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Carpenters' Lead Guitarist Tony Peluso Dies
Tony Peluso, lead guitarist for the Carpenters and a Motown and Latin music producer, died June 5 in Los Angeles of heart disease. He was 60. Peluso was with the band for 12 years, beginning with single “Goodbye to Love" in 1972, touring the world with siblings Richard and Karen Carpenter and recording many albums. After ...
L. A. Philharmonic's Ernest Fleischmann Dies
Ernest Fleischmann dies at 85; manager who guided Los Angeles Philharmonic's transformation. Fleischmann, a visionary administrator who had a hand in every decision made about the orchestra for nearly 30 years, was pivotal in raising its profile and quality. Ernest Fleischmann, the impresario who dominated the Los Angeles Philharmonic for nearly 30 years as it was ...
Jimmy Dean Country Singer and Sausage Entrepreneur Dies
Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, “Big Bad John," and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died on Sunday. He was 81. With his drawled wisecracks and quick wit, Dean charmed many fans. But in both entertainment and business circles, he was also known for his tough ...
Frank Dawson Chicago Jazz Guitarist/Educator Dies
Chicago area jazz guitarist and music educator Frank Dawson passed away early on Thursday June 3rd, 2010 in his early 60s. He had been diagnosed with advanced spinal cancer just a few days prior to his death... He originally hailed from Pittsburgh, PA, and began studying music with Victor Lawrence while beginning to play professionally during ...
Marvin Isley, Bassist of Isley Bros. Dies
Marvin Isley, bassist for the Isley Bros. during their hit-making funk resurgence of the '70s, died June 6 in Chicago. He was 56, and had suffered from diabetes since the late '90s. With his guitarist sibling, Ernie, Isley joined elder brothers Ronald, Rudolph and O'Kelly in 1969; the Cincinnati-vocal act had already scored such indelible R&B ...
Ali Ollie Woodson, Singer in Temptations Dies
Ali Ollie Woodson, who led the Motown quintet the Temptations in the 1980s and 90s and helped restore it to hit-making glory with songs like Treat Her Like a Lady, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 58. The Temptations: Theo Peoples, Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Ali-Ollie Woodson. The cause was cancer, said ...
Remembering Dennis Hopper, Photographer
A self-described compulsive creator, the late Dennis Hopper was as prolific behind a camera as in front of it. And not just making motion pictures, but still images, by the thousands. He photographed most avidly during the 1960s, chronicling the burgeoning L.A. art scene and its prime movers. His pictures have been included in virtually every ...
Artist Louise Bourgeois Internationally Revered Artist Passes
Louise Bourgeois, an internationally revered artist whose intensely personal work was inspired by psychological conflict, feminist consciousness and a fertile imagination, has died. She was 98. Bourgeois died Monday at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan after suffering a heart attack on Saturday, said Wendy Williams, managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio in New York. ...
Peter Orlovsky, Poet and Partner of Allen Ginsberg, Has Died
Peter Orlovsky, longtime partner of Allen Ginsberg and a poet in his own right, died May 30 in Vermont of lung cancer. He was 76. Orlovsky met Ginsberg in San Francisco in 1954, before Ginsberg wrote his seminal poem, “Howl." Published in 1956, “Howl" was the subject of a 1957 obscenity trial that became a landmark ...
