A Million People Gather In Paris To Say Goodbye To Rock Star Johnny Hallyday

“In scenes resonant of the mass mourning in Britain following the death of Princess Diana, police said a million fans had lined the route of the funeral procession, which was accompanied by Hallyday’s band playing live, as it made its way from the Arc de Triomphe along the Champs-Élysées to Place de la Concorde and on to the church of La Madeleine.”

Boston’s WBUR Places Popular Host On Leave Over Unspecified Allegations

Boston University and WBUR received reports of allegations against “On Point” host Tom Ashbrook late in the week. The station general manager said, “Tom will be on leave from his duties at WBUR while an outside organization hired by Boston University examines these allegations. We will decide a course of action after getting the results of this investigation.”

The Met Suspends James Levine After New Sexual Abuse Revelations

Three men have now accused the conductor of abusing them when they were teenagers. “I don’t know why it was so traumatic,’ [Christopher] Brown, who is now 66, said in a recent interview at his home in St. Paul, Minn., fighting tears at the memory, which he said he was moved to share as part of the national reckoning over sexual misconduct. ‘I don’t know why I got so depressed. But it has to be because of what happened. And I care deeply for those who were also abused, all the people who were in that situation.'”