Is the titular character in Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler" based on a real card shark? Is the story based on true events? We ...

Forty-six years ago today, Kenny Rogers was in the middle of a nearly six-month-long run at the top of the country albums ...

Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop with such hits as "Lucille," "Lady" and "Islands in the Stream" and embraced his persona as "The Gambler" on ...

Kenny Rogers' legacy is more than just a slew of albums full of cross-genre hits and awards — it's also the children he left behind to carry on his memory. Throughout the course of his life, Kenny was ...

Kenny Rogers became one of the most enduring superstars in country music history, but he was a middle-aged man looking for an unlikely comeback when he scored his first No. 1 country hit in 1977.

For decades, Kenny Rogers had a rare gift for turning life’s quietest moments into unforgettable stories that stayed with listeners long after the music stopped. One of his greatest hits, a 1981 ...

COUNTRY music legend Don Schlitz, who penned Kenny Rogers’ classic hit The Gambler, has died aged 73. The North Carolina songwriter’s death was announced on Friday in a statement by ...

Country music star Kenny Rogers, one of Dolly Parton's closest friends for nearly four decades, died of natural causes five years ago on March 20, 2020, at age 81. RadarOnline.com can reveal an inside ...

Don Schlitz, who died April 16, became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017, thanks in part to a celebrated catalogue that included these five hit songs.

A prolific songwriter who penned numerous chart-topping singles for some of the genre’s biggest names has died. He was 73. Don Schlitz died Thursday, April 16, at a Nashville hospital following a ...

As the world coughed, strangled by the coronavirus pandemic, Grammy award-winning country music icon Kenny Rogers plucked the air, and, like strings he indelibly changed the world with in a career ...

Country Music Hall of Famer Don Schlitz, songwriter behind hits for Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis and The Judds, has died at age 73 in Nashville.