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RIP Former Who Manager Chris Stamp
Chris Stamp with Roger Daltrey (Image Source ) From Ultimate Classic Rock: Chris Stamp, who co-managed The Who during their rise to rock stardom and released the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s first single...
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RIP Roger Prigent, Photographer of Love It To Death Album Cover
Original, Banned Cover With Alice’s Thumb Emulating a Penis Photographer and renowned antique dealer, Roger Prigent, who snapped the infamous cover of 1971′s Love it to Death, the breakthrough third...
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RIP The Troggs’ Singer Reg Presley
Image Source Reg Presley sang lead on what is probably the most-covered sixties-era pop song of all time, “Wild Thing.” And now he’s dead. The Troggs’ vocalist has passed away on February 4th, 2013 at...
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RIP Artist Richard Artschwager
1923 – 2013 (Image Source) American painter, illustrator and sculptor Richard Artschwager passed away on February 9th at the age of 89. I recently visited the Whitney Museum here in Manhattan and had...
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RIP Former Iron Maiden Drummer, Clive Burr
Image Source Former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr passed away in his sleep on Tuesday night (March 12th, 2013) after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. He was 56 years old. Burr joined Iron...
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RIP Legendary Music Producer Phil Ramone
Image Source Fourteen time Grammy winning record producer Phil Ramone passed away in New York today, March 30th, 2013. The cause of death has not yet been disclosed. Ramone was 72 years old (though I...
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RIP Roger Ebert
Image Source Iconic Film Critic and author Roger Ebert passed away today, April 4th, 2013, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 70 years old. The Chicago Tribune, has a loving obit at This Link....
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RIP Studio Legend Andy Johns
Andy Johns, who famously produced or engineered ground breaking albums by Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Jethro Tull and The Rolling Stones, to name but a few, has passed away on April 7th, 2013. The...
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RIP Divinyls’ Vocalist Chrissy Amphlett
Image Source Christine “Chrissy” Amphlett, best known as the audacious lead vocalist of the Australian rock band Divinyls passed away on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at her home in NYC after a battle with...
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RIP DEVO Drummer Alan Myers
DEVO: Alan Myers is on the Far Right ( Image Source) Alan Myers, drummer for the pioneering new wave rock band DEVO from 1976 to 1986, passed away on June 24th, 2013 after a long bout with Brain...
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Remembering Amy Winehouse on Her Birthday
Amy Winehouse Poster By Bruce Pavlow (Photo By Gail) Singer Amy Winehouse was born on this day, September 14th, in 1983 (the year I graduated from college). Amy was found dead at her home in London,...
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Lou Reed, Dead at 71
Portrait of Lou Reed by Chuck Close (Photo By Gail) Lou Reed, a pioneering and wildly influential rock guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, passed away today, October 27th, 2013 in NYC. Although Reed...
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Eight Favorite Acting Roles by Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous (with Patrick Fugit) By now, everyone with an Internet connection knows that American Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died early this morning,...
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RIP Japanese Conceptual Artist On Kawara
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 1979 By On Kawara (Photo By Gail) I took the above photo during Geoffrey and my most recent visit to the Museum of Modern Art this past Saturday, at which time the artist who...
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Tommy Ramone, Last of the Original Ramones, Dead at 62
Tommy Ramone Original Ramones Drummer and the last surviving member of the band’s original line up, Tommy Ramone (Real Name: Thomas Erdelyi) passed away on Friday, July 11th, 2014 after a battle with...
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Coffin Dip Bowl For Your Halloween Party!
Here’s something else you need to make sure your Halloween party spread is scary delicious: a Coffin Shaped Dip Bowl complete with little Vampire in it and Tombstone-topped spreader with a bat on it!...
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RIP Gail Zappa
Image Courtesy of MSO PR Statement from the Family of Gail Zappa on the Occasion of Her Passing: Gail Zappa, wife of the late Frank Zappa, passed away on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at her home,...
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Ellsworth Kelly, Green Blue Red
Photo By Gail Minimalist pioneer Ellsworth Kelly passed away at age 92 on December 27th, and we miss him already. I was just out in LA and had the chance to visit the fabulous new Broad Museum, where...
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Pink Thing of The Day: David Bowie Mural in Dublin
Image Source A friend in Dublin, Ireland sent me the link to this mural of Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, which just went up in his neighborhood. I think it’s beautiful. You can read more about the mural at...
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RIP Ziegfeld Theater
Ziegfeld Theater Exterior the Morning after Winter Storm Jonas (All Photos By Gail) The legendary Ziegfeld Theater closed its doors for good on Thursday, January 28th with a 10 PM sold-out showing of...
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