The song recalled when Simon was young and a man came on the radio to say: “I hate to break it to his fans but Johnny Ace is dead.” In the song, Simon says even though “I wasn’t such a Johnny fan, I ...

It’s a story that’s sad, but true and one of what might have been in the music world of the 1950s: It’s the story of the late great Johnny Ace. I first heard the name Johnny Ace more than two decades ...

That Ace would die at age 25 while messing around with a gun came as no surprise to those who knew the R&B star. This week marks the 70th anniversary of the story of the night in Houston when Johnny ...

1954 - While playing Russian roulette, R&B singer Johnny Ace shoots himself and dies backstage at a Houston concert. By Billboard Staff 2005 – U2’s Vertigo tour is declared the top-grossing trek of ...