Mike Mitchell, The Kingsmen’s founding guitarist, RIP
Mitchell was the last remaining founding member of The Kingsmen who was still in the band, and died Friday on his 77th birthday.
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The NY Times names hundreds more artists who lost masters in 2008 UMG fire
Just about every area of recorded music was hit by the fire, from jazz to punk to cabaret to comedy, new wave, historical speeches, metal, hip hop, you name it.
Rock Hall 2018 videos: Killers cover Tom Petty, Lauryn Hill covers Nina Simone, Ann Wilson & Jerry Cantrell cover Soundgarden, more
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“Louie Louie” singer Jack Ely (of The Kingsmen), RIP
Ely, who died Tuesday at age 71, had simply walked into a tiny Portland recording studio with his band one day in 1963 to cut an instrumental version of a song that had been a hit on Pacific Northwest jukeboxes -- one that kids could dance to...