Notable death

@the-gravedigger said
Mohamed Al Fayed
Shop owner

Jimmy Buffet, of "Margaritaville" and "Come Monday" fame, 76

@fmf said
A bete noir to all true-blue Brits.

@ptobler said
Jimmy Buffet, of "Margaritaville" and "Come Monday" fame, 76

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197419502/jimmy-buffett-margaritaville-dies

the phone didn't ring
it was me

@ptobler said
Jimmy Buffet, of "Margaritaville" and "Come Monday" fame, 76

@rookie54 said
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197419502/jimmy-buffett-margaritaville-dies

the phone didn't ring
it was me

May he finally find the salt shaker.

Gary Wright of Spooky Tooth

@ptobler said
Jimmy Buffet, of "Margaritaville" and "Come Monday" fame, 76

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Steve Harwell, 56, lead singer of 'Smash Mouth'

Richard Davis, the prolific bassist who adorned jazz classics by Pharoah Sanders, Eric Dolphy, and Andrew Hill and laid the musical foundation for Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, has died at the age of 93. ~ Rolling Stone

Astral Weeks is one of the seminal albums in my musical life.

Gary Wright 80, musician.."Dreamweaver"
Faye Fantarrow 21, singer/songwriter..brain cancer
Jack Sonni, 68, guitarist for Dire Straits
Marcia DeRouse, 70 , actress (Trueblood, etc.) cancer

Evelyn M. Witkin, renowned geneticist, died on 8 July. She was 102. Together with Miroslav Radman, Evelyn discovered the first coordinated cellular stress response to DNA damage, called the SOS response.