Andrew Gold Dies From Heart Attack At 59

undercover.fm ^ | 6/5/11 | Paul Cashman

[mountn man]

WOW! Aren’t you a ray of effing sunshine.

[Cowboy Bob]

My high school boyfriend loved “Lonely Boy”. That tainted me. I could never stand that song, but RIP.

I hear you on that one!

[Cowboy Bob]

My high school boyfriend loved “Lonely Boy”. That tainted me. I could never stand that song, but RIP.

I hear you on that one!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Have a Good Day! :)

[raccoonradio]

There also was a Sex Pistols song by that title sung by Steve Jones in the Great Rock N Roll Swindle but it wasn’t the Anka song nor the Gold one.

Anka: “I’m just a lonely boy...”
Jones/Sex Pistols: “I live in misery, a girl I loved’s gone across the sea”
Gold:”Oh, oh what a lonely boy...”

[SamAdams76]

Another music star bites the dust. They are just dropping like flies. When will the madness end? If musicians continue to die at this rate, soon we will have no music left to listen to.

Gerry Rafferty...dead. Captain Beefheart...dead and for that matter, so is Don Kirshner, who will never put on a midnight rock concert on TV again. The grisly list of music casualties goes on and on, Teresa Brewer, Laura Branigan, Phoebe Snow, all dead. Half of the Beatles are dead and so are half of Ashford & Simpson.

The Grim Reaper has paid recent visits to Teddy Pendergrass, Eartha Kitt and even Teena Marie! The carnage continues, Falco will never sing "Rock Me Amadeus" again, Levi Stubbs - dead, Jerry Reed - dead, Waylon Jennings - dead. Tupac Shukur - we hardly knew ye! List goes on, and I'm just scratching the surface: Robert Palmer, Rick James, Roberta Flack, Johnny Cash, half of Jan & Dean, etc. Freddy Fender will never break out into Spanish singing one of his lounge songs again.

Need I go on? This is absolute madness. Why are musicians so hard hit by this thing called death? This madness has got to come to an end.

[csvset]

Deborah Karr

I believe he meant Deborah Kerr.

[raccoonradio]

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for all of them, and us, eventually; though some musicians may die early due to drugs, booze, plane crashes (Jim Croce, etc.) etc. But yes.

A couple weeks back XM was running an American Top 40 from
May of ‘71 and Casey was playing the Doors’ Love Her Madly.
He probably didn’t suspect at the time that Jim Morrison would die of a drug overdose in July. And you can imagine in late Nov. of 1980, Casey playing “Just Like Starting Over”,
John Lennon’s first single in five years. Surely John would be making music well into the early 2000s, right? Casey didn’t know what would happen weeks later...

[GSP.FAN]

As Oscar Wilde said “Youth is wasted on the young”...