It appears that Alvin Lee finally made it home. Alvin Lee, the guitarist and singer of Ten Years After, has died. A statement posted on his official website read: “With great sadness we have to announce that Alvin unexpectedly passed away early this morning after unforseen complications following a routine surgical procedure. “We have lost …
Los Angeles (CNN) — Aaron Swartz, an Internet savant who at a young age shaped the online era by co-developing RSS and Reddit and later became a digital activist, has committed suicide, a relative told CNN Saturday. He was 26 years old. A prodigy, Swartz was behind some of the Internet’s iconic moments, soaring to …
This is for the children, that we lost. I’ll be back tomorrow.
I will not lie to my readers, Jazz is really not my thing. I am a rock and roller. However, I always show mad respect to the great ones in music. Jazz is an American thing, and we invented it, and people overseas wanted to sound like us. This was back, when America was a …
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I just recently lost a family member and I got permission from her daughter Sandy to post this tribute. Arlene, as we called her,was my Grandfather’s Brother’s Daughter. This would be on my Mother’s side of the family. She was born on August 30, 1946 and passed away on October 8, 2012. She was one …
Some sad news to report on a Sunday. NBC News Politics: Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the Republican-turned-Democrat who played a key role in many Supreme Court nominations, has died. He was 82. His son Shanin Specter says his father died Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia, from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. …
This is dedicated to a young lady, who left us way too damned soon.
PHOENIX – Dorothy McGuire of the popular 1950s musical trio the McGuire Sisters has died at age 84. Daughter-in-law Karen Williamson says McGuire died of natural causes at her son’s Phoenix-area home on Friday. McGuire teamed up with her sisters Phyllis and Christine to earn six gold records for hits like “Sincerely” and “Sugartime.” The …
This is a special memorial edition. The Doobie Brothers have suffered a loss. …and there are so many more, I would post them all. But this blog entry would go on for pages. Anyhow, here’s the official news: (H/T The Detroit Free Press) March 13,2012—Sonoma CA—Longtime Doobie Brothers drummer Mike Hossack passed away peacefully yesterday …
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I just saw the news flash across twitter. We have lost another one. Mil-Blogger Neptunus Lex has died in a plane crash. Read the story here at RedState. A final farewell guest post is happening here at his blog. A personal note, Lex’s blog was one of the first blogs that I started reading, when …
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I feel like a guitarist, who is standing on a stage and has sudden realized; he has forgotten the chords to the song he is supposed to be playing. I mean what words can be written about the man that has not already been written already somewhere else? I am referring, of course, the passing …
He crossed the Atlantic because it was there, and the Pacific because it was also there. He made both crossings in a rowboat because it, too, was there, and because the lure of sea, spray and sinew, and the history-making chance to traverse two oceans without steam or sail, proved irresistible. In 1969, after six …
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Unreal. The Story: Friends and relatives said Susan Poff and Robert Kamin of Oakland were the perfect pair to adopt a foster child. They had dedicated their careers to helping others escape poverty, she as a physician assistant in a city-run clinic in the Tenderloin and he as a clinical psychologist for inmates in the …
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So sad, she lived to see the first black President. Now she’s with the angels in Heaven. Video from AP: TMZ.com reports: Legendary R&B singer Etta James — famous for her hit songs “At Last” and “Something’s Got a Hold on Me” — has died. The singer — whose health was on a rapid decline …
Sad News: Tony Blankley, a noted conservative author and commentator and former editorial page editor of The Washington Times, died late Saturday, according to family sources. He was 63 and had been battling stomach cancer. Mr. Blankley was an executive vice president of the Edelman public-relations firm in Washington, a visiting senior fellow in national-security …