Urban areas with at least one million inhabitants in 2006. By the end of the twentieth century, 47% of the world's population lived in cities, a figure which has risen from 3% since 1800.
Ben E. King, best known for the classic soul song Stand By Me, has died at 76. One of the most distinctive voices of 1950s and '60s R&B has died. Ben E. King, best known for the song Stand By Me, died yesterday in New Jersey of natural causes. He was 76.
Eric Clapton considers Johnson the most important blues musician who ever lived.. He recorded enough of his songs to make Me and Mr. Johnson, a blues-rock album released in 2004 as a tribute to the legendary bluesman (it was also used in the film Sessions for Robert J).