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.

Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper in 1968.

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.

TIM MAGUIRE

Charles Edward Anderson Berry was an singer, guitarist and
songwriter who pioneered rock and roll with distinctive songs
such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956),
"Rock and Roll Music" (1957), and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958).

Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and
developing a music style that included guitar solos along with
showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent
rock music.   

 
Charles Edward Anderson Berry
(October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017)

    
CARLATA BRADLEY

Paul Simon was born in Newark, New Jersey. he is 84 today.