Founding Member of Rock Band "America" Dead in his Missouri Home Dan Peek's Wife Found the 60 Year old in Bed Autopsy Planned July 26, 2011|by Joe Daues KSPR News
Dan Peek, a founding member of the band "America" has died in his home in eastern Missouri.
Peek died Sunday at his home in Farmington, Missouri, about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis, where he'd lived since 1978.
Peek's wife found him dead in bed. an autopsy is now planned.
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His father was in the air force and the family frequently moved. He met Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, whose fathers were also in the military, at a high school in London in the late 1960s. They formed the trio "America" that had a string of hits in the 1970s with songs such as "Horse With No Name" "Sister Goldenhair" and "Ventura Highway."
Buckethead said
9:39 PM, 07/29/11
Amy Winehouse. Just another fucking junkie statistic.
Uke said
11:25 PM, 07/29/11
You're a fuckin' insensitive asshole ya know that? No wonder they all hate ya!
BlackDog said
8:12 PM, 07/30/11
Uke wrote:
You're a fuckin' insensitive asshole ya know that? No wonder they all hate ya!
I think you're the only one that hates him, what with him sneaking up from behind and grabbing you...
Troll said
8:51 PM, 07/30/11
Ha!
Uke said
10:17 AM, 08/03/11
Add this bastard ta the list. Under 'white-supremacist,' or hater of all non-Aeyan types. Like him. Just sayin'
Reputed Klansman James Ford Seale has died
Bureau of Prisons spokesman Edmond Ross says Seale died Tuesday, Aug. 2 , 2011, in Terre Haute, Ind., where he had been serving three life sentences after being convicted in 2007 of two counts of kidnapping and one of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. He was 76 years old. (AP Photo - Rogelio V. Solis)
JACK ELLIOTT JR.
From Associated Press
August 03, 2011 10:18 AM EDT
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman imprisoned for his role in the segregation-era abduction and killing of two black men in rural Mississippi, has died, a spokesman with federal Bureau of Prisons said.
Seale died Tuesday in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he had been serving three life sentences after being convicted in 2007, Bureau of Prisons spokesman Edmond Ross told The Associated Press. He was 76.
Ross said he did not know the cause of Seale's death, which was first reported by Jackson newspaper The Clarion-Ledger.
Seale was convicted of two counts of kidnapping and one of conspiracy to commit kidnapping in the 1964 deaths of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, both 19.
The two were kidnapped in the woods of southwestern Mississippi near Natchez.
Prosecutors said Seale, a former crop duster, was with a group of Klansmen when they abducted Moore and Dee from a rural stretch of highway in southwest Mississippi. The Klansmen took the teens into the woods and beat and interrogated them about rumors that blacks in the area were planning an armed uprising, prosecutors said.
The decomposed bodies were found in July 1964 as federal authorities searched for the bodies of three civil rights workers who had also disappeared that summer. That case became known as "Mississippi Burning" and overshadowed the deaths of Dee and Moore.
Thomas Moore, 68, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, the brother of Charles Moore, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he took no joy in Seale's death.
"Rejoicing? That's not in my nature," Moore said. "All of that is behind me. I lived through the process. I hope he found peace with his god. My sympathies are with his family. I hope he found peace and I hope his family can pull together like mine has and get on with their lives."
Calls to Seale's defense attorney, Kathy Nester, now with the federal public defender's office in Salt Lake City, were not immediately returned Wednesday.
Seale and another man, Charles Marcus Edwards, briefly faced state murder charges in the deaths of Dee and Moore in 1964, but the charges were quickly thrown out. Prosecutors said the charges were dropped because local law enforcement officers were in collusion with the Klan.
Many people thought Seale was dead until 2005, when he was discovered living a town not far from where the teens were abducted. The case was reopened, and Edwards became the government's star witness after he was promised immunity from prosecution.
In March 2010, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the evidence against Seale was sufficient for the jury conviction in the trial that took place 43 years after the crimes. Later that year, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Seale's appeal.
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Buckethead said
10:43 AM, 08/12/11
Warrant frontman Jani Lane, 47, found dead in a hotel room
Jani Lane, lead singer of the California band Warrant, has died aged 47.
The star's body was found yesterday at a Comfort Inn hotel in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
The cause of death is not yet known. Police officer Sara Fade, who discovered Lane's body, has no immediate information.
The singer's cause of death is still unknown
The singer was famous for his long blonde hair and skin tight leather ensembles, which embodied the glam rock eighties.
During his time with Warrant Lane wrote such hits as 'Down Boys, Cherry Pie, and Heaven, which reached number one in Rolling Stone and number two on the Billboard Top 100.
Uke said
11:41 AM, 08/13/11
Glam Rock. Phew... That shit about made me sick!
Buckethead said
7:47 PM, 08/13/11
Phag...
Cy Valley said
8:43 PM, 08/22/11
Nick Ashford of Motown songwriting team Ashford & Simpson dies at age 70; had throat cancer Text Size PrintE-mailReprints By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, August 22, 11:25 PM
NEW YORK Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson that penned elegant, soulful classics for the likes of Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye and funk hits for Chaka Khan and others, died Monday at age 70, his former publicist said.
Ashford, who along with wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motowns biggest hits, died in a New York City hospital, said publicist Liz Rosenberg, who was Ashfords longtime friend. He had been suffering from throat cancer and had undergone radiation treatment, she told The Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Celebrated lyricist Jerry Leiber, who partnered with composer Mike Stoller to write such iconic hits as "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" and played a key role in the birth of rock 'n' roll, died on Monday at age 78.
Leiber died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of cardiopulmonary failure, said Randy Poe, president of his publishing company. Family members of the legendary songwriter were with him when he died, according to Leiber's assistant, Marilyn Levy.
Launching their collaboration as teenagers in the early 1950s, Leiber and Stoller went on to pen more than 200 tunes covered by such recording stars as Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, James Brown, B.B. King, the Drifters and Peggy Lee. Presley alone recorded over 20 Leiber and Stoller songs.
Leiber jokingly referred to their six-decade partnership, chronicled in the 2009 memoir "Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography," as "the longest-running argument in show business."
NEW YORK (AP) Cliff Robertson, the handsome movie actor who played John F. Kennedy in "PT-109," won an Oscar for "Charly" and was famously victimized in a 1977 Hollywood forgery scandal, died Saturday. He was 88.
His secretary of 53 years, Evelyn Christel, said he died in Stony Brook of natural causes a day after his 88th birthday.
Robertson never elevated into the top ranks of leading men, but he remained a popular actor from the mid-1950s into the following century. His later roles included kindly Uncle Ben in the "Spider-Man" movies.
He also gained attention for his second marriage to actress and heiress Dina Merrill, daughter of financier E.F. Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune and one of the world's richest women.
His triumph came in 1968 with his Academy Award performance in "Charly," as a mentally disabled man who undergoes medical treatment that makes him a genius until a poignant regression to his former state.
"My father was a loving father, devoted friend, dedicated professional and honorable man," daughter Stephanie Saunders said in a statement. "He stood by his family, friends, and colleagues through good times and bad. He made a difference in all our lives and made our world a better place. We will all miss him terribly."
Robertson had created a string of impressive performances in television and on Broadway, but always saw his role played in films by bigger names. His TV performances in "Days of Wine and Roses" and "The Hustler," for example, were filmed with Jack Lemmon and Paul Newman, respectively. Robertson's role in Tennessee Williams' play "Orpheus Descending" was awarded to Marlon Brando in the movie. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dispatch/obituary-print.aspx?n=cliff-robertson&pid=153549454
Troll said
7:21 AM, 09/11/11
PT109 was just on the Military Channel last night.
Dan Peek's Wife Found the 60 Year old in Bed
Autopsy Planned
July 26, 2011|by Joe Daues KSPR News
Dan Peek, a founding member of the band "America" has died in his home in eastern Missouri.
Peek died Sunday at his home in Farmington, Missouri, about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis, where he'd lived since 1978.
Peek's wife found him dead in bed. an autopsy is now planned.
You Tube Video : Ventura Highway
His father was in the air force and the family frequently moved. He met Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, whose fathers were also in the military, at a high school in London in the late 1960s. They formed the trio "America" that had a string of hits in the 1970s with songs such as "Horse With No Name" "Sister Goldenhair" and "Ventura Highway."
I think you're the only one that hates him, what with him sneaking up from behind and grabbing you...
Add this bastard ta the list. Under 'white-supremacist,' or hater of all non-Aeyan types. Like him. Just sayin'
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman imprisoned for his role in the segregation-era abduction and killing of two black men in rural Mississippi, has died, a spokesman with federal Bureau of Prisons said.
Seale died Tuesday in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he had been serving three life sentences after being convicted in 2007, Bureau of Prisons spokesman Edmond Ross told The Associated Press. He was 76.
Ross said he did not know the cause of Seale's death, which was first reported by Jackson newspaper The Clarion-Ledger.
Seale was convicted of two counts of kidnapping and one of conspiracy to commit kidnapping in the 1964 deaths of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, both 19.
The two were kidnapped in the woods of southwestern Mississippi near Natchez.
Prosecutors said Seale, a former crop duster, was with a group of Klansmen when they abducted Moore and Dee from a rural stretch of highway in southwest Mississippi. The Klansmen took the teens into the woods and beat and interrogated them about rumors that blacks in the area were planning an armed uprising, prosecutors said.
The decomposed bodies were found in July 1964 as federal authorities searched for the bodies of three civil rights workers who had also disappeared that summer. That case became known as "Mississippi Burning" and overshadowed the deaths of Dee and Moore.
Thomas Moore, 68, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, the brother of Charles Moore, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he took no joy in Seale's death.
"Rejoicing? That's not in my nature," Moore said. "All of that is behind me. I lived through the process. I hope he found peace with his god. My sympathies are with his family. I hope he found peace and I hope his family can pull together like mine has and get on with their lives."
Calls to Seale's defense attorney, Kathy Nester, now with the federal public defender's office in Salt Lake City, were not immediately returned Wednesday.
Seale and another man, Charles Marcus Edwards, briefly faced state murder charges in the deaths of Dee and Moore in 1964, but the charges were quickly thrown out. Prosecutors said the charges were dropped because local law enforcement officers were in collusion with the Klan.
Many people thought Seale was dead until 2005, when he was discovered living a town not far from where the teens were abducted. The case was reopened, and Edwards became the government's star witness after he was promised immunity from prosecution.
In March 2010, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the evidence against Seale was sufficient for the jury conviction in the trial that took place 43 years after the crimes. Later that year, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Seale's appeal.
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Warrant frontman Jani Lane, 47, found dead in a hotel room
By Holly Thomas
Last updated at 5:43 PM on 12th August 2011
Jani Lane, lead singer of the California band Warrant, has died aged 47.
The star's body was found yesterday at a Comfort Inn hotel in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
The cause of death is not yet known. Police officer Sara Fade, who discovered Lane's body, has no immediate information.
The singer's cause of death is still unknown
The singer was famous for his long blonde hair and skin tight leather ensembles, which embodied the glam rock eighties.
During his time with Warrant Lane wrote such hits as 'Down Boys, Cherry Pie, and Heaven, which reached number one in Rolling Stone and number two on the Billboard Top 100.
Nick Ashford of Motown songwriting team Ashford & Simpson dies at age 70; had throat cancer
Text Size PrintE-mailReprints
By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, August 22, 11:25 PM
NEW YORK Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson that penned elegant, soulful classics for the likes of Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye and funk hits for Chaka Khan and others, died Monday at age 70, his former publicist said.
Ashford, who along with wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motowns biggest hits, died in a New York City hospital, said publicist Liz Rosenberg, who was Ashfords longtime friend. He had been suffering from throat cancer and had undergone radiation treatment, she told The Associated Press.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Celebrated lyricist Jerry Leiber, who partnered with composer Mike Stoller to write such iconic hits as "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" and played a key role in the birth of rock 'n' roll, died on Monday at age 78.
Leiber died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of cardiopulmonary failure, said Randy Poe, president of his publishing company. Family members of the legendary songwriter were with him when he died, according to Leiber's assistant, Marilyn Levy.
Launching their collaboration as teenagers in the early 1950s, Leiber and Stoller went on to pen more than 200 tunes covered by such recording stars as Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, James Brown, B.B. King, the Drifters and Peggy Lee. Presley alone recorded over 20 Leiber and Stoller songs.
Leiber jokingly referred to their six-decade partnership, chronicled in the 2009 memoir "Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography," as "the longest-running argument in show business."
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NEW YORK (AP) Cliff Robertson, the handsome movie actor who played John F. Kennedy in "PT-109," won an Oscar for "Charly" and was famously victimized in a 1977 Hollywood forgery scandal, died Saturday. He was 88.
His secretary of 53 years, Evelyn Christel, said he died in Stony Brook of natural causes a day after his 88th birthday.
Robertson never elevated into the top ranks of leading men, but he remained a popular actor from the mid-1950s into the following century. His later roles included kindly Uncle Ben in the "Spider-Man" movies.
He also gained attention for his second marriage to actress and heiress Dina Merrill, daughter of financier E.F. Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune and one of the world's richest women.
His triumph came in 1968 with his Academy Award performance in "Charly," as a mentally disabled man who undergoes medical treatment that makes him a genius until a poignant regression to his former state.
"My father was a loving father, devoted friend, dedicated professional and honorable man," daughter Stephanie Saunders said in a statement. "He stood by his family, friends, and colleagues through good times and bad. He made a difference in all our lives and made our world a better place. We will all miss him terribly."
Robertson had created a string of impressive performances in television and on Broadway, but always saw his role played in films by bigger names. His TV performances in "Days of Wine and Roses" and "The Hustler," for example, were filmed with Jack Lemmon and Paul Newman, respectively. Robertson's role in Tennessee Williams' play "Orpheus Descending" was awarded to Marlon Brando in the movie.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dispatch/obituary-print.aspx?n=cliff-robertson&pid=153549454