British musician Denny Laine, the lead singer of rock band The Moody Blues and a guitarist in Sir Paul McCartney’s group Wings, has died aged 79.
Less than three months after Denny Laine’s wife, Elizabeth Hines, started a GoFundMe to help with his “critical” health issues following a serious bout of COVID-19 followed by a bacterial infection, Hines has shared that the rock legend – who co-founded The Moody Blues and Wings alongside Paul and Linda McCartney — died on Tuesday, Dec. 5.
Paul McCartney wrote: I am very saddened to hear that my ex-bandmate, Denny Laine, has died.
I have many fond memories of my time with Denny: from the early days when The Beatles toured with the Moody Blues. Our two bands had a lot of respect for each other and a lot of fun together. Denny joined Wings at the outset. He was an outstanding vocalist and guitar player. His most famous performance is probably ‘Go Now’ an old Bessie Banks song which he would sing brilliantly. He and I wrote some songs together the most successful being ‘Mull of Kintyre’ which was a big hit in the Seventies. We had drifted apart but in recent years managed to reestablish our friendship and share memories of our times together.
David Crosby US rock legend dies aged 81. David Crosby Had Several Albums in the Works Before His Death
January 22, 2023
I've made five albums in six, seven years. It’s an absurd rate to be cranking albums out. The reason being is that I'm gonna die."
Former bandmate Stephen Sills, with whom Crosby butted heads with over the years, told AFP: “I was happy to be at peace with him.”
“He was without question a giant of a musician, and his harmonic sensibilities were nothing short of genius,” Stills said of Crosby. “The glue that held us together as our vocals soared, like Icarus, towards the sun.”
“I am deeply saddened at his passing and shall miss him beyond measure.”
Jeff Beck Dies Suddenly Of Bacterial Meningitis at 78 on January 10, 2023
Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck, who performed alongside Jimmy Page with The Yardbirds, has died aged 78.
The virtuoso passed away on Tuesday, 10 January, after “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis,” according to his representatives. With fingers and thumbs that were insured for a whopping £7 million, he is considered to be one of the best guitarists of all time.
For years, the Beck-Strat marriage has been fruitful and faithful with his alternately refined/skunky Strat tones. In the wake of Beck's mid-'60s stint in the Yardbirds, he formed the Jeff Beck Group, whose 1968 album, Truth, is a showcase for his brief love affair with the Les Paul electric guitar.
When Tal Wilkenfeld played four hands bass duet with jeff beck
Watch Jeff Beck help a young Tal Wilkenfeld play an insane bass solo.
She probably didn’t know it at the time, but when Tal Wilkenfeld got onstage with Jeff Beck at Saitama Super Arena, Japan in 2009, she was about to make some serious waves in the bass guitar world. In fact, the very next day the Internet was plastered with video clips from that gig – her quick thinking when Beck’s guitar amp died earning her some serious fans around the globe.
Robbie Robertson dies at 80; legendary songwriter and guitarist with The Band and Dylan
Robbie Robertson, The Band’s lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” mined and helped reshape American music, has died at 80. on 10 August 2023.
In a statement, Levine said that Robertson died in Los Angeles after a long illness. “Robbie was surrounded by his family at the time of his death, including his wife, Janet, his ex-wife, Dominique, her partner Nicholas, and his children Alexandra, Sebastian, Delphine, and Delphine’s partner Kenny,” the statement read.
Before he died in August at age 80, Robbie Robertson scored Martin Scorsese’s new movie, Killers of the Flower Moon. Today, Sony Music Masterworks has released the late Band musician’s official soundtrack for the film.
The late Robbie Robertson was shortlisted for an Oscar on Thursday (Dec. 21), when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences revealed the shortlists in 10 categories. Robertson’s name was shortlisted under best original score for his work on Killers of the Flower Moon. A total of 148 scores were eligible, from which this shortlist was culled by members of the music branch, who will also vote to determine the nominees.
