Artist: Obituary

1921 ~ 2011 True Roundy Feild, daughter of George Spencer Roundy and Hannah Agnes Marchant Roundy, completed her time on earth and left us early in the morning of September 2, 2011. She was born September 19, 1921 in Peoa, Utah where she spent her life. She loved her home in the mountain valley and the people there. True graduated from South Summit High School and Utah State University where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. She taught 3rd grade in Kamas. After her marriage to [...]

RIP DJ Mehdi​The man known to dance music fans across the world as DJ Mehdi has reportedly passed away due to an accident. Early reports indicate Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, 34, fell from a mezzanine. The

According to concert organisers, the renowned electro and hip hop producer DJ Mehdi has died following an as yet undisclosed accident. Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, 34, better known to many under his stage name DJ Mehdi was born in the suburbs of Paris in 1977 from a Tunisian background. One of the French hip hop scene's most influential producers, DJ Mehdi started out as the DJ of Different Teep before becoming involved in production, working with a cornucopia of international artists including Daft Punk, Cassius, MC Solaar, Futura 2000, Asian Dub Foundation and Chromeo. More recently, [...]

Good lookin' Aussie star of Spartacus: Blood and Sand has died following an ongoing battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Such sad, sad news for a beautiful man gone too soon. Andy Whitfield became famous for his stellar performance in the first season of Spartacus, who succumbed to this dreadful disease Sunday. From the cable network Starz, CEO Chris Albrect, offered the following statement : At the time of his passing, the 39-year old gladiator was surrounded by his adoring [...]

From his obituary at Project Gutenberg : Hart was best known for his 1971 invention of electronic books, or eBooks. He founded Project Gutenberg, which is recognized as one of the earliest and longest-lasting online literary projects. He often told this story of how he had the idea for eBooks. He had been granted access to significant computing power at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On July 4 1971, after being inspired by a free printed copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, he decided to type the text into a computer, and to transmit [...]

Jimmy Kimmel Live pays tribute to his uncle, Frank Potenza, a JKL regular, who sadly passed away two weeks ago at 77.

Terribly sad to read the obituary of Tom Hibbert , Smash Hits and Q writer from both magazines' Imperial Phases.You wonder what the home improvement magazines he wrote for before moving, first to New Music News, and then onto Smash Hits, made of his dry wit. At the Hits, and then in Q's Who The Hell... column, Hibbert softly punctured the pompous and puffed-up by gently measuring out the rope they'd need, and effortlessly passing it over. Besides helping with shaping the voice of the two magazines, Hibbert also had a hand in creating the quiet, raised-eyebrow style of [...]

David "Honeyboy" Edwards , thought to be the oldest surviving first generation Delta bluesman, died yesterday at the ripe old age of 96. Here he is doing the classic "Sweet Home Chicago" in 2010. Mr. Edwards's career spanned nearly the entire recorded history of the blues, from its early years in the Mississippi Delta to its migration to the nightclubs of Chicago and its emergence as an international phenomenon. Over eight decades Mr. Edwards knew or played with virtually every major figure who worked in the idiom, including Charley Patton, Muddy [...]

Esther Gordy Edwards, Motown executive, has died . The sister of Motown founder Berry Gordy, Esther was most effective in her work bringing the label's artists to the world as head of the International Division. She's the reason why people living this side of the Atlantic are as familiar with the brand as those on the home side. She also acted as a calming, mentoring influence on the label's younger stars, taking an approach with Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross - amongst others - that helped them cope with the sudden rush of stardom. [...]

Songwriting legend, Nick Ashford , has died. Working with his wife Valerie Simpson, the pair had hits in their own right - most notably Solid: But, it's fair to say, their best work they did for other people. The pair met in 1964 and, while husband and wife teams aren't unusual in entertainment, it's still noteworthy for a couple of have a four decade partnership that is successful both professionally and personally. There songs were so well constructed, they could even cope with being taken from Ray [...]

The headlines are calling him Elvis Presley's songwriter, but Jerry Leiber, who has died , was more than that. Of course, the Presley songs helped fix the idea of rock and roll in the popular mind - though it's worth remembering that they weren't so much writing for Presley. Hound Dog, for example, was originally created for Big Mama Thornton, and sounded like this: With his partner Mike Stoller, Jerry produced as well as wrote, and for a while also ran a label, Spark, which would eventually be absorbed by Atlantic. [...]

Autograph and photo courtesy of the According2g archives. Nicholas Ashford Today has been a horrible day for music! First, news broke that songwriter Jerry Leiber (of the famous songwriting duo Leiber/Stoller) who wrote countless hits including "Hound Dog," "Yakety Yak" and "Stand By Me" died. Hours later, Nicholas Ashford, half of the singer/songwriting duo Ashford and Simpson has died at age 70 from complications from throat cancer. Of course, Ashford and Simpson had the megahit "Solid" in the 1980s, but before that they wrote megahits such as "Ain't No Mountain [...]

Jani Lane , the former lead singer of the band Warrant , was found dead in Los Angeles Thursday night. The '80s metal rock icon was just 47. Lane exited and re-joined the band — responsible for such hits as "Heaven" and "Cherry Pie" — several times over the years. He also appeared on VH1's "Celebrity Fit Club." Lane's rock peers were stunned by the tragic news, and have taken to their Twitter.com pages to express their grief over his [...]

Jani Lane, who was lead singer with Warrant, has been found dead in an LA hotel . Lane - who was born John Kennedy Oswald - hard originally started out as a drummer. Driven by a desire to get a bit more of the limelight, he took singing lessons, adopted a new name, and started singing in Plain Jane, the band which would eventually morph into Warrant. Lane's relationship with Warrant was on-off; quitting in 1993 and returning the next year; leaving again in 2004; doing a Bet Lynch truncated return in 2008. [...]

Marshall Grant, the last surviving member of Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two, has died . It's hard to believe that the trio actually failed their first audition for Sun Records; luckily for them, and us, they got a second chance to tryout and joined the roster in 1955. Grant remained at Cash's side until 1980, when he moved into management. He was still playing, though, and was rehearsing for a benefit to restore Johnny Cash's childhood home when he fell ill last week. Roseanne Cash was clear that her father's success was [...]

Michael Bukht, who helped launch two wildly successful radio stations, died last week . Although his face was more familiar as part of the team on proto-foodie BBC2 portmanteau grub and guzzle show Food And Drink - where he worked as Michael Barry - it was as a broadcast executive that he really made his name. He was the first programme director of Capital Radio in 1973, shaping a station which would remain more-or-less on the same lines until the Thatcher-driven competition era led to frequency splits and format screw-downs; in 1992 he co-founded Classic [...]

Conrad Schnitzler, a leading light of krautrock and electronic music has died . Schnitzler, who was an early member of Tangerine Dream, passing on to Kluster and Eruption before moving on to a long and varied catalogue of solo work also worked under the name Conard Von Berlin. His work spans the best part of 45 years and nearly 100 albums; he was working up until the last week of his life. Recently, he'd been working on the Global Living project, which saw him send packets of his hair to nine locations around [...]

Ryan Shaw, singer, guitarist and songwriter with The Early Strike, died on Tuesday . Shaw had been diagnosed with pediatric cancer DSRCT in 2007, and had remained in the band despite periods of pain and serious illness. The Flordia-Texas punk band had completed two Vans Warped Tours, and a self-titled album had a release in early 2009. Work on a follow-up had been started, with David J Holman producing. Ryan Shaw was 22. A fundraiser for pediatric cancer in his memory has been set up through PayPal. -- [...]

Photos courtesy of Christy Hunt​Elliot Hill, best known locally as the drummer for the Softrocks, passed away yesterday, Monday, July 25, at the age of 26. Hill was diagnosed with colon cancer last Se

Details on Amy Winehouse 's final hours are beginning to emerge and they are not good. According to sources , Winehouse had bought drugs just hours before her death at her London home. It is claimed that the singer was seen buying drugs from a well-known dealer in Camden around 10:30pm on Friday. The drugs she allegedly bought were cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine. One close source claims, "It was an ecstasy overdose. She could do cocaine until the cows come home. But this was obviously a dodgy [...]