Ray Bradbury, author of The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and many more literary classics, died this morning in Los Angeles. He was 91. A literary titan if there ever was one.
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Richard Dawson, the former host of Family Feud, died of complications from esophageal cancer at Ronald Reagan Memorial hospital, his son Gary said. He was 79. His performance in Running Man, as the slimy Killian, will always be his finest hour, imho. If there was a Mount Rushmore for game show hosts, Dawson would be [...]
Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees has died from cancer. He was 62. Robin and his brothers Barry and Maurice Gibb racked up dozens of hit songs in their five decade career. Robin Gibb, who had cancer, was 62. The Bee Gees might be forever linked to the 1970s, the era of polyester outfits and [...]
Fuck. This hits hard. Maurice Sendak, who obviously wrote where the Wild Things Are, had a huge affect on my childhood. I don’t think I’m alone in saying that book spoke to me as a little kid in ways that no other book ever did. Sendak died after complications from a recent stroke. He was [...]
Adam Yauch, better known as MCA and one of the founding members of The Beastie Boys, passed away today after a long battle with cancer. He was 47. Yauch co-founded the Beastie Boys with Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horowitz in 1979. The band started off as a hardcore punk group, but soon [...]
New York-based designer, author, and filmmaker Hillman Curtis passed away following a three year battle with colon cancer. He was only 51 and will be remembered as an innovator nonpareil. A good place to start with his creative output is with his series of interviews with cultural icons like Milton Glaser, Daniel Libeskind, Malcolm Gladwell, and Stefan Sagmeiste [...]
We knew it was coming. Levon Helm, the drummer and vocalist behind The Band died Thursday afternoon at the age of 71 after a lengthy battle with cancer, the Times-Herald Record reports. He’ll be missed, but his music will certainly live on. [via spinner]
Jim Marshall, guitar amp innovator and dubbed “the Father of Loud” for creating amps used by some of the biggest names in rock history, has died aged 88. Oddly enough, this Jim Marshall is unrelated to rock photographer Jim Marshall, who died in May of 2010.
The bluegrass legend died in a Nashville hospital Wednesday at age 88. Above is Earl Scruggs playing “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” with the festival banjo players at Camp Springs Bluegrass Festival in 1971.
