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And now G-H:

G:

George Harrison,
Gibson,
The Grateful Dead,
Grace Slick,
Genesis,
Godspeed You Black Emperor,
Gong,
Gram Parsons,
Guns N Roses,
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April is definitely not the cruellest month for Rock birthdays, but for those who like things tied together, two guitarists are connected by one man and one of those two is connected to one of the obituaries.  Answers at the end… **

Leon Russell – 68 on 2^nd April 2010

How many people can claim to have played with Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Joe Cocker as well as arranging River Deep and Mountain High for Ike and Tina Turner?  Only one – the great Leon Russell.
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November’s deaths have no patterns to them, just losses from the world’s greatest band, the world’s most popular Rock singer and the drummer for the world’s greatest Rock guitarist.

GEORGE HARRISON – BORN 24TH FEBRUARY 1943 – DIED 29TH NOVEMBER 2001
I remember George Harrison describing life in the Beatles when he was interviewed alongside Ringo for a TV documentary at the time they released the Beatles 1 CD. He said that people had forgotten how good they were as a live band: “we were just so tight” and people also forget in the post Cream, post Prog Rock era of long, self indulgent, “virtuoso” guitar breaks and meandering tunes that the musicianship of the Beatles was focused on the band as the entity, not on individual members and that they perfected the 3 minute single, “She Loves You”, the LP “Revolver” and the Concept Album “Sgt Pepper” before anyone else had ever thought of it.

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