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Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Five Star band member Stedman Pearson tragically dies aged 60
Five Star musician Stedman Pearson has died aged 60. The news of his passing was revealed by several of his friends who paid tribute on Facebook. One friend wrote: 'Very sad to hear about the passing of my friend Stedman Pearson. Gonna miss our chats dude. I have no words. I'm in complete shock." Another shared: 'Woke up to learn of my friends passing.... HE was one of the gentlest and lovely people I knew.. an awesome dancer with just a childlike zest for life.... You made a huge difference to my life and will be missed muchly!' 'Rest in peace bro Stedman Pearson too young man,' another lamented. Prior to his death, Stedman had not been active on social media and last posted on his Instagram page in July 2020. Pearson was born in 1964 in Islington, London, and was the oldest of five siblings who would go on to form the group Five Star. He studied dance and fashion in college before his focused turned to music. Pearson was 19 when his father, musician Buster Pearson, devised a plan in 1983 to put the siblings into a band. Five Star would famously practice in their living room in the early days of their music career, with Pearson devising the dance routines for his younger brothers and sisters. Their father's vision was to have them be a British version of The Jackson Five and with their synchronised routines, costumes, and family links, it worked. They became breakout stars in the mid-80s after managing to reach number 15 on the UK Singles Chart in 1985. The group climbed up the charts from there, with their debut album Luxury of Life soon being certified platinum. Five Star won BRIT Award for Best British Group in 1987, but sadly their success was to be short-lived with their popularity waning in the 1990s following tension with their record label and reports of bankruptcy. A number of the siblings went on to forge solo careers with varying success, but a full five-piece reunion was never to be.
Chicago Tribune
12-03-2025
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: Nazi Germany annexes Austria
Today is Wednesday, March 12, the 71st day of 2025. There are 294 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria, as German troops crossed the border into the country. Also on this date: In 1912, the Girl Scouts of the USA had its beginnings as Juliette Gordon Low of Savannah, Georgia, founded the first American troop of the Girl Guides. In 1928, the St. Francis Dam north of Los Angeles, California failed, sending over 12 billion gallons of water into San Francisquito Canyon and killing over 400 people. In 1930, Mohandas Gandhi began his 24-day, 240 mile (387 kilometer) 'Salt March' to the Indian village of Dandi (then called Navsari) as an act of non-violent civil disobedience to protest the salt tax levied by colonial Britain. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his 'fireside chats,' a series of evening radio broadcasts to the American public. In 1947, President Harry S. Truman announced what became known as the 'Truman Doctrine' to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism during the Cold War. In 1980, a Chicago jury found John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys. (The next day, Gacy was sentenced to death; he was executed in May 1994.) In 2003, Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom nine months earlier, was found alive in a Salt Lake City suburb with two drifters, Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee. (Mitchell is serving a life sentence for kidnapping Smart; Barzee was released from prison in September 2018.) In 2009, disgraced financier Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty in New York to the largest Ponzi scheme in history, having defrauded his clients of nearly $65 billion; he would later be sentenced to 150 years behind bars. (Madoff died in prison in April 2021.) In 2021, the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd's family over Floyd's murder by police. Today's Birthdays: Politician and civil rights activist Andrew Young is 93. Actor Barbara Feldon is 92. Actor-singer Liza Minnelli is 79. Politician Mitt Romney is 78. Singer-songwriter James Taylor is 77. Author Carl Hiaasen is 72. Actor Lesley Manville is 69. Singer Marlon Jackson (The Jackson Five) is 68. Actor Courtney B. Vance is 65. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is 57. Actor Aaron Eckhart is 57. TV journalist Jake Tapper is 56. Actor Jaimie Alexander is 41.
