Jon Lord died July 16, 2012, but his music lives on. If the name is unfamiliar to you, you have almost certainly heard a song or three to which he contributed. John Douglas Lord was born at Leicester on June 9, 1941. Classically trained from an early age, as a teenager he played the organ […]
Last October, the world lost the legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen, gone too soon at 65. Another legendary guitarist who has ten years on Eddie celebrates his seventy-sixth birthday on April 14, and although he has slowed down somewhat in recent years, it is because he has other priorities, in particular an angelic wife and […]
The American rock guitarist Tommy Bolin died December 4, 1976 aged just 25, neither the first nor the last time-serving musician to fall to heroin. In spite of his youth, he left an impressive body of work. Although he died long before the inception of the WorldWideWeb, a domain for an official website was registered […]
