from what I heard Ronnie had an album ready to go with Ronettes and Phil Spector but they had a bad break up so Spector never released it but that opened things up for the Supremes and the rest is history
Andy Fletcher, 60 from Depeche Mode. This one stings a bit. One of the first concerts I saw as a young teen was Depeche Mode in 1982. Stuck with them ever since- 40 fucking years!!
Also today, Alan White, drummer for YES. Also played with John Lennon and George Harrison.
Re: The Dead Musicians thread
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 8:26 am
by Artemis
RIP Loretta Lynn...legend!
I love that album she did with Jack White- Van Lear Rose.
Re: The Dead Musicians thread
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 1:26 pm
by SR
Re: The Dead Musicians thread
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 4:28 pm
by kv
damn
Re: The Dead Musicians thread
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:01 pm
by SR
ABC news on their World News Tonight just reported that she wrote Go Your Own Way in response to her divorce from John .
Re: The Dead Musicians thread
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 5:43 pm
by thoreau
Damn, that's making me more sad than I thought it would.
Re: The Dead Musicians thread
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 7:07 pm
by Artemis
Jet Black,The Stranglers drummer...RIP
Re: The Dead Musicians thread
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 9:54 pm
by Pure Method
Anybody read the David Berman feature in CREEM that was just posted? All about his last days leading up to his death. An incredible, ungodly shame.
The way he died was surprisng...sudden contraction of bacterial meningitis. On the plus side, at least he wasn't suffering with a long, painful illness.
Incredible career that's for sure. He's played with so many different people from Stevie Wonder to Kate Bush, to name a couple.
RIP and thank you for the music.
Re: The Dead Musicians thread
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 11:07 am
by Artemis
Yesterday, Lisa Marie Presley (54) and Robbie Bachman (69).
The way he died was surprisng...sudden contraction of bacterial meningitis. On the plus side, at least he wasn't suffering with a long, painful illness.
Incredible career that's for sure. He's played with so many different people from Stevie Wonder to Kate Bush, to name a couple.
The way he died was surprisng...sudden contraction of bacterial meningitis. On the plus side, at least he wasn't suffering with a long, painful illness.
Incredible career that's for sure. He's played with so many different people from Stevie Wonder to Kate Bush, to name a couple.
I enjoyed that! I think VR captured JB's essence in this piece. Explained his unique and masterful style really well. I like that JB never attached to one single style or genre of music.
Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd's last surviving original member., died Sunday at the age of 71. No cause of death was given.
Re: The Dead Musicians thread
Posted: Wed May 03, 2023 6:17 am
by Artemis
R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot ... one of the best singer/song writers. The soundtrack of the my 70s childhood...
Sadly, never saw him in concert.
One of the newspaper articles I read about GL's death mentioned that Jane's Addiction was one of the many artists who covered his songs. Which song??
Once called a “rare talent” by Bob Dylan, dozens of artists have covered Lightfoot’s work, including Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte, Johnny Cash, Anne Murray, Jane’s Addiction and Sarah McLachlan.
One of the newspaper articles I read about GL's death mentioned that Jane's Addiction was one of the many artists who covered his songs. Which song??
This claim is so absurd that I went down a rabbithole trying to figure out where it originated. I've tracked it back at least 20 years to this archived CNN article that is just copy from Reuters: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Mus ... foot.reut/
It sounds like generic press release copy, or something taken from Wikipedia and not fact-checked.
One of the newspaper articles I read about GL's death mentioned that Jane's Addiction was one of the many artists who covered his songs. Which song??
This claim is so absurd that I went down a rabbithole trying to figure out where it originated. I've tracked it back at least 20 years to this archived CNN article that is just copy from Reuters: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Mus ... foot.reut/
It sounds like generic press release copy, or something taken from Wikipedia and not fact-checked.
I think the claim is false too. As you mentioned, no fact-checking. I searched like crazy to figure out which song JA covered, but didn't come up with anything. I thought that if JA had done a cover, there might have been an Instagram RIP post or something, but nothing there either. My conclusion is that whoever wrote the piece confused Gordon Lightfoot with the Grateful Dead.
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