Saudade de Johnny Cash e June Carter Cash...

Saudades de June Carter Cash...

June Carter Cash morreu há vinte e três anos...

   

June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter; Maces Spring, Virginia, June 23, 1929 – Nashville, Tennessee, May 15, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was professionally known as June Carter and occasionally was still credited as such after her marriage (as well as on songwriting credits predating it). She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.

June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter. Her parents were country music performers and she performed with the Carter Family from the age of 10, in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita, and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell) - Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively, known as "The Virginia Boys", joined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for Red Star Flour, Martha White, and Thalhimers Department Store, just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. She attended John Marshall High School during this period.^[4] June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent —comedy.^[5] A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural-born clown, if there ever was one". Decades later, Carter revived Aunt Polly for the 1976 TV series Johnny Cash & Friends.

After Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.

In 1949, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, with their lead guitarist, Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in 1950, Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.

June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed the name "The Carter Family" for their act during the 1960s and '70s.

While June Carter Cash may be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedian, philanthropist, and humanitarian. Director Elia Kazan saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 and encouraged her to study acting. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 movie The Apostle, Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–97), and Clarise on Gunsmoke in 1957. She was notable as Mayhayley Lancaster playing alongside husband Cash in the 1983 television movie Murder in Coweta County. June was also Momma James in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. She also acted in occasional comedy skits for various Johnny Cash TV programs.

As a singer, she had both a solo career and a career singing with first her family and later her husband. As a solo artist, she became somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s such as "Jukebox Blues" and, with her exaggerated breaths, the comedic hit "No Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. June also recorded "The Heel" in the 1960s along with many other songs.

In the early 1960s, June Carter wrote the song "Ring of Fire", which later went on to be a hit for her future husband, Johnny Cash. She co-wrote the song with fellow songwriter Merle Kilgore. June wrote the lyrics about her relationship with Johnny Cash and she offered the song to her sister Anita Carter, who was the first singer to record the song. In 1963, Johnny recorded the song with the Carter Family singing backup, and added mariachi horns. The song became a number-one hit and went on to become one of the most recognizable songs in the world of country music. In her autobiography, “I Walked the Line”, Johnny's first wife Vivian Cash disputes the myth that June Carter co-wrote the song, "Ring of Fire". Vivian relates the story that Johnny told her in 1963 that he wrote the song with Merle Kilgore and Curly while fishing and that he was going to give June half credit because “She needs the money. And I like her.”

Her first notable studio performance with Johnny Cash occurred in 1964 when she duetted with Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe", a Bob Dylan composition, that was released as a single and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special. In 1967, the two found more substantial success with their recording of "Jackson", which was followed by a collaboration album, Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter. All these releases antedated her marriage to Cash (upon which event she changed her professional name to June Carter Cash). She continued to work with Cash on record and on stage for the rest of her life, recording a number of duets with Cash for his various albums and being a regular on The Johnny Cash Show from 1969 to 1971 and on Cash's annual Christmas specials. After Carryin' On, June Carter Cash recorded one more direct collaboration album, Johnny Cash and His Woman, released in 1973, and along with her daughters was a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me. She also shared sleeve credit with her husband on a 2000 small-label gospel release, Return to the Promised Land

Although she provided vocals on many recordings, and shared the billing with Cash on several album releases, June Carter Cash only recorded three solo albums during her lifetime: the first, Appalachian Pride, released in 1975, Press On (1999), and Wildwood Flower, released posthumously in 2003 and produced by her son, John Carter Cash. Appalachian Pride is the only one of the three on which Johnny Cash does not perform, while Press On is notable for featuring June Carter Cash singing her original arrangement of "Ring of Fire".

One of her final appearances was a nonspeaking/nonsinging appearance in the music video for her husband's 2003 single, "Hurt", filmed a few months before her death. One of her last known public appearances was on April 7, 2003, just over a month before her death, when she appeared on the CMT Flameworthy awards program to accept an achievement award on behalf of her husband, who was too ill to attend.

She won a Grammy award in 1999 for, Press On. Her last album, Wildwood Flower, won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements showing extracts from the film of the recording sessions, which took place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow Peaches", "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea", "Temptation", and the trademark staple "Wildwood Flower". Due to her involvement in providing backing vocals on many of her husband's recordings, a further posthumous release occurred in 2014, when Out Among the Stars was released under Johnny Cash's name. The album consists of previously unreleased recordings from the early 1980s, including two on which June Carter Cash provides duet vocals.

Her autobiography was published in 1979, and she wrote a memoir, From the Heart, almost 10 years later.

Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband. All three of her children went on to have successful careers in country music. She was married first to country singer Carl Smith from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956. Together, they wrote "Time's A-Wastin". They had a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, professionally known as Carlene Carter, a country musician. June's second marriage was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player and police officer on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, on July 13, 1958. The couple divorced in 1966. Rosie was a country/rock singer. On October 24, 2003, Rosie, aged 45, died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. She and bluegrass musician Jimmy Campbell were on a school bus, which had been converted for travel. Several propane heaters were being used to heat the bus.

Carter and the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario. They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky, and remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died. The couple's son, John Carter Cash, is a musician, songwriter, and producer.

She also gained four stepdaughters from her third husband’s previous marriage to Vivian Liberto; including Cindy and Rosanne.

Carter's distant cousin, the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their friendship throughout their lifetimes. In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin.

Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages. In 1974, the Cashes donated money to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village.

June Carter Cash also had close relationships with a number of entertainers, including Audrey Williams, James Dean, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jessi Colter, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Robert Duvall and Roy Orbison.

Carter died in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 15, 2003, at the age of 73, from complications following heart-valve replacement surgery, surrounded by her family, including her husband of 35 years, Johnny Cash. At Carter's funeral, her stepdaughter Rosanne Cash stated, "If being a wife were a corporation, June would have been a CEO. It was her most treasured role." Johnny Cash died four months after Carter's death, and Carter's daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, a month after that. All three are buried at the Hendersonville Memory Gardens near their home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

  

  

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Ricky Nelson nasceu há 85 anos...

    

Eric Hilliard Nelson (Teaneck, 8 de maio de 1940 – De Kalb, 31 de dezembro de 1985), mais conhecido como Ricky Nelson, foi um cantor, compositor e ator dos Estados Unidos. Ele colocou cinquenta e três canções na Billboard Hot 100 entre 1957 e 1973, incluindo dezanove hits entre os dez primeiros colocados.

         

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Ricky Nelson nasceu há 86 anos

Eric Hilliard Nelson (Teaneck, 8 de maio de 1940 – De Kalb, 31 de dezembro de 1985), mais conhecido como Ricky Nelson, foi um cantor, compositor e ator dos Estados Unidos. Ele colocou cinquenta e três canções na Billboard Hot 100 entre 1957 e 1973, incluindo dezanove hits entre os dez primeiros colocados.

Nelson começou a sua carreira em 1949, tocando sozinho numa radionovela, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (As aventuras de Ozzie e Harriet), e, em 1952, apareceu no seu primeiro filme, Here Come the Nelsons (Aqui estão os Nelsons). Em 1957 gravou o seu primeiro single, começando como cantor na versão televisiva do siticom e gravou o seu primeiro álbum, Ricky. Em 1958, Nelson gravou a sua primeira música a ficar no top, "Poor Little Fool", e, em 1959, recebeu um Globo de Ouro como Revelação Masculina; depois que fez um filme de cow-boys, Rio Bravo. Alguns filmes vieram a seguir e, quando a série foi cancelada, em 1966, Nelson fez algumas aparições eventuais como astro convidado em vários programas de televisão. Nelson e Sharon Kristin Harmon casaram a 20 de abril de 1963 e divorciaram-se em dezembro de 1982. Eles tiveram 4 filhos: Tracy Kristine, os gémeos Gunnar Eric e Matthew Gray, e Sam Hilliard. Em 14 de fevereiro de 1981, Nelson teve um filho com Georgeann Crewe (um teste em 1985 confirmou a paternidade). Nelson estava a namorar com Helen Blair quando morreu, num acidente de avião, a 31 de dezembro de 1985.

O seu nome foi incluído no Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll a 21 de janeiro de 1987.

  

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Roy Orbison nasceu há noventa anos...

       

Roy Kelton Orbison (Vernon, 23 de abril de 1936 - Hendersonville, 6 de dezembro de 1988), apelidado de "The Big O", foi um influente cantor e compositor norte-americano e um dos pioneiros do rock and roll, e cuja carreira se estendeu por mais de quatro décadas. Orbison foi internacionalmente reconhecido pelas suas baladas sobre amores impossíveis, pelas suas melodias ritmicamente avançadas, o seu timbre vocal de três oitavas, os seus característicos óculos escuras e um ocasional uso de falsete, tipificado nas canções como "Only The Lonely", "Oh, Pretty Woman" e "Crying". Em 1988 foi incluído, postumamente, na galeria da fama de compositores de música.

    

 

      

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Carl Perkins nasceu há noventa e quatro anos...

Carl Lee Perkins (Tiptonville, 9 de abril de 1932 - Jackson, 19 de janeiro de 1998) foi um cantor norte-americano de rockabilly. Foi considerado o 88º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

  

   

Perkins morreu aos 65 anos de idade, depois de sofrer vários derrames, e foi enterrado no Ridgecrest Cemetery, em Jackson, Tennessee.

      

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Johnny Burnette nasceu há 92 anos...

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Johnny Burnette (Memphis, 25 de março de 1934 - Clear Lake, Califórnia, 14 de agosto de 1964) foi um pioneiro do rockabilly de Memphis, Tennessee.

    

Carreira

Juntamente com o seu irmão Dorsey Burnette e um amigo, Paul Burlison, no começo dos anos 50,  formou o Johnny Burnette Rock and Roll Trio. Eles são creditados como os criadores da palavra "Rockabilly".

Embora tenham conseguido um contrato com uma gravadora, o grupo separou-se em 1957, devido à falta de sucesso comercial, mas quando se mudou para a Califórnia, nos anos 60, Burnette conseguiu obter alguns sucessos como "Dreamin" e "You're Sixteen", seguidos por "Little Boy Sad", um ano depois.

A carreira de Johnny Burnette teve um fim abrupto quando morreu, afogado, aos trinta anos, num acidente de barco. Foi enterrado no Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, em Glendale, Califórnia.

O seu nome e o seu talento como compositor ganharam proeminência novamente quando Ringo Starr lançou um cover de "You're Sixteen", em 1973.

      

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Jerry Reed nasceu há 89 anos...

  

Jerry Reed Hubbard (Atlanta, Georgia, March 20, 1937 – Nashville, Tennessee, September 1, 2008), known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included "Guitar Man", "U.S. Male", "A Thing Called Love", "Alabama Wild Man", "Amos Moses", "When You're Hot, You're Hot" (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance), "Ko-Ko Joe", "Lord, Mr. Ford", "East Bound and Down" (the theme song for the 1977 blockbuster Smokey and the Bandit, in which Reed co-starred), "The Bird", and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)".

Reed was announced as an inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame on April 5, 2017.

 

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Gene Vincent, pioneiro do rock e do rockabilly precocemente desaparecido, nasceu há 91 anos...

   

Vincent Eugene Craddock (Norfolk, Virginia, February 11, 1935 – Newhall, California, October 12, 1971), known as Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly. His 1956 top ten hit with his Blue Caps, "Be-Bop-a-Lula", is considered a significant early example of rockabilly. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. He is sometimes referred to by his somewhat unusual nickname/moniker The Screaming End.

   

     

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Vincent died at the age of 36 on October 12, 1971, from a combination of a ruptured ulcer, internal haemorrhage and heart failure, while visiting his father in Saugus, California. He is interred at Eternal Valley Memorial Park, in Newhall, California.

Ian Dury paid tribute with the 1976 song "Sweet Gene Vincent".

Robert Gordon paid tribute with the song "The Catman" on his Rock Billy Boogie album.

French rock n' roller Eddy Mitchell paid homage with the 1979 song "Good Bye Gene Vincent".

The rockabilly band Stray Cats also paid homage to Vincent, alongside Eddie Cochran, in their single "Gene and Eddie".

 

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Don Everly, do dueto The Everly Brothers, nasceu há 89 anos...

Don (à direita) e Phil (à esquerda) - foto promocional de 1958

    

    

The Everly Brothers foi uma dupla de rock and roll influenciada pelo country norte-americano, conhecida por tocar viola de corda de aço e cantar com harmonias vocais. Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (Brownie, Central City, Kentucky, 1 de fevereiro de 1937 - Nashville, 21 de agosto de 2021) e Phil Everly (Chicago, Illinois, 18 de janeiro de 1939 - Burbank, Califórnia, 3 de janeiro de 2014) foram indicados ao Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll em 1986 e ao Country Music Hall of Fame em 2001.

Era uma banda de rock and roll com influência de country e que alcançou sucesso sobretudo nos anos 50.

 

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Carl Perkins morreu há vinte e oito anos...

      
Carl Lee Perkins (Tiptonville, 9 de abril de 1932 - Jackson, 19 de janeiro de 1998) foi um cantor norte-americano de rockabilly, uma mistura de rhythm and blues e country music que se desenvolveu na Sun Records, em Memphis, Tennessee, no começo dos anos 50. Foi considerado o 88º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.

 

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Phil Everly nasceu há 87 anos...

Don (à direita) e Phil (à esquerda), numa foto promocional de 1958

       

The Everly Brothers foi uma dupla de rock and roll influenciada pelo country norte-americano, conhecida por tocar viola de corda de aço e cantar com harmonias vocais. Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (Brownie, Central City, Kentucky, 1 de fevereiro de 1937 - 21 de agosto de 2021) e Phil Everly (Chicago, Illinois, 18 de janeiro de 1939 - Burbank, Califórnia, 3 de janeiro de 2014) foram indicados ao Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll em 1986 e ao Country Music Hall of Fame em 2001.

 

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Elvis Presley nasceu há 91 anos...

   

Elvis Aaron Presley (East Tupelo, 8 de janeiro de 1935 - Memphis, 16 de agosto de 1977) foi um famoso músico e ator norte-americano, mundialmente denominado como o Rei do Rock. É também conhecido como Elvis The Pelvis, alcunha pela qual ficou conhecido na década de 50 pela sua maneira extravagante e ousada de dançar. Elvis também foi um dos pioneiros e principal idealizador do movimento conhecido como rock and roll. Uma de suas maiores virtudes era a sua voz, devido ao seu alcance vocal, que atingia, segundo especialistas, notas musicais de difícil alcance para um cantor popular. A crítica especializada reconhece o seu expressivo ganho, em extensão, com a maturidade; além de virtuoso senso rítmico, força interpretativa e um timbre de voz que o destacava entre os cantores populares, sendo avaliado como um dos maiores e por outros como o melhor cantor popular do século XX.

Começou a sua carreira em 1954 na lendária gravadora Sun Records e era acompanhado pelo guitarrista Scotty Moore, pelo baixista Bill Black e pelo baterista D. J. Fontana, Presley foi um dos criadores do rockabilly, uma fusão de música country e rock´n´roll.

Elvis tornou-se um dos maiores ícones da cultura popular mundial do século XX. Entre os seus sucessos musicais podemos destacar "Hound Dog", "Don't Be Cruel", "Love me Tender", "All Shook up", "Teddy Bear", "Jailhouse Rock", "It's Now Or Never", "Can´t Help Falling In Love", "Surrender", "Crying In The Chapel", "Mystery Train", "In The Ghetto", "Suspicious Minds", "Don't Cry Daddy", "The Wonder Of You", "An American Trilogy", "Burning Love", "My Way", "My Boy" e "Moody Blue". Na Europa, canções como "Wooden Heart", "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me", "My Boy" e "Moody Blue" fizeram sucesso.

Após a sua morte, novos sucessos advieram, como "Way Down" (logo após o seu falecimento), "Always On My Mind", "Guitar Man", "A Little Less Conversation" e "Rubberneckin". Mais de quarenta anos após a sua morte, Presley ainda é o artista a solo de maior sucesso comercial e com maior número de "hits" nos tops mundiais, sendo ainda o artista a solo recordista em vendas de discos, com mais de mil milhões de álbuns vendidos em todo o mundo.

   

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Eduardo Dussek faz hoje 71 anos

    

Eduardo Gabor Dusek, também conhecido pelos nomes artísticos de Eduardo Dussek e Duardo Dusek (Rio de Janeiro, 1 de janeiro de 1954), é um ator, cantor e compositor brasileiro.

    

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Ricky Nelson morreu há quarenta anos...

   

Eric Hilliard Nelson (Teaneck, 8 de maio de 1940 – De Kalb, 31 de dezembro de 1985), mais conhecido como Ricky Nelson, foi um cantor, compositor e ator dos Estados Unidos. Ele colocou cinquenta e três canções na Billboard Hot 100 entre 1957 e 1973, incluindo dezanove hits entre os dez primeiros colocados.

Nelson começou sua carreira em 1949 tocando sozinho na radionovela, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (As aventuras de Ozzie e Harriet), e, em 1952, apareceu em seu primeiro filme, Here Come the Nelsons (Aqui vão os Nelsons). Em 1957, ele gravou o seu primeiro single, começando como cantor na versão televisiva do siticom e gravou o seu primeiro álbum, Ricky. Em 1958, Nelson gravou a sua primeira música a ficar no topo, "Poor Little Fool", e, em 1959, recebeu um Globo de Ouro como o Revelação Masculina; depois que ele fez um filme de cow-boys, Rio Bravo. Alguns filmes vieram a seguir e, quando a série foi cancelada em 1966, Nelson fez algumas aparições eventuais como astro convidado em vários programas de televisão. Nelson e Sharon Kristin Harmon casaram a 20 de abril de 1963 e divorciaram-se em dezembro de 1982. Eles tiveram 4 filhos: Tracy Kristine, os gémeos Gunnar Eric e Matthew Gray e ainda Sam Hilliard. Em 14 de fevereiro de 1981, Nelson teve um filho com Georgeann Crewe (um teste sanguíneo em 1985 confirmou a paternidade). Nelson estava a namorar com Helen Blair quando morreu, num acidente de avião, em 31 de dezembro de 1985.

O seu nome foi incluído no Hall da Fama do Rock and Roll a 21 de janeiro de 1987.

   

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Alvin Lee nasceu há oitenta e um anos...

      

Alvin Lee, born Graham Anthony Barnes (Nottingham, 19 December 1944 – Estepona, Spain, 6 March 2013) was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After. 

     

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Lee died on 6 March 2013 in Spain. He died from "unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure" to correct an atrial arrhythmia. He was 68. His former bandmates lamented his death. Leo Lyons called him "the closest thing I had to a brother", while Ric Lee (no relation) said "I don't think it's even sunk in yet as to the reality of his passing". Billboard highlighted such landmark performances as "I'm Going Home" from the Woodstock festival and his 1971 hit single "I'd Love to Change the World".

  

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