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With her flowing red hair and acrobatic moves, Tawny Kitaen appeared in videos for bands like Whitesnake and Ratt.

Abba's Bjorn Ulvaeus: "Benny and I have written some new songs, and there will be some new music from Abba released this autumn. But I’m forbidden to say anything more about it."

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Nick Cave was particularly enamored of a song for which she wrote all the lyrics, “Stranger Than Kindness,” so much so that he has continued to perform it and borrowed its title for an autobiographical book published last year.

The Malian singer Khaira Arby was a clarion vocalist who led an incendiary band, fusing Malian modes and rhythms and combining traditional string instruments with a psychedelic electric-guitar attack. Hear the Playlist.

In a statement, John Branca and John McClain, co-executors of the Jackson estate, called the decision “a huge, unambiguous victory for Michael Jackson’s children.”

James Brandon Lewis read biographies of the scientist and inventor George Washington Carver before composing the seven tracks and two poems that appear on his new album, “Jesup Wagon.”

When “La Bamba” premiered in the summer of 1987, the expectations for its success were low. Yet the biopic, made for just $6.5 million, went on to gross more than $54 million. Adjusted for inflation, that’s more than $120 million.

“She used to say, ‘First I’ll finish the show, then I can die,’” her daughter, Martina Corgnati, said. “The show came before everything.”