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The Death of Richie is a 1977 American made-for-television drama film based on Richie, a non-fiction book by Thomas Thompson about the 1972 death of George Richard "Richie" Diener Jr. at the hands of his father, who was ultimately not charged with the shooting death of his son.
Richie was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Lionel Brockman Richie (1915–1990), [11] a U.S. Army systems analyst, and Alberta R. Foster (1917–2001), [12] a teacher and school principal. His grandmother Adelaide Mary Brown was a pianist who played classical music.
Richie: The Ultimate Tragedy Between One Decent Man and the Son He Loved (1973) was the story of a Long Island man who killed his drug-addicted son. This was made into a TV movie called The Death of Richie. [1] Thompson's most successful book, Lost!
Lionel Richie. Lionel Richie, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, has been making history—and building a massive net worth—for decades as a beloved singer, songwriter ...
The Richie Havens Record – 1969 Richard P. Havens, 1983: 80 1970 Stonehenge: 155 1971 Alarm Clock: 29 The Great Blind Degree: 126 1973 Portfolio: 182 1974 Mixed Bag II: 186 1976 The End Of The Beginning: 157 1977 Mirage – 1980 Connections – 1984 Common Ground – 1987 Simple Things: 173 Sings Beatles and Dylan – 1991 Now – 1994 Cuts ...
First news of his death came from his former colleague, Rob Pike. [26] [27] [28] He had been in frail health for several years following treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease. [3] [26] [29] [30] News of Ritchie's death was largely overshadowed by the media coverage of the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, which occurred the week ...
Richard influenced Ritchie Valens; before he broke out, Valens was known as the "Little Richard of San Fernando". Bob Dylan performed covers of Richard's songs in high school with his rock and roll group, the Golden Chords; in his high school yearbook, under "Ambition", he wrote: "to join Little Richard".
Richard George Manuel (April 3, 1943 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.