Apparently the Doobie Brothers band happened to mention his passing on a social media page this weekend and the media simply assumed that this had just happened and without even a cursory factual check, ran the story that he just died at age 72.
If this does not convince you how useless and incompetent our media is, I don't know what will. Even on simple things like this, you just cannot trust a damn word they say.
Yeah, missed back then apparently.