“One More Time" became Daft Punk’s biggest hit & first million-selling single, sampling Eddie Johns' 1979 song "More Spell on You.”
Though Daft Punk confirmed they have, for years, paid royalties to officially license the sample, he hasn’t seen a dime latimes.com/entertainment-…
When Daft Punk swept the 2014 #Grammys sampling his song, Eddie Johns was living on the streets.
Unlike other, more prominent sampled acts on Daft Punk's “Random Access Memories," he is not credited as a songwriter on the publishing for “One More Time” latimes.com/entertainment/…
The Liberian-born singer, now 70, struggled with homelessness here for more than a decade.
He had a stroke 10 years ago that left him unable to work and forced him onto the streets or into shelters latimes.com/entertainment-…
Determining what, exactly, Eddie Johns is owed two decades after Daft Punk sampled his song will be complicated.
"We’re stopping any activities with your organization until more meaningful changes are made," Netflix exec Ted Sarandos said of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. (HFPA)
There is a clash between the medical establishment and the fat acceptance movement.
First, there's terminology: Some use clinical terms like “obesity” and “overweight,” while others proudly use “large-bodied,” “people of size,” or “fat" latimes.com/california/sto…
Chrystal Bougon says her experience with medical providers has been one incident of size stigma after another.
She qualified for vaccination due to her BMI. She feared being hospitalized with COVID-19 and unable to advocate for herself. latimes.com/california/sto…
Landsberg grew up in Sacramento, the 3rd child of "what seemed to me to be a perfectly normal family."
His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He spent a lot of time in their home, but never asked questions... latimes.com/california/sto…
One night at dinner, Landsberg asked his dad a seemingly simple question: What kind of father was Grandpa when you were a kid?
Juliette Paskowitz was an aspiring opera singer from Long Beach who put her dreams aside when she became convinced she’d be held back because she was a Latina. latimes.com/obituaries/sto…
She married Dorian Paskowitz and embraced a Jack Kerouac lifestyle: boundless, free-spirited, going where the road took them — most often in the direction of the beach.latimes.com/obituaries/sto…
With nine kids jammed in the back the family finally parked their rig on the sand in San Onofre and became “the first family of surfing.” latimes.com/obituaries/sto…