Chris Squire Credit-Glenn GottliebChris Squire Credit-Glenn GottliebHe was a very influentual Bass player.
A lttle more of our boomer youth just slipped away.
B.B. King; Errol Brown (of Hot Chocolate); Ben E. King; Lesley Gore; Joe Cocker and Paul Revere (of Paul Revere & The Raiders), all dead, dead, dead. And never coming back. At least in this world.
Johnny Winter, Lou Reed, and Phil Everly, none of those guys are coming down for breakfast anymore. And Ray Manzarek of The Doors - he's sipping his whiskey straight these days with Jim Morrison up in Purgatory someplace while "Riders In The Storm" play on the jukebox.
The list of the rock dead go on and on. Bob Welch of "Ebony Eyes" and pre-famous Fleetwood Mac, dead, dead, dead. Donna Summer and Robin Gibb of the BeeGees, both dead. Maurice Gibb is dead and little Andy too. Only Maurice is "Stayin' Alive".
One of the Beastie Boys is dead whose name I can't remember. And that drummer from that one band whose name I also can't remember is also dead.
Ronnie Montrose is dead and Davy Jones of the Monkees too. Also, we have Johnny Cash, Amy Winehouse, Juice Newton, Tina Marie and Laura Branigan, dead, dead, dead and dead.
The casualty list goes on and on, Andrew Gold; Johnny Preston, Ronnie Dio and Doug Fieder of The Knack, who shall belt out My Sharona no more. Remember when the Knack was going to be the next Beatles? Speaking of Beatles, half of them are dead and if Paul doesn't get some protein soon, he'll be joining them.
Gerry Rafferty - I tip my beer glass to you.
I can go on and on with the rock dead but I'll stop here.
That sucks. Truly.
I saw Yes 4 or 5 times back in the day. Fantastic live shows, outstanding musicians all of them.
RIP Mr. Anderson.
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