Amar G. Bose – Don’t recognize the name? Check the surname again? Amar Bose was the tech whiz kid who invented all those hi-tech great sounding sound systems that sounded good enough for an Arena but were for your own home. Amar was 84 years old.
Toshii Seeger – Wanna know how Pete Seeger could be Pete Seeger, look no further than his wife, manager, mother to his child, archivest and love interest Toshii. When Seeger refused to testify about his political beliefs, Toshii took his three children to listen to him She was 91 years old.
Peppi Marchello formed Long Island’s the Good Rats in 1969 and while the band changed personnel from then til now, his powerful voice always lead the way. Proof that you can spend your career in rock and roll and remain unknown by the vast majority of the world and still be an important figure. Peppi died of a heart attack. he was 68 years old.
Bernie Nolan – A lead singer with her sisters in the girl group the Nolans, the Irish band were big in Japan in the early 1980s and Bernie maintained a successful solo career as a singer and actress through he rest of her life. She was 52 years old.
I usually write about five deaths but for some reason I convinced myself that both Seething Wells -the punk weirdo and rock critic and Jane Scott, the long time rock write for the Cleveland ‘s The Plain Dealer were recent deaths which they weren’t of course.