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Robin Gibb

Robin Gibb (December 22, 1949 – May 20, 2012), singer for the pop group Bee Gees. Died in H...

Donna Summer

Donna Summer (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012) Donna Summer the "Queen of Disco&quo...

Chuck Brown

Chuck Brown (August 22, 1936 – May 16, 2012) After being hospitalized for Pneumonia and can...

Adam Yauch

Adam Yauch (Beastie Boys) August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012. died in hospi...

Billy Bryans

Billy Bryans - Died 4-23-2012 (62) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Lung cancer Bor...

Levon Helm

Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 - April 19, 2012), died in hospi...

Greg Ham

Greg Norman Ham (27 September 1953-19 April 2012) found by friends in his Melbou...

Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark[2] (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) ...

Earl Scruggs

Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 - March 28, 2012) died of natural causes Wednesday mor...

Michael Hossack

Michael Hossack, drummer for the Doobie Brothers, died March 12th of cancer he was 65 years old.

Ronnie Montrose

Ronnie Montrose died of prostate cancer he was 64. Ronnie got his big break working wi...

Lucio Dalla

The Italian singer-songwriter died Thursday in Switzerland during a European concert ...

Davey Jones

Davey Jones (December 20th 1945 – February 29th, 2012) lead singer for the...

Louisiana Red

Louisiana Red (Born Iverson Minter) March 23, 1932 – February 25, 2012 Legendary Blues Pe...

Leslie Carter

Leslie Carter, the sister of The Backstreet Boy's Nick Carter and singer Aaron Carter, died o...

John McIntire

Died February 16th 2012 manager of the Grateful Dead in the 1970s and 1980s, died of natu...

Don Cornelius

Don Cornelious the host of the popular TV show "Soul Train" died Wednesday F...

Whitney Houston

On February 11th 2012 Whitney was found submerged in a bath tub in suite 434 at the Beverly ...

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Link: RIP Robin Gibb Died of Cancer in his home May 20th, 2012. Bee Gees

Link: Doug Dillard, Bluegrass pioneer, founding member off the Dillards Died Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn., due to a lung infection. He was 75.

Link: RIP Chuck Brown August 22, 1936 – May 16, 2012. The Godfather of go go died in Baltimores's John Hopkins Hospital, he was 75

Link: http://t.co/hLW3fS94

Link: RIP Donna Summer. She was 63

Link: RIP Belita Woods October 23, 1948 – May 14, 2012, sorry for the belated post as we were in Edmonton.

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Myths, Mysteries, Legends and Lore

Is the image of a peach truck on the Allman Brothers album, released in february of 1972, a cryptic reference to the death of Duanne Allman? The Late great Duanne Allman ...

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The Curse of Buddy Holly

One of the most famous Rock and Roll curses is the Buddy Holly curse. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in 1959. The ...

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The Disappointing Death of Darby Crash

Darby Crash was the punk singer for the band The Germs. Darby craved fame and sought it out at every turn. On December 7th 1980 Darby Crash overdosed on heroin, ...

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I Die, With a little help from my friend

Dwayne Goettel was the keyboard player for the Canadian industrial band Skinny Puppy. Dwayne was living with his parents in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in order to clean himself up from a heavy heroin addiction. On ...

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Who Killed Kirsty MacColl?

Kirsty was an english singer/songwriter who scored some success in the eighties, most notebaly the sone "they don't know". She also sang with The Talking Heads, the Pogues and the Smiths. On ...

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Blue Bird Café

The Blue Bird Cafe and the Wagon Wheel Country & Western bar were located In downtown Montreal on Union Street between Ste Catherine and Rene Levesque streets. On the night ...

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Beatles Crime Busters?

The author B.F. Henry of the Washinton Post wrote the only good thing about the beatles 1963 Ed sullivan show was the fact that not a single hub cap was stolen in Am...

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Paul is Dead

In 1969 rumors began spreading across university campus's that Paul McCartney was dead!Not only was he dead but those sneaky Beatles hadn't told anyone about his death and merely replaced him wit...

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The Million Dollar Quartet

In the afternoon of December 4th 1956 Elvis Presley visited sun studios, with then girlfriend Marilyn Evans and ended up listening to Carl Perkins latest record. Elvis then joined Perkins in the stu...

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The Death of Grunge

Between the summers of 1993 and 1994 the grunge scene in Seattle would be rocked by the deaths of no less than 4 individuals. The murder, rape and brutal beating of Mi...

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The Death of a Pop Princess

The Death of a Pop Princess By Ulrike Putz in Beirut After Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim was stabbed to death in her Dubai apartment, clues led back to the most elevated economic and political ...

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In the Mood for a Mystery?

Big Band leader Glen Miller, known for such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo and In the mood, was in Britain entertaining the troops. On the evening of December 15th 1944 ...

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Elvis Dead or Alive

Almost from the minute he died the rumours began about him living in seclusion somewhere in the world. Elvis sightings reached a peak in the early eighties culminating in a ...

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The Wizard of Floyd

Does the album Dark side of the moon sync with the movie The Wizard of Oz?. Click the link to see for yourself, an altered state of conciousness wouldn't hurt The ...

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Sister Smile's Sad Song

Jeanine Deckers was a Belgian Nun with the Dominican Fichermont Convent in Waterloo, Belgium. While there she wrote and sang her own songs delighting the convent. The convent decided to let her...

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Where is Richey Edwards ?

Richey Edwards was the former guitarist of the British Band Manic Street Preachers. Richey Disappeared in late January 1995 his car found abandoned at a popular suicide spot. The following is an ...

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Try to set the Night on Fire

The Station was a small club located at 211 Cowesett Avenue in West Warwick, Rhode Island. On February 20th 2003 the band Great White was headlining and started into their sho...

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Biggies Last Drive

Christopher George Latore Wallace was a really big star in the rap world...really. Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, as he was known, weighed in at over 350 lbs yet his stature ...

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The 27 Club

A remarkable number of performers have died at the ripe old age of 27! Here is a link ...

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Some Departures in May

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