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This story was originally published in the July 3, 1975 issue of Rolling Stone.

First there is the voice from out of the darkness. A melodic hum, a brush of drums and “Nightbird fly by the light of the moon / Makes no difference if it’s only a game.” Then, at centerstage, Sarah is made out against a black backdrop. A glint from her eyes, then black feathers unfold and she preens, beaming. The already standing crowd cheers; many of them look reverent and in wonder. Sarah’s voice is joined by...

Patti Labelle’s Milwaukee concert was cut short Saturday after a bomb threat. Labelle was rushed off stage and the audience were forced to evacuate the venue.

In a video shared to Twitter, the 78-year-old singer was speaking to fans at the Riverside Theater when security arrived and moved her away from the stage. Labelle, who was mid-performance, yelled out “Wait!” as she attempted to receive flowers from fans, not understanding why the concert had come to a halt.

After being informed of the situation, Labelle was escorted offstage by security.

My love goes out to you Patti Labelle. You tried to make it such a loving and joyful holiday and someone had to ruin it for you #pattilabelle #Milwaukee #riversidetheatre #threat pic.twitter.com/VBRqANgA3D

— Sunshine ⁷ (@sunny_seokkie) December 11, 2022

In a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Milwaukee Police said that the building was “safely evacuated.”

Milwaukee Police Capt.

Keith Richards and the X-Pensive Winos have essentially been dormant for the past three decades, but they briefly came back to life earlier this month to perform three songs at the Love Rocks benefit in New York City. Richards has been on the interview circuit promoting the re-release of the group’s 1992 LP Main Offender, and he explained to Rolling Stone‘s Brian Hiatt that his solo career started after Mick Jagger decided to make his own music outside of the Stones.

“I was offended to have to make solo records at the time,...

Keith Richards will reunite with the X-Pensive Winos at the annual Love Rocks charity concert, taking place March 10 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.

The lineup for the sixth annual event also boast Mavis Staples, Hozier, Warren Haynes, Melissa Etheridge, Allison Russell, Larkin Poe, Tyler Bryant, the Revivalists’ David Shaw, Anders Osborne, Celisse, Ivan Neville, Jimmy Vivino, Maggie Rose, and Connor Kennedy of Steely Dan. Kiefer Sutherland, Mario Cantone, Gina Gershon, Steve Schirripa, and Michelle Buteau will host the event, while Will Lee of the CBS Orchestra will...

One of the biggest all-star lineups ever will celebrate the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees this weekend. The ceremony filmed October 30 in Cleveland, Ohio, and now airs this Saturday, November 20, on HBO and HBO Max.

The event clocking in at 3 hour and16 minutes honors Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Carole King, Todd Rundgren and Tina Turner in the performer category. Kraftwerk, Charley Patton and Gil Scott-Heron were chosen for early influence induction. LL Cool J, Billy Preston and Randy Rhoads were honored in the musical excellence category. Clarence Avant received the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

King had been previously inducted as a songwriter. Turner is now a solo artist inductee after going in with Ike Turner the first time around.

SEEThe Go-Go’s, Foo Fighters, Tina Turner, Jay-Z among 16 artists eligible for 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

While the order of inductions was different during filming, here...

Sarah Dash — one-third of the powerhouse R&b trio Labelle and also a contributor to Keith Richards’ solo work — died on September 20th at age 76. According to her cousin and business manager John Dash III, Dash was found dead at her home in Trenton, New Jersey. No cause of death has been determined pending an autopsy.

As a founding member of Labelle, Dash appeared on their ubiquitous 1975 dance floor classic “Lady Marmalade” as well as on records by the group’s earlier incarnation, the Bluebelles (1962’s “I Sold My Heart...

Powerhouse R&B singer and actress Sarah Dash has died at age 76, according to Trenton, N.J. Mayor Reed Gusciora.

“Our resident legend and Trenton’s very first music ambassador, Sarah Dash, has passed away,” Gusciora wrote on Facebook today.

A Trenton native, Dash was co-founder of Patti Labelle & The Bluebelles, which opened for The Rolling Stones in the 1960s. With Labelle, Dash went on to form the pioneering R&b/rock group Labelle which was more adventurous musically and sartorially than its predecessor.

The group hit its peak in the mid-seventies with the song “Lady Marmalade,” which went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The song went to the top of the charts again when it was famously re-recorded by Christina Aguilera, Mýa, Pink and rapper Lil’ Kim for the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack.

After working with The Stones, Dash also performed in The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s...

Sarah Dash, a co-founder of pioneering R&b/rock group Labelle of “Lady Marmalade” fame, died Monday (Sept. 20). She was 76.

“We were just onstage together on Saturday [Sept. 18] and it was such a powerful and special moment,” group namesake Patti Labelle said in a statement sent to Billboard. “Sarah Dash was an awesomely talented, beautiful and loving soul who blessed my life and the lives of so many others in more ways than I can say. I could always count on her to have my back. That’s who Sarah was … a loyal ...

Sarah Dash, a co-founder of pioneering R&b/rock group Labelle of “Lady Marmalade” fame, died Monday (Sept. 20). She was 76.

“We were just onstage together on Saturday [Sept. 18] and it was such a powerful and special moment,” group namesake Patti Labelle said in a statement sent to Billboard. “Sarah Dash was an awesomely talented, beautiful and loving soul who blessed my life and the lives of so many others in more ways than I can say. I could always count on her to have my back. That’s who Sarah was … a loyal ...

It’s late September, and Keith Richards is back at work after a six-month pause. He boasts that his temperature clocked in at 97.8 degrees (“I’m chilling,” he says) when he arrived at Manhattan’s Germano Studios to resume work on the Rolling Stones’ next album. “I realized coming into the studio yesterday that I was in this room in very early March, and we were just doing what we were doing and the next day, shit hit the fan,” he says with a big laugh. “So yesterday I had that déjà vu feeling.

Keith Richards’ December 15th, 1988 live recording of the penultimate show from his first U.S. tour with the X-Pensive Winos will be reissued as a limited edition box set. Live at the Hollywood Palladium arrives on November 13th via BMG. The concert was part of a 12-city tour that followed their release of Talk Is Cheap.

The X-Pensive Winos included guitarist Waddy Wachtel (Everly Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks), Richards’ long-time collaborator, drummer Steve Jordan, bassist Charley Drayton, Rolling Stones collaborator and keyboard player Ivan Neville, singer Sarah Dash,...

Fans mourned the passing of “Golden Girls” star Rue McClanahan on Thursday. The only problem? McClanahan died in 2010. After CBS New re-shared their obituary of McClanahan from five years ago, fans online didn’t take the time to check the date on the story and shared it like it was brand new. Scroll down to read some heartfelt, albeit late, tributes to the actress. See photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2015 One of a kind..May she rest in peace.Rue McClanahan, One of the “Golden Girls” Stars, Dies at 76 http://t.co/I1h78jk8zq - Sarah Dash (@SarahDash) June 11, 2015 Missing another great today!

The fourth annual 'Night Of A Thousand Judys' -- presented by The Meeting hosted by Justin Sayre -- welcomed stars including Sierra Boggess The Phantom of the Opera, Austin Scarlett 'Project Runway', Karen Wyman celebrated 60s pop singer, Alison Fraser two-time Tony Award nominee, Jackie Hoffman Hairspray and Aaron Weinstein acclaimed jazz violinist, as well as Jane Monheit Grammy Award nominated jazz star, Sarah Dash RampBDisco legend of Labelle, Rory O'Malley Tony Award nominee, The Book of Mormon, Julia Murney Wicked, The Wild Party, Erin McKeown folk-rock singersongwriter and Gabrielle Stravelli Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Scroll down for photos from the event...

The fourth annual 'Night Of A Thousand Judys' - presented by The Meeting hosted by Justin Sayre - has announced that the initial talent lineup, which will include Jane Monheit Grammy Award nominated jazz star, Sarah Dash RampBDisco legend of Labelle, Rory O'Malley Tony Award nominee, The Book of Mormon, Julia Murney Wicked, The Wild Party, Erin McKeown folk-rock singersongwriter and Gabrielle Stravelli Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Additional special guests will be announced soon. The Monday, June 16 Pride concert to benefit The Ali Forney Center will take place at Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center 129 West 67th Street in Manhattan. Called 'a rambunctious, uproarious, unpredictable all-star concert' by The Wall Street Journal, 'Night Of A Thousand Judys' will honor the iconic Judy Garland with special skits, tributes and songs from her legendary career as movie star, recording artist and stage performer. This show will also help celebrate the...

Aug. 12: Actor George Hamilton is 73. Actress Jennifer Warren is 71. Singer-guitarist Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits is 63. Singer Kid Creole is 62. Actor Sam J. Jones ("Flash Gordon") is 58. Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny is 58. Actor Bruce Greenwood ("Thirteen Days") is 56. Country singer Danny Shirley (Confederate Railroad) is 56. Guitarist Roy Hay of Culture Club is 51. Rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot is 49. Actor Peter Krause is 47. Actor Michael Ian Black ("Ed") is 41. Actress Rebecca Gayheart is 41. Actor Casey Affleck is 37. Actress Maggie Lawson ("Psych") is 32. Actress Imani Hakim ("Everybody Hates Chris") is 19.

Aug. 13: Actor Pat Harrington is 83. Actor Kevin Tighe is 68. Actress Gretchen Corbett ("The Rockford Files") is 65. Actor Danny Bonaduce is 53. Actress Dawnn Lewis ("A Different World," "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper") is 51. Actor John Slattery is 50. Actress Debi Mazar is 48. Actress Quinn Cummings ("Family") is 45. Country singer Andy Griggs is 39. Drummer Mike Melancon of Emerson Drive is 34. Actress Kathryn Fiore ("Reno 911!") is 33. Singer James Morrison is 28.

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Digitas in association with Children for Children is proud to present Spotlight, concert benefiting Community Service Day 2009, at The Laurie Beechman Theatre (407 West 42nd St, NYC). The 7:00 p.m. concert will boast the talents of Capitol Recording Artist Sarah Dash (the founder of Patti Labelle & the Blue Belles), Arista Recording Artist Margot B, Broadway?s Marty Thomas, Kristy Cates, Emily McNamara, Katie Cass, Michale Buchanan and others.

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Yesterday's AIDS Walk in New York City which benefits Gmhc and other New York area AIDS service organization got some high profile support from a number of celebrities. Carson Kressley, Ugly Betty's Michael Urie, and Hilary Duff among them.

We've got the pictures from this event after the break.

Hilary Duff poses on the Observation Deck after flipping the switch to light

the Empire State Building May 14th in a special event to honor

the 24th annual AIDS Walk New York

Carson Kressley

(L to r) Brooke Smith, Kressley, Duff, Sarah Dash, Urie

Broadway star Norm Lewis

CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis, Craig R. Miller...

Praised by Backstage Magazine for "one of those rare voices with a soothing, almost hypnotic quality" award winning vocalist and actress Jill O?Hara, the original female lead in the Burt Bacharach-Hal David-Neil Simon Broadway musical Promises, Promises, reunites with Burt Bacharach at the annual spring gala for 92nd Street Y. What The World Needs Now?The Music of Burt Bacharach will take place at Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, Monday, May 18. Jill introduced the Bacharach/David pop classics I?ll Never Fall In Love Again, Knowing When To Leave and Whoever You Are I Love You. O?Hara went on to win a Tony nomination, the Theater World Award and New Jersey Journal Award for Best Actress In A Musical, while the cast album earned a Grammy Award. The concert event will also feature performances by Dionne Warwick, Sarah Dash and Elvis Costello.

Labelle have announced details of a new album and single, their first original material in over 30 years. The group, made up of Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash, will release new LP Back To Now on April 20. The trio, who rose to fame with 'Lady Marmalade' in 1974, have teamed up with Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz and Gamble & Huff in a bid to reignite their career. "We talked to Kenny Gamble about the idea of us getting together and invited him to a session. He showed (more)...