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I’ve been trying to locate Tres Smith since last fall and even asked Jane Hall if she’d heard anything but she never responded back to me.

I did some research and found he passed away last October.  His last post here was late July.  AHSmith33 was for his name, Arthur Henderson Smith III.  His nickname was Tres.

He was a very good friend over the years and I sent him some music from time to time early in our friendship.  Tres had a wealth of knowledge about music that I’ll miss very much.

This is very sad; didn't have a great deal of interaction with Tres, but always found his posts very insightful. A big loss to the forum.

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Guitarist you've probably all heard at one time or another, but wouldn't know the name; has sadly passed over the easter week-end.

Musician Lasse Wellander - who was the main guitarist on ABBA's albums - has passed away at the age of 70.
The 70-year-old first played with ABBA in October 1974 and it didn't take long for him to become the Swedish band's main guitarist.

As well as working with Andersson and Ulvaeus post-ABBA on the soundtracks to Mamma Mia! The Movie, its sequel and the ABBA album Voyage (2021), Wellander also had an extremely successful solo career, releasing seven solo albums.

On Sunday, 9 April, his family took to social media to announce his passing.

Wellander not only featured on ABBA's albums, but also toured with the Stockholm supergroup - formed by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad - in 1975, 1977, 1979 and 1980.

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Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr  (Nov 1938 - 1st May 2023) R.I.P.

Gordon Lightfoot, Canada's legendary folk singer-songwriter known for If You Could Read My Mind and Sundown and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died on Monday. He was 84.

Considered one of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto's Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot's songs, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness"—a number one hit on the U.S. country chart with Marty Robbins's cover in 1965—and "Black Day in July", about the 1967 Detroit riot, brought him wide recognition in the 1960s. Canadian chart success with his own recordings began in 1962 with the No. 3 hit "(Remember Me) I'm the One", followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s. He topped the US Hot 100 or Adult Contemporary (AC) chart with the hits "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974); "Carefree Highway" (1974), "Rainy Day People" (1975), and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), and had many other hits that appeared in the top 40 In the more than 60 years since he launched his career, he performed in well over 1,500 concerts and recorded 500 songs.

In 1971, he made his first appearance on the Billboard chart with If You Could Read My Mind. It reached No. 5 and has since spawned scores of covers.

Lightfoot's popularity peaked in the mid-1970s when both his single and album, "Sundown," topped the Billboard charts, his first and only time doing so. During his career, Lightfoot collected 12 Juno Awards, including one in 1970 when it was called the Gold Leaf. In 1986, he was inducted into the Canadian Recording Industry Hall of Fame, now the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. He received the Governor General's award in 1997 and was ushered into the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2001.

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RIP Gordon, my favourite track is Sundown x

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I will admit to only knowing the obvious three of Gordon Lightfoot's songs, but I never turned the radio station when they came over the airwaves. Living in the Great Lakes region of the U.S. on Lake Michigan, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was always my favorite. Rest in peace Gordon Lightfoot.

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When I started this thread 11 years ago I never envisioned how quickly people my age are passing away in 2023.  Covid has truly changed the world.
Gordon Lightfoot I think defines the singer/songwriter genre.  What a voice and he was just one of many huge talents of his time. 
To check a bucket list item I plan to see the only Great Lake I've never been to.  Lake Superior, where the Edmund Fitzgerald lays.  The biggest and deepest lake in the world.


Guitarist Tim Bachman, brother of Randy also left us this week.  BTO was another fine band of the 70's.

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I was a major fan of American folk music in the 70's.  Gordon Lightfoot and John Denver stand as two of my favorite artists of all time, both gone now.  RIP Gordon Lightfoot sad.

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Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023)  R.I.P.

Singer Tina Turner, one of rock’s most famous voices who had hits including Proud Mary and The Best, has died at the age of 83 after a long illness, her publicist Bernard Doherty told the PA news agency.

In a career spanning more than 60 years, the American-Swiss singer, who was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, won eight competitive Grammy Awards and has a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the St Louis Walk of Fame.

Turner died “peacefully” on Wednesday after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her publicist.
Her career spanned more than music, with her starring in the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome alongside Mel Gibson and she also appeared in 1993’s Last Action Hero.

In 2021 she sold the rights to her back catalogue after reaching an agreement with BMG for an undisclosed sum, signing over her share of her recordings, her music publishing writer’s share and her name, image and likeness, the company said.

Her solo works include 10 studio albums, two live albums, two soundtracks and five compilations, which together have sold more than 100 million records.

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Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023)  R.I.P.

Singer Tina Turner, one of rock’s most famous voices who had hits including Proud Mary and The Best, has died at the age of 83 after a long illness, her publicist Bernard Doherty told the PA news agency.

In a career spanning more than 60 years, the American-Swiss singer, who was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, won eight competitive Grammy Awards and has a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the St Louis Walk of Fame.

Turner died “peacefully” on Wednesday after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her publicist.
Her career spanned more than music, with her starring in the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome alongside Mel Gibson and she also appeared in 1993’s Last Action Hero.

In 2021 she sold the rights to her back catalogue after reaching an agreement with BMG for an undisclosed sum, signing over her share of her recordings, her music publishing writer’s share and her name, image and likeness, the company said.

Her solo works include 10 studio albums, two live albums, two soundtracks and five compilations, which together have sold more than 100 million records.



Thanks Mike for your elegant words for an icon in popular music.
She's one of those rare humans that seemed to defy aging and make one think they were immortal.
Discovered by bluesman Ike Turner, the little dynamo from Nutbush, Tennessee went on to worldwide celebrity.
  Along with the passing of Jim Brown this week two of my all-time heroes are now doing their thing in Heaven.  I will miss them...

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Curby wrote:

Thanks Mike for your elegant words for an icon in popular music.
She's one of those rare humans that seemed to defy aging and make one think they were immortal.
Discovered by bluesman Ike Turner, the little dynamo from Nutbush, Tennessee went on to worldwide celebrity.
  Along with the passing of Jim Brown this week two of my all-time heroes are now doing their thing in Heaven.  I will miss them...

I was fortunate enough to catch her live shows twice; not least on her 1984 "comeback tour" at Newcastle's City Hall (a venue she hadn't played since 1966!). After that, she was playing arenas, which Newcastle missed out on, so it was 7 years later, when she hit her heights playing stadia, and played Gateshead International Stadium (with Michael McDonald & Neville Brothers supporting) on the Foreign Affair Tour.

Although the size of the venues changed, one thing that didn't was Tina's commitment to the show; as cliché as it sounds, she always gave 125% and settled for nothing less from her band. And to stage what became such a prolonged "comeback" at an age when most singers at the time would be resigned to the "chicken-in-a-basket" circuit.

Down the years, I've seen some of the biggest names, but when Tina walked out onto the stage at Newcastle, a much more basic show than the later days, the sheer charisma that radiated from her. Whether it was the intimacy of the venue, but unlike other greats I've seen, there was no "bubble" of alienness or glamour, she just seemed to belong to us; very few have had that quality.

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