Denis Payton of UK band The Dave Clark Five dies
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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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The drummer with the Doobie Brothers, Keith Knudsen, dies of pneumonia at the age of 56.
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Dick Clark, the &quot;American Bandstand&quot; icon, was hospitalized this week after suffering a mild stroke. Clark, who turned 75 on Nov. 30, suffered the stroke this week, publicist Paul Shefrin said Wednesday, declining to give any details.
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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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Legendary British saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith, who played with a list of musicians that reads like a who's who of the international jazz and rock music scene, has died of cancer.
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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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Spencer Dryden, the drummer for legendary rock band the Jefferson Airplane, has died of cancer. He was 66.
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Tony Thompson, who sang with &#39;90s  R&B group Hi-Five, has died of an apparent drug overdose at the  age of 31.
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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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&quot;Dimebag Darrel&quot; Abbott, a founding member of the heavy metal group Pantera, was shot to death along with three others Wednesday night at a Columbus, Ohio metal show.
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Longtime television presenter and producer Dick Clark was hospitalised this week after suffering a mild stroke. Clark, who turned 75 on November 30, suffered the stroke this week
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Britons killed in Jordan bus crash Kate O&#39;Hara, Olwen Dudgeon, James Reed and Julie Hemmings AT LEAST nine Britons on a pilgrimage tour led by a Yorkshire churchman were killed yesterday when their coach careered off a desert highway in Jordan and
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Elvis Presley's backing singer Solomon King, who sang with him in The Jordanaires, dies in the US aged 73
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&quot;Dimebag&quot; Darrell Abbott, who was shot dead at a rock concert on Wednesday aged 38, was the lead guitarist of the hard rock bands Pantera and Damageplan, and one of the most influential musicians on the heavy metal scene.
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Former Tomorrow's World presenter Raymond Baxter dies in hospital at the age of 84.
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Veteran British broadcaster John Peel, who championed all types of cutting edge pop and rock acts over the past 35 years on his radio show, has died after a heart attack, the BBC announced.
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Multi-faceted guitar great, Hank Garland, died Tuesday of a staph infection. He was 74. Garland, who could play jazz, blues, country, and rock, worked with such performers as Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers