Jefferson Airplane Drummer Spencer Dryden Dies
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Spencer Dryden, drummer for the San Francisco rock band the Jefferson Airplane, died of cancer Tuesday in Petaluma, Calif. He was 66.
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Denis Payton, from rock group The Dave Clark Five which toured the United States in the 1960s and spearheaded the "great British invasion" alongside the Beatles, has died after a long illness aged 63.
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Hollywood composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote the scores for such movies as &quot;The Magnificent Seven&quot; and &quot;Thoroughly Modern Millie&quot; during a wide-ranging 50-year career, has died near Los Angeles according to news reports.
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Rhythm and blues singer Bill Pinkney, the last surviving member of The Drifters, was found dead in his hotel just hours before he was due to perform in a July 4 celebration, police said on Thursday.
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LOS ANGELES : Oscar-winning US composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote the scores of Hollywood films including &quot;To Kill a Mockingbird,&quot; &quot;The Magnificent Seven&quot; and &quot;Ghostbusters&quot; has died, his publicist said Thursday.
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US musician who was married to Tina Turner has died at his home in San Marcos, California
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the  late U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a  distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday,  his family said on Sunday. He was 79.
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For Guitarist Steve Cropper, the day  the music died was not February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly died.  It was an icy Dec 10, 1967, when the plane carrying a  26-year-old Otis Redding went down in a Wisconsin lake.
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AMMAN, Jordan, Jan. 26 -- George Habash, whose radical PLO faction gained notoriety after the simultaneous hijackings of four Western airliners in 1970 and the seizure of an Air France flight to Entebbe, Uganda, died Saturday in Jordan. He was 81.
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Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, was found dead Friday in his home in southern New Hampshire. He was 55. Atkinson police responded to a call for help at 1:20 p.m. and found Delp dead. Police Lt. William Baldwin said in a statement the death was "untimely" and that there was no indication of foul play.
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John Peel the most influential and widely respected DJ of several generations of music fans died suddenly after a heart attack on Monday, while on holiday with his family in Peru.
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Carl Mydans, who photographed 20th century events from the Great Depression to wars and politics and was a charter member of the Life magazine staff that pioneered magazine photojournalism, has died. He was 97.
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Johnny Ramone, the lead guitarist with influential U.S. punk rock band the Ramones, died on Wednesday after a five-year battle with prostate cancer, a long-time associate told Reuters.
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The heavy metal guitarist Darrell &quot;Dimebag&quot; Abbott, 38, and three others were killed in a Columbus, Ohio, nightclub on Wednesday night by a man who charged on to the stage and shot at the band and crowd before being shot dead himself by a police officer.
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Musician Denis Payton, a founder member of the Dave Clark Five, dies after a long illness.
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Carl Mydans, the celebrated World War Two photo-journalist, has died at his US home aged 97.
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Musician Ike Turner's died of a cocaine overdose, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday.