Music Is Music
#RIP #OTD in 1999, singer-songwriter ("People Get Ready"), guitarist Curtis Mayfield died from complications of type 2 diabetes at the North Fulton Regional Hospital in Roswell, Georgia at the age of 57. Cremation https://t.co/lLtXNVxk3i pic.twitter.com/kAnWkA5WdX
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) December 26, 2023
#RIP #OTD in 2010 singer-songwriter, musician, composer, arranger, producer, Lady T, The Ivory Queen of Soul, Teena Marie died at her home in Pasadena, California, aged 54. Cremation https://t.co/lLtXNVxk3i pic.twitter.com/EzM11ZIsTJ
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) December 26, 2023
USA No.1 on this day in 1969: Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine https://t.co/Z4AorTsPbi via @YouTube
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 26, 2023
UK No.1 on this day in 1974: Mud - Lonely This Christmas https://t.co/E4W113jvat via @YouTube
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 26, 2023
#RIP #OTD in 1981 composer (“Stardust”, “Georgia On My Mind”, “The Nearness of You”, “Heart and Soul”), pianist, singer, actor, bandleader, Hoagy Carmichael, died; heart attack; Rancho Mirage, California, aged 82. Rose Hill Cemetery, Bloomington, Indiana https://t.co/ESPz99M42u pic.twitter.com/CihAp1NZZK
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) December 27, 2023
USA No.1 on this day in 1965: The Dave Clark Five - Over And Over https://t.co/4R73WhSK38 via @YouTube
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 27, 2023
UK No.1 on this day in 1976: Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born https://t.co/99dQupzGVz via @YouTube
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 27, 2023
"Every night I tell myself
I am the cosmos, I am the wind
But that don’t get you back again"#OnThisDay #Remembering #BigStar guitarist #ChrisBell who died in a car accident at age 27.He was coming home from rehearsal,so music was still a part of his life&is still a part of ours. pic.twitter.com/7tJJltWfgG— G.U.Mass (@GeorgiosMasman2) December 27, 2023
#Pretenders - ‘Brass In Pocket’ from their eponymous debut album released today in 1979https://t.co/esEoP97yn0 via @YouTube pic.twitter.com/T7Lc5il2Iz
— 🧀 NYcheesy (@NYcheesy) December 27, 2023
#RIP #OTD in 1937 composer (Boléro, Gaspard de la nuit, Daphnis et Chloé), pianist and conductor Maurice Ravel died in Paris at the age of 62. Cimetière de Levallois-Perret, Levallois-Perret https://t.co/DsJ1rM6aCl pic.twitter.com/mXCGIMPWh6
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) December 28, 2023
28 December 1956. Popular violinist, Nigel Kennedy, was born in Brighton. His early career was primarily spent performing classical music, but he has expanded to include other music genres. During the 1990s he was seen as the first “rock star violinist”. pic.twitter.com/Nz2ilrYQWP
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 28, 2023
#RIP #OTD in 1983 musician, singer, songwriter ("Little Bird", "Forever", "Farewell My Friend") co-founder of the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson drowned at Marina Del Rey, California, aged 39. Buried at sea by the US Coast Guard off the coast of California https://t.co/DsJ1rM6IrT pic.twitter.com/8mJErMmFKi
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) December 28, 2023
#RIP #OTD in 2015, musician, singer-songwriter, founder/frontman for Motörhead ("Ace of Spades"), Lemmy died; his apartment in Los Angeles; prostate cancer, congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia, aged 70. Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills https://t.co/DsJ1rM6IrT pic.twitter.com/rIdfaHaq35
— RIP The Final Footprint (@RIPTFF) December 28, 2023
USA No.1 on this day in 1969: Diana Ross & The Supremes - Someday We'll Be Together https://t.co/CeWW0V30Ay via @YouTube
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) December 28, 2023