Jackie Lomax – I know what you’re thinking because I’m thinking the same thing: “Sour Milk Sea”, the excellent George Harrison cover that nearly broke the fabulous Beatles endorsed guitarist. It doesn’t always work out that way, and though Lomax was indeed a fabulous guitarist and just a listen to The Ballad Of Liverpool Slim from 2000 will get your blues jones on. He was also gorgeous. Lomax died of a heart attack at the age of 69.
Louisa Jo Killen – Formerly Louis Killer of the Clancy Brothers, the popular Irish folk band popular in the 1960s, came back into the limelight when he changed his gender in 2012 at the age of 78. Louisa died of cancer at the age of 79.
Adam Fisher – A popular sound engineer who work for Bowery Presents as well as the Knitting Factory and the Dum Dum Girls, here is a really great remembrance, read it.
Roy Dolby – Invented the Dolby sound system and you will never forget his name, now will you?
Lofti Mansouri – This guy invented subtitles projected on screens at opera!!! How cool can you get. This is from Wikipedia: “He was an opera director from about 1960 onwards, and is best known for being the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company and of the San Francisco Opera from 1988 through 2001. In 1992 he became a Chevalier of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,… He introduced opera surtitles—projected subtitles above the stage that allow the audience to follow the libretto during the performance of an opera“