Celebrity Death Thread

[Dan V]

Stevie Wright, "The Easybeats "singer, dead at 68. They had a great guitarist named George Young, older brother of Angus and Malcolm Young of AC?DC. George co-poroduced Ac/DC 's first six albums.

Friday on my mind was their biggest hit, but I loved this song more. (great riff)

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drNqZWzj5GY"]EASYBEATS " SORRY " 1966 MOD BEAT - YouTube[/ame]

[Dan V]

Wth? Bummer

Love me some Motorhead

Bummer

RIP you bad, bad man.

Motorhead-my big bros alltime favorite band, the god fathers of slash metal.

The guy drank jack daniels like I drink Diet Mountain Dew!

[Newbomb Turk]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ymPeblx1V4"]Lemmy is God! - YouTube[/ame]

[OkieLion]

George Lemon III (April 25, 1932*? December 27, 2015), known professionally as "Meadowlark" Lemon, was an American basketball player, actor, and minister. For 22 years, Lemon was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.[1] He played in more than 16,000 games for the Globetrotters and was a 2003 inductee of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. When basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain was asked his opinion on the best player of all time, he responded, "Believe it or not, Meadowlark Lemon."[2]

[Marko69]

RIP Lemmy.

[DeanUK]

Wow, just read on here about Lemmy. RIP.

[Marko69]

[ame]http://youtu.be/n3KnCqU_BM4[/ame]

[Chuck Cunningham]

Stevie Wright, "The Easybeats "singer, dead at 68. They had a great guitarist named George Young, older brother of Angus and Malcolm Young of AC?DC. George co-poroduced Ac/DC 's first six albums.

This was a very popular song at Partys in Montreal when I was 13: [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In1VeSjsBT8"]Stevie Wright - "Evie" (The Whole Thing) - YouTube[/ame]

[DanO]

"They had a great guitarist named George Young, older brother of Angus and Malcolm Young of AC?DC. George co-poroduced Ac/DC 's first six albums."
--------------------------------I didn't know that. Any of it.

[Dan V]

"They had a great guitarist named George Young, older brother of Angus and Malcolm Young of AC?DC. George co-poroduced Ac/DC 's first six albums."
--------------------------------I didn't know that. Any of it.

I am way too much of a geek when it comes to music from the 50's to the mid 90's.

After that when hip hop, rap, etc went mainstream, not so much.....

[Sharkbait]

Wow. RIP, heavens band just got a great guitarist and singer. Easybeats were a great Australian band, most consider them the best Aussie band ever. I personally like Daddy Cool but Easybeats were for sure #2 on my list of Aussie bands.

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[Dan V]

Wow. RIP, heavens band just got a great guitarist and singer. Easybeats were a great Australian band, most consider them the best Aussie band ever. I personally like Daddy Cool but Easybeats were for sure #2 on my list of Aussie bands.

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?...gmail_p~chrome

Wow NEVER heard of "Daddy Cool" but it sounds like they are an aussie version of Sha Na Na. Is this true Shark?

[YT]

RIP Stevie, Lemmy & Meadowlark

[Sharkbait]

Wow NEVER heard of "Daddy Cool" but it sounds like they are an aussie version of Sha Na Na. Is this true Shark?

Although they are usually classified as part of the British Invasion, their greatest hits album is loaded with Do - Wop stuff like you'd hear from Sha Na Na, but the Eagle Rock is their signature song. I think their following was more like a cult following, and this song is considered the Australia Rock National Anthem. Typical chord progressions like many different bands from the 70's, this song has always been a favorite of mine. Oz sent me a copy a few years back and I listen to it often. Strange fact about the Eagle Rock song, when they played this song in the Pubs, all the men in the bar would "drop trou" to their ankles. Strange.

[Panoptes]

Only strange when the sheep are not herded in at the same time.