He was supposed to play in town with Nick Lowe tonight. Came out a few hours ago that he wouldn't be there due to a hospitalization. Then just a couple hours later he had passed.
Joe Cocker was a truly unique voice and talent. I love to watch him doing "A Little Help From My Friends" at Woodstock because he starts gyrating around during the breaks and you think there is no way he is going to make it back to the mike in time - but Bam! there he is right on the moment. It is truly astounding to watch. RIP, Little Ray, as the French called him.
My goodness - just 4 years older than me. I remember It's My Party when I was getting into pop music, around the same time as the Beatles began, if my memory serves me right. She must have been about 17 at the time.
"...The part of Boston where Nimoy grew up was called the West End. It was an ethically diverse neighborhood filled with what would now be prime real estate right in the center of the city. The neighborhood was leveled circa 1960 in the name of "urban renewal." The densely-packed housing was replaced with a couple of high rise towers and some sprawling municipal monstrosities in the brutalist architectural style. The residents couldn't afford to move back into the high-rises, and even if they could, there weren't enough units to accommodate the number of residents. Decades later, the neighborhood's destruction remains a sore spot for many Bostonians, and to this day, it is universally acknowledged as a textbook example of how not to do urban renewal."
"One day in the 1940s, someone in the West End snapped a picture of some boys who were outside playing in a field. The boy on the top right is Leonard Nimoy:
Like many West Enders, Nimoy kept the neighborhood with him. He named his boat the West End, and was a generous contributor to the West End historical society."
Here is a clip where he discusses the West End (with a link to a much longer interview):
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It can happen so fast.
Craig
Again the Faces were one of the best, also his work with the Small faces and his various session work were outstanding, RIP Ian
RIP Mr. Cocker.
James Cecil Dickens (December 19, 1920 January 2, 2015), better known as Little Jimmy Dickens...
RIP
"...The part of Boston where Nimoy grew up was called the West End. It was an ethically diverse neighborhood filled with what would now be prime real estate right in the center of the city. The neighborhood was leveled circa 1960 in the name of "urban renewal." The densely-packed housing was replaced with a couple of high rise towers and some sprawling municipal monstrosities in the brutalist architectural style. The residents couldn't afford to move back into the high-rises, and even if they could, there weren't enough units to accommodate the number of residents. Decades later, the neighborhood's destruction remains a sore spot for many Bostonians, and to this day, it is universally acknowledged as a textbook example of how not to do urban renewal."
"One day in the 1940s, someone in the West End snapped a picture of some boys who were outside playing in a field. The boy on the top right is Leonard Nimoy:
Like many West Enders, Nimoy kept the neighborhood with him. He named his boat the West End, and was a generous contributor to the West End historical society."
Here is a clip where he discusses the West End (with a link to a much longer interview):
March 20, 1932 - February 27, 2015
Free bassist Andy Fraser dies at 62
Probably best known for being the co-author of All Right Now