Bluesman Long John Baldry, 64
Posted: Saturday, July 23rd, 2005 11:58 pm
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Long John Baldry, the British blues legend who helped launch the careers of such rock greats as Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones, has died, his agent and friends said. He was 64.
Mr. Baldry was admitted to a Vancouver hospital with respiratory problems in April and died of a chest infection Thursday, agent Frank Garcia said on the musician’s website.
“The music world has lost an absolute legend,” said friend Anya Wilson, a Toronto music publicist who worked with Mr. Baldry in the 1970s. “They’ve lost one of the first and most powerful white blues singers — an innovator, an entrepreneur of new music and one of the most wonderful people you could hope to meet.” … Read full obituary
