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27Aug

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Eric Wagner, Singer

The American singer Eric Wagner, who was frontman with the doom metal bands The Skull and Trouble and a guest vocalist on Dave Grohl's Probot side project, has died. He was 62 and had been admitted to hospital in the US last week with Covid-19-related pneumonia. His passing was confirmed by his family and The Skull bandmates on social media. Wagner formed Illinois band Trouble in 1979 and they went on to release the seminal albums Psalm 9 (1984), The Skull (1985) and Trouble (1990). Having left the band in the late 1990s, he rejoined in 2000. Wagner left Trouble again in 2008 and went on to form The Skull. Their most recent album, The Endless Road Turns Dark, was released in 2018. When the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl enlisted some of his favourite singers to perform on his 200...

14Aug

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Craig Ogletree, Footballer

Former Auburn linebacker Craig Ogletree, who also had a brief stop in the NFL, died Monday from complications of COVID-19. He was 53. Ogletree played four seasons with the Tigers and was co-captain of the 1989 team that won the Southeastern Conference championship. “Great linebacker, great leader,” said his college roommate, fellow linebacker Quentin Riggins. “He’d make play after play. What most people don’t know is that he was also an excellent student, a brilliant person. Great dad and husband. We just clicked. He was a very special person.” His best year with Auburn came in 1989 when he had 11 sacks and 113 tackles. That was the third of three straight conference titles the Tigers won. Ogletree, a Georgia native, was a seventh-round draft pick of the Cincinnati Bengals in ...

9Aug

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Dick Farrel, Radio Host

Dick Farrel, 65, a former Newsmax host and pioneer of the shock jock genre, died on Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Florida, from complications relating to Covid-19. Prior to getting sick, Farrel wrote on Facebook that Dr Anthony Fauci was a “power-tripping lying freak”, mocked vaccines and referred to the pandemic that has taken more than 600,000 American lives as a “scamdemic”. His close friend Amy Leigh Hair said that Farrel had written to her from the hospital begging her to get vaccinated. “He texted me and told me to ‘Get it!’ He told me this virus is no joke and he said, ‘I wish I had gotten it!’” His partner Kit Farley said he “fought like a tiger”, and pleaded with people not to put off “getting attention for this illness”. “He was known as the other Rush Limbaugh. W...

6Aug

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Paul Johnson, American DJ

Influential Chicago house music DJ Paul Johnson has died at the age of 50 due to COVID-19. According to reports, Johnson, who had a global hit with Get Get Down in 1999 and was named as an influence by Daft Punk, had spent several weeks in hospital. He had been hospitalized for COVID-19 in mid-July, according to posts on his Instagram, although an official cause of death has not been released. Johnson began DJ-ing at parties in the mid-1980s and started producing his own music in the early ’90s, with his first release coming out in 1992. By 1997, Johnson had founded the record label Dust Traxx. That same year, his influence on house was also immortalized when Daft Punk listed him as the first name on their Homework track “Teachers,” which paid tribute to the group’s inspirations. Bu...