R.I.P.
Pioneering electric guitarist, Bo Diddley dies
Early rock ‘n’ roll guitar legend Bo Diddley died of heart failure Monday at his home in Archer, Florida. He was 79 years old.
He suffered a stroke while touring in Iowa last year followed three months later by a heart attack. His spokeswoman said his ability to speak had been severely affected and he was [...]
Sean Levert died of natural causes
The R&B singer Sean Levert, who died at age 39 after falling ill in jail, suffered from a variety of ailments and died of natural causes, County Coroner Frank Miller ruled Thursday.
Patti Webster, Levert’s publicist, did not return a call seeking comment on the coroner’s findings.
Miller said Levert died from complications of sarcoidosis, an inflammatory [...]
Sydney Pollack, director of “Tootsie” dies
Sydney Pollack, director of notable films “They Shoot Horses Don’t They?” , “Tootsie”, “Out of Africa” and “Absence of Malice,” died at his home yesterday from cancer. He was 73.
Sydney was also a movie producer and actor filming his last role in “Made of Honor,” a romantic comedy currently in theaters, where he played the [...]
Gospel singer, Dottie Rambo dies in accident
Gospel singer-songwriter Joyce “Dottie” Rambo died early Sunday when the bus she was in ran off a road in southwest Missouri and struck an embankment.
Rambo, 74, of Nashville, Tenn., died in the crash about two miles east of Mount Vernon on Interstate 44, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. Seven other people in the bus [...]
D.C. Madam Commits Suicide
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, vowed never to go to prison and I guess she meant it.
Her body was found hanging from the ceiling in a shed at her mother’s home. Police said she left a suicide note, but they did not disclose its contents.
She was convicted by a federal jury on April 15 of running [...]
LSD inventor, Albert Hofman, has died
For those of you who know of Albert Hofman and can read this in spite of your hallucinations right now, he has died at the age of 102. He was the Swiss chemist who invented LSD the hallucinogenic drug and the first person to have an ‘acid trip’. Hofmann died in his home in [...]
Cheri Oteri’s dad murdered
The father of Saturday Night Live alum, Cheri Oteri was murdered by Richard William Fagan, a country singer songwriter.
Fagan, 61, has been charged with criminal homicide in the death of Gaetano Thomas Oteri, 69, the Associated Press reports. The two were roommates.
Fagan was arrested Saturday night for a DUI. The songwriter told police that a [...]
Kenneth Keith Kallenbach, 39, dies
This has definitely been a sad week. Now I find out that Kenneth Keith Kallenbach, an actor/musician, and perhaps most notably a member of Howard Stern’s Wack Pack, has died, as was reported on Stern’s Sirius Satellite Radio show this morning. Kallenbach was recently seen in commercials for Monday Night Football and Stride Gum and [...]
Orish Grinstead, founding member of 702 dies
Irish Grinstead is on the left. Her twin sister, Orish Grinstead, founding member of R&B girl group 702 out of Las Vegas, Nevada, passed away on Sunday, April 20th from kidney failure. She was 27 years old.
Orish, who created the group along with her twin sister, Irish and big sister Lameisha, was what friends called [...]
Soul Singer Al Wilson Dies in California
Al Wilson, who was best known in America for soul classic Show and Tell (number one in 1974) and in the UK for R&B hit The Snake, has died aged 68.
Wilson succumbed to kidney failure in a hospital in Fontana, a city about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
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