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David Crosby, the singer, songwriter, and guitarist who helped shape the sound of Sixties rock and beyond, died Wednesday night at the age of 81. A source close to Crosby confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone, but did not disclose a cause. Crosby was a founding member of the …

Klaus Schulze, the pioneering German electronic musician who helped shape the genre with both krautrock giants and Tangerine Dream alongside a prolific solo career, has died at the age of 74. The multi-instrumentalist’s family announced his death Wednesday, adding that Schulze died “unexpectedly” on April 26 following a long battle …

Procol Harum frontman Gary Brooker, who led the band throughout their 55-year history and co-wrote and sang their 1967 classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” died at his home from cancer on Saturday, Feb. 19. He was 76. “His first single with Procol Harum, 1967’s ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale,’ …

Calvin Simon, a founding member of Parliament–Funkadelic, died on Thursday. He was 79. Former P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins announced Simon’s death on Instagram. “We lost another original member of Parliament/Funkadelic,” he wrote. “A friend, bandmate & a cool classic guy, Mr. Calvin Simon was a former member of Parliament/Funkadelic.” A …

Harry Reid, the by-turns scrappy, mild-mannered and acid-tongued former Democratic Senate leader, has died of pancreatic cancer. Reid was 82. Reid was a dominating figure in Democratic politics for decades, using his home base in Nevada to rise to the top of the Senate. As majority leader from 2007 to …

Vicente Fernández, the famed Mexican singer and actor, died on Sunday after months in the hospital following a fall at his ranch outside Guadalajara. He was 81. His death was confirmed on his social media accounts, where his family had been updating fans on his condition and dispelling near-constant rumors …

Willard Scott, the former longtime weatherman for NBC’s Today show, has died at the age of 87. Al Roker, who succeeded Scott on the daily morning show, announced Scott’s death on Instagram Saturday. No cause of death was provided. “We lost a beloved member of our @todayshow family this morning,” …

Jackie Mason, the stand-up comic whose career spanned several decades and became a template and poster child of sorts for Jewish self-deprecation, died Saturday at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital the age of 93. His friend, lawyer Raoul Felder, confirmed Mason’s death to the New York Times. “He died peacefully …

Jessica Campbell, who played Tammy Metzler in Election, has died at the age of 38. Campbell’s family confirmed the news to TMZ,stating that Campbell died on December 29th, 2020, in Portland, Oregon.Campbell, who left acting to become a naturopathic physician, spent the day seeing patients at her practice, her cousin …

Ed Bruce, the country singer-songwriter behind hits including “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” died Friday, January 8th in Clarksville, Tennessee, from natural causes, according to his publicist. He was 81. William Edwin Bruce Jr. was born December 29th, 1939, in Keiser, Arkansas, and raised in …