[DeadCelebrityAlert] Record producer Phil Ramone, 79

 

Phil Ramone, one of the most important recording engineers and producers in the music business, who was responsible for creating the sound for such diverse artists as Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Frank Sinatra, Madonna and Ray Charles, died March 30 at a hospital in New York City. He was 79. ...

He won 14 Grammy Awards, including three for album of the year, and was recognized as one of the music world's most prolific and skilled hitmakers. A onetime classical violinist who put down his bow for the soundboard, Mr. Ramone was sometimes called "the man with the golden ears."

He never developed a signature production style, like Phil Spector's "wall of sound," preferring to merge his taste with that of the artist. He sought instead to bring out the essence of each performer, regardless of musical style, working seamlessly with a wide range of artists, from B.B. King to Sinead O'Connor, Tony Bennett to Dusty Springfield, Billy Joel to Luciano Pavarotti. He was the producer of Amy Winehouse's final recording â€" a duet with Bennett in 2011 on the standard "Body and Soul." ...

In addition to his high-profile work with musical stars, Mr. Ramone also engineered and produced state concerts at the White House for the presidential administrations of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter. He was at the controls on the unforgettable night that Marilyn Monroe cooed "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to Kennedy in 1962. ...

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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Reid Flair Dead: Wrestler Ric Flair's Son Dies At 25

 

Reid Flair Dead: Wrestler Ric Flair's Son Dies At 25

The Huffington Post | By Cavan Sieczkowski Posted: 03/29/2013 4:51 pm EDT | Updated: 03/29/2013 5:32 pm EDT

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Wrestler Reid Fliehr, better known as "Reid Flair," was found dead in North Carolina on Friday. He was just 25 years old. (Facebook)

The son of wrestling legend Ric Flair has died.

Reid Fliehr, better known to wrestling fans as "Reid Flair," was found dead in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday morning, according to TMZ. He was just 25 years old.

North Carolina's WCNC reports that Charlotte-Mecklenburg police received a phone call at around 10:30 a.m. from someone claiming a man was unresponsive in a hotel room at the Marriott Residence Inn off Piedmont Row Drive South. The man was later identified as Reid Fliehr .

Ric's agent, Melinda Morris Zanoni, released a statement regarding Reid's death . The message was posted on the Legacy Talent and Entertainment, LLC Facebook page:

We are heartbroken to confirm that Ric's son, Reid Fliehr, has passed away today March 29, 2013 in Charlotte, NC. The investigation into the cause of death is ongoing. Reid was 25 and an incredible son, brother, friend, and professional wrestler. No words can describe the grief that Ric and his family are experiencing and they do request privacy during this devastating time.

Police report that no foul play appears to be involved in the death, according to WCNC. The investigation is ongoing.

TMZ notes that he had issues with heroin use. In 2009, Reid was arrested for heroin possession after he crashed his vehicle in North Carolina. This was just one year after he made his pro-wrestling debut on Dec. 6, 2008, according to Bleacher Report.

Most recently, he had been wrestling for All Japan Pro-Wrestling and seemed excited about his developing career. His last tweet spoke of the good things to come.

Reid Flair@reid_flair
Reid Flair
Two shows in Maryland this weekend with @RicFlairNatrBoy . Good #wrestling and even better times ahead.
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Ric Flair , also known as "The Nature Boy," is 64 years old today. His career began in the 1980s, according to ESPN, and he is recognized by the WWE as a 16-time world heavyweight champion.

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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Rock critic, Crawdaddy! founder Paul Williams, , 64

 

(Other sources say he died of complications from Alzheimer's. - JR)

Paul Williams, the writer and editor who helped create what we now know as rock journalism with Crawdaddy!, a magazine he founded in 1966, died last night at the age of 64 from complications related to a 1995 bike accident.

Williams began publishing Crawdaddy! at the age of 17, following his earlier work publishing science fiction fanzines -- as Johan Kugelberg stresses on Williams' website, "science-fiction fandom roots... all rock fanzines and of rock fandom." Williams continued to publish and grow Crawdaddy! for two years, printing the early work of influential writers such as Sandy Pearlman and Jon Landau; the former would go on to produce The Clash's Give 'Em Enough Rope, while the latter of whom would go on to manage and produce Bruce Springsteen. ...

In its two-to-three-year run (as Williams described it), the magazine's distribution went from 500 copies to 25,000 and could count among its fans Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Luc Sante.

Following the initial success of Crawdaddy!, Williams closed up shop in New York and moved to Mendocino, Calif. where he traveled with Timothy Leary and "ended up at John and Yoko's Bed-In for Peace in Montreal." ...

Williams went on to pen more than 25 books ...

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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Character actor ("Harry Potter") Richard Griffiths, 65

 

Richard Griffiths, the award-winning actor famous for his roles in Withnail & I and Harry Potter, has died following complications after heart surgery. The celebrated stage and screen star, one of Britain's best-known character actors, was 65.

Tributes poured in for the actor, who died on Thursday at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire. Daniel Radcliffe, who starred alongside Griffiths in the Harry Potter films, said the actor made any room "twice as funny".

Radcliffe said Griffiths had supported him at two key points in his career, when he first played the young Harry Potter and later when he made his stage debut in Equus. ...

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[DeadCelebrityAlert] "The Simpsons" screenwriter-producer Don Payne, 48

 

Don Payne, an award-winning writer and producer of "The Simpsons" and screenwriter of the 2011 blockbuster "Thor" as well as "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" and "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, said his friend and former writing partner John Frink. He was 48 and had bone cancer.

Payne was most recently a consulting producer on "The Simpsons," Fox's long-running animated series. ...

Payne won four Emmys for his work on the series and also received the Writers Guild of America's Paul Selvin Award in 2005 for the "Fraudcast News" episode. ...

... [Frink and Payne] joined the writing staff of "The Simpsons" in 1998 and became part of the producing team in 2000. Among the nine episodes they wrote together were "Insane Clown Puppy," "The Bart Wants What It Wants" and "Old Yeller-Belly." ...

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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Bodybuilding icon Joe Weider dies in Los Angeles at 93

 



Bodybuilding icon Joe Weider dies in Los Angeles at 93

Publisher and promoter Joe Weider poses for portrait at Los Angeles home By Dan Whitcomb, Reuters
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Joe Weider, the self-made fitness and bodybuilding guru who built a magazine empire that included more than a dozen popular publications such as Muscle and Fitness, Shape and Men's Fitness, died on Saturday at the age of 93.

Weider, also known for starting the Mr Olympia bodybuilding contest in the 1960s and mentoring a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, passed away from heart failure at a Los Angeles area hospital, his longtime publicist Charlotte Parker said.

"Joe Weider was a titan in the fitness industry and one of the kindest men I have ever met," Schwarzenegger said in a statement posted on his official website.

"He leaves behind a fantastic legacy of a fitter world," the film star and former governor of California said. "Very few people can claim to have influenced as many lives as Joe did through his magazines, his supplements, his training equipment and his big-hearted personality."

Born in a tough neighborhood of Montreal in 1920, Weider began lifting weights as a teenager to stand up to bullies and older boys before competing in his first bodybuilding contest at the age of 17, according to a biography provided by Parker.

He started his first magazine, Your Physique, in the early 1940s and with his younger brother Ben rented Montreal's Monument National Theater to host the first Mr Canada contest during that same decade.

The two brothers also founded the International Federation of Bodybuilders and in 1965 Weider created the Mr Olympia competition, the sport's premiere bodybuilding contest.

Weider met Schwarzenegger at a bodybuilding contest in Europe and convinced him to move from his native Austria to the United States to seek wider recognition.

"He saw a lot in Arnold," Parker said. "He felt that the sport needed a star and right away he could see that Arnold was something special."

Schwarzenegger, then nicknamed the "Austrian Oak," first gained fame by winning a string of Mr Olympia titles in the early 1970s before going on to a successful career in such films as "The Terminator" and "Total Recall."

He was elected governor of California in 2003 and served two terms before retiring from politics.

"Joe didn't just inspire my earliest dreams; he made them come true the day he invited me to move to America to pursue my bodybuilding career," Schwarzenegger, who visited Weider in the hospital before his death, said in the statement.

"I will never forget his generosity. One of Joe's greatest qualities is that he wasn't just generous with his money; he freely gave of his time and expertise and became a father figure for me," he said.

Schwarzenegger also credited Weider with getting him his first acting role, in a movie called "Hercules in New York," by claiming that the hulking young Austrian was a Shakespearean actor from Germany.

Weider, who also created a line of sports nutritional supplements and ultimately founded more than a dozen fitness magazines including Fit Pregnancy, Living Fit and Flex, sold his Weider Publicans to American Media Inc. in the early 2000s.

He is survived by his wife of more than 50 years, Betty.

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