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Donna Summer Dead at 63

posted 2012-05-17 10:55:56 by beth



Disco legend Donna Summer died Thursday at age 63 after a battle with cancer, TMZ is reporting.

The Grammy-winning singer had numerous hits in both the 1970s and 1980s, including "Last Dance," "She Works Hard for the Money" and "Bad Girls."








"Go-Go" Performer Chuck Brown Dies

posted 2012-05-17 07:14:22 by Grendel



Chuck Brown, known as the "Godfather of Go-Go," a genre blending funk, jazz and soul and other musical forms, died Wednesday, his manager said.








Mary Kennedy found dead

posted 2012-05-16 17:41:10 by jeffjones



Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has been found dead in her Bedford, New York home.








Ugly Gibb Not Dead!

posted 2012-05-13 10:40:49 by tboz



Contrary to popular belief, Ugly Gibb is not dead.








Legendary bass player Donald 'Duck' Dunn found dead in Tokyo at age 70

posted 2012-05-13 10:34:42 by tboz



Booker T and the MGs groover was a familiar presence on blues and soul recordings and played himself in 'The Blues Brothers'








Nicholas Katzenbach, Trusted Adviser to J.F.K. and L.B.J., Dies at 90

posted 2012-05-09 16:13:25 by stevemay



Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, who helped shape the political history of the 1960s, facing down segregationists, riding herd on historic civil rights legislation and helping to map Vietnam War strategy as a central player in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died on Tuesday night at his home in Skillman, N.J. He was 90.








Hair-Care Pioneer Vidal Sassoon Dies at 84

posted 2012-05-09 16:08:48 by stevemay



Vidal Sassoon, who has died aged 84, became the most famous hairdresser of the 1960s, creating styles that caught and then boosted women's new feelings of personal freedom. In doing so, he changed the craft of hairstyling forever.








Maurice Sendak Dead at 83

posted 2012-05-08 08:36:30 by beth



Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn. He was 83 and lived in Ridgefield, Conn.








'Goober Pyle' actor George Lindsey dies

posted 2012-05-06 15:49:47 by doug



Los Angeles (CNN) -- George Lindsey, the actor who portrayed the country-bumpkin mechanic Goober Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show," died Sunday after a brief illness, his family said. He was 83.








Boys Co-Founder Adam Yauch Dead at 48

posted 2012-05-04 12:08:16 by dmcnelis



Adam Yauch, one-third of the pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 48, Rolling Stone has learned. Yauch, also known as MCA, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009. The rapper was diagnosed in 2009 after discovering a tumor in his salivary gland.








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