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This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2017.
The Whistles & the Bells is an American experimental alt-rock band based in Nashville, Tennessee, that serves as a moniker for singer-songwriter and producer Bryan Simpson. The band has released two full-length studio albums: The Whistles & the Bells in 2015 [ 1 ] and Modern Plagues in 2017. [ 2 ]
He is extensively featured playing a virtuoso performance of gospel piano on Don McLean's single, "American Pie", and Paul Simon's "Tenderness". [1] He is credited as co-author of the song "The Fez" on Steely Dan's The Royal Scam , the only Steely Dan non-cover song with a credited writer other than Dan founders Becker and Fagen.
The Chords were one of the early acts to be signed to Cat Records, a subsidiary label of Atlantic Records. [2] Their debut single was a doo-wop version of a Patti Page song "Cross Over the Bridge", and the record label reluctantly allowed a number penned by the Chords on the B-side. [3]
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2017. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Taylor began his musical training as a drummer at age eight [2] but two years later he had picked up both the guitar and his initial piano skills from boogie-woogie pianist-neighbours. [3] [4] By the age of 16 he was an orphan and was essentially forced to fund himself - his receding hairline disguising his remarkable youth.
The band shortened their name to The Bells, [3] and recorded a hit single "Fly Little White Dove Fly", which made Top 10 in Canada. Piano player Frank Mills joined The Bells for a short period, from 1970 to 1971, after which he left to pursue a solo career, the highlight of which was the #3 1979 U.S. hit single "Music Box Dancer". Mills was ...