*Earlier we posted news of the passing of legendary Black radio DJ and WVON-AM station owner Pervis Spann who died on Monday at the age of 89. Now comes word about the death of one of the artists that ...
Timmy Thomas, the singer, songwriter and keyboardist whose minimalist yet urgent 1970s hit anti-war anthem “Why Can’t We Live Together” eventually would sell more than 2 million copies, died March 11, ...
“Why Can’t We Live Together,” Timmy Thomas’ plea for peace and racial harmony, has had multiple lives. The stripped-down soul meditation, released in late 1972, became a hit early the following year, ...
Timmy Thomas, the iconic musician behind the antiwar anthem, "Why Can't We Live Together," has died. Thomas, 77, died of cancer in Miami on March 11, his wife Lillie told the New York Times. Following ...
(WSVN) - R&B singer and songwriter Timmy Thomas has died. Thomas was best known for his 1972 hit “Why Can’t We Live Together” that he wrote in response to the Vietnam War. Born in Indiana, Thomas is ...
If you're like me (and I hope this is the only way in which you are like me, for your own good), you go through phases where you obsess on certain songs for days. Recently my musical OCD latched upon ...
Thanks to eight platinum albums and six gold singles, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Oates stands as one half of the best selling duo of all time, moving more than 14 million albums in America over ...
Singer Timmy Thomas, in an undated file photo, recorded his 1972 classic “Why Can’t We Live Together” in Miami. His sound on the organ, and friendship with Harry Casey, sparked the earliest KC & the ...