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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 1950s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( August 2008 ) Listed below are actors and personalities heard on vintage radio programs, plus writers and others associated with Radio's Golden Age .
2 February – Libby Purves, English radio presenter. 14 March – Rick Dees, American radio and television personality. 12 May – Jenni Murray, English journalist, presenter of Woman's Hour. 21 May – Marian Finucane, Irish radio presenter (died 2020). 24 September – Alan Colmes, American radio and television talk show host (died 2017).
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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This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in December 2024 ) and then linked below. 2024
Prior to the emergence of television as the dominant entertainment medium in the 1950s, families gathered to listen to the home radio in the evening. The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium.
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