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Monument at the crash site of the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens; "The Day the Music Died". 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. The list ...
Clarence Eugene "Fuzzy" Haskins (June 8, 1941 – March 16, 2023) was an American singer. He performed with 1950s and 1960s doo-wop group, The Parliaments, and was a founding member of the groundbreaking and influential 1970s funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, also known as Parliament-Funkadelic.
Walter "Junie" Morrison (June 28, 1954 – January 21, 2017) was an American songwriter, record producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist.He was a member of the Ohio Players in the early 1970s, and later became a member and musical director of Parliament-Funkadelic.
February 5, 2018 [23] John Perry Barlow Lyricist for The Grateful Dead, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Foundation: 70: February 6, 2018: San Francisco, California, U.S. Complications from heart attack [24] Mickey Jones Kenny Rogers and the First Edition: 76: February 7, 2018: Simi Valley ...
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.
The Grassroot Deviation are influenced by Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn and Neil Young. [citation needed] Their work includes instrumental jam sessions, such as the Celtic infused "Mr. Somebody", mid tempo folk ballads like "Steady Ground" and the funk infused "Regular People", which features 12-bar blues, call and response and funky bass and drums.
The band continued to play live, though most of the original members died through the years; Durham died in 1973, Webb died in 1982, Draffen died in 2002, Love died in 2014, [6] and McCormick followed in 2022. [11]
Mosson is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. He was also honored by the Recording Academy with a Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy in 2019. His children and long time partner received the award on his behalf. Mosson died of liver failure on April 18, 2013. [2] [3]