I remember seeing Lou Reed in Detroit in the 70’s so high on reds (Secobarbital or Secanol) that he had to be propped up against a Marshal amplifier while his gay lover told all the women in the crowd that he knew they were jealous of him.
Yikes.
No more Lou for me after that.
Anyway, as I posted here earlier today, I knew Lou Reed wasn't doing well lately but this is a shock. Yet another famous musician is dead, dead, dead. It seems that everytime I turn around, another rock/pop star has died. When will the madness end? If this keeps up, there will soon be no more music being created.
I mean, just consider the staggering death toll among famous musicians we have already seen. Teddy Pendergrass, dead. Gerry Rafferty is also dead and we'll never hear him sing "Baker Street" live again. The one guy who drummed in that famous rock band is also dead. Then we have Ray Manzarek of The Doors - can you imagine? Half The Beatles and half of The BeeGees are now dead. One quarter of McFadden & Whitehead are dead. And the list goes on...
We have Bob Welch ("Ebony Eyes") dead. Donna Summer is dead. Davy Jones of The Monkees, Doug Fiedor of The Knack and Andrew Gold of "Lonely Boy" fame all dead, dead, dead.
You think I'm finished? I'm not even beginning. Two people from the band whose name I can't remember but they were big stars. Then you have the saxophone playing guy from the E Street Band (and the one who played keyboards too). Then you have Bo Diddley, Isaac Hayes, Bruce Hornsby, John Stewart, Laura Branigan and that guy who played guitar for that 1960s band - you know the one.
I could go on and on but you get the picture. Way too many people in the music biz are dying and unless we want the music to stop forever, we've got to do something about it.