Chubby Checker visits WHYY studios to speak with NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY) Fifty-five years after his cover of the Hank Ballard tune, “The Twist” went to number one, ...
Chubby Checker and computer technology just can't seem to get along. Decades before the 'Twist' singer sued the makers of an app that used his name as a euphemism for measuring genitalia, it turns out ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's ...
Well, he’ll have a great story next year when asked what he did last summer. Chubby Checker, one of this year’s honorees at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, is refusing to attend his November induction ...
A lot of classic rock has been forgotten for all the wrong reasons. For example, Chubby Checker said that his songs aren’t played on radio stations anymore because of racism. The Rock and Roll Hall of ...
Eleven years ago, Chubby Checker laid out a clear request to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame: He wanted to be inducted, and soon. Checker, 72 at the time, thought his resume as a rock 'n' roll pioneer ...
Thank Dick Clark's ex-wife. Rock-and-roll pioneer Fats Domino died of natural causes on Tuesday in a New Orleans suburb, according to reports. He was 89. And though rock and roll owes its soul to guys ...
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Why Chubby Checker Staged His Own Rock Hall Induction and Won’t Attend the Official Ceremony
Chubby Checker will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Nov. 8, but the singer has made clear he won’t be in attendance. And interestingly, the Rock Hall is on board with that. At Checker ...
"The Twist" is a testament to the notion that a hit song can come from anywhere, and that a song's hold on the collective imagination can't always be predicted. By Brad Shoup Contributing Writer As ...
A Florida personal injury lawyer has filed a federal lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard on behalf of rock and roll icon Ernest Evans, better known as Chubby Checker, over an app developed for webOS that ...
Rock'n'roll pioneer Chubby Checker is suing two computer companies for allowing his name to be used as the title of an app that guesses the size of a man's penis. Checker's lawyers are seeking half a ...
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