RIP - Music related

[axolotl]

There was Muscle Shoals music pioneer Rick Hall, who also died last week.

http://www.waaytv.com/content/news/...Shoals-music-pioneer-Rick-Hall-468185253.html

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

R.I.P. "Fast" Eddie Clarke, Motorhead guitarist

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/motorhead-guitarist-fast-eddie-clarke-dead-at-67-w515327

 

[lpfreak1170]

R.I.P. "Fast" Eddie Clarke, Motorhead guitarist

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/motorhead-guitarist-fast-eddie-clarke-dead-at-67-w515327

Dislike. Wasn't he the last of the "classic" trio?

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

R.I.P. Cranberries singer Denise O'Riordan

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42696376

Age 46 - jeez! No details what happened yet. Too young.

 

[patrikc325]

R.I.P. way too young.

 

[Worm]

R.I.P. Cranberries singer Denise O'Riordan

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42696376

Age 46 - jeez! No details what happened yet. Too young.

 

[axolotl]

Edwin Hawkins, Known for the Hit ‘Oh Happy Day,’ Is Dead at 74

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/obituaries/edwin-hawkins-dead-gospel-singer.html

Rock and Roll Heaven is SRO.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Tom Petty Died From Accidental Drug Overdose Involving Opioids, Coroner Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/arts/music/tom-petty-cause-death-opioid-overdose.html

 

[Worm]

Tom Petty Died From Accidental Drug Overdose Involving Opioids, Coroner Says

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/arts/music/tom-petty-cause-death-opioid-overdose.html

 

[Nickyboy]

Hugh Masekela: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...e-career-apartheid-south-africa-a8173406.html

 

[Ojai Sam]

^

Hugh carved out a unique niche for himself, part jazz and part African, that gained him credibility with younger audiences that Miles could only dream of.

 

[lpfreak1170]

Mark E. Smith of The Fall. RIP.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...t-punk-singer-for-the-fall-dead-at-60-w514673

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Mark E. Smith of The Fall. RIP.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...t-punk-singer-for-the-fall-dead-at-60-w514673

Oh man.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Mark E. Smith’s Best Insults

https://www.spin.com/2018/01/mark-e-smiths-best-insults/

Aside: Spin magazine is still around?

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Best article about Mark E. Smith:

https://www.avclub.com/remembering-the-falls-mark-e-smith-rocks-most-uncompr-1822391824

 

[Pops]

Billy Hancock
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...72cf78dbeee_story.html?utm_term=.267b4531631e

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Grateful Dead lyricist and Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow has passed away.

https://www.jambase.com/article/john-perry-barlow-grateful-dead-lyricist-died

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

R.I.P. Crooner Vic Damone

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/obituaries/vic-damone-singer-dies.html

Didn't realize he turned down the role of Johnny Fontaine in The Godfather (Al Martino then got the role).

 

[Nickyboy]

Russell Solomon, founder of Tower Records, dies at 92. I loved the discount and cut-out bins there back in the day. And the going out of business sales were insane. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/...s-at-92.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

 

[Ojai Sam]

Russell Solomon, founder of Tower Records, dies at 92. I loved the discount and cut-out bins there back in the day. And the going out of business sales were insane. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/obituaries/russell-solomon-founder-of-tower-records-dies-at-92.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=10&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/obituaries/russell-solomon-founder-of-tower-records-dies-at-92.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

^
Tower Records had a huge cultural impact here in LA. It was the only record store to become a “scene” in itself, something Virgin Records never achieved.