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Continuing from yesterday:
Marianne Faithful
Longtime Rolling Stones girl, hit with a cover of their As Tears Go By.
Mark Volman
Member of the Turtles (Happy Together), as well as Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention; "Flo" of Flo and Eddie, with the M10 hit Keep It Warm.
Michael "Tunes" Antunes
Saxophone on John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band (On The darkside).
Mick Ralphs
Lead vocal on Mott The Hoople (All The Young Dudes), founder and lead guitar for Bad Company.
Nino Tempo
Partner of April Stevens on Deep Purple (1963).
Ozzie Osbourne
C'mon, everyone knows Ozzie!
Perry Bamonte
Bassist for the Cure on Friday I'm In Love.
Peter Yarrow
Member of Peter, Paul, and Mary; wrote Maureen McGovern's Torn Between Two Lovers.
Rick Davies
Songwriter and keyboards for Supertramp.
Rick Derringer
Lead guitar on the McCoys (Hang On Sloopy) and hit with Rock'N'Roll Hootchie-Coo.
Robert John
Had big hits with a cover of The Lion Sleeps Tonight as well as Sad Eyes.
Roberta Flack
Early 1970s star (First Time Ever I Saw Your Face).
Sam Moore
One-half of Sam and Dave (Soul Man).
Sly Stone
Leader of Sly and the Family Stone.
Steve Cropper
Guitarist for Booker T and the MGs, as well as being the "play it, Steve" for both Sam and Dave's and the Blues Brothers' Soul Man.
Terry "Buzzy" Johnson
High tenor and arranger for the Flamingos on their hit version of I Only Have Eyes For You.
Thommy Price
Drummer for Scandal (The Warrior) and later for Joan Jett on I Hate Myself For Loving You.
Tom Shipley
Half of Brewer and Shipley (One Toke Over The Line).
Tommy Hunt
Another member of the Flamingos on that hit.
Walter Scott
Founding member of the Whispers (And The Beat Goes On, Rock Steady); his twin brother, Wallace ("Wally") is the last remaining member.
Wayne Osmond
Second oldest of the original Osmonds band.
Good grief, that was more than 60 deaths in the field. But I guess that shouldn't surprise me; after all the pioneers in modern pop and rock are edging near 100, when they are still around.
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