In recent years we've lost an awful lot of notable musicians and actors -- particularly those that were at the top of their game in t...

Not long ago here on Go Retro I lamented about how homogenized pop music has become...every song and performer sounds the same to me. Not...

"Planet earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do." Like a lot of music fans today I'm shocked and saddened to hear...

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Dr. Wayne Dyer He wasn't an actor, a singer,...

I'll be honest--I'm not and never was a Trekkie. The Star Trek phenomenon just wasn't my bag, but that doesn't mean I ca...

I've never been a fan of child actors/actresses, and even less of a fan of today's mini-sized reality TV "stars" such a...

Photo from Starztrax.com The retro world lost two beloved television icons this week: Sherman Helmsley, of the hit 70s sitcom The Jeffer...

Photo: Rolling Stone Magazine Sometimes it's fun to just be superficial. I know that Steve Jobs is going to be remembered as a vision...

It's a shame that I was born too late to visit Pleasure Island--an amusement park close to my hometown that went out of business in 1969...

By now you've probably heard that Jack LaLanne passed away on Sunday. As THE original health and fitness guru, it seemed that LaLanne wo...

The week is proving to be busy, so it's time for a perfectly irrelevant post - how many songs can I list off the top of my head that are...

Eddie Fisher died last week at the age of 82. As a 1950s teen idol, Fisher was popular with the teeny bopper set and had a crazy amount of...

Phots courtesy www.peterpaulmary.com There have been so many celebrity deaths this year that I've noticed that my fellow retro bloggers ...

While I'm sad about Senator Ted Kennedy's death, I did want to draw attention to two other notable people who passed away this week....