R&B Models
Blues News
R&B great Floyd Dixon has died at age 77 so we read in the San Jose Mercury News. The News relates that Floyd was “…a master of West Coast rhythm-and-blues who toured with B.B. King and sometimes is credited with inspiring Ray Charles to adopt a grittier gospel sound…”.
Down in the Dumps News
British fashion model Kim McLagan dies in traffic accident. Who? “…Kim McLagan, a British fashion model in the 1960s and the wife of former Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan, died Wednesday in a traffic accident. The 57-year-old spa owner was hit by a dump truck when she ran a stop sign in Travis County, said James Parrish, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety…”. So says the KRIS TV web site. And Who would have guessed: KRIS further relates that “Kim Kerrigan rose to prominence as a teenage model in London in the 1960s. She married the Who drummer Keith Moon in 1966 and appeared the next year in the worldwide satellite debut of the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love” video. The couple divorced in 1975, and Moon died in 1978. She married Ian McLagan the same year.”
New Jersey Will Be the Death Of Me News
Hollywood.com reports that modeling sensation Heather Bratton’s short career is over after she was killed in a car crash last month. Apparently she was riding in a hired car that broke down on the New Jersey Turnpike. As she waited inside the car not one, but two turnpiking vehicles slammed into her disabled car. Alas her car burst into flames and she was trapped inside.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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