Photo: Peter Sinfield | By Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone | Peter Sinfield, King Crimson’s lyricist, live technical wizard, and roadie, died Thursday, Nov. 14. He was 80. Sinfield’s death was confirmed by Discipline Global Mobile, the record label founded by King Crimson’s Robert Fripp. No cause of death was given, though the statement did mention that Sinfield “had been suffering from declining health for several years.” A rep for DGM did not immediately return Rolling Stone’s request for comment.
Sinfield played a significant role in the formation and early success of King Crimson, serving as lyricist and artistic director, while also providing all sorts of practical help. He found the band’s first practice space in a cafe basement in London and even came up with their name.
“I wanted something very arrogant, so that’s why I wanted the ‘King’ in it, royalty … because it was a very arrogant band,” Sinfield told Rolling Stone in 2019. “The music played was so varied and so clever, that I wanted the arrogance to be there ready and waiting in the name.” He added that “Crimson” was “just the color you would use if you were painting a lot of flames and violent pictures and strange, violent creatures.”
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/peter-sinfield-king-crimson-s-original-lyricist-and-key-collaborator-dead-at-80/
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The Kinks and The Who legend Shel Talmy Dies aged 87
Story by Kitty Chrisp, Metro | (Slide show) Shel Talmy, who produced early music for British bands The Who and The Kinks, has died at the age of 87. The US record producer ‘died peacefully in his sleep’ at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday ‘from complications due to a stroke’, his colleague Alec Palao confirmed to the PA news agency. During his career, Talmy produced hits including My Generation by The Who and You Really Got Me by The Kinks, as well as working with British superstar David Bowie (Picture: TPLP/Getty Images)
Talmy prepared a statement to his fans, which was released posthumously on Facebook, in which he said: “I’ve had a good run, and I am delighted it lasted as long as it did. ‘I’m also delighted that I am told I have a legacy that will last even longer. I look forward to meeting some of you in the future who are reading this, but LOL, don’t hurry to get here, I’m not going anywhere’.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/the-kinks-and-the-who-legend-shel-talmy-dies-aged-87/
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Barrie Gavin, Filmmaker Who Brought the Stars of 20th-century Classical Music to the Small Screen, Dies Aged 89
By Telegraph Obituaries | Barrie Gavin, who has died aged 89, was a prolific filmmaker whose virtuosic videos translated the aural experience of music into sparkling television; he documented leading figures of 20th-century music including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez, and enjoyed a long association with Simon Rattle, coaxing the best out of a conductor who initially showed little interest in the medium.
In Mr Copland Comes to Town (1964) he filmed the American composer Aaron Copland rehearsing the London Symphony Orchestra while coping diplomatically with anodyne questions from television journalists. The New Rhythm of Music (1969) featured the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing Bartok and Stravinsky with Tim Souster interviewing Boulez, with whom Gavin made a dozen programmes.
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Barrie Gavin, born June 10 1935, died November 12 2024
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/barrie-gavin-filmmaker-who-brought-the-stars-of-20th-century-classical-music-to-the-small-screen/
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Loretta Lynn Fiddle Player Zeke Dawson Dead at 84
By Mark Heim, AL.com | Zeke Dawson died Monday at the age of 84. Dawson served as Loretta Lynn’s fiddle player in her Coal Miner Band.
Lynn’s social media pages posted a tribute to her former band member.
“Every member of Loretta’s Coal Miner band was like family to her,” the posted stated. “Zeke Dawson was with her for nearly a decade. He will be missed by the entire Lynn family. This week, we are sending our love to his family.”
He was 84 years old. His cause of death has not been revealed.
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OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
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November 2024
18: Paulo Alexandre, 93, Portuguese singer; Charles Dumont, 95, French singer and songwriter (“Non, je ne regrette rien”); György Pauk, 88, Hungarian violinist; Colin Petersen, 78, Australian drummer (Bee Gees, Humpy Bong) and actor (Smiley).
17: Andrius Kulikauskas, 73, Lithuanian composer, musician, and arranger; Vladimir Lyovkin, 57, Russian singer (Na Na).
16: S. Atan, 75, Singaporean-born Malaysian music composer; Dejan Despić, 94, Serbian classical composer, author, and music theoretician; Gerry Weil, 85, Austrian-born Venezuelan jazz musician.
15: Romualds Kalsons, 88, Latvian composer; Aashish Khan, 84, Indian classical musician.
14: Tommy Alverson, 74, American country singer-songwriter, liver cancer; Dennis Bryon, 75, Welsh drummer (Amen Corner, Bee Gees); Peter Sinfield, 80, English lyricist (“21st Century Schizoid Man”, “I Believe in Father Christmas”), musician (King Crimson), and record producer.
13: Edgard Brito, 50, Brazilian keyboardist (Tuatha de Danann); Shel Talmy, 87, American record producer (“You Really Got Me”, “My Generation”, “Friday on My Mind”), complications from a stroke.
12: Agnes Buen Garnås, 78, Norwegian singer; Johnny Duhan, 74, Irish singer-songwriter (“The Voyage”), drowned; Roy Haynes, 99, American jazz drummer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2024
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