Burke Shelley, singer/bassist for 1970s Welsh hard rock band Budgie, has died at age 71.
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich paid tribute to Shelley in an Instagram Story on Tuesday, posting a classic black and white picture of the bassist in action and writing, “Thank you Burke for everything you did for heavy music and much next level appreciation for co-writing and creating two songs that Metallica were honoured to record over the years, ‘Breadfan’ and ‘Crash Course In Brain Surgery’.”
I saw Sean all the time on Qi and 8 Out Of 10 Cats (and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown). The guy was immensely funny, the sort of laughter that would make your face and lungs hurt.
Today’s episode of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown is Sean’s final appearance. :what:
Steve Fonyo, who lost his leg to cancer as a child and ran a marathon across Canada to raise millions for cancer research, has died. He was 56.
Fonyo's niece Melody Kruppa says Fonyo had what appeared to be a seizure in a hotel room in Burnaby, B.C., on Friday and paramedics could not revive him.
The cause of death was not clear and the family will have to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday for the coroner to assess the body due to the long weekend, Kruppa said.
"We're in shock," she said.
"We're all just waiting. We're just doing the best that we can. It's just very hard to wait for the coroner to look at him and find out what the cause was and whether we're going to be able to view his body. We just don't know anything right now."
Gary Brooker, who sang Procol Harum’s intoxicating ballad “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” has died at 76.
The musician, who co-wrote the band’s 1967 classic which came to define the “Summer of Love,” lost his battle with cancer Saturday, according to his surviving bandmates.
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