, she often wore big, round eyeglasses and used a voice she described in a 1969 TV Guide interview as “a chicken with a hernia.”

“I realized a long time ago that men don’t look at me and pant and go crazy,...

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Robert Brown, who starred alongside David Soul and Bobby Sherman by portraying the oldest of the three logging Bolt brothers on the 1968-70 ABC series Here Come the Brides, has died. He was 95.

Brown died Sept. 19 at his home in Ojai, his friend Kiki Bremont told The Hollywood Reporter.

Brown appeared twice on Broadway and guest-starred as alternating versions of a dilithium-lusting character named Lazarus on the 1967 Star Trek episode “The Alternative Factor.” He got that gig when John Drew Barrymore failed to show up on the morning of the shoot.

In 1968, Brown was on the other end of a last-minute replacement situation. All set to star as Det. Steve McGarrett on the original Hawaii Five-0, he was replaced by Jack Lord five days before filming on the pilot began after producer Leonard Freeman had a change of heart about his leading man.

Bridget Hanley, star of the late ’60s TV western Here Come The Brides, died Wednesday. The 80-year-old actress had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and was living at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills, according to the local paper in Edmunds, Washington, where she grew up.

Hanley played the female lead, Candy Pruitt, on ABC’s Brides from 1968-1970. Her character was the love interest of Jeremy Bolt — teen heartthrob Bobby Sherman. Bolt’s brother on the show was played by David Soul, who would soon find fame on Starsky & Hutch. The show was loosely based on Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

The actress married E. W. Swackhamer, Jr. a producer and director on Here Come the Brides, in 1969. They were together until he died in 1994.

Hanley worked throughout the ’70s and ’80s on some of the biggest shows on TV, mostly in guest-starring roles.

Bridget Hanley, who was a series regular on Here Come the Brides and later Harper Valley P.T.A., has died. She was 80.

The Edmonds Beacon, a local paper in Washington state, said she died Wednesday of Alzheimer’s disease at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, CA. The paper cited a tweet from L.A.’s Theatre West that announced her death:

With heavy hearts, Theatre West bids farewell to longtime member Bridget Hanley.

She is pictured here with Jim Beaver from “The Lion in Winter” in 2006, one of our most acclaimed productions.

Tw extends its condolences to Bridget’s family and friends. pic.twitter.com/3iszFbyQI9

— Theatre West (@TheatreWest) December 17, 2021

Born on February 3, 1941, in Seattle and began her screen career guesting on such popular mid’-1960s series as Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie and Gidget before landing her first regular gig on Here Come the Brides. The...

Welcome to this week’s Monday Night Raw review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and Edge is back here to tease his WrestleMania prize fight, while Peter Noone is wearing Bobby Sherman’s pants backwards to make room for his big, throbbing… This episode of Monday Night Raw, which is being recorded by our resident TalkTech program Jonjo… Jonjo: I’mma f—kin’ Dell! Me: …will have Ric Flair involved in a promo with Charlotte Flair and Lacey Evans, as well as Martin Scorsese b—ching about Avengers: Endgame being so lousy, even though The Irishman was just Goodfellas on Valium. By the way, every Avengers movie sucked. Don’t bull-s— me, ass-hole. You know they suck. The third and fourth one are a lot of fun to watch, but they needed better writers. A time heist? That’s so stupid. The snap? Kiss my ass. If...

Decades before deep-pocketed rock and pop stars embraced the Gulfstream V, there was the Starship, a former United Airlines Boeing 720 refurbished in the early 1970s by teen heartthrob Bobby Sherman and his manager, Ward Sylvester, as an airborne pleasure dome. The plane plied the skies in the service of, among others, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, The Allman Brothers, The Bee Gees, Elton John, Peter Frampton and Alice Cooper. One of the great artifacts of the coke-flecked, halter-topped, 'lude-dropping rock 'n' roll gestalt of the '70s — and probable inspiration for Austin Powers'

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The new addition to the royal family has some pretty big shoes to fill - and not just because he's in line to be the King of England. Born to proud parents the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge after about 14 hours of labor on Monday, the baby - whose star sign is Cancer - shares his July 22 birthday with some very big names. Here's who: • Selena Gomez(1992)• David Spade (1964)• Bobby Sherman (1943)• Pretty Little Liars' Keegan Allen (1987)• Danny Glover (1946)• Jeopardy host Alex Trebek (1940)• The Eagles' Don Henley (1947)• Willem Dafoe (1955)• Rhys Ifans (1967)• Albert Brooks (1947)• John Leguizamo (1960)• Rufus Wainwright (1973) • P-Funk's George Clinton...

The new addition to the royal family has some pretty big shoes to fill - and not just because he's in line to be the King of England. Born to proud parents the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge after about 14 hours of labor on Monday, the baby - whose star sign is Cancer - shares his July 22 birthday with some very big names. Here's who: • Selena Gomez(1992)• David Spade (1964)• Bobby Sherman (1943)• Pretty Little Liars' Keegan Allen (1987)• Danny Glover (1946)• Jeopardy host Alex Trebek (1940)• The Eagles' Don Henley (1947)• Willem Dafoe (1955)• Rhys Ifans (1967)• Albert Brooks (1947)• John Leguizamo (1960)• Rufus Wainwright (1973) • P-Funk's George Clinton...

July 22: Actor Orson Bean ("Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman") is 84. Actress Louise Fletcher is 78. Singer Chuck Jackson is 75. Actor Terence Stamp is 74. Game show host Alex Trebek is 72. Singer George Clinton is 71. Singer-actor Bobby Sherman is 69. Actor Danny Glover is 66. Writer-director Paul Schrader is 66. Singer Don Henley is 65. Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks is 65. Composer Alan Menken ("Little Mermaid," "Little Shop of Horrors") is 63. Musician Al Di Meola is 58. Actor Willem Dafoe is 57. Singer Keith Sweat is 51. Singer Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls is 49. Actor-comedian David Spade is 48. Actor John Leguizamo is 48. Bassist Pat Badger of Extreme is 45. Actor Rhys Ifans is 45. Musician Daniel Jones (Savage Garden) is 39. Singer Rufus Wainwright is 39. Actress Franka Potente ("The Bourne Identity") is 38. Actress Selena Gomez is 20.

July 23: Actress Gloria DeHaven is 87. Radio personality Don Imus is 72. Country singer Tony Joe White is 69. Actor Larry Manetti ("Magnum, P.I.") is 65. Singer David Essex is 65. Singer...

The history of cinema has had many long-running actor/director partnerships. What first springs to my mind is the long collaboration between actor John Wayne and director John Ford, which has inspired several film books and documentaries. More recently we’ve had the Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro team-ups ( although Leonardo DiCaprio may just catch up to Mr. D ). And now we have the eighth film that actor Johnny Depp has done with director Tim Burton since they first paired all the way back in 1990 for Edward Scissorhands ( Wow! ). After films based on children’s books, a low-budget filmmaker’s life, and a Broadway musical what have the duo decided to tackle now? Why, it’s a classic cult TV show from the late 1960′s : Dark Shadows. What’s their take on this supernatural soap opera?.

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Many of the early Star Trek novels, especially a few of the 1970s Bantam line, where generally written by fans of Tos. Authors like Sandra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath were huge proponents of the Kirk and Spock relationship, and more so it seemed a lot of the time, just Spock himself. Many of those Bantam titles and the early ones by Simon and Schuster’s Pocket Book line after Star Trek: The Motion Picture, were heavily Kirk, Spock and McCoy centric and a good percentage were written by women.

Which was not bad, just a rather interesting statistic. Back in 1985, author Barbara Hambly released her first Star Trek novel, Ishmael. And for the last 26 years, it has sat in either a bookshelf or in a box, unread. When I started collecting the Star Trek novels back in the 1980s, I had a lot of good intentions of reading them. But somewhere along the line,...

As the great Lionel Hutz once said: “I don’t use the word ‘hero’ very often. But you…are the greatest hero…in American history.” I pass this quote along to you, drunk dude who broke into a restaurant at 1 am to make wings: A St. Cloud, Minnesota man is in jail after breaking into a restaurant to satisfy his drunk craving for boneless chicken wings. …21-year-old Cory Mogen broke into a restaurant on the 100 block of 7th Ave. S. around 1:25 a.m. Friday. Responding officers found Mogen trying to fry some boneless chicken wings. He had also thrown marinara sauce on the wall. Mogen was given a breathalyzer, registering a .220 Bac. He was booked into the Stearns County Jail, awaiting charges of third-degree burglary. Who among us drunk walker-homers has honestly not dreamed of doing Exactly That at some point in our drinking careers? Hell, breaking into a...

It was announced this week that 16 year old pop star Justin Bieber will be writing a memoir about his life and will star in a 3D movie about himself. Enjoy it while you can, kid. It's too soon to tell whether he will be a star when he becomes an adult, but the odds are against him. For every Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Drew Barrymore, and Jodie Foster, who were able to achieve stardom throughout their lives, there are hundreds of child and teen stars who fizzled out-David Cassidy, Shaun Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, Debbie Gibson, Leif Garrett, Backstreet Boys, New Kids on the Block, Aaron Carter, Bay City Rollers, Hanson, Fabian, Menudo, Macaulay Culkin, Corey Haim, Dustin Diamond,...

Recently dismissed "American Idol" contestant Tim Urban became a household name for lots of reasons: His infectious positive energy in the face of nasty criticism, his Bobby Sherman hairdo and, of course, there was his hilariously awesome slide across the stage.

Sure, Simon called Tim's performance "completely and utterly pointless and silly," but you gotta hand it to Teflon Tim. He created a water cooler moment in a season that has been almost devoid of morning-after chatter.

When Tim stopped by to speak with MTV News about his recent "Idol" elimination, I had to get a lesson on how to perfect "The Slide."

Teacher Tim broke it down for me in three easy steps.

» Slide on the back of your leg muscle and your butt. As Tim says, "It's got a little bit of a cushion." (Don't fret, non-athletic types: I mentioned that I have nary a muscle on my entire body,...

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Ah blinky clock noise, how I've missed you. And thank you for that real-time note for the new people. New people are always so dumb and slow, they couldn't possibly make sense out of the hours passing one by one.

NYC makes its 24 setting debut with a creepy guy in a hoodie, aka shooting target. Never wear hoodies, people, they only identify you as a creepy bad guy. Also, drug houses are not safe. Welcome to New York! Hoodie guy walks up to an apartment and discovers his predictably dead friend in the shower, although I was expecting a chainsaw victim, so kudos on that tricky move. Hoodie creep immediately telephones the requisite scared chick who says "What the hell is happening?" over another dead guy at her end. Could it be ... some sort of plot? A shooter aims at hoodie guy again; it's the wrong one though,...