Franklin aretha

Bee Gees Robin Gibb also set to collaborate with Sam Sparro

A music great remembered

One of the music industry's all-time greats passes away

Low-key, high impact pop; Reissued over two discs with live versions

Improbably, they find a way to get better than ever

Includes The Doors, Led Zep and Prince!

Chan Marshall's sultry sequel to The Covers Record

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO March 5 to 11, 1997 The Notorious B.I.G. is shot dead as he sits in a car outside the Soul Train Music Awards in Los Angeles. Police confirm they are investigating links between the killing and the slaying of Tupac Shakur in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas six months earlier, fuelling tabloid stories of a feud between the East Coast and West Coast rap communities. Biggie's demise comes just days after Death Row Records president Marion 'Suge' Knight receives a nine-year sentence for parole violations.

Death of Founding Chairman of Atlantic Records Marks End Of Era

The late Tom Dowd's influence on music is legendary. As an engineer, he invented the eight-track recorder. As Atlantic Records' in-house producer, he worked with Dizzy Gillespie and Ornette Coleman before helping Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, The Allman Brothers and Ray Charles. His life is traced here through interviews with Dowd himself, Charles, Franklin, Ahmet Ertegun and Eric Clapton, and through fine archive footage and recordings, Inspiring.