Music executive and former pop star Tommy Page dies

Gladys Knight raising funds for community centre

CANTON, N.C. — Gladys Knight says being married to a western North Carolina native has turned her into a country girl at heart, and she’s hoping to turn that new affection into possibly the best thing that’s ever happened to Canton.

The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that Knight and William (Billy) McDowell, a Canton native, have launched a fundraising campaign for the Reynolds Community Center at the site of Reynolds High School.

Organizers need to raise up to $5 million to renovate the 20,000-square-foot building, which was constructed in 1930 and was functional until 1966. It was once the only

NEW YORK — Tommy Page, a former pop star whose song I’ll Be Your Everything went to No. 1 in 1990 and who later became a record company executive, publisher of Billboard magazine and a vice-president at Pandora, has died. He was 46.

Billboard.com Editorial Director, Denise Warner said Page was found dead Friday in New York of an apparent suicide. Page started at the magazine in 2011.

Page at one time was a senior vice-president at Cumulus Media Inc. He previously led artist partnerships, branded content and events at Internet radio company Pandora. He also had been an executive at Warner Bros. Records, where he helped shape the careers of Michael Buble, Alanis Morissette, Josh Groban and Green Day.

Page started his music career at Sire Records and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart with I’ll Be Your Everything in April 1990. He co-wrote the song with Jordan Knight and Danny Wood, of Page’s tourmates New Kids on the Block.

He is survived by his husband, Charlie, and their three children.