Biz Markie, 57, Rapper, DJ, The Diabolical
Richard Donner, 91, Director, Producer, Film, Television
Paul Orndorff, 71, Wrestler, WWF, WCW
Dick Tidrow, Pitcher, 2-time World Champions New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox. Executive, San Francisco Giants, 3-Time World Series Champions.
Shock G, 57, Rapper, DJ And Producer, Digital Underground
Jim Steinman, 73, Songwriter, Keyboards, Piano
Walter Mondale, 93, Senator Of Minnesota, Diplomat, Vice President Of The United States
Felix Silla, 84, Actor, T.V.’s Cousin Itt
DMX, 50, Rapper, Def Jam’s Most Successful Artist
Jessica Walter, 80, Actress, Television And Film, TV’s Lucille Bluth
“I’m THIRSTY!”
George Segal, 87, Actor, Film, Stage, Television
Larry McMurtry, ,Author And Screenwriter
Eddie Van Halen, 65, Lead Guitar And Keyboard Player, Songwriter, Composer, Virtuoso, Shredder, Van Halen
Carl Reiner, 98, Comedian, Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Theater, Television And Film, Author
His Masterpiece:
Milton Glaser, 91, Artist, Illustrator, Designer
Ennio Morricone, 91, Music Composer, Conductor, Film And Television
Little Richard, 87, Rock And Roll And Rhythm And Blues Singer And Piano Player, Music And Lyrical Lingo Pioneer
Neil Peart, 67, Drummer, Lyricist, Rush
All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted, it’s really just a question
Of your honesty, yeah, your honesty
One likes to believe in the freedom of music
With glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatters the illusion of integrity
The words of the prophets are written in the studio wall
Concert hall…
…echos with the sounds of salesmen, of salesmen, OF SALESMEN
Living in the limelight the universal dream for those who wish to seem
Those who wish to be must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation, the underlying theme.
I can learn to resist
Anything but temptation
I can learn to co-exist
With anything but pain
I can learn to compromise
Anything but my desires
I can learn to get along
With all the things I can’t explain
I can learn to close my eyes
To anything but injustice
I can learn to get along
With all the things I don’t know
Tom Petty, 66, Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter, Rock Star.
Famous last words for the cancerous metastization of music and the diseased host monkeys running the labels and stations:
Hugh Hefner, 91, Publisher, Playboy Magazine
Grant Hart, 56, Hüsker Dü Drummer, Singer And Songwriter.
One of the greatest, pioneering rock and roll bands of all time. There will never be another one like it. These songs are infinite, eternal and universal. Keep hangin’ on.
Holger Czukay, 79, Founder, Mixer And Bass Player, Can
