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Northern California 60s legend Gary Lee Yoder, of The Oxford Circle, Kak and Blue Cheer, passed away this weekend from numerous health complications. His friend Alec Palao remembers one of the coolest rockers around.

Joe Simon died on 13^th December 2021, aged 85 years.

Joe Simon possessed one of the greatest Southern Soul voices heard throughout the golden age of the 60s & 70s soul music.

Soul singer Freddie Hughes died last week from complications in part due to Covid-19. His pal Alec Palao fondly remembers the man with the high-reaching, eminently soulful voice.

It was the mid-fifties, probably 1956, I was listening to AFN [the American Forces Network] coming in over static-laden airwaves from Stuttgart in West Germany at about 9.30 one weeknight. Suddenly my ears sprang to attention as a wild and frantic sound came screaming from the tiny speakers of our ancient wireless receiver. It was Little Richard and ‘Tutti Frutti’ and I’d never heard ANYTHING even vaguely like it before. It was the most exciting record I’d ever heard and still is.

It changed my life!

I went to the record department of our local electrical store the very next day. Even though we didn’t have a record player in our house, I needed to own THAT record!

It was with considerable sadness that we learned of the death of the superb Rockabilly artist Glen Glenn.