(originally released in 1945 as Merry Christmas)

(FOX NEWS) – Denny Laine, co-founder of Wings with Paul
McCartney, died Tuesday after battling lung disease. He was
79.

The "Band on the Run" singer formed two of the biggest rock
bands of all time, both with The Moody Blues and McCartney’s
Wings.

Denny Laine with Linda and Paul McCartney…Wings.

Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman)
(December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020)  

Singer, pianist, and songwriter Little Richard was an influential
figure in popular music and culture for seven decades. He is 
described as the "Architect of Rock and Roll." 

Little Richard was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
as part of its first group of inductees in 1986.

After a two-month illness, Richard died at the age of 87 at his
home in Tullahoma, Tennessee, from a cause related to bone
cancer. 

Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle. Hendrix grew up
playing guitar, imitating blues greats like Muddy Waters as well
as early rockers.

In 1964, he moved to New York and played in coffeehouses, where bassist Chas Chandler of the British group the Animals heard
him. Chandler arranged to manage Hendrix and brought him to
London in 1966, where they created the Jimi Hendrix Experience
with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell.

The band’s first single, “Hey Joe,” hit No. 6 on the British pop

In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its first U.S. appearance,
at the Monterey Pop Festival.

Hendrix in the Army in 1961