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"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the
grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun." Bishop Hall
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Welcome to another edition of Dead End.
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enjoyable Memorial Day weekend!
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BILLY WALKER, GRAND OLE OPRY LEGEND, DEAD AT 77
Grand Ole Opry legend Billy Walker, his wife and two band
members were killed when their van rolled off a highway just
south of Montgomery, Ala. In addition to the 77-year-old
singer of "Charlie's Shoes" and "Cross the Brazos at Waco,"
killed in the Sunday accident were Betty Walker, 61; Charles
Lilly Jr. 44; and Daniel Patton Sr., 40, the Montgomery
(Ala.) Advertiser reported Monday. The Walkers and Lilly
lived in Hendersonville, Tenn., while Patton was from
Hermitage, Tenn. Walker's grandson, Joshua Brooks, 21, of
Hendersonville, Tenn., was hospitalized in critical
condition. The group was returning to Nashville from a
performance in Foley, Ala., when the accident occurred.
Walker, who shared the stage with Elvis Presley, joined the
Grand Ole Opry in 1960. Early on, he was known as the
"Traveling Texan, the Masked Singer of Country Songs."
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IAN COPELAND, ROCK PROMOTER, DEAD AT 57
Rock promoter Ian Copeland, considered the father of new
wave music, has died in Los Angeles at age 57. The brother
of the Police drummer Stewart Copeland and IRS record label
founder Miles Copeland died Tuesday of melanoma, The Los
Angeles Times reported. Among the many bands Copeland is
credited with helping rise to fame were R.E.M., the Bangles,
the Go-Gos, Squeeze, Nine Inch Nails, the B-52's, the
Ramones, the Cure, the Smiths, the Dead Kennedys and the
Police. In the early 1970s, while working as a booking
agent in London, he "discovered" the Average White Band,
which went on to score a string of international hits such
as "Pick up the Pieces." Moving across the pond, he worked
at the Paragon Agency, scheduling tours for the Charlie
Daniels Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers Band.
After Paragon closed, he started Frontier Booking
International, or FBI, and funneled acts such as R.E.M.,
the Go-Gos and the Bangles to IRS records. In addition to
his brothers, Copeland is survived by two daughters, his
mother and a sister.
KATHERINE DUNHAM, WORLD-RENOWNED DANCER, DEAD AT 96
World-renowned black dancer, choreographer, activist and
Kennedy Center honoree Katherine Dunham has died at her New
York apartment at age 96. The cause of her Sunday night
death was not revealed. She won the University of Chicago's
prestigious Julius Rosenwald Foundation travel fellowship
while majoring in social anthropology in 1935. Upon
graduation, she became dance director of Chicago's Federal
Theatre Project, where she developed the exotic style that
brought her world fame. She began the Dunham Dance Company
and during a cross-country tour, sued hotels in Cincinnati
and Chicago for racial discrimination. She began the
Katherine Dunham School of Arts and Research in New York in
1945 and later moved to Haiti, where she set up a medical
clinic and was honored for her service there. She happened
upon East St. Louis while helping with a student production
of "Faust" at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale,
in 1964. Moved by the city's impoverished state, she
proposed what would become the Katherine Dunham Dynamic
Museum and Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities.
FREDDIE GARRITY, 60S POP STAR, DEAD AT 65
Freddie Garrity, the lead singer of 1960s pop band Freddie
and the Dreamers, died in a hospital in North Wales Saturday,
the London Independent said. He was 65. Garrity gained
international prominence as part of the "British Invasion"
of the early 1960s. His light-hearted attitude and his
friendly stage persona contributed to the success of his
band. The band reached number one on the U.S. charts in
1965 with their hit "I'm Telling You Now" after several
hits in the United Kingdom. Freddie and the Dreamers were
also popular for creating an international dance craze with
their hit "Do The Freddie." Garrity was on vacation when he
was admitted to the hospital, the newspaper said. He had
been diagnosed with emphysema several years ago.
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JOYCE BALLANTYNE BRAND, COPPERTONE GIRL ARTIST, DEAD AT 88
The Florida artist who drew the iconic Coppertone girl
losing her swimsuit to a feisty cocker spaniel has died at
the age of 88. Joyce Ballantyne Brand, who died Monday at
her Ocala, Fla., home, had recently suffered a heart attack,
said her daughter Cheri Brand Irwin. It was daughter Cheri,
3 years old in 1959, whom Brand drew as the pig-tailed
Coppertone girl. Brand used a Bronxville, N.Y., neighbor's
cocker spaniel as the model of the dog tugging on the
bottom half of the little girl's swimsuit, The Los Angeles
Times said Friday. During World War II, she drew for a pin-
up studio. Brand said she was paid $2,500 for the Coppertone
girl and dog, equivalent to about $17,000 today -- and
$2,000 more when she had to re-create them after the
originals were destroyed in a fire. In the mid-1970s, Brand
moved to Ocala with her second husband, Jack Brand, a TV
executive who died in the 1980s. Her first marriage ended
in divorce.
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Notable deaths this week in history...
In 1935, the founder and director of Chicago's Hull House,
Jane Addams, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for her
life-long devotion, died at age 74.
In 1967, Langston Hughes, the noted writer of novels,
stories, poems and plays about Negro life, died at the age
of 65.
In 1974, Duke Ellington, jazz composer, bandleader and
pianist, often considered America's most prolific composer,
died at the age of 75.
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