Langhorne was a guitarist on the New York folk scene of the '60s, but he's best known for having brought a tambourine into a Bob Dylan session, which inspired "Mr. Tam- bourine Man." He died at the age of 78 from kidney failure; Oscar-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme died at the age of 73 after a long battle with cancer. In addition to Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia, he also directed Talking Heads' concert film Stop Making Sense and three Neil Young docu- mentaries; Producer, songwriter and musi- cian Billy Joe Walker, Jr., died on July 25 at the age of 65. He wrote songs for Eddie Rabbitt, John Anderson, Trisha Yearwood, Tanya Tucker, Billy Currington and Jerrod Niemann, and produced artists including Travis Tritt and Bryan White; Jimmy Cop- ley was a veteran British session drummer whose long list of credits include albums by Tony Iommi, Jeff Beck, Paul Rodgers and the Pretenders. He died on May 13 after a long bout with leukemia; Corki Casey O’Dell, who died on May 11 at the age of 80, was a trailblazing guitarist. She earned her reputa- tion in the '50s working with Duane Eddy, Lee Hazelwood and Sanford Clark, and was a longtime member of Eddy's backing band, the Rebels; As the lead singer of Soundgarden, Chris Cornell helped create the grunge movement by merging punk and old-school metal. He later formed the supergroup Au- dioslave with members of Rage Against the Machine. He died on May 18 at the age of 52 by hanging himself in his Detroit hotel room after a Soundgarden concert; Ray Phiri died from lung cancer at the age of 70 on July 12. He gained fame when his guitar lines helped Paul Simon’s Graceland and The Rhythm of the Saints international hits. Prior to that, he was known in his native South Africa as the guitarist for the fusion band Stimela; Born David Zablidowsky, David Z had played bass with both Adrenaline Mob and Trans-Siber-


ian Orchestra. He was killed on July 14 en route to an Adrenaline Mob gig in St. Peters- burg, Fla., when the band’s RV had pulled off to the side of the road to change a flat tire and was struck by a tractor-trailer. David was 38; Erik Cartwright played lead guitar with Foghat from 1981-93, after which he played with Pat Travers and worked as a guitar tech for the Allman Brothers and AC/DC. He died on July 9 from unknown causes. He was 66; Chester Bennington was the lead singer of Linkin Park, and fronted Stone Temple Pilots from 2013-15. He was found hanged in his Los Angeles-area home on July 20, and the death was ruled as a suicide. He was 41; Goldy McJohn was the founding key- boardist of Steppenwolf, and his Hammond B3 organ fueled such hits as “Born to Be Wild” and “Magic Carpet Ride.” He died after suffering a heart attack on Aug. 1 at the age of 72; Rick Stevens only sang with Tower of Power long enough to lend his voice to their 1972 record Bump City, which featured the classics "You're Still a Young Man" and "Down to the Nightclub." In 1976, he was convicted of killing three men during a drug deal and spent 36 years in prison. He re- sumed his career upon his 2012 release, play- ing clubs around Northern California. He died on Sept. 5 after a short battle with liver cancer; Grant Hart, who died of liver cancer on Sept. 13, was the drummer for the influen- tial '80s trio Husker Du. Their albums com- bined hardcore punk rage with pop melodies and songcraft, and Hart wrote and sang lead on many of their best-loved songs, including “Diane,” “Never Talking to You Again,” “Pink Turns to Blue,” “Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely” and “Sorry Somehow;” Eric Eycke sang with Corrosion of Conformity on their 1984 debut, Eye for an Eye. But he clashed with the other members over the di- rection of the band and was fired shortly after its release. He died on Sept. 21 from unknown


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