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One of the biggest musical events of the last decade is perhaps the meeting has performed on stage the band Pink Floyd, time of three songs at Live 8 in 2005.

At that time, the name of charity and famine in the world, David Gilmour and Roger Waters had put aside their eternal quarrel and had made possible the meeting on stage of training.

Amputation of a member in 2008 with the death of keyboardist Richard Wright, the progressive group could still meet its three musicians on stage survivors if, as argued by Nick Mason, participation in a charitable event scale arise.

Earlier this year, during a benefit concert for the Hoping Foundation, Roger Waters had accepted an invitation from David Gilmour to perform with him for a song.

In return, Gilmour has promised to Waters to come play a song with him, while the latter is currently filming with his show The Wall, an album the group’s flagship.

The death of Steve Lee, singer Gotthard, joins those of other famous people who also have left us in a disastrous 2010 for the world of rock and metal. Dio, Paul Gray and Marcel Jacob also left us.

2010 will be remembered as a black year for rock fans and heavy, with irreparable loss of gang leaders and major components thereof.

The last to leave us was Steve Lee, lead singer of Gotthard, who died yesterday in Nevada (USA) in a cluster of tragic accidents that killed him.

Lee left the highway, just over 100km from Las Vegas with his motorcycle in the company of other U.S. passengers who traveled on a two-week trip aboard their Harley Davidson. The reason, the heavy rain which fell in Nevada this time. When preparing to change clothes and get adequate weather conditions, a trailer lost control and ended up against one of the bikes, which dismissed the impact Lee ran over and killed him instantly. Read the rest of this entry »

Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry (Saint Louis, Missouri, October 18, 1926), better known as Chuck Berry, is one of the most influential composers, singers and guitarists of Rock and Roll history.

It is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of Rock and Roll. In the ’50s, Berry played songs like “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Rock and Roll Music”, “Route 66″ Nat King Cole, “Johnny B. Goode” and “Maybellene.”

He won a Grammy in 1984. In 1989 he published his autobiography.

Rolling Stone presents him as the interpreter # 5 of all time list “The Immortals” surpassed only by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and The Rolling Stones.

Charles Edward Anderson Berry was born on October 18, 1926 at 2520 Goode Avenue (now Annie Malone Drive) in St. Louis. His mother, Martha, was a teacher and his father, Henry, contractor and a Baptist deacon. It is the third of six children. Simmons studied at the Grade School and High School Summer latter is the first African-American high school to the west of the Mississippi, which also studied Tina Turner.

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