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William Keith Relf (22 March 1943 – 12 May 1976) was an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist and harmonica player for rock band the Yardbirds.He then formed the band Renaissance with his sister Jane Relf, the Yardbirds ex-drummer Jim McCarty and ex-The Nashville Teens keyboardist John Hawken.
Cause of death Date of death Ref(s) Maree Rodebaugh: 56 shot put: Amateur Athletic Union [a] internal bleeding after being struck in back during meet May 29, 1977 [15] Paul Suzuki: 77 shot put: USA Track & Field [b] brain injury during pre-meet practice June 22, 2005 [16] Dieter Strack: 74 javelin throw: Düsseldorf Athletics impaled during ...
The Yardbirds are an English rock band formed in London in 1963. The band started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton (1963–1965), Jeff Beck (1965–1966) and Jimmy Page (1966–1968), all of whom ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 greatest guitarists. [5]
Anthony “Top” Topham, founding guitarist of The Yardbirds, has died at the age of 75 after battling dementia. The musician, who later adopted the name Sanderson Rasjid after joining the Subud ...
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 1970s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Presley's drug habit is now generally accepted as a cause of death. The Encyclopedia Britannica states, simply: "Elvis Presley died of a heart attack in 1977 brought on largely by drug abuse."
Beck died from a bacterial meningitis infection at a hospital near Riverhall on 10 January 2023, at the age of 78. [125] [129] [130] Within minutes of his death announcement, musicians and friends began paying tribute; Jimmy Page wrote that "The six stringed Warrior is no longer here for us to admire the spell he could weave around our mortal ...
Jeff Baena’s cause of death has been confirmed by officials, after news broke that the indie filmmaker had died aged 47.. Baena, the husband of actor and producer Aubrey Plaza, died by suicide ...