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Forming in 1971 and originally calling themselves Rock Fire Funk Express, guitarist David convinced his brothers to change the band's name to Death in 1973 after their father died in an accident. David wanted to change the meaning of the word: "His concept was spinning death from the negative to the positive.
A Band Called Death is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett. The documentary is about the 1970s Detroit rock band Death and their new-found popularity decades after the group recorded their music. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2012 and was well received by film critics.
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"Detroit Rock City" is an interesting one, because Detroit really embraced us before any other city. We were an opening act everywhere else, but in Detroit we were a headliner. It started as a tribute to Detroit, and then it kind of took a left turn, because we played Charlotte once, and somebody coming to the arena was killed in an accident ...
Many musicians have been murdered during their active career. Most of the musicians had been shot or stabbed to death. Some of them have received extensive media attention, including the murder of John Lennon in 1980, the killing of Marvin Gaye in 1984, the murder of Selena in 1995, the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996, the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. in 1997, the murder of XXXTentacion in ...
Seduce (band) Shotgun (funk band) The Sights; The Silent Years; The Sillies; Sky (American band) The Skylarks (vocal group) Slingshot (band) Snow Strippers; Solid Frog; The Spinners (American group) Sponge (band) Squid the Whale; SRC (band) SSM (band) Stevie Wonder's Superego; The Stooges; The Suicide Machines; The Supremes
Detroit Police headquarters at 1300 Beaubien Street (Re-located to the new Detroit Public Safety Headquarters building with the Detroit Fire Department on 1301 Third Street in 2013) is also shown. A number of local Detroit celebrities appeared in the film, such as disc jockey Dick Purtan , who plays the police detective who converses with Alex ...
At the turn of the millennium, a Detroit web site, MotorCityJams.com, chronicled the group's career and helped organize the 2003 release of a limited edition CD culled from some of the band's assorted demos and recordings entitled The Most Powerful Music on Earth. [1] [5] It was subsequently distributed by Italy's Rave Up Records on LP in 2005.