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This podcast series on him, the murders, and the L.A. niche he existed in is good:
Charles Manson’s Hollywood, Part 1: What We Talk About When We Talk About The Manson Murders — You Must Remember This
Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts . This season, You Must Remember This will explore the murders committed in the summer of 1969 by followers of Charles Manson, and the Hollywood music and movie scene surrounding the killings. Throughout the series, we’ll learn how a single sociopath’s th
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Stood the test of time
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Aretha Franklin is still alive
By Dianne de Guzman, SFGATE Updated 9:24 pm, Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Aretha Franklin would like you all to know that she is very much alive, thank you.
The singer issued a statement to Us Weekly Tuesday night, telling the entertainment magazine that the rumors of her death were untrue.
"I'm doing well generally, all test have come back good," she said in an email to the magazine. "I've lost a lot of weight due to side effects of medicine, it affects your weight ... Thanxxxx for your concern."
Franklin, 75, began trending on Twitter Tuesday morning when a fake Twitter account pretending to speak for the Queen of Soul announced that the singer had passed away late Monday night.
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"I played it for Crosby and he said, "Don't sing about that, it's not funny"."
"He wasn't what you'd call a song-writer; he was more like a song-spewer."
"When he got turned down, he got pisssed off. He didn't take rejection well."
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I was more surprised he was still alive, but Jim Nabors died today. "Gomer Pyle," AKA "Private Pyle," the original - not the "Full Metal Jacket" version. Nabors was 87. I seem to recall he had a post-career as a singer selling CDs on TV to your grandma. R.I.P.
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RIP 2017
