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Alan Murphy (18 November 1953 – 19 October 1989) was an English rock session guitarist, best remembered for his collaborations with Kate Bush and Go West.In 1988, he joined the jazz-funk band Level 42 as a full-time band member, and played with them until his death from pneumonia, resulting from AIDS, in 1989.
African-American Missouri teenager who was the victim of the first confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. His death baffled doctors because AIDS was not discovered and officially recognized until June 5, 1981, when five San Francisco doctors discovered the disease, long after Rayford's death. [270]
On this day in 1985, actor Rock Hudson died from AIDS. One of the most famous actors of his day, Rock Hudson was the quintessential leading man. With his dark brown hair, 6'4'' built, overall good ...
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 1990s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
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 ...
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Although Higgins was not the first person in the UK to die from AIDS-related illnesses (that being John Eaddie nine months before on 29 October 1981 [10] [11]), it was the death of Higgins that brought the disease fully into public view. [7] Martyn Butler, [12] Rupert Whitaker and Tony Calvert initiated the formation of the Terry Higgins Trust.
Gordon Stevenson in 1978 on the back cover of the album No New York poster for Gordon Stevenson's 1980 no wave film Ecstatic Stigmatic: the film with a disease. Gordon Stevenson was an artist, actor, musician and filmmaker who died of AIDS in 1982, [1] one of the East Village art community’s first casualties of the AIDS epidemic.