Alex Williams
Posts
Herbert Deutsch, Co-Creator of the Moog Synthesizer, Dies at 90
An experimental composer, Mr. Deutsch collaborated with Robert Moog to create the first synthesizer to make a significant impact on popular music, launching a revolution...
Wilko Johnson, Scorching Guitarist and Punk Pioneer, Dies at 75
Known later as an actor on “Game of Thrones,” he helped lay the foundation for a 1970s rock revolution on England’s pub circuit.
Jean-Marie Straub, Uncompromising Filmmaker, Is Dead at 89
Emerging from the French New Wave, driven by artistic purity, he and his wife and directing partner, Danièle Huillet, didn’t care if audiences walked out...
Keith Levene, Public Image Ltd.’s Buzz-Saw Guitarist, Dies at 65
Considered a post-punk pioneer, he was also a founding member of the Clash but left before it became one of the biggest bands of its...
Mimi Parker, Moody Alt-Rock Vocalist, Is Dead at 55
Her influential band, Low, emerged in the 1990s, but its minimalist sound stood in sharp contrast to the anthems of angst that came to define...
Ray Guy, First N.F.L. Punter Named to the Hall of Fame, Dies at 72
A slender Georgia country boy with the outlaw Oakland Raiders of the 1970s, he proved that a punt could be a spectacle in its own...
Robert Gordon, Punk Rocker Turned Rockabilly Revivalist, Dies at 75
Weary of the angry and aggressive sound of New York’s musical underground of the late 1970s, he returned to rock’s roots and seeded a rockabilly...
Dan Wieden, Adman of Nike ‘Just Do It’ Fame, Is Dead at 77
A mix of Norman Rockwell and Andy Warhol, the self-effacing co-founder of the advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy considered his success a “cosmic joke.”