Obituaries

We wrote a very nice little song for Amy Winehouse and I think a beautiful song for Maria Schneider, the actress who was a friend of mine in the ’70s. They just happened, like gifts.

Yup, we are all busy transitioning into a higher state of something or other and all we can do when famous rock stars die is say a fond adieu and grade them. GRADE THEM!!! Well, what can i tell you, it is in the nature of rock nyc to grade and list everything. Alphabetically

‘It’s not clear where the movement name originated. It would be nice to think it came from the Velvet Underground, but there’s no proof of that.’

here at rock nyc Havel will be remembered more as a rock and roll fan, the governing intelligence behind the Plastic People of the Universe and took Velvet Undergrounds disillusionment and ran to places we can’t imagine

Jackie Leven was the leader of the much loved New wave band Doll By Doll, who, along with the Only Ones,, heralded the end of punk

Now Then Now Then, Now Then…

‘I was in Weezer, now I make art’,

An enormous loss for music lovers everywhere.

one way ticket yeah!

vastly superior r&b

None Amy

Scooter and the Big Man

From Born To Run to Born this Way, the Big Man remembered

DARE’d

Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na yip-pit-ty boom de boom

The late great performed: “poetry, spoken word soul, fusion, soul and jazz-funk, proto-rap”

It is physically impossible to sit through “Guns of Navarone” without that foot moving

Phoebe’s voice was unique and unparalleled — touching. 4 octaves

Succumbs to lung cancer

Kurt Cobain, the greatest songwriter of his generation

Rock In Peace, Don