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The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1960s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Peggy Jones (later Malone, July 19, 1940 – September 16, 2015), known on stage as Lady Bo in recognition of her relationship with Bo Diddley, was an American musician.A pioneer of rock and roll, Jones played rhythm guitar in Bo Diddley's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming one of the first (perhaps the first) female rock guitarists in a highly visible rock band, and was ...
The Cake; The Canadian Sweethearts; Canned Heat; Cannibal & the Headhunters; The Capitols; Captain Beefheart; Caravan; The Caravelles; Carla Thomas; Carlos Santana
Tacoma-born guitar great Jerry Miller of the seminal psychedelic-rock band Moby Grape died Sunday at 81. His cause of death had not been revealed as of Tuesday afternoon.
Jerry Miller, greatly admired lead guitarist of the 1960s group Moby Grape and one of the architects of that era’s San Francisco sound, died Sunday at 81 in his hometown of Tacoma, Wash. News of ...
Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer, who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. [1]Along with the Supremes, the Miracles, the Temptations, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, "bridging the ...
With LaBelle as the front woman, the group became a local attraction until two of its members left to marry, while another was forced to quit the group by her religious father. [13] In 1962, the Ordettes included three new members, Cindy Birdsong , Sarah Dash , and Nona Hendryx , the latter two girls had sung for another vocal group which was ...
The group had left Motown in 1977, releasing two albums for Columbia and their final album for the independent label Phase II. Spencer returned briefly in the late 1970s, but after the death of Ty Hunter, on February 24, 1981, [5] who died of lung cancer, [4] the group ceased recording and disbanded the following year. [2]