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Gary McSpadden (January 26, 1943 – April 15, 2020) was an American pastor, singer, songwriter, record producer, television host and motivational speaker. He had musical roots in quartet music and Southern gospel with The Statesmen, the Oak Ridge Boys, the Imperials, the Bill Gaither Trio, and The Gaither Vocal Band. [1]
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 2022.
John Douglas "Jon" Lord (9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012) [1] was an English keyboardist and composer. In 1968, Lord co-founded the hard rock band Deep Purple.Lord performed on most of the band's most popular songs; he and drummer Ian Paice were the only continuous members in the band between 1968 and 1976, and also from its revival in 1984 until his retirement in 2002.
Russ Taff was born to Joe and Ann Taff on November 11, 1953, the fourth of five sons, and grew up in Farmersville, California. Taff's father was a pastor of a small Pentecostal church - the Eastside Tabernacle Church which was located in an old laundromat - and machinist while his mother, Ann, was a field worker who picked fruit and chopped cotton.
Lord and Simper had previously played together with The Flower Pot Men, and Simper had earlier worked briefly with Blackmore; [2] Evans and Paice were brought in from The Maze, whom Blackmore had seen performing. [1] The group soon changed their name to Deep Purple, after the song of the same name by Nino Tempo & April Stevens. [3]
The Jackson, Mississippi-based traditional black gospel group, The Williams Brothers started in 1960 by Leon "Pop" Williams (November 24, 1908/1909 – September 6, 1989), [1] [2] who was the father of the Williams Brothers and an early member of the group, died in a car accident.
Country Dick Montana, singer/drummer/guitarist of The Beat Farmers, suffered a massive heart attack and died three songs into the band's set at the Long Horn in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. 1996: Actor Ken Steadman was killed in a dune buggy accident while filming in Victorville, California for the television show Sliders.
The Cathedral Quartet, also known as the Cathedrals, was an American southern gospel quartet who performed from 1964 to December 1999. [3] The group's final lineup consisted of Glen Payne (lead), George Younce (bass), Ernie Haase (tenor), Scott Fowler (baritone and bass guitar), and Roger Bennett (piano and rhythm guitar).