Christine Anne McVie (12 July 1943 – 30 November 2022)

Christine McVie, the English musician whose smoky vocals
and romantic lyrics helped catapult the rock group Fleetwood
Mac to international success, died Wednesday after a brief
illness .

In 1998, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame as a member of Fleetwood Mac, and received the Brit
Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. She was also
the recipient of two Grammy Awards.

Robert Gordon (March 29, 1947 – October 18, 2022)

Gordon died on October 18 after years of acute myeloid leukemia.

Robert Gordon with Link Wray on guitar, on his debut
album for Private Stock Records in 1977.

NEW YORK (AP) — Joanna Simon, an acclaimed mezzo-soprano,
Emmy-winning TV correspondent and one of the three singing
Simon sisters who include pop star Carly, has died.  

Simon, the eldest of four, died Wednesday, just a day before her
sister Lucy died, according to Lucy’s daughter, Julie Simon.

Carly Simon (center) and sisters Lucy Simon and Joanna
Simon.

MIKE GRACIA

Singer John J. (Cougar) Mellencamp is 71 years old today. 

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, followed by an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
in 2018.

Unwilling to rest as a one-hit wonder when its first big hit, The
Monkees, went off the air in 1968, the television production
company Screen Gems wasted no time in trying to repeat its
success. On September 25, 1970, in the 8:30 p.m. time slot
immediately following The Brady Bunch, ABC premiered a
program that would give Screen Gems its second TV-to-pop-
chart smash: The Partridge Family.

The musical sitcom starred Shirley Jones and featured David
Cassidy. Jones plays a widowed mother, and Cassidy plays
the oldest of her five children, in a family who embarks on a
music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until August 24,
1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, and
had subsequent runs in syndication.