LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – The Knack's lead singer Doug Fieger, who co-wrote the 1979 hit song “My Sharona,” died on Sunday, aged 57, after battling lung cancer for six years.
His family said in a statement that Fieger passed away at his home in Woodland Hills, California, after outliving his doctors' prognoses “for many, many years.”
“Doug did not suffer. He is in a better place. And wherever he is,
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit “My Sharona,” died Sunday. He was 57.
Fieger, a Detroit-area native, died at his home in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles after battling cancer, according to The Knack’s manager, Jake Hooker.
Fieger formed The Knack in Los Angeles 1978, and the group quickly became a staple of Sunset Strip
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Richard Delvy, a pioneering surf-rock drummer, composer, arranger, publisher and producer, died February 6 at West Hills Hospital in California after a long illness. He was 67.
Born on April 20, 1942, in Bridgeport, Conn., Delvy relocated to Southern California and became the drummer for the Bel-Airs, one of the earliest surf-rock groups. The band had a regional hit with the instrumental
LONDON (AP) — Sir John Dankworth, the British jazz composer, saxophonist and band leader, has died. He was 82.
Jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine — who married Dankworth in 1958 after meeting during an audition for a spot with his band — announced her husband’s death before the finale of an anniversary concert at The Stables, the theater they founded together.
Monica Ferguson, the theater’s chief executive
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand musician Pauly Fuemana, who found international fame with his country's biggest selling record ever, “How Bizarre,” died in hospital on Sunday after a short illness, according to media reports.
The 40-year-old recorded under the name OMC, or Otara Millionaires Club, whose 1995 single “How Bizarre” reached No. 1 in eight countries, including Canada, Australia and Ireland. It peaked at
NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-winning pianist Earl Wild, who learned his craft from students of Liszt and Ravel and became one of America’s masters of the keyboard, has died at age 94.
Wild died of congestive heart disease Saturday at his home in Palm Springs, Calif., publicist Mary Lou Falcone said Monday.
Despite his advanced age, Wild continued to teach until last week — he listened to a pupil play his
NEW ORLEANS – Bobby Charles, the Louisiana singer-songwriter who penned such hits as Fats Domino’s “Walking to New Orleans” and “See You Later Alligator” by Bill Haley and the Comets, has died. He was 71.
His longtime publicist Karen Johnson said Charles, whose real name was Robert Charles Guidry, died Thursday morning. She did not know the specific cause of death but said Charles had diabetes and was in remission from kidney
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Vic Chesnutt, a paralyzed singer-songwriter whose painful and poignant songs caught the attention of R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, has died after an apparent suicide attempt. He was 45.
Chesnutt died at a hospital his hometown of Athens, Ga., on Christmas Day, two days after taking an overdose of muscle relaxants.
“In the few short years that we knew him personally, Vic transformed our sense
LOS ANGELES – James Gurley, the innovative guitarist who helped shape psychedelic rock’s multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the band that propelled Janis Joplin to fame, has died of a heart attack. He was 69.
Gurley was pronounced dead Sunday at a Palm Springs hospital, two days before his 70th birthday, the band announced on its Web site.
One of many prominent
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Vic Chesnutt, the folk-rocker whose sometimes dark reflections on life were influenced in part by a car wreck that left him paralyzed, has died. He was 45.
Family friend Christina Stuckey, who answered the phone at Chesnutt’s home, confirmed the death to The Associated Press. Chesnutt’s record label, Constellation Records, said in a statement on its Web site that Chesnutt died on Christmas
