Artist: Celebration

Joyce Matthews

Joyce Matthews

So here's something different: Roberta Flack just released a solid album of Beatles covers on February 3rd. Check out the preview above. Favorite songs? "And I Love Him," and "Here, There, and Everywhere." If you like the Beatles or not, this is a good record. Roberta Flack is legendary so hearing her cover some Beatles songs is unique and interesting. "Let It Be" was a good call on the album title as well, seeing as it's one of the best Beatles songs of all-time.

Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died on Saturday. She was aged 48. MailOnline looks back at the life of the star singer who was pronounced dead in her room of the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, California. Child: Houston, pictured in 1965, was the daughter [...]

Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died on Saturday. She was aged 48. MailOnline looks back at the life of the star singer who was pronounced dead in her room of the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, California. Child: Houston, pictured in 1965, was the daughter [...]

Photo and autograph courtesy of the G Archives. Whitney Houston It's so sad to hear about the death of singer Whitney Houston. She had so much talent and unfortunately got hooked on drugs which lead to her slow and steady demise. What a tragic waste. I met Whitney in the 1990s when The Bodyguard was at the top of the charts. She was performing at a benefit in Los Angeles and I was lucky enough to see her rehearsing "I Will Always Love You." She sang [...]

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On April 4, 1968, LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky and writer Mike Silva, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The two men jumped into their car, raced the 200 miles to the scene of the crime, and there — to their astonishment — found that they had unfettered access to the hotel's grounds; to the abandoned buildings from which the rifle shot likely came; to Dr. King's room; and to the bleak, blood-stained balcony where the civil rights leader had fallen, mortally wounded by an assassin's [...]

On April 4, 1968, LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky and writer Mike Silva, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The two men jumped into their car, raced the 200 miles to the scene of the crime, and there — to their astonishment — found that they had unfettered access to the hotel's grounds; to the abandoned buildings from which the rifle shot likely came; to Dr. King's room; and to the bleak, blood-stained balcony where the civil rights leader had fallen, mortally wounded by an assassin's [...]

Albert Einstein , whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the universe works, died on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture the events of that extraordinary day: LIFE magazine's Ralph Morse. Armed with his camera and a case of scotch — to open doors and loosen tongues — Morse compiled a quietly intense record of a 20th-century icon's passing. But aside from one now-famous image — of Einstein's office, exactly how he left it, taken hours after [...]

Albert Einstein , whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the universe works, died on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture the events of that extraordinary day: LIFE magazine's Ralph Morse. Armed with his camera and a case of scotch — to open doors and loosen tongues — Morse compiled a quietly intense record of a 20th-century icon's passing. But aside from one now-famous image — of Einstein's office, exactly how he left it, taken hours after [...]

Vivien Leigh takes home her Gone With the Wind Oscar Years before he became a salad dressing mogul, Paul Newman's own Hollywood kitchen saw him cooking eggs for good pal Anthony Perkins in 1958. (Newman's wife Joanne Woodward removes sweet rolls from the oven.) [...]

Vivien Leigh takes home her Gone With the Wind Oscar Years before he became a salad dressing mogul, Paul Newman's own Hollywood kitchen saw him cooking eggs for good pal Anthony Perkins in 1958. (Newman's wife Joanne Woodward removes sweet rolls from the oven.) [...]

The Rat Pack was a group of actors originally centered on Humphrey Bogart. In the mid-1960s it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group, after Bogart's death, that called itself "the summit" or "the clan," featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and finally, Joey Bishop, who appeared together on stage and in films in the early-1960s, including the movie Ocean's 11 . Sinatra, Martin and Davis were regarded as the group's lead members. [...]

The Rat Pack was a group of actors originally centered on Humphrey Bogart. In the mid-1960s it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group, after Bogart's death, that called itself "the summit" or "the clan," featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and finally, Joey Bishop, who appeared together on stage and in films in the early-1960s, including the movie Ocean's 11 . Sinatra, Martin and Davis were regarded as the group's lead members. [...]

Frank Zappa in his eclectic Los Angeles home with his cat, his dad Francis, and his mom Rosemarie, 1970 LIFE photographer John Olson sets up to shoot the Jackson Five in their back yard, 1970 [...]

Frank Zappa in his eclectic Los Angeles home with his cat, his dad Francis, and his mom Rosemarie, 1970 LIFE photographer John Olson sets up to shoot the Jackson Five in their back yard, 1970 [...]

Few Hollywood stars of the 1950s and 1960s were so compelling, so utterly unique, that they actually came to define the era in which they worked and played. Marilyn Monroe was one of those stars. From her earliest days as an actress until late in her career — when she had, against her will, been cast in the public eye as the century's ultimate Sex Goddess — Marilyn posed for LIFE magazine's photographers. Many of those pictures never ran in the magazine — and, in fact, were never published anywhere. This gallery changes all that. [...]

Few Hollywood stars of the 1950s and 1960s were so compelling, so utterly unique, that they actually came to define the era in which they worked and played. Marilyn Monroe was one of those stars. From her earliest days as an actress until late in her career — when she had, against her will, been cast in the public eye as the century's ultimate Sex Goddess — Marilyn posed for LIFE magazine's photographers. Many of those pictures never ran in the magazine — and, in fact, were never published anywhere. This gallery changes all that. [...]