Wayne Kramer of The MC5 Has Died Age 75: R.I.P.
Wayne Kramer, guitarist for Detroit proto-punk band The MC5 has died at age 75, leaving drummer Dennis Thompson as the last surviving member of this very influential band.
Wayne Kramer, guitarist for Detroit proto-punk band The MC5 has died at age 75, leaving drummer Dennis Thompson as the last surviving member of this very influential band.
Sad to report that Shane MacGowan, the mercurial leader of The Pogues has died at age 65. MacGowan revealed he was diagnosed with encephalitis last year in a video posted to social media.
Gordon Lightfoot has died. The Canadian singer/songwriter was 84. His biggest hits were Sundown, The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald and If You Could Read My Mind.
Burt Bacharach, one of pop music’s greatest composers, has died at the age of 94. Together with lyricist Hal David, he wrote some of the best loved songs of the 1960s.
Ian Tyson Canadian singer-songwriter has died, age 89, at his ranch in southern Alberta, Canada.
Betty Davis has died at age 77. A contemporary and friend of Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis (her ex-husband), Betty made some of the funkiest (and raunchiest) records of the 1970s.
Blindspott the hard-rockin’ metal band from Waitakere, are back with a new song, an album in the works and a tour on the books.
Country rocker and fiddle player extraordinaire Charlie Daniels has died, age 83.