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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.
Released in March 1964, Small's version (on which she was credited simply as "Millie") was a massive hit. She appeared on British TV shows including Top of the Pops, [3] and the single reached number two in the UK Singles Chart, [6] in the US Billboard Hot 100, and in Canada. [7] [8] It also topped the chart in Australia.
The Band; A Band of Angels; Band of Joy; Bangor Flying Circus; Barbara Acklin; Barbara George; Barbara Lewis; Barbara Lynn; Barbara Mason; Barbra Streisand; The Barbarians; Barclay James Harvest; The Bar-Kays; Barney Kessel; Barrett Strong; The Barron Knights; Barry & the Tamerlanes; Barry McGuire; Barry Ryan; Barry Sadler; The Beach Boys ...
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.
Jackie Shane constantly reiterated the fact that her experience as a black, trans woman was not as most expected, not filled with violence and verbal threats. This, however, did not protect her from harassment in her early childhood, sexual harassment from her band members, and avoiding local gangs. [citation needed]
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 ...
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 ...