A+E Networks. In early April 1968, shock waves reverberated around the world with the news that U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Although One Hundred Years of Solitude has come to be considered one of, if not the, most influential Latin American texts of all time, the novel and Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez have both received occasional criticisms.
JJ Cale, the musician best known for writing the Eric Clapton hits After Midnight and Cocaine, died Friday (July 26) at the age of 74. The singer-songwriter's official website confirms that Cale passed away at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, Calif. on Friday night after suffering a heart attack.fter Cale signed to Shelter Records in 1969, Clapton recorded After Midnight and made it a smash hit. Cale's debut album, Naturally, came in 1971, and featured the song Call Me the Breeze, later covered and popularized by Lynyrd Skynyrd.