US singer Colonel Abrams, a pioneer of house and dance music in the 1980s, has died at the age of 67.
The musician scored his biggest hit in 1985 with the club single Trapped, which reached number three in the UK.
Last year, it emerged he was living homeless in New York. Friends then launched a fundraising campaign to help him obtain vital diabetes medication.
His death was announced on Facebook by DJ Tony "Tune" Herbert, who said: "Now he is at peace."
He added: "Our condolences go out to his family and fans world wide. He is no longer suffering or Trapped."
Colonel Abrams - his real name - was born in Detroit, the home of Motown, in 1949.
He said his music was a blend of those melodies and the hard street rhythms of New York, where he moved as a child.
"I studied all the people on Motown, and I studied the music and listened to the lyrics Smokey Robinson used to write, and just craved the opportunity to be on Motown," he told the Associated Press news agency in the 1980s.
"But after my family moved to New York, I studied street music, and I sort of combined them both: The Detroit sound and the street sounds of New York."
Prince connection
Abrams was in the group Conservative Manor with his brother Morris in the late 1960s, then sang lead vocals for 94 East in 1976.
They briefly featured Prince on guitar, and recorded his song Just Another Sucker in 1977.
The band dissolved once Prince's solo career took off, and Abrams joined Surprise Package, a New Jersey group.
He scored a small hit in 1984 with the ballad Leave the Message Behind the Door but it was the follow-up, a soulful house mantra called Music Is The Answer, which finally propelled him into the limelight.
An international dance hit, it earned him a record deal with MCA - which led to the chart hits Trapped and I'm Not Going to Let You.
Abrams continued to feature on the US dance and R&B charts into the mid-1990s, and performed around the world into the new century.
However, he fell upon hard times in his final years, prompting Herbert and house DJ Marshall Jefferson to launch a crowdfunding campaign.
"The Colonel is very ill with no permanent place of his own to live at this time and limited financial resources," they said at the time.
"Those of us who have listened to his awesome music and know of his plight, have banded together to try and help him through this rough patch."
According to Herbert, the musician died on Thanksgiving.
Joey Negro, Dave Pearce and Swizz Beatz are among those to have paid tribute online.
"It's a sad day for the House Music community," wrote Jellybean Benitez, a producer who worked on Madonna's Holiday and Whitney Houston's Love Will Save The Day.
"Just learned Colonel Abrams passed away," added Jefferson. "Never to be forgotten, R.I.P."
He died this morning, sounds like surgical complications, confirmed by family members on facebook.
His books were fantastic, I have over fifty of them on a bookcase behind me, and still enjoy reading them. For me and many others they were the entry point into the hobby of wargaming and interest in fantasy literature and games.
He recently released a fantastic video game/ gamebook hybrid which I highly recommend (Joe Dever's Lone Wolf is the title), and was starting to write and publish new Lone Wolf books. with book 29 released earlier this year. Sadly, he died before his plans to publish books 30-32 could be completed. He was ambitious and hard working right up until his death and really cared about his fans.
The world has lost a fantastic author and really wonderful person, I'm glad I had the chance to talk to him briefly on facebook earlier this summer and express how much the books meant to me growing up.
jreilly89 wrote: Very sad news. How are the game books? They seem interesting?
His last major works were book 29 of the Lone Wolf series, and this rather excellent video game, available on lots of different consoles, PC and mobile:
Saw this earlier today in the news. Picked up the lad from guitar lessons after school and promptly went to Mickey D's for a couple of Big Mac combo meals. Honestly can't remember the last time I had one, but yum!
In this case, I'd say the news is bittersweet. It just seems such a horrible thing to live with, that I think it better he passed on, and perhaps there's some familial comfort in that.
I have cassette tapes of him reading Watership Down. So, to me, he is Bigwig, Hazel, Fiver, Pipkin, Kehaar and all the rest of the characters of one of my favourite childhood books.
As gamers, where Chinese take-out is almost as critical a pizza, we should all take a moment to mourn his passing.
Peng Chang-kuei, the Taiwanese chef who invented General Tso’s chicken, a dish nearly universal in Chinese restaurants in the United States, died on Wednesday in Taipei. He was 98.
The death was reported by The Associated Press.
The British food scholar Fuchsia Dunlop has called General Tso’s chicken — lightly battered pieces of dark chicken fried in a chili-accented sweet-and-sour sauce — “the most famous Hunanese dish in the world.”
But like many Chinese dishes that have found favor with Americans, General Tso’s chicken was unknown in China until recently. Nor was it, in the version known to most Americans, Hunanese, a cuisine defined by salty, hot and sour flavors.
Mr. Peng, an official chef for the Nationalist government, which fled to Taiwan after the 1949 revolution in China, said he created the dish during a four-day visit by Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1955. On the spur of the moment, he assigned it the name of a Hunanese general, Zuo Zongtang, who had helped put down a series of rebellions in the 19th century.
“Originally the flavors of the dish were typically Hunanese — heavy, sour, hot and salty,” Mr. Peng told Ms. Dunlop, the author of “Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook” (2007), which is devoted to the cuisine of Hunan. “The original General Tso’s chicken was Hunanese in taste and made without sugar.”
The dish made its way to New York in the early 1970s after Chinese chefs in New York, preparing to open the city’s first Hunanese restaurants — Uncle Tai’s Hunan Yuan and Hunam — visited a restaurant that Mr. Peng had opened in Taipei. They adapted the recipe to suit American tastes.
“We didn’t want to copy chef Peng exactly,” Ed Schoenfeld, an assistant to the restaurant’s owner, David Keh, told the website Salon in 2010. “We added our own spin to dishes. And so our General Tso’s chicken was cut differently, into small dice, and we served it with water chestnuts, black mushrooms, hoisin sauce and vinegar.” The chef was Wen Dah Tai.
At Hunam, the chef Tsung Ting Wang — who was also a partner with Michael Tong in another prominent Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, Shun Lee Palace — put a Sichuan spin on the dish. He crisped up the batter and sweetened the sauce, producing a taste combination that millions of Americans came to love. He called it General Ching’s chicken. But as the dish traveled, the General Tso name adhered.
Both restaurants were awarded four stars, the highest rating, by Raymond Sokolov, the restaurant critic of The New York Times.
In 1973, with Hunan fever raging, Mr. Peng came to New York and, with Mr. Keh, opened Uncle Peng’s Hunan Yuan on East 44th Street, near the United Nations. Mr. Peng discovered, to his consternation, that his creation had preceded him, and that the child was almost unrecognizable.
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Peng Chang-kuei in an image from the 2014 documentary “The Search for General Tso.” Credit Wicked Delicate Films
“New Yorkers didn’t realize he was the real thing, and some treated him like he was copying,” Mr. Schoenfeld said.
The tangled history of the dish was explored in 2014 in a documentary, “The Search for General Tso,” directed by Ian Cheney.
Peng Chang-kuei was born in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, in 1918. His family was poor.
At 13, after running away from home, he began serving an apprenticeship under the celebrated Hunanese chef Cao Jing-shen. Formerly a family chef to Tan Yan-kai, prime minister of the Nationalist government in the late 1920s, Mr. Cao had opened the restaurant Jianleyuan in Changsha.
In the 1930s, after the Japanese invasion, Mr. Peng moved to Chunking, the temporary Nationalist capital, where he began to gain renown. After World War II, he was installed as the government’s head banquet chef. He emigrated to Taiwan in 1949, leaving his wife and two sons behind, and continued to cater official functions.
He is survived by a son, Peng Tie-Cheng. Complete information on other survivors was not available.
New York proved to be a fraught experiment, as Mr. Peng’s restaurant soon closed. “Doom trailed Uncle Peng,” the food critic Gael Greene wrote in New York magazine in 1973. “The pressures of Manhattan restaurant reality were too much for the brilliant teacher.”
Undaunted, Mr. Peng borrowed money from friends and opened Yunnan Yuan on East 52nd Street, near Lexington Avenue, where Henry A. Kissinger, then the secretary of state, became a faithful customer.
“Kissinger visited us every time he was in New York, and we became great friends,” Mr. Peng told Ms. Dunlop. “It was he who brought Hunanese food to public notice.”
General Tso’s chicken began to assume celebrity status when Bob Lape, a restaurant critic, showed Mr. Peng making the dish in a segment for ABC News. The station received some 1,500 requests for the recipe.
Encouraged, Mr. Peng reopened his old restaurant as Peng’s, bringing his signature dish with him. Reviewing the restaurant in the The Times in 1977, Mimi Sheraton wrote, “General Tso’s chicken was a stir-fried masterpiece, sizzling hot both in flavor and temperature.”
He left the restaurant in 1981 and opened Peng’s Garden in Yonkers, then returned to Taiwan in the late ’80s and opened the first in a chain of Peng Yuan restaurants there. The menu featured General Tso’s chicken. It was listed on the menu in Mandarin as Zuo Zongtang’s farmyard chicken, and in English as chicken à la viceroy.
In 1990 he opened a branch of his restaurant in the Great Wall Hotel in Changsha, but it was not a success.
As Hunanese chefs adopted General Tso’s chicken, the dish entered a strange second career. In a sweeping act of historical revisionism, it came to be seen as a traditional Hunan dish. Several Hunanese chefs have described it in their cookbooks as a favorite of the 19th-century general’s.
Oh what a "loss". If anything 2016 should be rewarded for begining to clean out those whom has invented such foul things as the Big Mac
Foul? McDonald's has fallen a long way, but in it's prime, the Big Mac was delicious. Hell, I know of at least 5 sit-down joints that sell their version of it. You can say the actual ingredients/what you get today is foul, but the idea itself is delicious.
Oh what a "loss". If anything 2016 should be rewarded for begining to clean out those whom has invented such foul things as the Big Mac
Foul? McDonald's has fallen a long way, but in it's prime, the Big Mac was delicious. Hell, I know of at least 5 sit-down joints that sell their version of it. You can say the actual ingredients/what you get today is foul, but the idea itself is delicious.
It's not exactly unique in terms of ingredients. It's beef, cheese, lettuce, gherkins and a mayonnaise sauce. That is pretty much a standard burger from any decent burger joint.
British actor Peter Vaughan, best known for roles in Game of Thrones and Porridge, has died at the age of 93.
He played Maester Aemon in the HBO series and Grouty in the TV sitcom.
His many other roles included parts in TV shows Citizen Smith, Chancer and Our Friends in the North.
His agent Sally Long-Innes said: "This is to confirm that very sadly Peter Vaughan passed away at approximately 10.30 this morning. He died peacefully with his family around him."
British actor Peter Vaughan, best known for roles in Game of Thrones and Porridge, has died at the age of 93.
He played Maester Aemon in the HBO series and Grouty in the TV sitcom.
His many other roles included parts in TV shows Citizen Smith, Chancer and Our Friends in the North.
His agent Sally Long-Innes said: "This is to confirm that very sadly Peter Vaughan passed away at approximately 10.30 this morning. He died peacefully with his family around him."
Oh what a "loss". If anything 2016 should be rewarded for begining to clean out those whom has invented such foul things as the Big Mac
Foul? McDonald's has fallen a long way, but in it's prime, the Big Mac was delicious. Hell, I know of at least 5 sit-down joints that sell their version of it. You can say the actual ingredients/what you get today is foul, but the idea itself is delicious.
It's not exactly unique in terms of ingredients. It's beef, cheese, lettuce, gherkins and a mayonnaise sauce. That is pretty much a standard burger from any decent burger joint.
Now a days, sure. But at it's release, it was the first double-stack cheeseburger with something other than mayo, ketchup, or mustard. Hell, unique enough to become a status symbol
Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Greg Lake has died at the age of 69 after a battle with cancer.
The news was confirmed on Lake’s official Twitter account by Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s longtime manager Stewart Young.
The statement reads: “Yesterday, December 7th, I lost my best friend to a long and stubborn battle with cancer.
“Greg Lake will stay in my heart forever, as he has always been. His family would be grateful for privacy during this time of their grief.”
Yes keyboardist Geoff Downes also reacted to the news, saying: “Very sad about Greg Lake. I had the privilege of working with him on several projects. His great talent will be sorely missed by all.
"Another genius has passed away. 2016 has truly been an annus horribilis in musical history."
Lake was born on November 10, 1947, and was a member of the first King Crimson lineup, appearing on their 1969 debut album In The Court Of The Crimson King and second record In The Wake Of Poseidon.
After striking up a friendship with The Nice’s keyboardist Keith Emerson, the pair subsequently teamed up and recruited Carl Palmer to form prog supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
The influential trio would go on to release nine studio albums between 1970 and 1994.
The news comes after Lake’s bandmate Keith Emerson died earlier
this year as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Oh man, today was going so well and then I hear about John Glenn. Looks like I'm gonna have to stick up my middle finger at 2016 yet again. I remember when he went up on the space shuttle and that he was the oldest man to fly in space. 11 year old me thought that was really cool that an astronaut from back then was getting to go back into space.
R.I.P. John, and my condolences to his wife and family.
I saw "Ian Mc..." and I just about had a heartattack. I immediately thought of Gandalph and Magneto, but it could have been Emperor Palpatine too!!
You frigging scared me!!!
Henry Judah Heimlich, was an American thoracic surgeon widely credited as the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver,[1] a technique of abdominal thrusts for stopping choking,[2] described in Emergency Medicine in 1974.[3] He also invented the Micro Trach portable oxygen system for ambulatory patients[4] and the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve, or "flutter valve," which drains blood and air out of the chest cavity.[5][spoiler]
Damn, I thought he was a medical marvel a while ago. I didn't realize he was still alive. He was a good man whose work helped save a lot of people. May he rest comfortably.
Mhmm. All that cocaine when she was younger won't have helped her heart health. Hope she pulls through and according to her brother she's stable, which is a really good sign.
I am really looking forward to seeing how her character will develop in the next two main series Star Wars films, I think it could be a really interesting arc.
My biggest concern is her cognitive functions. The linked story says they were doing CPR for 30 minutes before her heart started working again. That is a LONG time without oxygen getting to the brain. Significant brain damage could have occurred.
djones520 wrote: My biggest concern is her cognitive functions. The linked story says they were doing CPR for 30 minutes before her heart started working again. That is a LONG time without oxygen getting to the brain. Significant brain damage could have occurred.
Yeah, though there was a doctor and nurses on the flight doing the CPR so I don't think it particularly unlikely that they would do mouth to mouth as well as chest compressions which would help get some oxygen into her system. Surely there would be those mouth protector thingies for it in the aeroplane first aid kit?
djones520 wrote: My biggest concern is her cognitive functions. The linked story says they were doing CPR for 30 minutes before her heart started working again. That is a LONG time without oxygen getting to the brain. Significant brain damage could have occurred.
Yeah, though there was a doctor and nurses on the flight doing the CPR so I don't think it particularly unlikely that they would do mouth to mouth as well as chest compressions which would help get some oxygen into her system. Surely there would be those mouth protector thingies for it in the aeroplane first aid kit?
Still, even five minutes away from a hospital is sometimes too late. 30 minutes of CPR is an awful long time to basically flat line even with some limited oxygen provided. I hope for the best, but with experience and 2016 working its evil magic I'm leaning towards djones observation. The real touch and go moment will be in a few days, as I assume they are keeping her in a medical coma to recover, when they have to see how much brain activity there is and if they have to keep her on the ventilator for her to be able to breathe it is basically over.
Stable doesn't mean much in medical terms. Comatose = stable, braindeath = stable. It's a term that lets you say something without actually saying something.
djones520 wrote: My biggest concern is her cognitive functions. The linked story says they were doing CPR for 30 minutes before her heart started working again. That is a LONG time without oxygen getting to the brain. Significant brain damage could have occurred.
Yeah, though there was a doctor and nurses on the flight doing the CPR so I don't think it particularly unlikely that they would do mouth to mouth as well as chest compressions which would help get some oxygen into her system. Surely there would be those mouth protector thingies for it in the aeroplane first aid kit?
Still, even five minutes away from a hospital is sometimes too late. 30 minutes of CPR is an awful long time to basically flat line even with some limited oxygen provided. I hope for the best, but with experience and 2016 working its evil magic I'm leaning towards djones observation. The real touch and go moment will be in a few days, as I assume they are keeping her in a medical coma to recover, when they have to see how much brain activity there is and if they have to keep her on the ventilator for her to be able to breathe it is basically over.
Apparently it was 15 minutes without a pulse, but that's still way too long.
djones520 wrote: My biggest concern is her cognitive functions. The linked story says they were doing CPR for 30 minutes before her heart started working again. That is a LONG time without oxygen getting to the brain. Significant brain damage could have occurred.
Yeah, though there was a doctor and nurses on the flight doing the CPR so I don't think it particularly unlikely that they would do mouth to mouth as well as chest compressions which would help get some oxygen into her system. Surely there would be those mouth protector thingies for it in the aeroplane first aid kit?
Still, even five minutes away from a hospital is sometimes too late. 30 minutes of CPR is an awful long time to basically flat line even with some limited oxygen provided. I hope for the best, but with experience and 2016 working its evil magic I'm leaning towards djones observation. The real touch and go moment will be in a few days, as I assume they are keeping her in a medical coma to recover, when they have to see how much brain activity there is and if they have to keep her on the ventilator for her to be able to breathe it is basically over.
Apparently it was 15 minutes without a pulse, but that's still way too long.
Yeah, I've seen it corrected later but the BBC article made it seem like 15+15 minutes in total.
Terrible news. He was a big inspiration for me to start learning guitar way back, his riffs were some of the first I was taught and I've always been a big Quo fan.
A fairly specifically British one, but Liz Smith, of The Royle Family, Queens Nose (for gamers of a certain age) and The Vicar Of Dibley is the latest to join the list.
The Associated Press @AP 59s59 seconds ago
BREAKING: Actress Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in 'Star Wars,' has died at age 60, daughter's publicist says.
2016 hasn't been a good year for favorite celebrities. It started off with David Bowie passing away in January and now we finish off the year with Carrie Fisher unexpectedly passing away from a heart attack over the Christmas holiday.
She had her demons and it was nice to see her one last time in The Force Awakens. Prayers and condolences for her family.
Co'tor Shas wrote: Heard she was hospitalized yesterday, but didn't expect her to die. That's really sad.
Unfortunately, it was scary once it was said she stopped breathing for 15 mins. Even when her brother said "stable"...best we could do was cross our fingers and hope. RIP, Carrie. You have touched the life of BILLIONS, as a princess of strength. You have been the crush of many a nerd, and helped bring joy to so many. May the Force be with you. Always.
God damnit "Hey 2017! how about you take the famous scumbags and aholes for a change, instead of taking the good, talented and inspiring ones like 2016"
Unfortunately, 2017 is waiting on the doorstep, sharpening its scythe. It's sad, but those of us in our 30s and 40s will be watching our childhood icons die in the coming years.
Unfortunately, 2017 is waiting on the doorstep, sharpening its scythe. It's sad, but those of us in our 30s and 40s will be watching our childhood icons die in the coming years.
Browsing the web about Carrie Fisher and came across this version of Leia's theme https://youtu.be/fdlc_Fok4dM Used to think it sounded magical and inspiring. Now it just sounds really sad
Probably late finding out, but I just read on Facebook about Carrie Fisher. As a huge Star Wars fan, I'm floored. 2016's been killing a lot of good celebrities, but it saved the worst for last by killing one of my (and many many others') favorite actresses. R.I.P. Carrie, may the Force be with you and your family always.
I not only loved her in the movies, but loved watching the interviews with her, her irreverence and wit. RIP.
And, lest we forget, it wasn't just in SW that she shone...
"You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood at the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you, and your brother. "
Hey, Mr. Reaper, yeah you, I'm talkin' to you; nah you don't play dumb, you get over here, Imma gonna tell you somethin'.
You yanked the wrong chain, you got the wrong kid; you could do better than that, why don't you do something useful for once instead of taking talented, funny, and well-loved people?
You know there's a whole world full of jerks, losers, and d-bags that we'd all do a lot better without. You could start with the Kardashians, and maybe take Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber as a follow up. Or how about Kanye; he's pretty useless and annoying.
So did you just wake up one morning and decide, "hmm, 2016 is the year I'm going to be a jerk to everyone and snatched up a lot of really cool people"; or did you just think it would be funny?
Yeah, I know, you're just doing your job, but you're doing it a bit too well don't you think? I mean, look, you could just misplace the clipboard or happen to lose your to-do list, it happens sometimes.
Sure I suppose you get the ones we love and care for, you wouldn't be doing your job if you didn't, so I suppose that the jerks, and the losers would just be too easy, no one would miss them or care whether they were here or not.
So you're helping us to realize that we should be as best people as we can? Well that's a bit roundabout isn't it? Well I mean, look... ...what? Well I suppose that it is better to be fondly remembered rather than reviled and forgotten, "some people spread joy wherever they go and others spread joy whenever they go"? Yeah I've heard that. So you're saying we have a choice in how best to live? Not so much the time we have but how we use it?
Heh, I suppose you're right, mortality does have it purpose. Ironic that mortality and morality are so similar, maybe it's a lot closer than we realize, maybe we can learn something before we shuffle off this mortal coil and leave things better than how we found them.
Well, Mr. Reaper sorry for taking so much of your time, you certainly are a busy fellow.
Still don't like what you do, but it makes a bit more sense now.
And why? Its not like most of the world knew these persons personaly, I fail to see how its any worse or more worth weeping about than when a regular person dies? And beside. Death is saving the best for last
Unfortunately, 2017 is waiting on the doorstep, sharpening its scythe. It's sad, but those of us in our 30s and 40s will be watching our childhood icons die in the coming years.
While this is true, it feels like 2016 has gone out of its way to take many young and unique persons. David Bowie and Prince were such unique icons, and Carrie Fisher was as well. And they were all young. Carrie Fisher just turned 60, which is younger than my mother. David Bowie and Alan Rickman were 69, Prince was 57! These are not Zsa Zsa Gabor living to 99 years old!
Unfortunately, 2017 is waiting on the doorstep, sharpening its scythe. It's sad, but those of us in our 30s and 40s will be watching our childhood icons die in the coming years.
I was thinking the same. 10 years ago when famous people I barely knew died I was "who was that?" Now it's the time of the people that accompanied and shaped my childhood.
He was a World War II veteran, and actor best known for his Broadway work, and his television role as the loudmouthed Russ DeKuyper in All in the Family.
Sadly, in music news Kanye West was found this evening in his hotel room...
Alive and well.
Sorry I had to! I just enjoyed a great NPR interview of Carrie about her memoir just a week or so ago. Sucks. I really hope they've already filmed her ep:8 parts. Although they've shown the can CGI her already in Rogue 1.
I've got the same feelings of grief for Carrie Fisher as I did for Robin Williams. Both had a huge impact on my childhood, and now they're both gone. And both well before their time too.
Man this is terrible. Me and my Fiancee went to bed talking about the deaths of celebrities of 2016 last night. I woke up later on from deep sleep and woke up my fiancee, I told her " Man I just have this terrible feeling the Queen is going to die". My Fiancee and I talked about how she had a cold, missed the Royal Christmas Mass, and well wished the Queen of England good health... My Fiancee just told me the news of Debbie Reynolds.
Yodhrin wrote: It's Fisher's daughter you have to feel for - losing her mum and her gran back to back like that must be truly awful.
Indeed. I had just seen a quote from Harrison Ford about Carrie Fisher's passing saying something about how his heart went out to her mother and daughter and the next article was about her mother passing. This is going to be a rough time but I imagine [her daughter] has a support network to help her in some capacity.
Yodhrin wrote: It's Fisher's daughter you have to feel for - losing her mum and her gran back to back like that must be truly awful.
Yeah talk about kicking someone when there down. Loosing either one would be bad enough for most people, but to have them both within a week and having to deal with the celebrity circus? I really hope there family is given space to properly mourn by the press.
At this point we are just playing a statistics game and keeping our eyes open.
With 7 billion people in the world, thousands die every day. Odds are some of those are bound to be well-known people
TRIBUTES have been flooding in from all across the world following the death of Animal, the legendary drummer with rock outfit Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem.
Fans of the supergroup were shocked to learn of the passing of the iconic percussionist, who passed away at just 66 following a short illness. Remaining band members Dr. Teeth, Janice, Zoot and Floyd Pepper took to the group’s Facebook fan page to announce the sad news earlier today.
TRIBUTES have been flooding in from all across the world following the death of Animal, the legendary drummer with rock outfit Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem.
Fans of the supergroup were shocked to learn of the passing of the iconic percussionist, who passed away at just 66 following a short illness. Remaining band members Dr. Teeth, Janice, Zoot and Floyd Pepper took to the group’s Facebook fan page to announce the sad news earlier today.
It's funny at first, but then you realize that under those Muppets is a real person working the puppet and providing a voice, a real person who can die. And sometimes they do. The reason we didn't see much of Lew Zealand for over a decade or more was because his "operator" died back in the 90s. I know you meant to link that story as a joke, but with the way 2016 has been going, I just don't want to tempt fate, is all.
Just found out on Facebook about William Christopher (Father Mulcahy from M*A*S*H). Looks like 2016 had to get one last hit in before 2017 rolled in. Condolences to Mr. Christopher's family.
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