Charles Edward Anderson Berry
(October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017)
Music pioneer Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and
blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive
with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven"
(1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode"
(1958)
(AP) – Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers
who helped perform such raw rhythm and blues classics as
“Shout" and “Twist and Shout” and the funky hits “That Lady”
and “It’s Your Thing,” has died at age 84.
There are no words to express my feelings and the love I have
for my brother. Our family will miss him. But I know he’s in a
better place," Ronald Isley said in a statement released
Thursday by an Isley Brothers publicist. Further details
were not immediately available.
A Cincinnati native, Rudolph Isley began singing in church with
brothers Ronald and O’Kelly (another sibling, Vernon, died at
age 13) and was still in his teens when they broke through in
the late 1950s with “Shout,” a secularized gospel rave that was
later immortalized during the toga party scene in “Animal House.”
The Isleys scored again in the early 1960s with the equally spirited
“Twist and Shout,” which the Beatles liked so much they used it
as the closing song on their debut album and opened with it for
their famed 1965 concert at Shea Stadium.
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Singer-songwriter Terry Kirkman, a founding member of the
1960s folk-rock band the Association, has died at 83.
In the years following his departure from the Association,
Kirkman retired from the music industry, and worked in
California as an addictions counselor.
Kirkman lived in Montclair, California with his wife Heidi.
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Jack Sonni (December 9, 1954 – August 30, 2023)
Legendary Dire Straits guitarist Jack Sonni reportedly died,
August 30. The cause of death has not yet been revealed.
Sonni, who was widely known as the band’s “other guitarist”
during the groups Brothers in Arms era, had been suffering
unspecified health issues earlier this week.
The Marvelettes in a 1963 promotional photo. Clockwise
from top left: Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson,
Georgeanna Tillman, and Wanda Young.
Katherine Anderson-Schaffner, a founding member of
The Marvelettes, has died at age 79. A cause of death
is unknown.
The news was confirmed by her daughter, Keisha
Schaffner, on Wednesday (Sept. 20) via Facebook.
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Debut album in 1961
