Jada Star says her aunt concealed her illness because “she never wanted to worry anybody” — a decision that shaped a year of public reassurance before Parton’s death at 80.

The 77-year-old singer told a St. Louis crowd he was dehydrated, finished “All Night Long” in a chair, then checked himself into intensive care. He is back home in Los Angeles and “doing great.”

Sean Ono Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl have welcomed a son named Aurelius, the first grandchild of John Lennon. Sean was five when his father was killed in 1980 – and he is the boy “Beautiful Boy” was written for.

Dolly Parton’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star was found scratched across her name one week after her death. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce says the tributes had already been cleared for long-planned repairs, and a replacement star is due Friday.

June 29, 1980, Namur, Belgium: four months after Bon Scott’s death, a terrified Geordie sang his first AC/DC show weeks before Back in Black came out. Fans later carved the spot a monument.

Their debut was weeks from release when Andrew Wood died at 24. From the grief came Temple of the Dog, Pearl Jam, and Seattle’s great what-if – the band that ended before it began.

George Young misremembered Bon as a piper – he’d been the pipe band’s drummer. So Bon bought bagpipes that afternoon for $479 and learned them mid-session. The true story of rock’s greatest bluff.

Iommi doubted him, critics savaged him, and the voice they all dismissed became one of the most recognisable sounds in music. Why ‘he can’t sing’ was the wrongest verdict in rock.

August 22, 1969: two days after their last recording session, four bearded men, a sheepdog and two donkeys gathered at Tittenhurst Park – and nobody said the word ‘last’.

No songs, no rehearsals, Sid Vicious on drums and twenty minutes of the Lord’s Prayer – how a Sex Pistols superfan seized a stage at the 100 Club in 1976 and outlasted nearly everyone on the bill.