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Filed under: News , R.I.P. Larry Knechtel , a one-time collaborator of Elvis Presley 's and an accomplished sideman, died Thursday, Aug. 20 at the age of 69. Knechtel, who won a 1970 Grammy award for his arrangement of Simon and Garfunkel 's enduring 'Bridge Over Troubled Water,' succumbed to an apparent heart attack, according to a report by his local newspaper, the Yakima Herald Republic . As a session keyboardist and bassist, Knechtel performed with a wide array of artists like the Beach Boys [...]