Maryse Condé was writing stories before she was 12. Yet she did not make her debut until she was 37. But then she had lived through the first years of independence in West Africa, had four children and earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne Nouvelle. Born into a black bourgeois family in Guadeloupe, and having … Read more
July 15, 2022 at 12:00 p.m Posthumous honor in New York : The Bechers conquer Manhattan – A visitor looks at works by Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Photo: dpa/Christina Horsten – – New York The famous Düsseldorf photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher are posthumously getting a large-scale retrospective … Read more
Barger died of cancer at the age of 83. He was one of the first branches of the motorcycle gang in the 1950s. Thanks to him, the Hells Angels became a large, but also infamous club. – “If you’re reading this, you know I’m gone.” Ralph ‘Sonny’ Barger’s official Facebook page is bringing the news … Read more
Andy Flechter, keyboardist and co-founder of British band Depeche Mode, has died. The band reports this on Twitter. – “We are shocked and filled with overwhelming sadness at the untimely passing of our dear friend, relative and bandmate Andy ‘Fletch’ Flechter,” the band wrote on Twitter. “Fletch had a real heart of gold and was … Read more
Vangelis passed away. The Greek godfather of New Age music won an Oscar for his film score for Chariots of fire and scored a world hit with ‘Conquest of paradise’. – Vangelis gave his first piano concerto when he was six, although he never learned to read music. At that time he was still called … Read more
The Dutch writer, journalist and essayist Jeroen Brouwers passed away on Wednesday. His publisher Atlas Contact makes this known. He was 82 years old. – After a writing career of more than sixty years, Jeroen Brouwers, who had lived in Belgium since 1993, passed away. ‘After a short illness’, reports his publishing house† He had … Read more
Arno Hintjens died in Brussels at the age of 72. He was a bon vivant, a stage animal and an authentic singer. Now others will have to sing that life is ‘magnifique’. – The most beautiful is no more. Arno Hintjens died today at the age of 72 in his apartment in Brussels, surrounded by … Read more
Nesmith was one of the four Monkees known for hits like ‘I’m a believer’. The American band was originally put together by TV producers for the sitcom of the same name and peaked in the late 1960s. Nesmith turned 78. – Michael Nesmith, the Monkee in the green wool cap, died of natural causes at … Read more
Edward D. Shames, an American war hero who landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, has died at the age of 99 at his own home. – Shames was the last living member of the so-called ‘Band of Brothers’, the group of elite soldiers and paratroopers about whom a book was published in 1992 … Read more
Nick Kamen, singer, songwriter and fashion model, passed away on Tuesday evening. He had been ill for a while and turned 59. – Kamen was not a ‘one hit wonder’: in our country he made the top twenty five times. But he is best known for the 1985 Levi’s commercial, in which he walks into … Read more