From 60s music: most recently singer Joe Cocker. Earler in the year: Jack Bruce (bassist for Cream), guitarist Johnny Winter, Bobby Keys (sax player for the Rolling Stones and a solo artist), Ian McLager (keyboards, the Faces), Glenn Cornick (bass, Jethro Tull), Paul Revere (lead singer, Paul Revere and the Raiders.) Bobby Womack, Jay Traynor (Jay and the Americans.)
Also lyricist Gerry Goffin (with Carole King) and songwriter Peter Callander.
From the folk world, Pete Seeger, who belongs in every decade from the 30s on, but reemerged with the 60s folk boom, including mentoring Bob Dylan; and (speaking of Dylan) Carla Rotolo, whose enthusiasm got Dylan gigs and a recording contract. And a girlfriend--her younger sister, Suzy.
A major if recently forgotten figure of the 60s counterculture was Steven Gaskin, whose Monday Night Class at the Family Dog in San Francisco was immense and amazing (I was there for several, including the First Annual Holy Man Jam.) He later left the city and established The Farm, an experimental community that still exists. Marking his passing, the Sun Magazine re-published a 1985
interview and an
example of a Monday Night Class.
Movies lost director Mike Nichols (
The Graduate) and French director Alain Renais, actor Maximillian Schell ( Academy Award for
Judgement at Nuremberg.)
Writers crucial to the decade: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Amiri Baraka (then known as Leroi Jones).
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