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Herb Cohen Label Operator Introduced Mothers of Invention, Tom Waits
Herb Cohen, the tough, litigious manager and label operator who introduced such notables as the Mothers of Invention and Tom Waits during the '60s and '70s, died Tuesday of unknown causes in Napa, Calif. He was 77. After beginning his professional career as an L.A. club booker and operator, Cohen branched into management in the mid-'60s. ...
Fess Parker, Who Played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone Dies
Fess Parker, whose star-making portrayal of frontiersman Davy Crockett on television in the mid-1950s made him a hero to millions of young baby boomers and spurred a nationwide run on coonskin caps, died Thursday. He was 85. Parker, who played another pioneer American hero on television's “Daniel Boone" in the 1960s before retiring from acting a ...
World Music DJ Charlie Gillett Dies
Pioneering DJ Charlie Gillett has died aged 68 after battling a long illness, it emerged today. Best known as the discoverer of rockers Dire Straits and as a champion of world music, the broadcaster died in a London hospital yesterday, his family said. He contracted a disease of the autoimmune system, and suffered a heart attack ...
Alex Chilton Big Nashville Star Dies
Alex Chilton, the pop hitmaker, cult icon and Memphis rock iconoclast best known as a member of 1960s pop-soul act the Box Tops and the 1970s power-pop act Big Star, died Wednesday at a hospital in New Orleans. The singer, songwriter and guitarist was 59. “I'm crushed. We're all just crushed," said John Fry, owner of ...
Country Music Impresario Johnnie High Dead at 80
Johnnie High, a north Texas country music showman who gave such performers as LeAnn Rimes and Boxcar Willie their early exposure, has died at the age of 80. High's daughter, Luanne Dorman, says her father died Wednesday after battling heart disease. The impresario of “Johnnie High's Country Music Revue" began his Saturday show in 1974 after ...
Actor Peter Graves Found Dead
Actor Peter Graves was found dead Sunday at his home in Pacific Palisades, according to law enforcement sources. Graves, who stared in “Mission: Impossible," “Airplane!" and Billy Wilder's “Stalag 17"--apparently died of natural causes, the sources said. Graves was 83, according to a biography on the website IMDB.com, was the younger brother of Gunsmoke's star James ...
Johnny Alf, a 'Father of Bossa Nova,' Dies at 80
Johnny Alf, an influential Brazilian songwriter, pianist and singer whose delicately swinging music was a precursor to the bossa nova, died on March 4 in Santo Andre, Brazil, just outside Sao Paulo. He was 80 and lived in Sao Paulo. The cause was prostate cancer, said his manager, Nelson Valencia. Though he was not widely known ...
Mark Linkous Virtual One-Man Band Behind Sparklehorse
Mark Linkous, a reclusive singer-songwriter who recorded as the virtual one-man band Sparklehorse, known for an often haunting and dreamy alternative-pop sound, committed suicide Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. He was 47. “It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous, took his own life," his family ...
Banjo Player John Becker Dies at Age 90
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that banjo player and guitarist John Becker died late last month at the age of 90. Becker was involved with jazz and popular music in St. Louis for more than 50 years, playing with big bands in the 1940s, serving as musical director at KSD-TV, and playing concerts, festivals and ...
Jazz Great Tony Campise Dies at 67
Local jazz saxophone great Tony Campise, who was nominated for a Grammy in 1992 for his “Once In a Blue Moon" LP, died Sunday morning at University Medical Center Brackenridge a day after having a brain hemorrhage. Campise, 67, never fully recovered from an October fall outside a Corpus Christi hotel, where he hit the back ...
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