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Lesley Sue Goldstein
USA 1946-2015
known professionally as
Lesley Gore
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/26/
735819094/lesley-gore-you-dont-own-me-american-anthem
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/30/
546386766/forebears-the-teenage-wisdom-of-lesley-gore-sings-of-mixed-up-hearts
https://www.npr.org/2015/02/20/
387769267/fresh-air-remembers-lesley-gore-who-sang-hits-including-you-dont-own-me
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/
arts/music/lesley-gore-teenage-voice-of-heartbreak-dies-at-68.html
Joyce Gayle Shepherd
USA 1936-2018
member
of the vocal quartet
the Shepherd Sisters,
best known
for the 1957 hit
“Alone
(Why Must I Be Alone),”
(...)
Ms. Shepherd,
the second youngest
of eight siblings,
grew up singing in church
in Middletown, Ohio.
She and two sisters,
Martha and MaryLou,
performed locally
as the Shepherd Sisters
beginning when
they were teenagers,
with Gayle often
singing lead.
Their group
had their breakthrough
in the
mid-1950s
performing
on the variety show
“Arthur
Godfrey’s
Talent Scouts,”
which pitted
young musicians
against one
another.
They had
a harmonious style typical
of the popular girl groups
of the 1950s and
’60s.
Their first regional hit,
in 1956,
was a version
of the 1937 song
“Gone With the
Wind”
(not related
to the film or novel
of the same
title).
The song drew
the attention
of Dick Clark,
and the sisters went
on to appear repeatedly
on his TV show
“American Bandstand.”
They added
a fourth sister, Judith,
to the group in 1957
and released
their biggest hit,
the yearning but upbeat
“Alone,”
written by Morty
and Selma Craft,
which reached No. 18
on the Billboard Hot 100
that year.
The song
was later recorded
by the Four Seasons
and Petula Clark.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/
obituaries/gayle-shepherd-of-the-singing-shepherd-sisters-dies-at-81.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/
obituaries/gayle-shepherd-of-the-singing-shepherd-sisters-dies-at-81.html
Billy Paul (born Paul Williams)
USA 1934-2016
singer whose suave
but impassioned vocal style
made “Me and Mrs. Jones,”
a slow ballad about a man’s
love for a married woman,
a No. 1 hit in 1972
(...)
“Me and Mrs. Jones, ”
written by
Kenny Gamble,
Leon Huff
and Cary Gilbert,
was one
of the signature expressions
of the 1970s
Philadelphia sound,
heard on a stream
of hit records produced by
Mr. Gamble and Mr. Huff
for Philadelphia
International Records.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/
arts/music/billy-paulsinger-of-the-hit-me-and-mrs-jones-dies-at-81.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/
arts/music/billy-paulsinger-of-the-hit-me-and-mrs-jones-dies-at-81.html
Sam Houston Andrew III
USA 1941-2015
as a founder
of the band Big Brother
and the
Holding Company
(he) was a mainstay
of the fertile San
Francisco
rock scene of the 1960s
and played a key role
in Janis Joplin’s
early
career
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/
arts/music/sam-andrew-guitarist-for-big-brother-and-the-holding-company-dies-at-73.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/
arts/music/sam-andrew-guitarist-for-big-brother-and-the-holding-company-
dies-at-73.html
Lesley Gore (born Lesley Sue Goldstein)
USA 1946-2015
Lesley Gore (...)
was a teenager
in the 1960s
when she recorded
hit songs
about heartbreak
and resilience
that went on
to become
feminist touchstones
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/
arts/music/lesley-gore-teenage-voice-of-heartbreak-dies-at-68.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/
arts/music/lesley-gore-teenage-voice-of-heartbreak-dies-at-68.html
Steve Strange (Steven John Harrington)
UK
1959-2015
Flamboyant
nightclub host,
leader of Visage
and key figure
in the New Romantic
movement
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/13/steve-strange
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/
arts/music/steve-strange-nightclub-founder-and-singer-for-visage-dies-at-55.html
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/13/
steve-strange
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/12/
new-romantic-steve-strange-dies
The Everly Brothers Phil Everly
USA
1939-2014

Nancy
by Guy Gilchrist
Gocomics
March 23, 2014
There is no more
beautiful sound
than the voices
of siblings
swirled together
in high harmony,
and when Phil
and Don Everly
combined their
voices
with songs
about yearning,
angst and loss,
it
changed the world.
(...)
You could argue
that while Elvis Presley
was the king of rock
'n' roll,
Phil and Don Everly
were its troubled princes.
They sang dark songs
hidden behind deceptively
pleasing harmonies
and were
perfect interpreters
of the twitchy
hearts
of millions
of baby boomer teens
coming of age
in the 1950s and '60s
looking to express themselves
beyond the
simple platitudes
of the pop music of the day.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/01/03/us/ap-us-obit-phil-everly.html
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/jan/06/
everly-brothers-abba-beatles-modern-music
http://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/music/100000002633285/
saying-farewell-to-a-rock-icon.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/01/04/
259642153/phil-everly-dies-transformed-rock-n-roll-with-brother-don
Lou Reed USA 1942-2013
Bernadette Therese Nolan
IR
1960-2013
the youngest
of the original
Nolan Sisters
lineup,
whose cheerful,
unthreatening,
middle-of-the-road pop
made them
one of Britain's
best known acts
from the late 1970s
to the mid-80s.
The five siblings
began performing
as the
Nolan Sisters
in 1974
and gained
priceless exposure
to a mainstream
audience
from appearing
on Cliff Richard's
television
programme,
and then with
Morecambe and Wise
and the Two
Ronnies.
They were
the support act
on Frank Sinatra's
1975 European tour
and accompanied
Rolf Harris
on dates
in South
Africa.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jul/04/bernie-nolan-dies
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jul/04/
bernie-nolan-dies
Jeffrey John Hanneman
USA
1964-2013
guitarist
for the influential
metal band
Slayer,
who helped shape
the group’s
sonic assault
and wrote some
of its most popular
— and
controversial —
songs
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/
arts/music/jeff-hanneman-guitarist-for-slayer-dies-at-49.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/slayer
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/
arts/music/jeff-hanneman-guitarist-for-slayer-dies-at-49.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/may/03/
rip-slayers-jeff-hanneman
Alvin Lee (born Graham Anthony Barne)
UK
1944-2013
Alvin Lee ('s)
fire-fingered
guitar playing
drove the British
blues-rock band
Ten Years
After
to stardom
in the 1960s
and early ’70s
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/
arts/music/alvin-lee-guitarist-of-ten-years-after-dies-at-68.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/
arts/music/alvin-lee-guitarist-of-ten-years-after-dies-at-68.html
George Francis Morton
USA
1941-2013
songwriter and producer
who for a brief, luminous
period in the 1960s
poured
the discontents
of adolescence
into
original hit songs,
including
“Leader of the Pack”
and
“Remember
(Walking in the Sand)”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/
arts/music/shadow-morton-songwriter-and-producer-dies-at-71.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/16/
arts/music/shadow-morton-songwriter-and-producer-dies-at-71.html
Reginald Maurice Ball
UK
1941-2013
bricklayer-turned-singer
whose ebulliently
lusty vocal
on the Troggs’
smash hit “Wild Thing”
helped elevate the song
to rock ’n’ roll
legend
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/
arts/music/reg-presley-lead-singer-of-troggs-dies-at-71.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/
arts/music/reg-presley-lead-singer-of-troggs-dies-at-71.html
Douglas Lee Dorman
USA 1942-2012
bass guitarist
for the psychedelic
rock band
Iron Butterfly,
who played
on one of the genre’s
most recognizable songs,
“In-a-Gadda-da-Vida”
(...)
Iron Butterfly,
a four-man group
originating in San Diego,
signed its first
record contract with Atco,
a division of Atlantic Records,
in 1967,
according to the band’s
Web site.
“In-a-Gadda-da-Vida,”
complete with
its thumping bass riff,
was released in July
1968.
It stayed on the national
sales charts for two years
and became a Top 40 radio
hit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/
arts/music/lee-dorman-bass-guitarist-for-iron-butterfly-dies-at-70.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/
arts/music/lee-dorman-bass-guitarist-for-iron-butterfly-dies-at-70.html
Edward Claude "Ed" Cassidy
USA 1923-2012
Way back
when rock ’n’ roll
was countercultural
— before the members
of the Rolling Stones
were anywhere close
to 50 years old,
much less celebrating
their 50th anniversary together —
the genre tended
to emphasize
rather than bridge
generational divides.
So when the experimental
group Spirit
formed in the late 1960s,
it was different
not just for the way
it fused jazz and rock,
or the way it mixed
psychedelia with
a particularly tight backbeat.
It was also different
because its drummer
was the 44-year-old stepfather
of its
16-year-old guitarist.
(...)
By the time Spirit
formed in 1967,
Mr. Cassidy
had already had
a notable and diverse
musical career.
He had played
with jazz musicians
including Dexter Gordon,
Chet Baker,
Gerry
Mulligan
and Cannonball Adderly
and had formed
a folk-blues group
with Taj Mahal
and Ry Cooder
called the Rising
Sons.
While Mr. Cassidy
was performing
with other adults,
his young stepson,
Randy Wolfe,
was becoming
a fine musician himself.
He impressed
Jimi Hendrix
when they met
in a music store
in Manhattan,
and it was Hendrix
who gave Randy
the nickname
he went by
for the rest of his
life,
Randy California.
Soon enough,
stepfather and stepson
were playing
and touring together.
Spirit released
more than
a dozen albums
from 1968 to 1996,
but it was
the first work that was
the most influential
and critically praised.
Its biggest hit
and only Top 40 single,
“I Got a Line on You,”
was released in
1968;
the band
was also celebrated
for its adventurous
1970 album,
“Twelve Dreams
of
Dr. Sardonicus.”
That record included
the song “Mr. Skin,”
which was the nickname
Mr. Cassidy’s
fellow band members
had given him in honor
of his shaved head.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/
arts/music/ed-cassidy-drummer-for-the-experimental-group-spirit-dies-at-89.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/
arts/music/ed-cassidy-drummer-for-the-experimental-group-spirit-dies-at-89.html
MacHouston Baker
USA 1925-2012
known as Mickey Baker
and Mickey "Guitar" Baker
Mickey Baker's
prickly, piercing guitar riffs
were featured on dozens
if not hundreds of recordings
and helped propel
the evolution
of rhythm and blues
into rock ’n’ roll
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/
arts/music/mickey-baker-guitarist-whose-riffs-echo-today-dies-at-87.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/
arts/music/mickey-baker-guitarist-whose-riffs-echo-today-dies-at-87.html
Joe South USA 1940-2012
(born Joseph Alfred Souter)
singer-songwriter
who wove confrontational lyrics
into bouncy pop hits
of the late 1960s and early ’70s,
including “Games People Play,”
“Walk a Mile in My Shoes”
and “(I Never Promised You a)
Rose Garden”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/arts/music/joe-south-singer-and-songwriter-dies-at-72.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/
arts/music/joe-south-singer-and-songwriter-dies-at-72.html
Thin Lizzy
Robert William Gary Moore NORTH IRE / UK 1952-2011
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/feb/17/
thin-lizzy-10-of-the-best-phil-lynott
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/18/
thin-lizzy-phil-lynott-interview
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jan/04/
thin-lizzy-lost-recordings
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/feb/07/gary-moore-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/feb/07/gary-moore-guitarist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/06/gary-moore-thin-lizzy-dies
Gerald "Gerry" Rafferty
UK 1947-2010
Scottish singer
and songwriter
who combined
a gift for
melody,
a distinctive voice
and a fatalistic worldview
to produce 1970s hits
like “Stuck
in the Middle With You”
and “Baker Street”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/
arts/music/05rafferty.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/04/
gerry-rafferty-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/04/
gerry-rafferty-dies-aged-63
Captain Beefheart / Don Van Vliet USA
1941-2010
(born Don Glen Vliet)
artist
of protean creativity
who was known
as Captain
Beefheart
during his days
as an influential
rock musician
and who later
led a reclusive
life
as a painter
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/arts/music/18beefheart.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/arts/music/18beefheart.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/dec/22/captain-beefheart-back-catalogue
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/18/captain-beefheart-died-provocative-unpredictable
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/18/captain-beefheart-dust-forward-back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/18/captain-beefheart-don-van-liet-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2003/apr/07/artsfeatures.popandrock
Robin Peter Smith UK
1939-2010
(stage name: Crispian St. Peters)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/
arts/music/11peters.html
Big Star
William Alexander "Alex" Chilton 1950-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/
arts/19chilton.html
Douglas Lars "Doug" Fieger USA
1952-2010
lead singer
and rhythm guitarist of the Knack
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/
arts/music/16fieger.html
Lynyrd Skynyrd
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/
obituaries/ed-king-of-lynyrd-skynyrd-dead.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/23/
ed-king-dead-lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-life-career-songs
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/23/
country-music-confederate-flag-south-race
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/sep/21/
lynyrd-skynyrd-teacher-dies
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ed King
USA 1949-2018
King (...)
wrote or co-wrote
many of the band’s hits,
including
Sweet Home Alabama
and Saturday Night Special (...)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/23/
ed-king-dead-lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-life-career-songs
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/
obituaries/ed-king-of-lynyrd-skynyrd-dead.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/23/
ed-king-dead-lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-life-career-songs
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Robert Burns Jr.
USA 1950-2015
founding drummer
of Lynyrd Skynyrd,
the Southern rock band
known for the power
ballad
“Free Bird”
and the anthem
“Sweet Home Alabama”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/
arts/music/robert-burns-jr-first-lynyrd-skynyrd-drummer-dies-at-64.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/
arts/music/robert-burns-jr-first-lynyrd-skynyrd-drummer-dies-at-64.html
Lynyrd Skynyrd
William Powell, keyboard player
USA
1952-2009
During the 1970s
Lynyrd Skynyrd
was one
of the most popular
American rock bands,
purveying their
"southern boogie" music
at festivals and stadiums.
The group's
trademark guitar sound
on such anthems as
Free Bird
and Sweet Home Alabama
was enhanced
by the keyboard playing
of Billy Powell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/02/obituary-billy-powell?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/apr/05/
southern-rock-passion-marred-racism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/02/
obituary-billy-powell?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Willy DeVille (William Borsay) USA 1950-2009
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/aug/11/
obituary-willy-deville
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/
arts/music/08deville.html
Mike Smith / Michael George Smith 1943-2008
Keyboard player
and lead singer
in the Dave Clark Five
There was a fleeting time,
from late 1963 into 1965,
when serious comparisons
were made between
the Dave Clark Five
and the Beatles.
Indeed,
in the US the Dave Clark Five
was billed as the group
which had, in January 1964,
toppled the Beatles
- after seven weeks -
from the
top
of the British charts.
Headlines such as
"Has The Five Jive
Crushed The Beatle Beat?"
ensued.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/mar/03/popandrock.obituaries
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/mar/03/
popandrock.obituaries
Frederick Lincoln Wray Jr
USA
1929-2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/nov/22/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries
John Edmund Andrew Phillips
USA 1935-2001
songwriter
and founding member
of the 1960's
folk-pop group
the Mamas and the Papas
(...)
The Mamas and the Papas
were a band of lovers,
spouses and friends,
which proved to be both
their greatest asset
and their undoing.
In 1966,
with their first single,
''California Dreamin',''
the group epitomized
sunny optimism
and galvanized
westward-bound youths
at the dawn
of the hippie era
with strong harmonies
and expectant lyrics,
all slightly ringed
with darkness.
Mr. Phillips was a man
of many contradictions:
idealist, hedonist,
businessman, musician.
Two years
before Woodstock,
he was a producer
of the Monterey Pop Festival,
which propelled
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin
and a new era
of rock and youth culture
into the American mainstream.
As a songwriter,
he wrote music
for the Grateful Dead,
the Beach Boys
and Scott McKenzie.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/19/
arts/john-phillips-65-a-papa-of-the-1960-s-group-dies.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/19/
arts/john-phillips-65-a-papa-of-the-1960-s-group-dies.html
Harry Edward Nilsson III
USA 1941-1994
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/15/
806149966/50-years-of-the-point-harry-nilsson-s-wonderful-weird-musical-fable
Talk Talk
UK 1981-1992
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/25/
talk-talk-10-of-the-best
Judith Lynne Sill
USA 1944-1979
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/
obituaries/judee-sill-overlooked.html
The The
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2017/may/31/
the-the-10-of-the-best-matt-johnson
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/26/
the-the-soul-mining-reissue-review
The Pogues
UK
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/
arts/music/philip-chevron-guitarist-with-the-pogues-dies-at-56.html
Siouxsie and the Banshees
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/26/
siouxsie-sioux-banshees-60-goth-pop-singer
Boy George / Culture Club
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/boy-george
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/18/
culture-club-boy-george-not-camp-i-am-a-geezer
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/oct/08/
boy-george-king-of-everything-new-music
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/dec/04/boy-george-mother-sexuality-outsider
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/feb/13/boy-george-culture-club-interview
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/28/boy-george-culture-club-2012
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/12/boy-george-interview
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/12/boy-george-interview
The Specials UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/the-specials
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/feb/20/
specials-reforming-interview-2-tone
The
Cure UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/the-cure
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/mar/20/news
The KLF
(also known as
the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu,
the JAMs,
the Timelords and other names)
-formed in London in 1987.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF - 1 January 2021
rave-pop iconoclasts
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/01/
the-klf-reissue-music-for-first-time-since-1992
https://www.theguardian.com/music/the-klf
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/01/
the-klf-reissue-music-for-first-time-since-1992
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/27/
return-of-the-klf-bill-drummond-jimmy-cauty
Joy Division / Ian Kevin Curtis UK
1956-1980
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/28/
frankie-goes-to-hollywood-30-years-welcome-to-the-pleasuredome
New Order
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/neworder
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/the-northerner/gallery/2014/jun/24/
new-order-by-kevin-cummins-a-new-show-in-manchester
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/06/
new-order-unexpected-rebirth-bestival
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/14/
new-order-split-peter-hook
The Smiths Steven Patrick Morrissey / Johnny Marr UK

The Smiths outside Salford Lads Club in 1985.
Photograph: Stephen Wright (smithsphotos.com)
This charming Manchester:
is Morrissey's city still
recognisable?
G
Wednesday 4
February 2015 09.11 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/feb/04/
manchester-morrissey-the-smiths

Johnny Marr
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian
Q&A: Johnny Marr
G
Saturday 28
February 2015 06.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/28/
johnny-marr-interview
https://www.theguardian.com/music/morrissey
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/09/
johnny-marr-interview-third-album-call-the-comet
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/04/
morrissey-birmingham-live-review
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/22/
morrissey-live-review-cardiff-observer-new-model
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/10/
morrissey-world-peace-is-none-of-your-business-review
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/10/
morrissey-blogpost-royal-boils-hunting-endangered-species
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/13/
autobiography-by-morrissey-review
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/17/
morrissey-autobiography-triumph-mired-moaning-review
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/08/
morrissey-thatcher-was-a-terror-without-an-atom-of-humanity.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/28/
morrissey-hospitalised-bleeding-ulcer-us
http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2013/aug/12/
smiths-artwork-posters-exhibition-pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2012/mar/06/
smiths-fans-salford-lads-club
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jun/12/
morrissey-receive-apology-from-nme
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/02/
falkland-islands-belong-argentina-morrissey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/17/
morrissey-takes-racism-battle-court
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/oct/14/
meat-murder-smiths
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/28/
morrissey-without-record-deal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/16/
morrissey-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/18/
morrissey-compares-queen-muammar-gaddafi
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/24/morrissey-the-smiths-autobiography
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/22/morrissey-autobiography-finished
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/14/morrissey-u2-glastonbury-festival
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/03/morrissey-china-subspecies-racism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/20/morrissey-coachella-meat-fumes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/08/morrissey
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/dec/04/morrissey-years-of-refusal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/competition/2009/jan/06/
the-smiths-panic-free-download
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jun/04/popandrock.news
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/may/06/popandrock.features1
My Bloody Valentine IRE
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/25/
my.bloody.valentine.new.album
Rick Astley
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/oct/02/
rick.astley.best.act.ever
Cardiacs
UK
formed in 1977,
originally as Cardiac
Arrest,
led by
Tim Smith.
If Tim Smith influenced you,
he really influenced you.
His legacy
following his death
aged 59
might be small
in the wider realm
of pop,
but for many of us
it feels
disproportionately
massive.
If you ventured far enough
into his chaotic world of sound
– somewhere between pop,
psych, punk and prog –
it would inevitably become
an all-encompassing love.
The music he created,
primarily with his band
Cardiacs,
pushed the standard
structures of rock music
into bizarre patterns:
resolutely British,
with any hint of Americana
cast
aside
in favour of hymns, marches
and misshapen folk melodies.
The idiosyncratic
sequences of
chords
he assembled were,
in any traditional sense,
completely wrong,
but through
sheer buoyancy of
spirit
they became
unwaveringly right.
At gigs,
his music inspired
devotion
of the like I’ve never seen
before
or since.
Countless friendships
blossomed
as a direct result of his work;
whole families of groups
were
formed,
all radiating from Tim.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/22/
cardiacs-tim-smith-a-one-man-subculture-who-inspired-total-devotion
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/22/
cardiacs-tim-smith-a-one-man-subculture-who-inspired-total-devotion
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/22/
tim-smith-frontman-cult-band-the-cardiacs-dies-aged-59
U.K. UK
founded in 1977
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/19/
allan-holdsworth-obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/
arts/music/john-wetton-rocker-with-king-crimson-and-asia-dies-at-67.html
Devo USA formed in 1972
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/
arts/music/bob-casale-guitarist-in-devo-dies-at-61.html
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/19/
bob-casale-devo-dies
Police UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/aug/24/
popandrock1
The Jam UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/nov/12/
how-we-made-town-malice
Stevie Nicks
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/stevie-nicks
rock > UK > Dire Straits (1970s-1990s)
Mark Knopfler 1970s-2010s
Toto USA
Toto
was formed in 1977
by a group of
successful
studio musicians
including
Mr. Porcaro’s brothers
Jeff, a
drummer,
and Steve,
who played keyboards.
Mike Porcaro
joined in 1982
after the original bassist,
David Hungate, left.
The brothers
were the sons
of Joe Porcaro,
a
jazz drummer.
Jeff died in 1992.
Toto sold
millions of records
in the late ’70s
and early ’80s.
Its album “Toto IV”
won the 1982 Grammy
for
album of the year,
and its song “Rosanna,”
which reached No. 2
on the Billboard
singles chart,
was record of
the year.
The band
also collectively won
the producer of the year
Grammy.
“Africa,”
from 1982,
was Toto’s
only No. 1
single,
but the band
had Top 40 hits
until 1988.
It broke up in 2008
but reunited in 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/arts/music/mike-porcaro-bass-player-for-toto-dies-at-59.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/11/
582121518/toto-celebrates-40-trips-around-the-sun-with-new-album
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/
arts/music/mike-porcaro-bass-player-for-toto-dies-at-59.html
The Eagles USA
American rock band
(...)
formed in Los Angeles,
California
in
1971.
(...)
The Eagles
were one
of the most successful
recording artists
of
the 1970s.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/eagles
http://www.theguardian.com/music/eagles
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/18/
463510638/glenn-frey-guitarist-for-the-eagles-dead-at-67
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/19/
arts/music/glenn-frey-a-founding-member-of-the-eagles-dies-at-67.html
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/18/
glenn-frey-eagles-founder-dies-aged-67
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/24/
eagles-1974-interview-rocks-backpages-crawdaddy-magazine
Jefferson Airplane
USA 1965-1972
Deep Purple UK

The birth of headbanging … Gillan with Deep Purple in 1973.
Photograph: Fin Costello/Redferns
Deep Purple's Ian Gillan at 75: 'I can't pole vault any more!'
The rock singer is still yelling his way round the world,
having weathered booze, hepatitis
and hysterically embarrassing Spinal Tap moments.
His secret? ‘Loyalty is overrated’
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ian-gillan-deep-purple-at-75
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/12/
ian-gillan-deep-purple-at-75
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/18/
deep-purple-roundhouse-rock-review
Jimmy Somerville UK
Steppenwolf CAN / USA
formed in 1967
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_(band)
James Chance & The Contortions USA
James Chance & The Contortions - "Contort Yourself" at M-80
Festival, Minneapolis, 9.23.79
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcRAdLuHPgY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcRAdLuHPgY
Freddie Mercury UK
1946-1991
The Stooges
USA formed in 1967

The Stooges in 1972.
From left, James Williamson, Iggy Pop,
Scott Asheton and his brother, Ron Asheton.
Photograph: Mick Rock
Scott Asheton, Drummer in the Stooges, Dies at 64
NYT
MARCH 18, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/
arts/music/scott-asheton-drummer-in-the-stooges-dies-at-64.html
Formed
in Ann Arbor in 1967,
the Stooges
— Mr. Asheton,
the singer
Iggy
Pop,
the bassist
Dave Alexander
and the guitarist
Ron Asheton,
Scott’s brother
—
boiled down
rock ’n’ roll
to its aggressive
base elements
in songs
about boredom
and desire.
Over time,
through their small
and powerful discography
and the hundreds of bands
they inspired,
they left a lasting mark
on rock music.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/
arts/music/scott-asheton-drummer-in-the-stooges-dies-at-64.html
http://www.npr.org/artists/15157974/the-stooges
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/
arts/music/scott-asheton-drummer-in-the-stooges-dies-at-64.html
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/02/
180337240/iggy-pop-what-happens-when-people-disappear
http://www.npr.org/event/music/178305417/
iggy-the-stooges-live-in-concert - April 28, 2013
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
UK 1970s
Genesis
UK
Mott the Hoople
UK

Peter Overend Watts, left,
and Mick Ronson
performing with
Mott the Hoople.
Photograph: Jorgen Angel/Getty Images
Peter Overend Watts obituary
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peter-overend-watts-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/23/
mott-the-hoople-bassist-peter-overend-watts-dies
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/19/
mott-the-hoople-review
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/sep/03/
mott-the-hoople-reunion
The Who
UK 1960s-2010s
Manfred Mann
UK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Mann
The 13th Floor Elevators
USA 1965-1969
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/02/
729007990/were-gonna-miss-him-roky-erickson-brought-soulfulness-to-psychedelia
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/31/
728821278/roky-erickson-of-the-13th-floor-elevators-dies-at-71
Yusuf Islam
(born Steven
Demetre Georgiou)
stage name Cat Stevens
UK
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/21/
915392711/yusuf-cat-stevens-on-remaking-tea-for-the-tillerman-50-years-later
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/
913620940/yusuf-revisits-tea-for-the-tillerman-his-landmark-album-as-cat-stevens
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/15/
yusuf-islam-interview
David Van Cortlandt Crosby
USA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/crosbystillsnashandyoung
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/22/
552581862/on-sky-trails-david-crosby-recounts-his-regrets-and-revelations
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/29/
david.crosby.playlist
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young CAN /
UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/crosbystillsnashandyoung
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/14/
david-crosby-trump-country-stills-nash-byrds-election
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/
arts/music/dallas-taylor-drummer-for-crosby-stills-nash-young-dies-at-66.html
The Fugs USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/
arts/music/13kupferberg.html
Tempest UK
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/
obituaries/jon-hiseman-73-drummer-who-melded-rock-jazz-and-blues-dies.html
The Band CAN, USA
1960s-1990s
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel USA
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/02/
archives/simon-and-garfunkel-last-time-together-simon-and-garfunkel.html
Donovan
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2011/may/12/
donovan-live-session-sunshine-superman
Sha Na Na
USA
band
that became famous
in the 1970s
for its simultaneously
nostalgic and comedic
approach
to the rock ’n’ roll
of the 1950s
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/
arts/dennis-greene-a-singer-with-sha-na-na-dies-at-66.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/
arts/dennis-greene-a-singer-with-sha-na-na-dies-at-66.html
The Searchers
UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/
a9399880-5587-457c-bc87-8c81fcf57cb1
Sweet Smoke
USA 1967-1974
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Smoke
Ronald Douglas Montrose
USA
1947-2012
influential guitarist
whose band,
Montrose,
was a mainstay
of hard rock
in the 1970s
and the launching pad
for the singer
Sammy Hagar
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/
rock-guitarists-death-ruled-a-suicide/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/
arts/music/ronnie-montrose-hard-rock-guitarist-dies-at-64.html
Jordan Ragovoy USA 1930-2011
Jerry Ragovoy
wrote or collaborated
on some
of the most
soulful
ballads
of the 1960s,
including
the Rolling Stones hit
“Time Is on My Side”
and the Janis Joplin
signatures
“Piece of My Heart,”
“Cry Baby”
and
“Try (Just a
Little Bit Harder)”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/arts/music/jerry-ragovoy-songwriter-and-producer-is-dead-at-80.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/
arts/music/jerry-ragovoy-songwriter-and-producer-is-dead-at-80.html
Robert Frank Grill
USA 1943-2011
longtime lead singer
and a very nearly original
member of the
Grass Roots,
the immensely popular
rock group of the 1960s
and afterward
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/
arts/music/rob-grill-lead-singer-of-the-grass-roots-dies-at-67.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/
arts/music/rob-grill-lead-singer-of-the-grass-roots-dies-at-67.html
John Joseph Maus
USA 1943-2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/09/
john-walker-walker-brothers-dies
Loggins and Messina
USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggins_and_Messina
The Classics IV
USA
late 1960s and early ’70s
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/
arts/music/10yost.html
The Classics IV Dennis Yost
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/
arts/music/10yost.html
MC5
USA
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/22/
640319413/wayne-kramer-rock-legend-and-failed-outlaw-assembles-a-supergroup-in-the-rearvie
Gerry and the Pacemakers
UK 1960s

Gerry Marsden, aloft,
in a publicity photo
with the other members of Gerry and Pacemakers
in 1964.
They had the distinction of scoring a No. 1 hit in the U.K.
before the Beatles did.
Photograph:
Press Association, via Associated Press
Gerry Marsden, a Hitmaker With the Pacemakers, Dies at 78
For a time in the early ’60s,
with songs like“Ferry Cross the Mersey,”
“Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying”
and “You’ll Never Walk Alone,”
the Pacemakers rivaled the Beatles.
NYT
Jan. 4, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/
arts/music/gerry-marsden-dead.html
For a time in the early ’60s,
with songs lik
“Ferry Cross the Mersey,”
“Don’t Let the Sun Catch You
Crying”
and “You’ll Never Walk Alone,”
the Pacemakers
rivaled the Beatles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/
arts/music/gerry-marsden-dead.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/
arts/music/gerry-marsden-dead.html
The Beach Boys Brian Wilson
USA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/brianwilson
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/15/
497948822/i-feel-pretty-good-a-moment-with-brian-wilson
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/09/
beach-boy-brian-wilson-punk-rock-love-and-mercy
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/15/
brian-wilson-autobiography-beach-boys
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2012/05/27/
brian-wilson-the-beach-boys-wild-ride-photos.html
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/oct/27/
beach-boys-smile-sessions-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/24/
brian-wilson-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/19/
musicnews
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/sep/11/
popandrock
The Beach Boys USA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/beach-boys
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/mar/14/
beach-boys-smile
Cliff Richard
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/cliff-richard
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/02/
cliff-richard-review-funny-poignant-show-from-pops-performing-genius
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/10/
peter-callander
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2012/aug/23/
pop-pictures-cliff-richard
The Kinks UK

The Kinks in 1969:
Mick Avory, Dave Davies, Ray Davies and John Dalton.
Photograph: Ivan Keeman/Redferns
Kinks 1969 epic chimes with Britain’s mood today,
says singer
Ray Davies
As ‘pop documentary’ Arthur
is reissued and turned into a
radio drama,
the singer explains why it is more relevant than ever
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ray-davies-kinks-brexit-mood-album-arthur
https://www.theguardian.com/music/kinks
https://www.theguardian.com/music/ray-davies
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/
arts/music/kinks-lola-ray-davies.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/04/
the-kinks-listeners-digest-where-to-start-in-their-back-catalogue
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/19/
ray-davies-kinks-brexit-mood-album-arthur
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/11/
523019764/to-ray-davies-america-is-still-a-land-of-opportunity
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/29/
ray-davies-a-complicated-life-review
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/11/
ray-davies-a-complicated-life-johnny-rogan-review-kinks#img-1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/may/01
/ray-davies-kinks-meltdown-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/25/
kinks.raydavies
The Monkeys
USA
https://www.npr.org/artists/15398067/the-monkees
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/
696864784/peter-tork-of-the-monkees-dies-at-77
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/
obituaries/peter-tork-dead.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/29/
676852011/the-monkees-tried-to-cut-their-strings-with-head
https://www.npr.org/2017/04/16/
523921383/michael-nesmith-on-infinite-tuesday-and-touring-with-hendrix
https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=6092962 - September 17, 2006
The Monkeys
USA
David Thomas Jones
actor, singer and songwriter 1945-2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/
arts/music/davy-jones-a-singer-in-the-monkees-dies-at-66.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2012/mar/01/
monkees-london-1967-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/mar/01/
the-monkees-believer-davy-jones
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/29/
davy-jones
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tvandradioblog/2012/feb/29/
davy-jones-monkee-life-in-clips
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/29/
davy-jones-monkees-dies-66
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/28/
monkees-head-jack-nicholson-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/21/
the-monkees-60s-uk-tour
Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny / Sandy Denny
UK 1947-1978
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/
the-ballad-of-sandy-denny-return-of-the-folk-queen-811740.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/may/06/
popandrock
Nick Drake
UK 1948-1974
The Housemartins
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/nov/17/
top-10-uk-cities-streets-venues-uk-pop-rock-music-history-was-made
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/dec/04/
the-housemartins-how-we-made-happy-hour
Nick Lowe
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/nicklowe
The Youngbloods
USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/10/
711545679/get-together-youngbloods-summer-of-love-american-anthem
Mountain
USA
formed on Long Island, New York
in 1969
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/
arts/music/leslie-west-dead.html
T. Rex
UK formed in 1967
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/04/
marc-bolan-perfect-pop-star-t-rex-singer-tribute-album-elton-john-u2
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jun/22/
glitter-and-curls-marc-bolan-and-the-birth-of-glam-rock-style
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart
UK

Glam slam: Rod Stewart in 1976,
the year The Killing of Georgie was released.
Photograph: ITV/Rex Features
Rod Stewart: 'I was surrounded by gay men in the 70s'
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rod-stewart-interview-killing-of-georgie-song-gay-man
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/19/rod-stewart-songwriting-album-time
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/02/rod-stewart-jeff-beck
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jun/15/faces-reunion-rod-stewart
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/13/the-faces-reunite
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandhealth/gallery/2008/mar/26/fashion?picture=333248115
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/mar/26/fashion.rodstewart
The Faces UK

Ian McLagan in 1975.
Photograph: Kate Simon
Ian McLagan, Keyboardist With the Faces, Dies at 69
NYT
3 December 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/
arts/music/ian-mclagan-musician-with-the-faces-dies-at-69.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/
arts/music/ian-mclagan-musician-with-the-faces-dies-at-69.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/nov/13/
the-faces-reunite
The Byrds USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Byrds
Three Dog Night USA
signature pop band
of the late 1960s and ’70s
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/
arts/music/cory-wells-singer-with-three-dog-night-dies-at-74.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/
arts/music/cory-wells-singer-with-three-dog-night-dies-at-74.html
Procol Harum UK
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/20/
musicnews.arts
Black Sabbath UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/blacksabbath
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/black-sabbath
https://www.theguardian.com/music/ozzyosbourne
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/16/ozzy-osbourne-interview
The Velvet Underground > Nico
USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/03/11/
519306037/velvet-underground-and-nico-50-years-first-record-800-copies-collection
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/mar/16/popandrock3
The Velvet
Underground USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground
Blue Öyster Cult USA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/27/
sandy-pearlman-blue-oyster-cult-producer-manager-dies-aged-72
James Anthony Sullivan / Jim Sullivan
USA 1940-1975
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/
arts/music/jim-sullivan.html
The Doors > Jim Morrison USA 1943-1971
Janis Lyn Joplin
USA 1943-1970
Jimi Hendrix USA 1942-1970
1960s > USA > The
Ronettes > Ronnie Spector
The Liverbirds
UK 1963-1968
We're Britain's First Female Rock Band. This is Why You Don't
Know Us.
'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs
Video
NYT 18 December 2019
It’s hard to say what, exactly,
was in the water in Liverpool in the early 1960s
that wound up producing the Merseybeat sound
and hundreds of groups of varying success.
Four teenagers caught the scene by surprise
and found screaming fans at every turn.
Their names were Mary, Sylvia, Pam and Val.
It wasn’t only their sound that turned heads.
They were The Liverbirds,
Britain’s first all-female rock ’n’ roll band.
Sitting down with surviving members
Mary McGlory and Sylvia Saunders,
you’d never know these two exceedingly charming
Scouse (that means they come from Liverpool) matriarchs
rocked a tour with The Rolling Stones.
Lent their instruments to The Kinks.
Rolled joints for Jimi Hendrix.
John Lennon himself
told them that girls don’t play guitar.
Well, John, they did. Imagine that.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1QqLCpXMIw
rock > 1960s-2010s >
UK > The
Rolling Stones
rock > 1960s-1990s > USA > The Grateful Dead
pop > 1960s-2010s > USA > Four Seasons
rock > 1960s > UK > The Beatles
The Specials UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/the-specials
Gary Numan UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/garynuman
Annie Lennox UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/annie-lennox
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/08/
annie-lennox-pornographic-miley-cyrus
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/05/
annie-lennox-world-more-sexualised
Eurythmics UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/annie-lennox
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/13/
466458185/in-new-memoir-eurythmics-dave-stewart-
tells-of-life-before-and-after-sweet-dream
Adam and the Ants
UK late 1970s and early 1980s
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2020/may/30/
londons-lost-venues-in-pictures
Tom Waits USA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/tom-waits
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/08/
tom-waits-gives-devil-due
https://www.npr.org/2008/07/29/
92916923/glitter-and-doom-tom-waits-in-concert
New York Dolls
USA formed in New York City in 1971

New York Dolls, with Sylvain second from right.
Photograph: RB/Redferns
Sylvain Sylvain, showboating guitarist of New York Dolls, dies
aged 69
Billy Idol among those to pay tribute to ‘all-time great’
whose flamboyance paved the way for New York’s punk rock scene
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/15/
sylvain-sylvain-guitarist-of-new-york-dolls-dies
https://www.npr.org/artists/15402038/new-york-dolls
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/16/
arts/music/sylvain-sylvain-dead.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/15/
957258040/sylvain-sylvain-new-york-dolls-guitarist-dies-at-69
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/15/
sylvain-sylvain-the-new-york-dolls
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/15/
sylvain-sylvain-guitarist-of-new-york-dolls-dies
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/
arts/music/23herm.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/11/
arts/cruel-fate-can-t-prevent-a-new-york-dolls-reunion.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/16/
arts/arthur-kane-punk-rock-bassist-for-new-york-dolls-dies-at-55.html
Creedence Clearwater Revival
USA 1968-1972
The Yardbirds
UK
formed in London in 1963
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/apr/12/
led-zeppelin-other-peoples-records-transformed-borrowed
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/11/
jeff-beck-70th-birthday-super-guitarist-rocks-backpages
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/23/
from-rocks-backpages-led-zeppelin
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/23/
gypie-mayo-dies-yardbirds-dr-feelgood
https://www.npr.org/2010/12/28/
126027723/jeff-beck-on-world-cafe
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1283481 - June 2, 2003
Free UK
formed in London in 1968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_(band)
Cream
UK
formed in London in 1966
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/
arts/music/ginger-baker-dead.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2019/oct/06/
a-life-in-pictures-ginger-baker
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/06/
ginger-baker-a-master-and-monster-who-split-rock-music-apart
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/06/
ginger-baker-obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us/
jack-bruce-creams-adventurous-bassist-dies-at-71.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/05/
ginger-baker-cream-interview
The Pretty Things
UK formed in 1963 in Sidcup, Kent

The Pretty Things in 1973, with Phil May, front.
Photograph: Jorgen Angel/Redferns
Phil May of the Pretty Things:
agent of chaos who fought the laws of pop
The man David Bowie listed as God in his address book
stuck
two fingers up
at rules about music, sex and life itself
– and made the most
glorious noise doing it
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/16/
phil-may-of-the-pretty-things-agent-of-chaos-who-fought-the-laws-of-pop
Born in Dartford, Kent,
(Phil) May formed
the Pretty Things in 1963
with guitarist Dick Taylor,
who had recently left
the nascent Rolling Stones.
The band’s lineup
coalesced with John Stax,
Brian Pendleton
and Viv Andrews,
with May as frontman.
The group
became a key part
of the London
blues-rock scene
who were in thrall
to US blues players
but were also bringing in
new elements of pop
and psychedelia.
They had
an early Top 10 hit
in Don’t Bring Me Down
and other moderately
successful songs
like Honey I Need
and Cry to Me,
and became known
for their drug-taking
and raucous
on-stage behaviour.
May was bisexual,
wore his hair long
and marked himself out
as a countercultural
figure.
He remembered
in a Guardian interview
in 2018:
“By the time the Pretty Things
hit the TV screens, I was used
to being abused and spat at
and getting into punch-ups,
because it had happened
when we were art students.
We’d done our apprenticeship
at being outsiders.”
The band earned
their most enduring fame
for their 1968 album
SF Sorrow.
It is regarded as the first
rock opera album,
a tale of the life
of the fictional
Sebastian F
Sorrow,
ahead of similar experiments
like the Who’s album Tommy.
The record was released
by Motown offshoot Rare Earth,
making them Motown’s
first ever UK signing,
though it was a flop on release
and only later became
a cult favourite.
They were revered by artists
as diverse as Jimi Hendrix,
Aerosmith,
the Ramones and Kasabian,
and while there were
spells of inactivity,
the band never split up,
enjoying a 55-year career.
They played
their final concert in 2018,
with guest appearances
by David Gilmour
and Van Morrison.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/15/
phil-may-frontman-with-the-pretty-things-dies-aged-75
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/17/
phil-may-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/16/
phil-may-of-the-pretty-things-agent-of-chaos-who-fought-the-laws-of-pop
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/15/
phil-may-frontman-with-the-pretty-things-dies-aged-75
Cream > Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker
UK 1939-2019
https://www.theguardian.com/music/ginger-baker
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/06/ginger-baker-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/06/
ginger-baker-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2019/oct/06/
a-life-in-pictures-ginger-baker
Roy Orbison USA 1936-1988
Roy Orbison Pretty Woman
video
YouTube > Avalon Six 26 November
2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoF15Tg46Zw
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/28/
roy-orbison-monument-singles-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/09/
roy-orbison-review
Billy Childish UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/03/
billy-childish-story-archive-from-1959
The Zombies
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/feb/22/
popandrock1
Phil Spector
USA 1939-2021
Christa Päffgen / stage name Nico
GER 1938-1988
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/05/
nico-in-manchester-she-loved-the-architecture-and-the-heroin
Hank Williams USA
1923-1953
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/feb/26/
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