He missed his chance to be Led Zeppelin’s lead vocalist, but his solo work — and his otherworldly voice — drew raves from Aretha Franklin and others.
Category: Deaths (Obituaries)
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Morton Meyerson, Texas Businessman and Perot Lieutenant, Dies at 87
He helped build H. Ross Perot’s company Electronic Data Systems into a leading data processing firm. He later played a crucial role in Mr. Perot’s 1992 presidential campaign.
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Jane Morgan, Singer Who Charmed Both Sides of the Atlantic, Dies at 101
Born in Massachusetts, she built a following in Parisian nightclubs before returning to the U.S., where she had a successful career as a torch singer.
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Michael Lydon, Writer Who Rocked With the 1960s, Dies at 82
A founding editor of Rolling Stone and a seasoned music journalist, he spent time with the Beatles and toured with the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones.
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Sallie Bingham, Author at the Center of a Newspaper Drama, Dies at 88
A novelist and memoirist, she famously clashed with a brother, leading to the fall of a Kentucky publishing dynasty that her paternal grandfather established in 1918.
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Eddie Palmieri, Latin Music’s Dynamic Innovator, Dies at 88
He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, “is being born.”
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Lawrence A. Bossidy, Who Led a Major Corporate Turnaround, Dies at 90
He took over the reins of the troubled Allied Signal in 1991 and within a few years made it one of America’s best-run and most profitable companies.
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Joseph Lovett, TV Producer Who Shed an Early Light on AIDS, Dies at 80
At CBS and ABC, he pursued news segments aimed at destigmatizing gay life and drawing attention to an epidemic that at the time was largely overlooked.
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Leonard Lopate, Longtime New York Radio Host, Dies at 84
He mastered the art of the interview over 32 years on public radio, at WNYC. He was fired in 2017 amid allegations of sexual harassment, which he vehemently denied.
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Jeannie Seely, Who Pushed Boundaries and Broke Hearts at the Grand Ole Opry, Dies at 85
She blazed a trail for women in country music with the candor of her songs and her bold fashion sense. She was also the first woman to host a segment on the Opry.
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Flaco Jiménez, Grammy-Winning Master of the Tex-Mex Accordion, Dies at 86
Fusing traditional Tejano sounds with blues, rock and country, he recorded with Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Ry Cooder.
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Michael Cardozo, 84, New York City’s Longest-Serving Chief Lawyer, Dies
As the city’s corporation counsel under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, he defended stop-and-frisk policing and a ban on smoking in bars and restaurants.