Photo: Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison | By Jason Newman, Rolling Stone | Tim Mohr, the acclaimed journalist, author, and translator who collaborated on memoirs with Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Kiss frontman Paul Stanley, died Monday at his home in Brooklyn, New York. He was 55.
Mohr’s publisher, Europa Editions, confirmed his death in a message from executive publisher Michael Reynolds. The cause was pancreatic cancer.
“I loved and admired Tim for his eloquence, his moral compass, his large, rebel heart, his consummate cool,” Reynolds wrote. “He had many friends – a testament to his genuine curiosity about other people and their life experiences, his warm heart and open mind, and to the energy and effort he put into maintaining friendships – and I know that today, like me, they are devastated.”
Mohr started his career as a club DJ in Berlin for much of the 1990s before transitioning to journalism, where his work appeared in New York, The New York Times Book Review, and Details, among others. He was a staff editor for Playboy for several years, editing such diverse voices as Hunter S. Thompson, John Dean, and comic book writer Harvey Pekar. It was there that he hired McKagan in 2008 to write a regular column about finance and the economy.
“To be in Tim’s literary world was a crash-course lesson on how to be concise and informative, with nudges of humor here and there,” McKagan tells Rolling Stone. “He nudged me to be great at all times, and to have humor every breathing second … Tim was mainly responsible for guiding me and pushing me to write my first book It’s So Easy (and other lies). I am forever grateful for his guidance … We lost a good man, a family man, a friend, and a literary lion.”
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Read more about Mr. Mohr’s life here:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/tim-mohr-journalist-and-author-with-duff-mckagan-and-paul-stanley-dead-at-55/
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OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
Known more for their acting skills than as being musicians, never-the-less Val Kilmer and Richard Chamberlain need to be included in our Memorials. Val did an awesome job of “being” Jim Morrison in the Oliver Stone directed movie “The Doors”, and Mr. Chamberlain actually put out several albums between his acting jobs. More on Mr. Kilmer below.
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If you want to know more about any of the musicians we lost, please check them out at http://www.wikipedia.com
Val Kilmer, Star of ‘Top Gun,’ ‘Batman Forever,’ and ‘The Doors,’ Dead at 65
By Brian Welk, Rolling Stone
Val Kilmer, the star of films such as “Top Gun,” “Batman Forever,” “The Doors,” and many more classics, has died, his daughter told The New York Times. He was 65.
Kilmer died of pneumonia at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 1, his daughter told NYT. He had been diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, rendering him unable to speak and having him disappear from Hollywood for years, but he had recovered.
The Iceman in “Top Gun” opposite Tom Cruise, Kilmer was one of the coolest leading men around but also one of Hollywood’s most unsung stars. He had a handsomeness and charm but also a guarded, reserved presence that made him perfect to play a rock star like Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s “The Doors,” one of his most acclaimed performances, . . .
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Read more here:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/val-kilmer-star-of-top-gun-batman-forever-and-the-doors-dead-at-65/
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APRIL
1: George Freeman, 97, American jazz guitarist (Birth Sign, New Improved Funk, Man & Woman); Alfi Kabiljo, 89, Croatian composer and musician; Val Kilmer, 65, American actor (Top Gun, Tombstone, Batman Forever), pneumonia; Johnny Tillotson, 86, American singer-songwriter (“Poetry in Motion”, “It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'”, “Without You”), complications from Parkinson’s disease.
MARCH
31: J Nyi Nyi, 71, Burmese singer and musician; Tim Mohr, 55, German-American writer and editor, pancreatic cancer; Volkan Konak, 58, Turkish folk singer, heart attack.
30: Enrique Bátiz Campbell, 82, Mexican pianist and conductor; Marinko Colnago [hr], 83, Croatian musician (Novi fosili).
29: Richard Chamberlain, 90, American actor (Dr. Kildare, The Thorn Birds, Shōgun), complications from a stroke; Dick Damron, 91, Canadian country singer and songwriter; Nancy Bea Hefley, 89, American stadium organist (Dodger Stadium).
28: Young Scooter, 39, American rapper, complications from a leg injury; Singer Beto Terrazas, Member of Montéz de Durango.
26: Shushama Das, 94, Bangladeshi folk singer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2025
Photo: Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison | From Val’s Facebook page
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