myLot Discussions on Billy Preston Records| Are The Beatles Cursed? | | I am a huge Beatle fan, but, sometimes I wonder if they are cursed or if someone sold their soul to the devil or something?
Looking at history, the following people who have been associated with the Beatles have had issues or died before their time.John Lennon - shot at 40 years of age
George Harrison - Dead at 59 of cancer
Julia Lennon(John's Mother) - killed by car at 44
Mary McCartney(Paul's Mother) - Dead at 47 from cancer
Brian Epstein(Manager) - Dead at 32 from overdose
Mal Evans (Road Manager) - Killed at 40 by Police
Neil Aspinall (PA/Exec) - Dead at 66 from cancer
Derek Taylor (Publicist) - Dead at 65 from cancer
Stuart Sutcliffe(First Bassist) - Dead at 21 from hemorrhage
Linda McCartney(Paul's Wife) - Dead at 56 from cancer
Mauren Cox(Ringo's First Wife)- Dead at 48 from leukemia
Louise Harrison(George's Mother) - Dead at 58 from cancer
Billy Preston(5th Beatles) - Dead at 59 Kidney failure?
Peter Harrison(Georges brother) - Dead at 66 from cancerIt even strange that Brian Jones from the Stones, dead at 27 who had played on the Beatles track "You Know My Name(Look up my number)".
Harrison's first wife Patty was... | |
| | | Music world lost Rawls, Pickett, others in 2006 | | LOU RAWLS
Velvet-voiced singer and longtime community activist
Lou Rawls, 72, January 6 in Los Angeles. His trademark song "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine," was released in 1976 and exemplifies the classic "Philadelphia Sound." Rawls recorded 52 albums in a career that spanned nearly five decades and won Grammy Awards for hits "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)," "Natural Man" and "Lady Love." He also played a major role in United Negro College Fund telethons in the '80s that raised more than $200 million and appeared in 18 movies and 16 TV series.
WILSON PICKETT
Soul/R&B legend Wilson Pickett, 64, January 19 in Virginia. In 1965, Pickett signed a solo deal with Atlantic, scoring a No. 21 pop hit with "In the Midnight Hour," which he co-wrote with legendary sessions musician Steve Cropper. A slew of late '60s R&B/soul hits followed, five of which reached No. 1 on The Billboard R&B charts. Pickett was a 1991 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His last studio album, "It's Harder Now," (1999) won W.C. Handy Awards for soul/blues album of the year and comeback album of the year, and Pickett himself was named soul/blues male artist of the year.
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