Category: MUSICIAN DEATHS

• Danny Rapp — After the hop, a lonely death

  

  Over the years Danny Rapp had relied on booze to ease the pain of a dying career. He was hitting the bottle hard during the Phoenix gig.

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  April 2, 2022

  MUSICIAN DEATHS

  1950s music, American Bandstand, ‘At the Hop’, Danny and the Juniors, Danny Rapp, Dick Clark, Doo-wop, Suicide

• A cold death for seven souls

  

  Otis Redding, 26, and five teenage members of his band were killed Dec. 10, 1967, when their twin-engine aircraft plunged into frigid Lake Monona in Wisconsin.

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  December 9, 2020

  MUSICIAN DEATHS

  10 December 1967, 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, Ben Cauley, Billboard hits, Lake Monona Wisconsin, Otis Redding, Plane crash, Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay, Soul Singers, The Bar-Kays

• He wanted to ride horses but ended up on The Monkees

  

  Remembering Davy Jones who died on February 29, 2012, at the age of 66. Davy Jones, at 5-feet-three, wanted to be a jockey. But a funny thing happened on the way to the racetrack.

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  February 27, 2020

  MUSICIAN DEATHS

  ‘Oliver!’, ’Coronation Street’, ’Peter Pan’, Davy Jones, Ed Sullivan Show, Michael Nesmith, Mickey Dolenz, The Beatles, The Monkees