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Country guitarist and singer-songwriter: 79: January 5, 2024: Santa Clarita, California, US: Natural causes [4] Gene Deer Blues guitarist and singer: 59: January 5, 2024: Fairland, Indiana, US: Unknown [5] Del Palmer Bass guitarist and audio engineer: 71: January 5, 2024: Undisclosed [6] Iasos New-age musician: 76: January 6, 2024: Undisclosed ...
Superfly's second studio album, Box Emotions, was released on September 2, 2009, [14] which she celebrated by holding a free live show at the Roppongi Hills arena, [15] which hosted 4000 people. [16] Box Emotions debuted at No. 1 on the Oricon weekly charts, with the first week sales of around 214,000 copies. [17]
Guitarist/singer Johnny "Guitar" Watson collapsed and died onstage during a performance in Yokohama, Japan. The cause of death was a heart attack. 1997: English actor Anthony Wheeler died by strangulation while playing Judas Iscariot at a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar in Chalkidiki, Greece. He hanged himself after failing to attach the ...
Jeff Beck, one of the most innovative and influential guitar gods of the 1960s’ British Invasion and the No. 5 entry on Rolling Stone’s ranking of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, has ...
"Freddie's Dead" was sampled in the 1973 break-in record, "Super Fly Meets Shaft" (US #31). The 1988 Fishbone album Truth and Soul features a cover of the song. Master P recorded "Kenny's Dead", a parody of Mayfield's song for the television show South Park , featuring the character Kenny McCormick , for Chef Aid: The South Park Album .
Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released on July 11, 1972, by Curtom Records. It was released as the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation film of the same name. Widely considered a classic of 1970s soul and funk music, Super Fly was a nearly immediate hit.
Died on his 77th birthday of unknown cause [58] Lew Lewis Eddie and the Hot Rods: 65–66: April 17, 2021: Unknown [59] Paul Oscher: 71: April 18, 2021: Austin, Texas, U.S. COVID-19 [60] Lars Ratz Metalium: 53: April 18, 2021: Vilafranca de Bonany, Mallorca, Spain: Ultralight crash [61] Jim Steinman: 73: April 19, 2021: Danbury, Connecticut, U ...
"Superfly" is a song by Curtis Mayfield, the title track from his 1972 soundtrack album for the film of the same name. It was the second single released from the album, following " Freddie's Dead (Theme From Superfly ) ", and reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart. [ 4 ]