Record Producer Terry Melcher Dies at 62
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Terry Melcher, a record producer and songwriter who aided the careers of Ry Cooder, the Byrds and the Beach Boys, has died, his publicist announced Saturday. He was 62.
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Jazz singer and author George Melly dies at his London home at the age of 80
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The Feb. 6 death of legendary singer/songwriter and artist manager Merle Kilgore draws the curtain on one of Music Row's most popular figures.
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James LeVoy Sorenson, the 86-year-old founder of Sorenson Squeeze digital video compression and encoding technology, dies of cancer.
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Soul star Ike Turner, former husband and musical partner of Tina Turner, dies at the age of 76.
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NEW YORK - The rap artist known at Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard collapsed and died inside his recording studio Saturday. He was 35. He would have turned 36 on Monday.
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Friends and family gathered at a church in Harlem, New York, to remember rapper ODB (Ol&#39;Dirty Bastard) on Wednesday. The 35-year-old collapsed and died at a Manhattan recording studio on Sunday after complaining of chest pains.
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Terry Melcher, a key architect of the California pop sound of the &#39;60s as a record producer, songwriter and artist, died Friday at age 62 after a long struggle with melanoma.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Artie Shaw, a clarinetist and bandleader who recorded the Big Band hit &quot;Begin the Beguine,&quot; is dead at age 94, according to the manager of his orchestra.
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Rap artist ODB collapses and dies, aged 35, while working in a recording studio.
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Portrait and fashion photographer  Richard Avedon died on Friday morning at age 81, a spokeswoman  for the family said.
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Artie Shaw, the clarinetist, bandleader and composer who created a rich body of American music before he quit playing in his prime and walked away from show business, died Thursday in the Southern California city of Thousand Oaks.
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Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&amp;B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, died Thursday at 83, his spokesman said.
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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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Veteran Bollywood film producer GP Sippy dies in the western Indian city of Mumbai at the age of 93.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78. It had been revealed just last month that Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer. She died about 9 p.m. Monday, said her manager, Edgar Vincent.
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Jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw, famed for his classic recordings of "Begin the Beguine" and "Lady Be Good" as well as turbulent marriages to movie stars Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, died on Thursday at age 94, his manager Will Curtis said.