Aussie musician clings to life
A 21-YEAR-OLD Australian classical musician is clinging to life in hospital, officials said Monday, two days after his room mate died of a suspected drug overdose in a Hong Kong hotel.
Don Kirshner, the music mogul who shepherded the work of talented young songwriters to the top of the pop charts in the 1960s, launched the Monkees, then made his face familiar to millions of rock fans as impresario of his late-night live-music TV series in the 1970s, died Monday of heart failure in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 76.