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'60s Psychedelia Artist Alton Kelley Passes Away
Alton Kelly 1940 - 2008 [Petaluma, CA - Sunday, June 1, 2008] Legendary artist Alton Kelley created a graphic style that rocked the world beginning in the psychedelic Sixties. His concert posters, logo designs, LP album covers, and fine art have forevermore defined that time. Kelley, born June 17, 1940, passed away peacefully at home June ...
Yves Saint Laurent Icon of French Fashion Dies
Yves Saint Laurent, the French fashion designer who created a bold a new dress code for women during the feminist revolution of the 1970s and helped launch the era of the celebrity designer with his jet-set lifestyle, died Sunday at 71. The designer died at his Paris home following a long illness, Pierre Berge, his longtime ...
TV Theme Music Obituary
R.I.P/TV Theme as it fades into sunset, Original music that has helped define shows is becoming a product for nostalgia. Earle Hagen and Alexander Courage, who died days apart this month, were maestros of a musical genre that faded some years before they did. They composed TV theme music, those signature snippets that sent Pavlovian signals ...
Al Gallico Music Publisher N.Y., Nashville Dies
Al Gallico, 88, an influential music publisher whose firm's copyrights included “Stand By Your Man," “Time of the Season" and “House of the Rising Sun," died of cardiac arrest and pulmonary disease May 15 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Services were Wednesday in Los Angeles. Al Gallico, one of the leading independent country music ...
Coroner: Sean Levert Died of Natural Causes
A coroner has ruled that R&B singer Sean Levert died of natural causes following a jail medical emergency in Cleveland. The 39-year-old Levert died March 31 at a hospital after he was taken from the Cuyahoga County jail. He was serving one year and 10 months for failure to pay $89,025 in child support. County Coroner ...
Alexander 'Sandy' Courage Composer of Star Trek Theme Dies
Alexander “Sandy" Courage, who composed the soaring theme for the Star Trek TV series in the 1960s and was an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated arranger, has died. He was 88. Sandy Courage, who had been in declining health since 2005, died May 15 at an assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, said his step-daughter, Renata Pompelli. After launching ...
Utah Phillips Grammy Songwriter Passes
Utah Phillips - Singer, Songwriter, Activist, Raconteur and Unionist Bruce “U. Utah" Phillips, the Grammy-nominated folk singer known for his bushy white beard, tireless tour schedule and equally tireless work for social justice, died of congestive heart failure Friday at his home in Nevada City. He was 73 and had been having health problems ...
Harvey Korman Life in Comedy
Harvey Korman, an Emmy-winning comedic actor best known for playing the self- described “luminous second banana" for a decade on television's The Carol Burnett Show and for starring in such Mel Brooks films as Blazing Saddles, has died. He was 81. Korman, who had undergone several major operations, died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center of complications ...
Actor Harvey Korman Dies
Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to The Carol Burnett Show and on the big screen in Blazing Saddles, died Thursday. He was 81. Korman died at UCLA Medical Center after suffering complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm four months ago, his family said ...
Joseph Pevney Star Trek Series Director Dies
Joseph Pevney, versatile film, TV director worked on original Star Trek series, and in 1958 he worked on Twilight for the Gods with Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse. Pevney, a former Broadway actor who played supporting roles in several notable films noir in the late 1940s before directing movies such as Man of a Thousand Faces ...
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