Favorite Seventies Artists In The News

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ABBA was spoofed during the Dec. 16 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live in a skit that featured the cast performing Christmas spins on classic ABBA songs. Kate McKinnon was joined by fellow SNL alumni Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph along with current cast member Bowen Yang as the quartet were decked out in shiny red and green outfits to perform Christmas spins on such classic ABBA songs as "Dancing Queen ("Santa Queen") and a new take on "Chiquitita" called "Frostitita." The cast also staged the performance with ABBA's "signature 'standing close, facing different directions'," and could be seen laughing as they sang with their faces pressed right up against each other. The full sketch can be viewed on YouTube. - New Musical Express, 12/17/23...... Elton John unveiled his 15 favorite songs from 2023 during his Rocket Hour radio program on Dec. 15. "I'm looking back and choosing some of my favorite songs that I've played on the show this year," he said on the show, before adding on his Instagram account that "2023 has been a fantastic year for new artists and great songs." Among those included on the "Cold Heart" singer's list are artists such as Boygenius ("Not Strong Enough"), Mitski ("My Love Mine All Mine"), Chappell Roan ("Red Wine Supernova"), Stormzy and Raye ("The Weekend") and James Blake ("Loading"), among several others. Elton's list comes at the end of a banner year for the superstar -- his years-long "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour, which officially wrapped in July, became the highest grossing tour in history and the first to ever earn $900 million dollars, according to Billboard Boxscore. John's full list of his favorite 2023 song can be viewed on Instagram. Meanwhile, Elton and his good English pal pop idol Ed Sheeran posted a sweet video on X/Twitter on Dec. 13 of their annual gift exchange. The 82-second clip opens with Sheeran in a dark blue puffer jacket preparing to go watch a soccer match between Ipswich Town and Watford with John. The two exchange ugly soccer-themed Christmas sweaters before hitting the stands, where they perform an impromptu bit of John's "Your Song" and Sheeran steals John's famous spectacles as a prank -- before Ed raises his first in victory after his team bested Watford 2-1. In still more "Elton Christmas" news, celebrity chef Massimo Bottura has revealed he's cooking a Christmas banquet for the Rocket Man when Elton plays Venice, Italy on Dec. 19. "This Christmas, the 19th of December, I have to cook Christmas lunch in Venice, in Venice theatre, 'cause it's gonna be a big Elton John concert," Massimo, 61, told The Dish podcast. "It's going to be a big party and you know - they're ask me to cook like a Christmas, like with tortellini, zampone, lenticchie, everything. So [Elton's] gonna be there." - Billboard/Music-News.com, 12/15/23...... The Grateful Dead spinoff band Dead & Company are reportedly in talks for a 2024 residency at the impressive new music venue The Sphere in Las Vegas. Dead & Company members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti are in talks for a potential residency that would take place "next summer," however the New York Post story stressed that negotiations are "still in the works and not 100%." Dead & Company embarked on a supposed "farewell" tour this summer but Weir posted on Twitter: "Well it looks like that's it for this outfit; but don't worry we will all be out there in one form or another until we drop." The Sphere opened in September with a residency featuring U2 playing its classic LP Achtung Baby in full, which was recently extended into March. Phish will be playing a week-long residency later that month, while Beyoncé has also reportedly been involved in talks. - NME, 12/16/23...... Cher has scored her first Top 40 hit on Billboard's Pop Airplay chart for the first time since 2002 with her new holiday single "DJ Play a Christmas Song." "DJ" debuted at No. 40 on the survey dated Dec. 23 with radio support in such major markets as New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cher last appeared on the chart, which began in 1992 and ranks weekly plays on over 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations, in Mar. 2002 with "Song for the Lonely," which reached No. 38. The carol is from Cher's first holiday LP, Christmas, which chimed in at No. 1 on the Nov. 4-dated Top Holiday Albums chart. "DJ" is also spending a third week at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In other Cher news, the "Believe" legend appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Dec. 15 and told host Kelly Clarkson that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame can "you-know-what-themselves" after repeatedly snubbing her since she's been eligible for induction since 1991. "It took four of (the Rolling Stones) to be one of me," the 77-year-old icon told Clarkson, prompting Kelly to jump out of her seat and clap. "And I'm not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!" Cher added. After the studio audience let out a collective groan, Cher told them it was okay. "You know what, I wouldn't be in it now if they gave me a million dollars. I'm not kidding you," she said, laughing that she almost dropped an f-bomb in her answer. "I'm never going to change my mind. They can just you-know-what themselves," Cher said to applause, while casually noting that she "changed music forever" with her 1998 dance pop hit "Believe," one of the best-selling singles of all time and the track that is widely credited with introducing the world to AutoTune. Cher's interview with Clarkson has been shared on YouTube. - Billboard, 12/15/23...... Speaking of the Rolling Stones, the band has shared a live video of their performance of their Hackney Diamonds track "Whole Wide World" on YouTube. The song is featured on the forthcoming Hackney Diamonds (Live Edition) 2-CD set recorded live at the studio album's launch event in October at Racket in New York. It hits stores in the US on Jan. 19. The band recently announced they'll be touring North American behind Hackney Diamonds in 2024, hitting 16 cities across the U.S. and Canada. - NME, 12/15/23...... Warner Chappell Music has signed founding Foreigner member Mick Jones to a global publishing deal. Foreigner's recorded music is already being looked after by Warner's Rhino Entertainment, so this deal unites publishing and records for Jones under one roof. - Billboard, 12/15/23...... Former Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera has announced his memoir, titled Revolución to Roxy, will be published in early 2024. With over 100 color and black and white photographs, the book not only covers Manzanera's life and times with Roxy Music, David Gilmour and many of the luminaries of popular music, but also his family history, dating back to the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews from Spain in 1492, via the 1959 revolution in Cuba and the discovery of a Neapolitan Opera musician grandfather. "I've written this memoir for my English and Colombian family, dear friends and music fans, who've followed my musical twists and turns for over half a century," Manzanera notes. "It's a memoir that spans my '50's childhood in Cuba, Hawaii and Venezuela, when everything seemed in the brightest technicolor, to monochrome but very cool '60's London and the start of a music career that continues to enrich my life. Roxy Music is an important part of the story but I hope the reader will find my family history every bit as fascinating as my music adventures: I'm proud to be related to the most famous 17th century Sephardic Jewish pirate of the Caribbean, a British spy and an Italian opera musician." Revolución to Roxy will be published on Mar. 22. - Music-News.com, 12/17/23...... A new Willie Nelson documentary titled Willie Nelson & Family will debut on the Paramount+ streaming platform on Dec. 21 as a four-part series. The film captures the complexity of Nelson, who dreamed in his boyhood of becoming a singing cowboy like his movie idols, and became one of the most acclaimed songwriters and singers of his age, as well as a celebrated actor, author and activist, living through decades of tragedies and triumphs. Nelson speaks throughout the film, in both current and archival interviews (with aging audio often supplemented by helpful subtitles). But the filmmakers also present extraordinary insights from numerous family members, friends and fellow artists, including Dolly Parton, Kenny Chesney, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Nelson's longtime bandmate and harmonica player Mickey Raphael and more. "Dad has been homeless, he's had his house burned down, he's been through four marriages, he's been up and down, he's been broke, he fought the IRS, he's lost a child that's what makes him inspiring to me, his resilience in the face of adversity," says Willie's son Lukas Nelson in the film. "Willie Nelson is someone who not only has covered every genre of music, but also has really united people from all sides of the political conflict. All sides of every conflict," says co-director Oren Moverman. "So, yeah, we need him. We need his healing." - Billboard, 12/14/23...... John Oates of Hall & Oates was revealed as "the anteater" on the Dec. 13 episode of reality talent series The Masked Singer. Oates performed a rendition of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B Goode" (shared on YouTube) before having his identity shared (also shared on YouTube). The anteater costume was a reference to Hall & Oates' 1982 hit "Maneater." No one on the judging panel -- made up of Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke -- were able to guess who the anteater could be. After his reveal, Oates said: "I'll tell you what, I've done a lot of crazy stuff in my career. This is one of the best things I've ever done so thank you very much." Speaking to Variety about being on the show, Oates said he agreed to take part in the show after he realized there was an opportunity to perform without any preconceived Hall & Oates notions from the audience. "...I realized that it was a huge platform. It's such a successful show. I'm doing a lot of charity work and things like that for some great organizations. And I thought, if I can get the word out, I can reach a lot of people," Oates said. The reveal of the musician as the anteater comes weeks after it was shared that he was being sued by his former bandmate Daryl Hall. Hall recently explained why he is suing Oates -- claiming that he was left "blindsided" by his plan to sell a business stake -- while the latter described the claims as "inaccurate" and saying that he was "tremendously disappointed" to hear about the filing. - NME, 12/14/23...... Barbra Streisand has been named the recipient of the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, which is presented annually to an actor who exhibits what the guild describes as the "finest ideals of the acting profession." In Streisand's case, it joins a lengthy list of accolades including her two Academy Awards, eight Grammys (plus the Grammy Legend and Lifetime Achievement Awards), five Emmys and an honorary Tony. She is the 59th recipient of the tribute; she follows Sally Field, who received it during the 2023 telecast. "[Barbra's] enduring career is a testament to her genuine performances, connecting with audiences on a profound level," said SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher. "She is a colossal icon with a relentless work ethic, evolving with each stage of her remarkable journey. We celebrate Barbra Streisand not just for her achievements but for the enduring legacy she has carved." The SAG Awards will stream live for the first time on Netflix. The nominees for this year's event, which is being held at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall, will be unveiled early next year. - The Hollywood Reporter, 12/14/23...... A graphic novel version of The Who's Pete Townshend's legendary Lifehouse rock opera is hitting stores on Dec. 19. Townshend has been trying to bring his sprawling, dystopian sci-fi epic Lifehouse to life since he first wrote the follow-up to the band's iconic rock opera Tommy in 1970. Through several re-writes, false starts and re-imaginings, Townshend has struggled to bring his epic vision of a future world in which music is outlawed by the tyrannical despot Jumbo 7 -- and saved by a group of idealistic underground rock rebels via a massive, mind- and spirit-melding concert -- to the masses. "I'd gone back to it a few times and tried to get it to make sense and several times I've worked with other creative people, producers and writers who, in a sense, tried to 'fix' what they thought was wrong with it," Townshend says. "But in the case of this graphic novel what happened is people who trusted the original idea and used those [original scripts I wrote in 1971 and a 1978 revision] to create the bulk of the story." The bulk of the original songs Townshend wrote for Lifehouse ended up on The Who's 1971 album, Who's Next, including such iconic tracks as "Behind Blue Eyes," "Won't Get Fooled Again" and the song that provides the beating human heart of the graphic novel, "Baba O'Riley." A limited-edition run of 1,000 copies of the project -- which is being released in a square, vinyl-sized box -- signed by Townshend and Who singer Roger Daltrey, will be released by Tower Records on Jan. 20 and Rockbox Studios, with standard and deluxe versions coming from Rockbox and Image Comics on Dec. 19. - Billboard, 12/13/23...... Patti Smith is reportedly "resting, as the doctor ordered" following a brief stay in an Italian hospital to deal with what's been described as a sudden, unnamed illness. "This is thanking all at the hospital for their help and guidance," Smith wrote in an Instagram post on Dec. 14 in which she is pictured standing in the middle of a group of eight hospital workers in scrubs. "I am so sorry that we had to cancel concerts in Bologna and Venice. I will return to fulfill my happy obligations. This is also to thank all the medical teams globally, who attend to the people's needs, especially those altruistically serving under fire, all healers, physicians, nurses, attendants," she continued. Italian media reported that Smith was taken to the Maggiore Hospital on Tuesday due to a "sudden illness" that resulted in the cancellation of her planned show at the Teatro Duse in Bologna that night; she was reportedly released after the short visit to the ER. The artist/poet's planned Dec. 14 show t the Teatro Malibran in Venice was also cancelled. - NME, 12/14/23...... In a new interview with The New York Times, former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne admitted that he "harboured a lot of racial biases" on an unconscious level when was younger. "Well, I realized quite a few years ago that as much as I might like to deny it, I harbored a lot of racial biases," Byrne told the Times. "At that point, a younger liberal person would say, 'Oh, I'm not racist, or I believe in equality'. But at the same time, I was aware that I was also harboring these inner biases that I could occasionally sense." Byrne continued: "Overcoming those is more difficult than just rationally saying, 'Oh, no, that's not right' Those beliefs and biases, whether they're about race or women's rights or whatever they might be, those things can take a long time to fundamentally change within us." He went on to explain how he's used his art to widen his perspective on life, drawing reference to his recent "American Utopia" show. Byrne added: "I would like to think that I've been engaged in that process and was trying in 'American Utopia' to demonstrate that that can be done. That kind of change can happen, but it doesn't happen with this snap of fingers." - NME, 12/13/23...... Colin Burgess, the original drummer for AC/DC, has died at age 77. AC/DC announced Burgess' death in an Instagram post on Dec. 16. A cause of death was not given. "Very sad to hear of the passing of Colin Burgess," AC/DC captioned a photo of the drummer on Instagram. "He was our first drummer and a very respected musician. Happy memories, rock in peace Colin." Burgess had been the drummer for Australian rock band Masters Apprentices, and after the group's split in 1972, he joined AC/DC alongside founding members, brothers Angus and Malcom Young and singer Dale Evans. Four months after being recruited, he was fired in Feb. 1974 for supposedly performing while intoxicated. He served as the drummer on AC/DC's debut single "Can I Sit Next to You, Girl," which became a minor hit in Australia. Burgess was later replaced on drums by Phil Rudd, but he played a handful of shows in 1975 while Rudd recovered from a hand injury. "Can I Sit Next to You, Girl" was later re-recorded for AC/DC's 1975 album, T.N.T., with Rudd on drums and new singer Bon Scott on vocals. After his time with AC/DC, Burgess went on to perform in the groups His Majesty, Good Time Charlie and Dead Singer Band. Burgess wasn't one of the AC/DC members to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003, but he was inducted into Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame for his contributions to Masters Apprentices. - Billboard, 12/16/23...... Jeffrey Foskett, a longtime guitarist for the Beach Boys, died on Dec. 11, bandmate Brian Wilson confirmed. Foskett, who was diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid cancer in 2019, was 67. - People, 1/8/24.

Distinguished British actor Sir Ian McKellan and ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus have recorded another festive clip, this time the ABBA hit "Gimme Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" celebrating their new ABBA-themed socks. Sir Ian and Ulveaus been recording Christmas knitting clips since 2021, when a silent video of the pair knitting sweaters went viral online. In 2022 they returned with another video, this time promising to create some knitwear for the legendary Kylie Minogue. Now, McKellen and Ulvaeus have teamed up again to promote some ABBA-themed socks, which are sold as part of the virtual ABBA Voyage production. All four pairs cost £35, and can be purchased either at the ABBA Arena or the ABBA Voyage online store. The video of the pair dancing to "Gimme Gimme! Gimme!" has been shared on YouTube. - NME, 12/8/23...... On Dec. 12 ZZ Top announced they'll be launching their first UK and European tour in five years next summer. The Texas-based rockers will performing in nine countries across the continent including festivals and indoor headline shows, starting in Sweden on June 28 before hitting Norway (6/29), Denmark (7/1), Austria (7/3), Germany (7/5, 6), Paris (7/9), London (7/11) and Germany (7/13, 14), then wrapping at Switzerland's Sion Festival on July 16. "It's been a while since we've been able to check in with our European fans, so it goes without saying that we're excited about coming back this summer," frontman Billy Gibbons said in a press release. "We're looking forward to a good time and that goes for both those in the audience and on stage." Meanwhile, Gibbons teamed up with Slash and Myles Kennedy for a nearly 10-minute cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man" with Warren Haynes' band Gov't Mule at Haynes' 2023 Christmas Jam on Dec. 9. The cover featured vocals from Haynes and Kennedy, along with an extended guitar solo from Slash. The concert marks the 32nd edition of Haynes' annual Christmas Jam, and took place at the ExploreAsheville.com Arena in Asheville, N.C. The charity event raised funds to benefit local non-profits, Asheville Area Habitat For Humanity and BeLoved Asheville. Gibbons also treaed the crowd to a set a ZZ Top songs, including "Jesus Just Left Chicago," "Sharp Dressed Man" and "La Grange." The "Simple Man" cover has been shared on YouTube. - New Musical Express, 12/12/23...... Lawyers representing Michael Jackson's estate have sent a legal threat letter over the recent release of a rare Jackson 5 recording from 1967 touted as "Michael Jackson's first ever studio recording," claiming the release by the Swedish company Anotherblock "violates" the estate's trademark and likeness rights for Michael, and that the company was potentially "misleading the public" by claiming the song was the "first-ever Jackson recording." "We have serious doubts that Michael would have ever wanted these recordings released and commercialized," the estate's attorneys wrote. "What you are doing is the opposite of honoring Michael Jackson." A subsequent version of "Big Boy" as commercially released in 1968, and the earlier version is called the "One-derful Version" because it was recorded at Chicago's One-derful Studios. According to Rolling Stone, that version of the song first surfaced in 2009 and was released in 2014 on vinyl. On Dec. 6, Anotherblock said it would release the track for the first time in digital format, doing so in partnership with Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and with a company called Recordpool, which purportedly controls the intellectual property rights to the recording. The sale, which included $25 and $100 packages with various other goodies, was planned to continue through the weekend via the Anotherblock site. But in its letter of Dec. 7, the estate warned that whatever deals Anotherblock had struck to facilitate the "Big Boy" sale could be invalid if they covered rights that were controlled solely by Michael's estate, like his trademark rights. The estate's lawyers also strongly questioned the claim that the "One-derful Version" was Jackson's first studio recording. The estate also sharply criticized the decision to publish previously unreleased songs, telling Anotherblock that Jackson was "was the consummate perfectionist" and that he had been "very careful about what recordings he released to the public." At the bottom of the letter the estate warned that it reserved "all of the Jackson Estate's rights and remedies," including the right to seek monetary damages and an injunction blocking further sales. A spokeswoman for Anotherblock declined to comment. - Billboard, 12/12/23...... In a new interview with Record Collector magazine, Pete Townshend said The Who will have a talk about "what happens next" after the English rock icons wrapped their final orchestral tour date at the Sandringham Estate over the summer. "I think it's time for Roger [Daltrey] and I to go to lunch and have a chat about what happens next," Townshend said. "Because Sandringham shouldn't feel like the end of anything but it feels like the end of an era. It's a question of, really, what is feasible, what would be lucrative, what would be fun? So, I wrote to Roger and said, 'Come on, let's have a chat and see what's there.'" Townshend's comments come after he recently revealed that he is currently working on creating a new rock opera, that will see him take his novel The Age Of Anxiety to the stage, and see it performed alongside a variety of new songs. Townshend released the novel in 2019, and it explored themes of societal anxiety, triggered by things such as global warming and the threat of terrorism. It also saw the musician depict the detrimental consequences of social media on modern life, and how mental health issues are becoming more prominent across younger generations. Meanwhile, The Who's "Tommy" musical is set to return to Broadway in 2024, with previews starting on Mar. 8 at New York's Nederlander Theatre, ahead of the official opening on Mar. 28. Daltrey has also revealed he's working on a biopic about the band's late drummer Keith Moon, who died aged 32 in 1979 from an accidental drugs overdose. - NME, 12/10/23...... After reaching the top of the Billboard album charts with her first ever holiday collection Christmas, Cher is embarking on her first ever trip to the "metaverse." In the latest collaboration between Warner Music Group and leading metaverse game developer Gamefam, Cher will head to WMG's music-themed Roblox world Harmony Hills for a limited-time Cher store of virtual merchandise. It will feature some of the superstar's most iconic looks with tinsel hair, winter fairy wings, diamond antlers and a winter crown. The activation will spotlight three of Cher's new Christmas tracks: "Drop Top Sleigh Ride" with Tyga, "Angels in the Snow," and her historic new No. 1 Billboard single, "DJ Play a Christmas Song." Alongside a virtual Cher NPC (non-playable character) designed to match her new album cover, players can earn the wearable avatar merch by successfully completing tasks like delivering presents, climbing up Christmas trees and participating in snowball fights. Roblox currently has 70 million daily active users, and the new project marks a unique opportunity for Cher to reach across generations, including an entirely new audience and demographic, via festive and familiar holiday music. Cher's Christmas event on Roblox, which launched on Dec. 8), joins her heavy promo run for the holiday LP that's included performances at the iHeartRadio Z100 Jingle Ball, the Rockefeller Center Tree-Lighting Special and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. - Billboard, 12/8/23...... Lou Reed's final solo album, Hudson River Wind Meditations, will be getting its first vinyl release in January. Originally released in 2007, the LP is a collection of ambient and drone recordings from the late Velvet Underground frontman, and was his last solo studio album. Helmed by Seattle independent label Light In The Attic, in conjunction with the Lou Reed Archive and Reed's wife, Laurie Anderson, the vinyl release marks the album's first-ever, and is scheduled to drop on Jan. 12. The album is not currently available on streaming platforms. The package comes with remastered audio, liner notes from yoga instructor Eddie Stern, and an unreleased interview with Anderson. Deluxe versions of the vinyl will also come with five 810 photographs of New York City's Hudson River by Reed himself. In the album's original liner notes, Reed wrote: "I first composed this music to play in the background of life to replace the everyday cacophony with new and ordered sounds of an unpredictable nature." In a statement for the re-release, Anderson elaborated further: "I guess by 'life,' he meant something like what Brian Eno might mean ambient music that colors the air in very interesting ways. For me, it resets my brainwaves." In Feb. 2023, Reed's fourth album with VU, Loaded, received a limited-edition re-release as a nine-LP box set containing stereo, mono and "full-length" mixes of the album alongside demos, outtakes and live recordings. - NME, 12/1/23...... Ryan O'Neal, the boyish leading man who kicked off an extraordinary 1970s run in Hollywood with his Oscar-nominated turn as the Harvard preppie Oliver in the legendary romantic tearjerker Love Story, died on Dec. 8. He was 82. O'Neal's death was reported by his son Patrick O'Neal, sportscaster with Bally Sports West in Los Angeles, on Instagram. O'Neal had been diagnosed with chronic leukemia in 2001 and with prostate cancer in 2012. Born Patrick Ryan O'Neal on Apr. 20, 1941, in Los Angeles, O'Neal was the older son of novelist-screenwriter Charles "Blackie" O'Neal (The Three Wishes of Jamie McRuin) and actress Patricia Callaghan. He competed in Golden Gloves events in L.A. in 1956 and 1957 and compiled a boxing record of 18-4 with 13 knockouts, according to his website. In the late 1950s, O'Neal and his family moved to Munich, and he became infatuated with the syndicated TV series Tales of the Vikings, which shot in Europe and was produced by Kirk Douglas' company. He went on to perform as a stuntman on the series. After appearing on such shows as The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Untouchables, Leave It to Beaver and My Three Sons, O'Neal co-starred opposite Richard Egan on Empire, a 1962-63 NBC Western set in New Mexico. The sandy-haired O'Neal then made the ladies swoon for five seasons when he starred as Rodney Harrington on more than 500 episodes of the hit Peyton Place, the 1964-69 serialized ABC melodrama spawned by the Lana Turner movie. As Peyton Place was drawing to a close, he made his big-screen debut in The Big Bounce (1969), an Elmore Leonard adaptation that also starred then-wife Leigh Taylor-Young, then played a marathon runner in Michael Winner's The Games. Author Eric Segal adapted the screenplay, and that led to their Love Story collaboration. In the 1970 Arthur Hiller-directed film, O'Neal played a college kid from a wealthy family who sacrifices his riches as he falls for Ali MacGraw's lovely Jenny, a wisecracking, working-class girl, only to watch her agonizingly succumb to a rare blood disease. The drama, a box-office smash, also received seven Oscar nominations, including one for best picture, and won for best score. (O'Neal lost out to George C. Scott of Patton in the best actor race.) The actor then signed up to star with auteur Peter Bogdanovich opposite Barbra Streisand in the screwball farce What's Up, Doc?, an homage to the fabled Cary Grant-Katharine Hepburn 1938 comedy Bringing Up Baby. Next came Paper Moon in 1973, in which he portrayed a good-natured con artist in the Midwest in the 1930s. O'Neal's daughter with first wife Joanna Moore, Tatum O'Neal, starred as his youthful partner in crime and went on to make history as the youngest winner of a competitive Oscar, taking home the best supporting actress prize. Also in the 1970s, O'Neal starred with Jacqueline Bisset as a computer programmer turned crook in The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973); played a general in the World War II-set A Bridge Too Far (1977); portrayed a getaway driver in Walter Hill's The Driver (1978); and returned as a widower in the Love Story sequel Oliver's Story (1978). Later roles include So Fine (1981), Partners (1982), Irreconcilable Differences (1984), Fever Pitch (1985), Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987), Chances Are (1989), Zero Effect (1998) and Knight of Cups (2015). Recently, he had recurring roles on the TV series Miss Match and Bones. O'Neal's relationship with Farrah Fawcett began after they were introduced by her then-husband, actor Lee Majors, in 1979. They lived together for years in Malibu; had a son, Redmond, who went on to battle drug addiction (he and his father were arrested at home for drug possession in 2008); and starred together in the 1989 ABC dramatic telefilm Small Sacrifices and as co-anchors on the 1991 CBS sitcom Good Sports. They broke up for a spell after Fawcett caught him in bed with a younger actress but reunited after O'Neal was diagnosed with leukemia. In 2012, he published a memoir, Both of Us: My Life With Farrah, and three years later, he was back with MacGraw for a national tour in Love Letters. O'Neal was married to and divorced from actresses Moore and Peyton Place co-star Taylor-Young before beginning an on-and-off 30-year relationship with Fawcett that ended with her death at age 62 on June 25, 2009. O'Neal had Tatum and a son, Griffin O'Neal, with Moore. Patrick is his son with Taylor-Young. His younger brother, Kevin O'Neal, a regular on the TV version of No Time for Sergeants in the 1960s, died in Jan. 2023. "[My father] meant the world to me," said Tatum O'Neal, who like Redmond often did not get along with her father, in a statement to People. "I loved him very much and know he loved me too. I'll miss him forever, and I feel very lucky that we ended on such good terms," she added. "My dad was 82 and lived a kick ass life," Patrick O'Neal wrote on social media. "I hope the first thing he brags about in Heaven is how he sparred 2 rounds with Joe Frazier in 1966, on national TV, with Muhammad Ali doing the commentary, and went toe to toe with Smokin' Joe. YouTube has it, and trust me, it's so awesome. Ryan by a majority decision." - The Hollywood Reporter, 12/8/23.