Righteous Brothers' Bill Medley doesn't plan to slow down after surviving throat cancer
At 84 years old, Bill Medley is coming out with his first album in nearly 20 years, but it might not have happened. Nearly five years ago, the Righteous Brothers singer was diagnosed with throat cancer. "That was an incredibly scary thing to go through," Medley told the Guardian this week.
Backstreet Boys talk Las Vegas Sphere residency, becoming the 'Rolling Stones of pop'
NEW YORK – The Backstreet Boys are taking on a new challenge: Be the first pop group to headline the Sphere, a state-of-the-art venue in Las Vegas that has already hosted U2, Phish, Dead & Company and the Eagles. Features of the building include a 160,000-square-foot wraparound LED screens and more than 160,000 speakers. "Hopefully we sound like angels," Brian Littrell, 49, jokes to USA TODAY during a press junket in midtown Manhattan for the group's upcoming Vegas residency, which kicks off July 11 and runs through August. "Millennium 2.0," a rerelease of the Backstreet Boys career-defining 1999 album, will release in tandem with the start of the shows.
