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Musicians who died in 2016 (May)

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You might remember how we talked about the untimely death of MCA (Adam Yauch) of The Beastie Boys in 2012 ... now we’ve just learned that original band member John Berry (when they were known as The Young Aborigines) died of “frontotemporal dementia”.

Berry left the original hardcore punk group. Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz joined MCA and Mike D, and the now-trio re-invented themselves as a rap group we know as the Beastie Boys.

Other notable deaths this month (so far) is Marlene Marder of the all-girls Swiss punk band LiLiPUT at the age of 61. The group formed in Zurich in 1978 under the name Kleenex, with a line-up of Regula Sing (vocals), Marlene Marder (Marlene Marti, guitar), Klaudia Schiff (Klaudia Schifferle, bass, vocals), and Lislot Ha (Lieselotte Hafner, drums). After threat of legal action from the tissue company Kleenex, the band changed their name to LiLiPUT in 1979.

Blues/jazz singer Candye Kane also died earlier this month (May 6th) to pancreatic cancer. Kane was included in the books Rolling Stone Guide to Jazz and Blues, Elwood's Blues by Dan Aykroyd, The Blueshound Guide to Blues, Allmusic, and other blues books and periodicals. She was also a former a pornographic actress.

Below are more deaths for the month of May - for the full death list: Musicians who died in 2016.

May (25)

[19 May 2016] John Berry (Beastie Boys), 52, frontal lobe dementia

[17 May 2016] Marlene Marder (LiLiPUT), 61, unknown

[17 May 2016] Vinjamuri Seetha Devi, 80s, not known

[17 May 2016] Guy Clark, 74, cancer

[16 May 2016] Fredrik Norén (Gyllene Cirkeln), 75, not given

[15 May 2016] Jane Little (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra), 87, collapsed on stage

[15 May 2016] Cauby Peixoto, 85, pneumonia

[14 May 2016] Tony Barrow (press officer for The Beatles), 80, unknown

[14 May 2016] Lasse Mårtenson (Eurovision - Finland), 81, cerebral hemorrhage

[14 May 2016] Paul Smoker, 75, unknown

[13 May 2016] Bill Backer, 89, unknown

[13 May 2016] Buster Cooper, 87, prostate cancer

[12 May 2016] Julius La Rosa, 86, unknown

[11 May 2016] Joe Temperley (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra), 86, unknown

[09 May 2016] Riki Sorsa (Eurovision), 63, cancer

[07 May 2016] John Stabb (Government Issue), 54, stomach cancer

[06 May 2016] Hannes Bauer (Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet), 61, not given

[06 May 2016] Paul Brown, ?, not known

[06 May 2016] Dick Estell (The Radio Reader), 90, natural causes

[06 May 2016] Candye Kane, 54, pancreatic cancer

[06 May 2016] Rickey Smith (American Idol), 36, traffic accident

[05 May 2016] Romalı Perihan, 74, diabetes

[04 May 2016] Olle Ljungström, 54, physical and mental ailment

[03 May 2016] Jadranka Stojaković, 65,motor neuron disease

[02 May 2016] Doug Raney, 59, not given

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W♥M133: So What'cha Want? I Wanna Rock!

W♥M133 (39 mins)

Your hosts are Amy, Emily, and Vu. While I dominated this show (because of Twisted Sister), Emily and Amy will talk more in next week's show.

Normally these podcasts don't appear back-to-back, but because of the untimely death of MCA (Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys), I felt that I had to push this as a breaking news podcast. I had just heard the news as I was bringing up the recording equipment for the podcast, so none of us were really prepared to talk about Beastie Boys and their massive influence.

As you recall, Adam had to cancel all the Beastie Boys tour, due to a cancerous tumor in his left parotid gland (that was in 2009). The last BB news we reported was that they released Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (part one was never released!).

The majority of this show is about Twisted Sister, thanks to the gold mine that is Dee Snider's biography "Shut Up and Give Me the Mic". The book comes out May 8th via Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster Publishing. If you can't bother to read the review, you can give us a listen.

Amy recalls her first and only hand-written fan letter to Twisted Sister. Her reward was a glossy 8x11 photograph of the band. I know the timeline is a little off, but for the most part, the UK broke Twisted Sister and they got a record deal with Atlantic Records. We briefly touch on their rise and eventual fall (no thanks to Tipper Gore).

We also talk about his relationship with his wife, Suzette. They met when she was 15 and he was 21!

We played a clip of Dee Snider's Dee Does Broadway album, coming out May 8th, as a nice companion to his book.

Song of the show is the classic Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" from their triple platinum 1984 album, Stay Hungry.

PS, according to twistedsister.com, this will be the "best Twisted summer ever", they'll be on tour in Europe and the USA. If I get a tour announcement, I'll let you know.

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