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Gary Sanford Paxton passed away peacefully on the night of July 16^th 2016, his wife Vicki Sue at his side. His friend Alec Palao recalls the life of the original rock’n’roll maverick.

It is with much regret that I have to report the loss of Margaret Lewis, aka Maggie Warwick, a great champion of Louisiana music, who died on March 29.

It’s a bitterly cold February ‘94 and I’m in New York City attempting to persuade Tony Middleton to come to Cleethorpes, one of north east Lincolnshire’s premier hot spots, to sing to his UK fans at our inaugural Northern Soul weekender. While I’m there I decide to pop in on Paul Williams, an old friend who used to buy Jackie Moore imports off me in 1974 when I was a West End barrow boy. He had worked his way up in the music business and was then a Vice President at the mighty RCA Records situated on 1540 Broadway, NYC.

Remembered by Tony Rounce.

At the end of last week, a 99-year-old man died.

Quinton Claunch’s passing didn’t make the Friday lunchtime news, nor did it cause national networks to scrap their scheduled programming for the rest of the day, and broadcast hour after hour of tributes to his achievements.

Although it should have done.

News of Quinton’s death may have flown ‘under the radar’ - but as soon as it was announced, word quickly spread among a sad soul community that he had gone, and the subsequent tributes across soul’s social media have been many, and glowing.

Ace Records aficionados will very likely be familiar with the uniquely soulful guitar-playing which embellished such notable hits as Dobie Gray’s ‘Drift Away’ and Billy Swan’s ‘I Can Help’, as well as the ground-breaking use of electric sitar on the Box Tops’ ‘Cry Like A Baby’ and ‘Hooked On A Feeling’ by B.J. Thomas. Add to these Elvis Presley’s ‘In The Ghetto’ and ‘Suspicious Minds’, Dusty Springfield’s ‘Son Of A Preacher Man’, Joe Tex’s ‘Skinny Legs And All’, and many more significant chartbusters by the likes of Bill Black’s Combo, Joe Tex, Neil Diamond, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, Jimmy Buffett, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard. Such an imposing list should provide an idea of the enormous contribution made over six decades by Memphis and Nashville’s most versatile and in-demand session guitarist, Reggie Young, who has died at the age of 82.