[DeadCelebrityAlert] Chris Squire, Yes Bassist and Co-Founder, Dead at 67

 

Chris Squire, Yes Bassist and Co-Founder, Dead at 67

Bassist was only member of legendary prog rock group to appear on every album

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Yes' Chris Squire, shown here in concert in 2013, has passed away at the age of 67, just a month after the bassist revealed he was battling leukemia Larry Marano/Getty Images Entertainment

Chris Squire, the co-founder and longtime bassist of prog rock icons Yes and the only member of the group to feature on every studio album, has passed away just over a month after revealing that he was suffering from a rare form of leukemia. Squire was 67. Current Yes keyboardist Geoff Downes first tweeted the news, "Utterly devastated beyond words to have to report the sad news of the passing of my dear friend, bandmate and inspiration Chris Squire."

"For the entirety of Yes' existence, Chris was the band's linchpin and, in so many ways, the glue that held it together over all these years. Because of his phenomenal bass-playing prowess, Chris influenced countless bassists around the world, including many of today's well-known artists. Chris was also a fantastic songwriter, having written and co-written much of Yes' most endearing music, as well as his solo album, Fish Out of Water."Yes confirmed Squire's death on their official Facebook page. "It's with the heaviest of hearts and unbearable sadness that we must inform you of the passing of our dear friend and Yes co-founder, Chris Squire. Chris peacefully passed away last night in Phoenix Arizona, in the arms of his loving wife Scotty," the band wrote in a statement.
Yes formed in 1968 after singer Jon Anderson met self-taught bassist Squire at a London music-industry bar; the pair were soon joined by guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford. Yes released their self-titled debut in 1969. However, it wasn't until Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman replaced Banks and Kaye, respectively, that the prog rock group really hit it big with 1971's The Yes Album and Fragile.
Over the ensuing decades, Yes would see a parade of band members depart, enter and reenter, but Squire was the lone constant in the shape-shifting band, serving as their bassist for nearly 50 years. Squire is also credited as a co-writer on many of Yes' greatest cuts, including "I've Seen All Good People," "Starship Trooper," "Owner of a Lonely Heart," "Yours Is No Disgrace" and "Heart of the Sunrise."
In addition to his work with Yes, Squire was involved in other side and solo projects. His 1975 solo LP Fish Out of Water is revered among prog fans. Squire also teamed with Yes part-time guitarist Billy Sherwood for their Conspiracy project in 2000 and, more recently, formed Squackett with Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. Yes' current incarnation featured singer Jon Davison, and as Squire told Rolling Stone, the vocalist was hired based on a recommendation from Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins.
In May, Squire revealed that he was recently diagnosed with acute erythroid leukemia, which would force him to miss the band's summer co-headlining tour with Toto. The absence marked the first time in the band's history that Yes performed without their longtime bassist.
"This will be the first time since the band formed in 1968 that Yes will have performed live without me," Squire said in a statement. "But the other guys and myself have agreed that Billy Sherwood will do an excellent job of covering my parts and the show as a whole will deliver the same Yes experience that our fans have come to expect over the years."
In February 2013, Rolling Stone spoke to Squire about Yes' legacy and the fact that Rush, but not Yes, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "Logistically, it's probably difficult for whoever the committee is to bring in Yes," Squire said. "Rush is fairly simple. It's the same three guys and always has been. They deserve to be there, no doubt about that. But there still seems to be a certain bias towards early-Seventies prog rock bands like Yes and King Crimson… In our case, we're on our 18th member. If we ever do get inducted, it would be only fair to have all the members, old and new. So that may be a problem for the committee. I don't know."


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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Avengers star Patrick Macnee dies

 



 

Avengers star Patrick Macnee dies

Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Patrick MacNee
Actor Patrick Macnee, star of The Avengers TV series, has died in California at the age of 93.
The Briton, best known for playing John Steed in the 1960s television series, died at home with his family at his bedside, his son Rupert said.
Macnee also played roles in theatre, appearing on Broadway, and served in the Royal Navy during World War Two.
A statement on the actor's website read: "Wherever he went, he left behind a trove of memories."
"Patrick Macnee was a popular figure in the television industry", the statement said. "He was at home wherever in the world he found himself. He had a knack for making friends, and keeping them."
He died peacefully at his home in California's Rancho Mirage on Thursday, Rupert said.

James Bond ally

Born in London and educated at Eton, Macnee first appeared in the West End while still in his teens.
He played a number of minor roles - including one in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film version of Hamlet - before rising to fame in the original Avengers series between 1961 and 1969.
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He returned when that series was reprised as The New Avengers in the 1970s, appearing alongside Joanna Lumley's Purdey and Gareth Hunt's Mike Gambit.
He also appeared in the 1985 James Bond film A View to Kill, playing an ally of Roger Moore's Bond character.

'Ahead of their time'

In a 2014 interview with The Lady magazine, Macnee said he believed The Avengers was a success because it "did something different and did it better."
He told the magazine: "It was beautifully written, the ideas were very good, way ahead of their time and they incorporated fantasies for people who dreamed of doing exciting things."
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Macnee, centre, appeared with Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt in The New Avengers





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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Dick Van Patten, 86

 


NEW YORK (AP) — Dick Van Patten, the genial comic actor best known as the patriarch of TV's "Eight is Enough," has died, according to his publicist Daniel Bernstein.

No details on his death were immediately available. He was 86.

Born in New York, the veteran entertainer began his career as a child actor performing on the stage and on TV during its infancy.

But his greatest success was as Tom Bradford, a middle-aged widower and father of eight children who met and married Abby, played by Betty Buckley. The ABC comedy-drama aired from 1877-1981.

Van Patten's film roles included "Spaceballs," "The Santa Trap" and "Soylent Green."

His many TV appearances included "Love, American Style," "The Love Boat" and, most recently, "Hot in Cleveland."






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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Christopher Lee, 93

 

The veteran actor, immortalised in films from Dracula in 1958 to The Wicker Man through to James Bond and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, passed away at 8:30am on Sunday morning at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.

His wife, the former Danish model Birgit Kroencke, decided to hold back the information for four days until all family members and friends were informed. The couple had been married for over 50 years and had one daughter, Christina.

The actor was knighted in 2009 for services to drama and charity and was awarded the Bafta fellowship in 2011.

News of his death prompted an outpouring of grief from actors, musicians, and even the Prime Minister, who all paid tribute to Lee's great talent. His Lord of the Rings co-star Dominic Monaghan and Sir Roger Moore, who played 007 opposite Lee in The Man With The Golden Gun, were among those leading the tributes.








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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Vincent Bugliosi, 80

 

Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles prosecutor who became a best-selling author with "Helter Skelter" -- his true-crime account of the Manson Family killings -- has died at the age of 80, his wife confirmed Tuesday.

He died Saturday of cancer.

Bugliosi rose to prominence as the 35-year-old deputy district attorney assigned to try Charles Manson and several of his followers over a series of bloody 1969 murders meant to incite a race war.

The crimes, which Manson ordered to be as brutal as possible, shocked the nation. The victims were stabbed hundreds of times. One, Sharon Tate, was more than eight months pregnant.

Investigators found the words "rise," "pigs" and "helter skelter" written in blood at the crime scenes.

"As soon as I got on that case and I saw blood words, words printed in blood on a wall, immediately I told my wife, 'I don't know what the motive for these murders is,' " Bugliosi told CNN's Ted Rowlands last year. "But, I said, 'It's gonna be freaky and far out.' "

After securing death sentences for Manson and the others -- sentences commuted to life in prison when California's death sentence was abolished -- Bugliosi retired from the DA's office. He had won 105 of his 106 felony trials, including 21 murder convictions, according to his publisher.

In 1974, he published "Helter Skelter," his account of the murders and trial. The book became what publisher Simon & Schuster called "the biggest selling true crime book in publishing history."

Despite going on to a successful career as a writer after the Manson case, Bugliosi lamented to Rowlands that it was as if had had "never done anything else."

Manson, 80, remains incarcerated at Corcoran State Prison in California. He has been denied parole 12 times.

In 1991, Bugliosi scored another best-seller with "And the Sea Will Tell," his account of the double murder of a couple on a Pacific atoll. He represented one of the suspects in the case and won an acquittal.

His 2008 book on the O.J. Simpson trial, "Outrage," also reached the top of the New York Times hardcover bestsellers list, according to the publisher, making him the only true-crime writer with so many top sellers.


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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Ronnie Gilbert of the Weavers Dead at 88 Bold contralto helped spur 1960s folk revolution with Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman

 

Ronnie Gilbert of the Weavers Dead at 88

Bold contralto helped spur 1960s folk revolution with Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman


Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger
Ronnie Gilbert and Pete Seeger in New York, September 13, 1984.

Singer Ronnie Gilbert, who helped catalyze the folk revolution of the 1960s as one fourth of the Weavers, died of natural causes on Saturday in a retirement community outside of San Francisco, The New York Times reports. Her longtime partner, Donna Korones, confirmed the death. She was 88.
Gilbert's striking contralto was a distinct voice in a quartet full of them. The Weavers, which also included Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Fred Hellerman, drew from various strains of American and global roots music, but were best known for their renditions of folk standards like "Kisses Sweeter than Wine," Woody Guthrie's "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" and Lead Belly's "Goodnight Irene."
The Weavers' first concerts were often free performances at union meetings and on picket lines. In 1949, about to break up, they were offered a two week residency at the Village Vanguard in New York City that proved so successful they stayed for six months. The stint earned the Weavers a deal with Decca Records, which led to television and radio appearances, and extensive touring.
Amidst their success, the group maintained their progressive and leftist politics, which drew the eye and ire of those in the anti-communist movement of the 1950s. In 1951, the Weavers were investigated by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, which sought to probe potentially subversive citizen threats, and soon they were blacklisted from performing and recording.
The group split, and Gilbert moved to California with her then-husband to start a family. But in 1955, the Weavers' manager, Harold Leventhal, arranged a concert at Carnegie Hall that sold out and revitalized interest in the band. While Seeger would leave the Weavers several years later, Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman and a series of replacement singers continued to perform and record until 1964. By then group's influence was already being heard in the music of Peter, Paul and Mary, the Limeliters, the Kingston Trio and Bob Dylan.
Over the next several decades, Gilbert worked as an actress and therapist, and eventually returned to music as well. In 1980, she reunited with the Weavers at Carnegie Hall, and in 1984 she toured with Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and Holly Near in a group called HARP. Her memoir, Ronnie Gilbert: A Radical Life in Song, will be published posthumously this fall.
Gilbert was born in Brooklyn in 1926. Her father, Charles, was a milliner from the Ukraine and her mother, Sarah, was a garment worker and union activist from Poland. When Gilbert was around 10, her mother took her to a union rally where singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson sang.
In a 2004 interview for Voices of Feminism, an oral history project at Smith College, Gilbert said, "That was the beginning of my life as a singer and a — I wouldn't call myself an activist, but a singer, a singer with social conscience, let's say.





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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Anthony Riley Dies: ‘The Voice’ Contestant Was 28

 

Anthony Riley Dies: 'The Voice' Contestant Was 28

Anthony Riley Dies: 'The Voice' Contestant Was 28

Anthony Riley, a contestant and frontrunner on the most recent season of The Voice, has died. The 28 year old singer appears to have committed suicide.
A Philadelphia-based street performer who had been earning a meager living Busking for nearly a decade, Riley electrified The Voiceearly-on, with his audition tape, seen above, leading to the judges turning their chairs around faster than with any previous contestant. The judges competed to mentor him, but Riley ultimately chose Pharell Williams, and went on to win his first battle round. However, he abruptly left the show after that victory, at the time chocked up to "personal" issues. Riley later went public with his struggle to overcome substance addiction, and confirmed that he had left The Voice to seek treatment at a rehab facility in Philadelphia.
He would later tell Philly.com about his struggle, saying "At the time, [The Voice] wasn't working for me and I felt like I needed to go, instead of taking on more responsibility than I could handle" He insisted however that The Voice was supportive, and reports since then hold that NBC paid for his time in Rehab.
Raised in West Philadelphia by his grandmother, Riley spent time in Las Vegas but it was in his native city that he began to make a name for himself as a street performer. In 2007, he briefly made headlines after being charged with disorderly conduct over his public singing, charges over which he successfully sued the city. In 2014, Philadelphia Magazine called him the city's best street performer.

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