Entertainment industry obituaries

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Early in his career, Bochco wrote episodes of Ironside, Columbo, McMillan & Wife and The White Shadow. He died today after battling leukemia for several years. Here is a classic passage from Hill Street Blues: "When the man understandably objects to being arrested, Earps here hits him with a board!" "We had to, boss. We couldn't get his attention."

Steven Bochco, creative force Behind Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue and Doogie Howser, M.D., dies at 74

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...creator-741199

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In 1957 she turned down a recording contract with Warner Bros. because the studio wanted total control over what she recorded and where she performed. Hah! Take that, Warner Bros.!

Singer-pianist Audrey Morris, an icon of Chicago cabaret and jazz, dies at 89

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...402-story.html

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Outside of Seattle, she was perhaps best known for her small role as a librarian (with a spiky mullet hairdo!) in the 1987 movie Harry & The Hendersons.

Tough, funny Seattle comedian Peggy Platt dies at 58

https://www.seattletimes.com/enterta.../tktkbk-platt/

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Dunbar wrote the 1970s hits Patches, Band Of Gold, Mind Body & Soul and Give Me Just A Little More Time. Brrrrrttttt!

Songwriter-producer Ron Dunbar dies at 77

www.soultracks.com/story-ron-dunbar-dies

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He released 75 albums between 1956 and 2009. Wow!

Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist and icon of the avant-garde, dies at 89

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecor...rde-dies-at-89

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She also starred in off-Broadway productions of Hair and A View From The Bridge..

Susan Anspach, 1970s actress known for Five Easy Pieces, Blume In Love and Play It Again, Sam, dies at 75

https://www.aol.com/article/entertai...t-75/23404894/

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McCann appeared in several movies and tv shows, was an Oliver Hardy impersonator and voiced General Mills' Sonny the Cuckoo Bird: "I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!"

Chuck McCann, legendary comic, voice actor and WPIX children's show host, dead at 83

http://www.pix11.com/2018/04/08/chuc...at-83-friends/

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Roebuck "Pops" Staples formed the Staple Singers in 1948 in Chicago with his children Cleotha, Pervis and Mavis. They began performing at Mount Zion Church, where Roebuck's brother was pastor. The Staple Singers started recording in 1952 and had 10 top-ten r&b hits in the 1970s. They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 1999 and the Gospel Music Hall Of Fame in 2018. Daughter Yvonne, who joined the group in 1954, died this morning in her Chicago home.

Yvonne Staples of the Staple Singers dead at 80

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/yv...rs-dies-at-80/

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Davis played tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet and flute and released 16 albums between 1965 and 2006. He worked alongside Ray Charles, Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke and many other artists.

Pittsburgh jazz musician Nathan Davis dies at 81

http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music...s/201804100098

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The nation's tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists and UFOlogists are going to be upset by this news.

Radio host Art Bell dies at 72
Las Vegas Review-Journal, Apr 13 2018 10:14 PM

Longtime radio host Art Bell died Friday at his Pahrump, Nevada home. He was 72. Bell’s paranormal-themed show Coast To Coast AM was syndicated on about 500 North American stations in the 1990s before he left the nightly show in 2002. He broadcast the show from Pahrump’s KNYE 95.1 FM, a station he founded. Bell retired several times in his career, which included a short-lived show on SiriusXM satellite radio in 2013.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/...ll-dies-at-72/