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HOLLYWOOD ICON AND WIFE FOUND DEAD

Rob Reiner - Beverly Hills (CA) HS senior yearbook photo, 1964.


The sitcom television series aired on CBS for nine seasons
from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979.

Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele dead: report

(FOX NEWS) – Rob Reiner, 78, and his wife Michele Singer Reiner,
68, have died, according to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

Rob Reiner was a film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and
political activist.

“Personally, I am heartbroken by the tragic loss of Rob and his
wife Michele," Bass said.

Fox News Digital previously confirmed that two bodies were
found inside
Reiner’s Brentwood home Sunday. Los Angeles
Fire Department officials responded to a home on the 200
block of Chadbourne Ave. at around 3:30 p.m.

Senior law enforcement officials report that both had stab
wounds, and their deaths are being investigated as apparent
homicides. Their bodies were reportedly found by their
daughter Romy.

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THESE PAST EVENTS MADE HISTORY

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SANDY KOZEL

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PAST EVENTS THAT MADE HISTORY

PDX RETRO » Blog Archive HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY | PDX RETRO                         If CNN covered Pearl Harbor...                 
CAMILLE BOHANNON

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LEGENDARY GUITARIST HAS DIED AT 84

Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and Shaper of Memphis Soul Music, Dies  at 84 - The New York Times    

    
   Stax soul music legend Steve Cropper ...

Musician Steve Cropper, who co-wrote '(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay,'  dies : NPR

Steve Cropper, Blues Brothers band member and Booker T. &
the MG’s guitarist,
has died.

Pat Mitchell Worley, president and CEO of the Soulsville
Foundation, told
the Associated Press that Cropper’s family
notified her of his death. Cropper died Wednesday in Nashville, according to Worley.

Worley’s foundation operates at the Stax Museum of American
Soul Music in Memphis, where Cropper’s former employer,
Stax Records, used to be.

A cause of death for Cropper has not been shared. Eddie Gore,
a longtime friend of Cropper, told the outlet that he visited
the
musician
at a rehabilitation center on Tuesday.

Gore said that he suffered a recent fall and was working with
Cropper on producing new music.

Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper 1968
Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper in 1968.

The "Colonel" Steve Cropper with the great Duck Dunn.

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THE ‘’QUIET BEATLE’’ DIED ON THIS DAY

Young George Harrison

My Sweet Lord! George Harrison letter sells for double expected price - BBC News

George Harrison 2001
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001

On November 29, 2001, English musician and songwriter
George Harrison died of lung cancer that had spread to
his brain
at the age of 58.

Harrison achieved global fame as a member of the Beatles
and went on to a successful solo career that included
frequent collaborations with many of the foremost
musicians of his generation.

The youngest member of the Beatles, Harrison was born
in Liverpool in 1943 and joined the group, then known as
the Quarrymen, when he was barely 15.

Harrison became the group’s lead guitarist and frequently
sang, but he developed a reputation as the “quiet Beatle”

The Beatles | Members, Songs, Albums, & Facts | Britannica

The Beatles' Abbey Road Turns 50: Classic Track-by-Track Review | Billboard

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