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Obituary by David Hepworth, The Word, March 2012
JOHNNY OTIS was relaxing in his San Francisco hotel room one afternoon in 1954 when his manager called from the lobby and said he was ...
Minnie Riperton, Van McCoy: Van McCoy, Minnie Riperton Cut Down in Their Prime
Obituary by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 21 July 1979
WHEN LOWELL George died, a kind of half-hearted black joke about 'the season starting' was popular on many lips. In the brief space since his ...
Obituary by Lois Wilson, MOJO, January 2013
The inspirational folk-jazz-soul singer songwriter died last month. Lois Wilson salutes him. ...
Obituary by Kirk Silsbee, LA Weekly, 19 January 2012
BANDLEADER, drummer/pianist, talent scout, club owner, broadcaster, recording executive, writer, and recording artist Johnny Otis passed away Jan. 17 at the age of 90 in ...
Joe Tex: Ain't Gonna Bump No More
Obituary by Cliff White, NME, 28 August 1982
Soul legend Tex is dead ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 15 January 2010
THE ROCK'N'ROLL CLASSICS 'See You Later, Alligator' and 'Walking to New Orleans' are among the compositions of the Louisiana-born singer-songwriter Bobby Charles, who has died aged ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 23 May 2011
FOR A TIME in the mid-1960s, the band of the great rhythm and blues tenor saxophonist King Curtis contained two guitarists. The first, Jimi Hendrix, ...
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters: Hank Ballard 1927-2003
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, March 2003
RHYTHM & BLUES singer Hank Ballard (76) died of throat cancer on March 2 at his home in Los Angeles. His chief claim to ...
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Paul Butterfield's Better Days: Paul Butterfield 1942-1987
Obituary by uncredited writer, Rolling Stone, 18 June 1987
ON MAY 4TH, bluesman Paul Butterfield was found dead in his North Hollywood, California, apartment. He was forty-four. Though he had been in a Pittsburgh ...
Little Feat, Lowell George: Lowell George: The Rock'n'Roll Doctor
Obituary by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 7 July 1979
Of all the hundreds of white boys who fell in love with the blues, few used the idiom with such brilliance as Lowell George. Singer, ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 16 August 2018
Queen of soul whose voice could scald or soothe, and whose talent drew on both sacred and secular traditions ...
Adam Faith, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters: The Grim Reporter April 2003
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, April 2003
Phast Phreddie Patterson on those gone but not forgotten ...
Aretha Franklin: Aretha: The Voice of America
Obituary by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 17 August 2018
IT MAY BE difficult for anyone born after 1980 to fully grasp how important Aretha Franklin has been to America. There is simply no longer ...
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