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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 ...
Millicent Dolly May Small CD (6 October 1947 – 5 May 2020) [1] [2] was a Jamaican singer who is best known for her international hit "My Boy Lollipop" (1964).The song reached number two in both the UK and US charts and sold over seven million copies worldwide.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Haines left the group in 1969, reportedly turning down an offer to join Black Sabbath and eventually forming the Norman Haines Band. [3] Haines died in 2021, aged 75. [7] On its eventual release in early 1970, the Locomotive album, We Are Everything You See, [2] received good reviews, but failed to appeal to the band's earlier R&B audience. [3]
The song's spoken introduction – "A preachment, dear friends, you are about to receive on John Barleycorn, nicotine and the temptations of Eve" – dates to the 1947 novelty recording, "Cigareets, Whuskey and Wild, Wild Women", by Red Ingle and His Natural Seven.