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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
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)
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