Died on this day ...

[Lovely Linda]

[video=youtube;ArQEsu9xkvo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArQEsu9xkvo[/video]
This video makes me so sad but it is interesting. What a loss to the music industry!!
Selena was a beautiful woman!!

[Music Head]

Marvin Gaye - died on this day in 1984 at the age of 44, of a bullet from his father

Rock n Roll HOF - 1987
Hollywood WOF - 1990
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award - 1996
#3 US/#4 UK in 1982 with this

[video=youtube;rjlSiASsUIs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlSiASsUIs[/video]

[jazzboCR]

Marvin Gaye - died on this day in 1984 at the age of 44, of a bullet from his father

Rock n Roll HOF - 1987
Hollywood WOF - 1990
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award - 1996
#3 US/#4 UK in 1982 with this

Marvin Gaye was a vital part of Soul music, first as an all-around multi-instrumental session musician at Motown and later in developing the idea and execution of Soul concept albums. His brutal childhood shaped him and his music. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gaye << His Dad got off with probation after his involuntary manslaughter conviction.

[Music Head]

Edwin Starr - died on this day in 2003 at the age of 61, of a heart attack

#1 US/#3 UK in 1970 with this
good god y'all

[video=youtube;_d8C4AIFgUg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg[/video]

[Music Head]

Sarah Vaughan - died on this day in 1990 at the age of 66, of cancer

2 Grammy awards
highest charting single with a #7 US and UK in 1959

[video=youtube;sg1-aidI_xo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg1-aidI_xo[/video]

[jazzboCR]

Jesus of Nazareth I don't know that he was a musician (though he could certainly enliven any party--water into wine and all that). As an atheist, I still revere him...for what secular history tells us: a religious reformer and political organizer, who worked hard to empower the downtrodden against their oppressors. No, not the Romans who only exerted legal and admin supremacy--it was the high-born Jews the Pharisees and even more the Sadducees, that felt the most threatened. Their deal with the Romans was that neither interfered with the others activities and the Pharisees and Sadduccees, controlling religion and business, felt greatly threatened by this upstart. He had to die...and so they pressured the very reluctant Pontius Pilate to kill him. http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deceptio...rucifixion and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharisees

We mourn his death today--his resurrection is celebrated on Sunday, which is why this isn't in the Easter Thread--don't want to be a drag.

[Music Head]

Red Sovine (Woodrow Wilson Sovine) - West Virginia native died on this day in 1980 at the age of 64, of a heart attack

I cried when I first heard this at the age of 15
I remember going to my room, locking the door
and thinking wth is wrong with me?

[video=youtube;1j763lmAAP0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j763lmAAP0[/video]

[Ruby]

Arthur Russell – experimental cellist and composer, died on this day in 1992 at the age of 40.

Classically trained, he liked to play with sound and was heavily involved in the underground disco and avant garde scenes in the late 70's and 80’s. He collaborated with a few well known artists including Jennifer Warnes, Allen Ginsburg, Phillip Glass and David Byrne.

He seems to have been a prolific procrastinator! Churned out a ton of work but never finished off a whole lot of it. I quote “He left behind more than 1,000 tapes when he died, 40 of them different mixes of one song”. He certainly left his mark and has garnered admiration from various quarters - here's one of his more accessible pieces ...

[video=youtube;IksudTFX42c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IksudTFX42c[/video]

[Music Head]

Gene Pitney - Connecticut native died on this day in 2006 at the age of 66, of a heart attack

R&RHOF in 2002
biggest US hit at #2 in 1962 with this

[video=youtube;hjrKPzt4pW8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjrKPzt4pW8[/video]

[Ruby]

Colin Flooks died on this day in 1998, dammit! He was better known as Cozy Powell.

A phenomenal drummer whose work can be heard with The Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, The Michael Schenker Group, Bedlam, Forcefield, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Peter Green, Yngwie Malmsteen and Brian May, as well as guest appearances/sessions with a whole host of others. Nothing like a bit of diversity!

I’m posting “Resurrection” from Brian May’s Back to the Light which I used to own and which has mysteriously disappeared, as music does from time to time. It showcases Cozy nicely and whilst Brian May might not be the greatest vocalist in rock history, he is still a genius.

[video=youtube;iux9mTnf7xg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iux9mTnf7xg[/video]