Entertainment industry obituaries

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Pegi, born Margaret Morton, married Neil Young in 1978. She toured with him as a backup singer and played acoustic guitar on several of his recordings. They divorced in 2014. In 2007, Pegi and two members of Neil's touring band formed a country-rock group, The Survivors. They released four albums, including Raw (2017), which Pegi, referring to her divorce, described as "the soundtrack to the seven stages of grief."

Pegi Young, musician and former wife of Neil Young, dies at 66

https://www.billboard.com/biz/articl...ung-dies-at-66

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In a 2009 Rolling Stone interview, Bob Dylan said Ripley (who played on Dylan's Shot Of Love album and toured with him in 1981) was one of his favorite guitarists. Ripley formed The Tractors in 1988 and co-wrote their 1994 #11 country hit Baby Likes To Rock It. The Tractors released seven albums. Ripley, backed by the Jordanaires, released a solo album in 2002.

Steve Ripley, guitarist, producer and leader of country-rock band The Tractors, dies at 69

https://musicrow.com/2019/01/steve-r...tractors-dies/

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Gimbel, inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 1984, co-wrote Sway, Ricochet, Meditation, Canadian Sunset, The Girl From Ipanema, Killing Me Softly With His Song, Summer Samba, I Will Wait For You, I Got A Name, How Insensitive, A Whale Of A Tale, It Goes Like It Goes, Ready To Take A Chance Again and the theme songs of Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. Whew!

Norman Gimbel, famed Oscar- and Grammy-winning lyricist, dies at 91

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-91-1171780

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Metalcore band Ice Nine Kills formed in Boston in 2002 and has released five albums, three EPs and six singles. Every Trick In The Book, their best-selling album, reached #122 on Billboard's album chart in 2015. Among their songs, which are inspired by horror books and horror movies and in which the band members scream as much as they sing, are Enjoy Your Slay, Stabbing In The Dark, Bloodbath & Beyond, The Coffin Is Moving and Hell In The Hallways.

Ex-Ice Nine Kills bassist Shane Bisnett dies at 31

http://loudwire.com/ex-ice-nine-kill...snett-dies-31/

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Haydock played on the Hollies' early hits including Searchin', I'm Alive, I Can't Let Go, Just One Look and Look Through Any Window. In 1966, he was fired and replaced by Bernie Calvert because he believed the Hollies' managers were misappropriating concert revenue and royalty payments and he had quit attending recording sessions. Haydock formed a new band, Haydock's Rockhouse, which broke up after releasing two singles. Meanwhile, the Hollies had eight more US/UK top-ten hits without him.

Eric Haydock, original Hollies bassist, dies at 75

https://bestclassicbands.com/eric-ha...ituary-1-6-19/

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Sheppard appeared on Broadway in Marat/Sade and Sherlock Holmes and appeared in several tv shows and movies incuding NCIS, Max Headroom, Gettysburg and Gods & Generals. He also voiced characters in several video games and animated films and was the voice of Santa Claus in Disney's three Prep & Landing Christmas specials.

William Morgan Sheppard, Star Trek and Doctor Who actor, dies at 86

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/entertainm...H2b?li=BBqdk7Q

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Ellis and Webb wrote a pilot for a series about a cop named Joe Friday. It evolved into Dragnet. Ellis acted in several radio and tv series (often playing a detective or law enforcement officer) and appeared in several movies includIng The Shining and Pete Kelly's Blues.

Herb Ellis, Dragnet actor and Jack Webb collaborator, dies at 97

https://deadline.com/2019/01/herb-el...bb-1202528378/

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Stearns died November 17 but her death wasn't reported until this week. Mary Katherine Jones was a child actress and singer who had a few roles in movies. She married actor/producer Johnny Stearns in 1946 and they starred in Mary Kay & Johnny from 1947 to 1950. It was the first television sitcom, the first tv series to show a couple sharing a bed and the first tv series to make the star's real-life pregnancy a part of the storyline. (If you thought I Love Lucy was the first, you're mistaken; Lucy debuted in 1951.)

Mary Kay Stearns, pioneering star of 1940s sitcom, dies at 93

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ma...-93/ar-BBS3XsC

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"Mine's bigger. My cucumber. It's bigger. My name's Eric Stratton. People call me Otter." "My name's Marion. People call me Mrs. Wormer." "Oh, we have a Dean Wormer at Faber." "How interesting. I have a husband named Dean Wormer at Faber. Still want to show me your cucumber?" They were in the vegetable section of a supermarket. What did you think they were talking about?

Verna Bloom, actress in Animal House, High Plains Drifter, The Last Temptation Of Christ, dies at 80

https://variety.com/2019/film/obitua...se-1203104909/

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Clydie King was discovered by Louie Louie songwriter/singer Richard Berry in 1956 and began recording at age 13. In addition to singing backup on dozens of big hits such as Tumbling Dice, The Bitch Is Back and Sweet Home Alabama, she released 28 singles as a member of various groups, including Bonnie & The Treasures' Home Of The Brave (1965):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_gCPLU-sgZw

Clydie King, unheralded backup singer for Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Steely Dan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rolling Stones, dead at 73

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...r-dead-777417/