Узнали печальную новость о кончине после сердечного приступа 69-летнего Джеймса Гёли (James Gurley) - гитариста группы Big Brother and the Holding Company, где, как известно, с 1966 г. пела несравненная Джанис Джоплин. У Гёли и Джанис одно время закрутился роман, но не получил развития.
Покойный играл также в группе Red Robin & The Worms. Начав сольную карьеру, смог выпустить свой первый сольный альбом "Pipe Dreams" только в 2000 г.

LOS ANGELES – James Gurley, the innovative guitarist who helped shape psychedelic rock's multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the band that propelled Janis Joplin to fame, has died of a heart attack. He was 69.
Gurley was pronounced dead Sunday at a Palm Springs hospital, two days before his 70th birthday, the band announced on its Web site.

Tim Hart, founder member of Steeleye Span,
dies of lung cancer at 61

Hart, 61, died Dec. 24 in La Gomera in Spain's Canary Islands, where the Briton had lived since retiring from the music scene, Sally Hart told The Associated Press.
Hart was a star of the 1960s folk scene in Britain, first gaining fame in a musical partnership with singer Maddy Prior in 1966. The duo recorded two albums of "Folk Songs of Olde England," with the versatile Hart backing their singing on guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, banjo and violin.
In 1971, Hart and Prior joined with Ashley Hutchings, who had left the Fairport Convention to form a new band. The new project, at Hart's suggestion, was named Steeleye Span after a character in a Lincolnshire folk song, "Horkstow Grange."
Hart left Steeleye Span in 1983, but appeared at a charity concert with the group in 1995. Last year, he appeared with Prior at a BBC concert in London.