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He had a run of top 10 hits from the 1950s into the 21st century, and his music was heard everywhere from movie soundtracks and radios to home stereo systems and iPods, whether “Alfie” and “I Say a Little Prayer” or “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” and “This Guy’s in Love with You.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifw8JhDBvs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dionne Warwick was his favorite interpreter, but Bacharach, usually in tandem with lyricist Hal David, also created prime material for Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones and many others. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15396847/david-crosby\">David Crosby\u003c/a>, a prominent figure of the free-spirited 1970s Laurel Canyon scene who helped bring folk-rock mainstream with both \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15786738/the-byrds\">The Byrds\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/104401754/crosby-stills-nash\">Crosby, Stills & Nash\u003c/a>, has died at 81. His publicist Michael Jensen confirmed the artist’s death to NPR; no cause of death was given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby had long dealt with serious health problems, including multiple heart attacks, diabetes and hepatitis C, for which he had a liver transplant in 1994. In spite of those challenges, the veteran musician enjoyed a creative hot streak in recent years. He added five solo albums to his catalog between 2014 and 2021, and toured frequently with two sets of collaborators, the Lighthouse Band (which featured \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/474878869/snarky-puppy\">Snarky Puppy\u003c/a> bandleader Michael League) and the Sky Trails Band, featuring his son, James Raymond, on keyboards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby’s focus on touring stretched all the way back to his early professional days, when he was a nomadic folk musician honing his performance skills on the road. In the late 1950s, Crosby started performing at coffeehouses in Santa Barbara, Calif., but soon began traveling around the U.S., popping up in southern Florida, Chicago and Boulder, Colo. Crosby also spent a formative period in Greenwich Village, where he teamed up to play at the then-new Bitter End with Chicago musician Terry Callier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His long and successful solo career notwithstanding, Crosby thrived on collaboration — a trait he discovered as a young child, after being mesmerized by a symphony orchestra performance. “The idea of cooperative effort to make something bigger than any one person could ever do was stuck in my head,” he wrote in his 1988 autobiography, \u003cem>Long Time Gone\u003c/em>. “That’s why I love being a harmony singer, why I love being in a group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby’s first big successes came as a founding member of expansive California country-folk troupe The Byrds. The group hit its commercial peak during his tenure, earning two No. 1 singles — covers of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15869924/pete-seeger\">Pete Seeger\u003c/a>’s “Turn! Turn! Turn!” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15193203/bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan\u003c/a>’s ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ — and reaching the Top 20 with the stormy classic “Eight Miles High.” Crosby co-wrote the latter, and penned several other memorable Byrds songs, including the lilting, jangly “Lady Friend.” He was instrumental in helping the group develop its harmony-rich vocal approach and kaleidoscopic sound, which incorporated psychedelic rock, jazz and twangy folk, and has taken credit for introducing bandmate \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/16269974/roger-mcguinn\">Roger McGuinn\u003c/a> to the music of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15394783/john-coltrane\">John Coltrane\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/17093771/ravi-shankar\">Ravi Shankar\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1967, Crosby was fired from the Byrds over growing personality and creative conflicts (although he later returned to produce and perform on 1973’s \u003cem>Byrds\u003c/em>). At loose ends, he immersed himself in sailing, one of his childhood passions, buying a schooner for $25,000 with money borrowed from The Monkees’ Peter Tork. The boat would be a source of solace and inspiration for decades; he wrote songs including “Wooden Ships,” “The Lee Shore” and “Page 43” while on board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZZYXlJ8-k0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby was born on Aug. 14, 1941, and grew up in Southern California. His father was cinematographer Floyd Crosby, who won an Academy Award for his work on 1931’s \u003cem>Tabu: A Story of the South Seas\u003c/em>, as well as a Golden Globe for cinematography for 1952’s \u003cem>High Noon\u003c/em>. (Crosby himself influenced another notable corner of Hollywood: He often \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thedavidcrosby/status/1018631062279221248\">said\u003c/a> that Dennis Hopper took inspiration from his look and attitude for 1969’s \u003cem>Easy Rider\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid, Crosby fell hard for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15181907/the-everly-brothers\">The Everly Brothers\u003c/a>, the genesis of his lifelong fascination with close harmony, further cemented by his family’s regular sing-along sessions. His older brother, Ethan, introduced him to jazz, a genre he would touch on throughout his career, including with his late ‘90s/early ‘00s band CPR and on a ruminative 2017 solo album, \u003cem>Sky Trails.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby’s formative influences became more prominent in his partnership with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15399328/stephen-stills\">Stephen Stills\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15412309/graham-nash\">Graham Nash\u003c/a>, with whom he explored novel ways of expressing harmony. In \u003cem>Long Time Gone\u003c/em>, Crosby deconstructs the group’s unique vocal approach with typical concision, noting the group sang “nonparallel stuff” influenced by classical music, late ‘50s and early ‘60s jazz and the Everlys. “I did some of my very best work being subtle, moving the middle part around in internal shifts that kept it happening,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby’s ocean-clear tenor meshed seamlessly with the voices of Stills and Nash in hushed and haunting ways, particularly on his own “Guinnevere.” His songwriting contributions pushed the band in new directions — in particular, the rhythmic cadences of “Déjà Vu” and the loose arrangements and boho instrumental tone of “Wooden Ships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a trio, Crosby, Stills and Nash was both commercially and critically adored. Its self-titled 1969 debut led to an performance at Woodstock and Grammy for best new artist, while 1970’s \u003cem>Déjà Vu \u003c/em>— by which point Neil Young had joined, adding another letter to the band’s name — touched on both the comforts of tradition and the seismic generational shifts that were underway. Months after \u003cem>Déjà Vu\u003c/em>‘s release, CSNY would become a leading voice of the nation’s anti-war movement, recording the Young-penned “Ohio” in response to the May 1970 shooting of four students at Kent State University. His 1971 solo album, \u003cem>If I Could Only Remember My Name\u003c/em>, a sprawling psych-folk touchstone offering studio intricacy and experimental gambits, further illuminated his off-the-beaten-path outlook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a four-piece band of white men with long hair record music in a studio in the 1970s\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young recording in 1970. \u003ccite>(RB/Redferns)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Crosby — who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice, as a member of the Byrds and CSN — continued performing with various collaborators, with Graham Nash serving as his steadiest foil well into the mid-2010s. Ever opinionated and brutally honest, he was an open book about his personal flaws and failings, as well as how he felt about his peers. This no-nonsense personality made him both endearing and prickly, especially as a bandmate — CSNY’s internal conflicts and disagreements were legendary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, much later and perhaps surprisingly, it made him a natural for the concise and quippy nature of Twitter. Crosby shared wide-ranging thoughts about politics and music on the site, and answered fan questions, both about his own career (he told one fan he “was not the right guy for the job” to when asked whether it was true that he was supposed to have worked on Leonard Cohen’s second album) and about those in his orbit (“Was Jerry Garcia a tenor?”\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thedavidcrosby/status/961950937051877376\"> Answer\u003c/a>: “Tenor/baritone.”). Such lovable terseness even landed him \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/t/ask-croz/\">an advice column\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby’s career was marked by countless reinventions and second chances. Years of well-documented substance abuse led to tumultuous relationships in and out of music, multiple arrests and even a nine-month stint in a Texas prison in the ‘80s. Remarkably, his voice remained strong and unweathered, a fact Crosby himself found inexplicable, as he explained to Cameron Crowe in the 2019 documentary \u003cem>David Crosby: Remember My Name\u003c/em>. Yet the film also reflected plenty of humility, portraying a musician facing his mortality by trying not to dwell on the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve hurt a lot of people,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/07/18/remember-my-name-david-crosby\">Crosby told \u003cem>Here & Now\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the midday news show from NPR and WBUR, in 2019. “I’ve helped a lot more. I just have to be able to look at it and understand it and learn from it. I’m not beating myself up about any of it. Truthfully, I’m actually pretty happy with the guy I am now. I’m trying real hard to be a decent human being. And I like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. 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At loose ends, he immersed himself in sailing, one of his childhood passions, buying a schooner for $25,000 with money borrowed from The Monkees’ Peter Tork. The boat would be a source of solace and inspiration for decades; he wrote songs including “Wooden Ships,” “The Lee Shore” and “Page 43” while on board.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-ZZYXlJ8-k0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-ZZYXlJ8-k0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Crosby was born on Aug. 14, 1941, and grew up in Southern California. His father was cinematographer Floyd Crosby, who won an Academy Award for his work on 1931’s \u003cem>Tabu: A Story of the South Seas\u003c/em>, as well as a Golden Globe for cinematography for 1952’s \u003cem>High Noon\u003c/em>. (Crosby himself influenced another notable corner of Hollywood: He often \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thedavidcrosby/status/1018631062279221248\">said\u003c/a> that Dennis Hopper took inspiration from his look and attitude for 1969’s \u003cem>Easy Rider\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid, Crosby fell hard for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15181907/the-everly-brothers\">The Everly Brothers\u003c/a>, the genesis of his lifelong fascination with close harmony, further cemented by his family’s regular sing-along sessions. 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In \u003cem>Long Time Gone\u003c/em>, Crosby deconstructs the group’s unique vocal approach with typical concision, noting the group sang “nonparallel stuff” influenced by classical music, late ‘50s and early ‘60s jazz and the Everlys. “I did some of my very best work being subtle, moving the middle part around in internal shifts that kept it happening,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby’s ocean-clear tenor meshed seamlessly with the voices of Stills and Nash in hushed and haunting ways, particularly on his own “Guinnevere.” His songwriting contributions pushed the band in new directions — in particular, the rhythmic cadences of “Déjà Vu” and the loose arrangements and boho instrumental tone of “Wooden Ships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a trio, Crosby, Stills and Nash was both commercially and critically adored. Its self-titled 1969 debut led to an performance at Woodstock and Grammy for best new artist, while 1970’s \u003cem>Déjà Vu \u003c/em>— by which point Neil Young had joined, adding another letter to the band’s name — touched on both the comforts of tradition and the seismic generational shifts that were underway. Months after \u003cem>Déjà Vu\u003c/em>‘s release, CSNY would become a leading voice of the nation’s anti-war movement, recording the Young-penned “Ohio” in response to the May 1970 shooting of four students at Kent State University. His 1971 solo album, \u003cem>If I Could Only Remember My Name\u003c/em>, a sprawling psych-folk touchstone offering studio intricacy and experimental gambits, further illuminated his off-the-beaten-path outlook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"a four-piece band of white men with long hair record music in a studio in the 1970s\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/gettyimages-84998940-518b363ab923d686c2a7d69e650a00333f4f641a-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young recording in 1970. \u003ccite>(RB/Redferns)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Crosby — who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice, as a member of the Byrds and CSN — continued performing with various collaborators, with Graham Nash serving as his steadiest foil well into the mid-2010s. Ever opinionated and brutally honest, he was an open book about his personal flaws and failings, as well as how he felt about his peers. This no-nonsense personality made him both endearing and prickly, especially as a bandmate — CSNY’s internal conflicts and disagreements were legendary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, much later and perhaps surprisingly, it made him a natural for the concise and quippy nature of Twitter. Crosby shared wide-ranging thoughts about politics and music on the site, and answered fan questions, both about his own career (he told one fan he “was not the right guy for the job” to when asked whether it was true that he was supposed to have worked on Leonard Cohen’s second album) and about those in his orbit (“Was Jerry Garcia a tenor?”\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/thedavidcrosby/status/961950937051877376\"> Answer\u003c/a>: “Tenor/baritone.”). Such lovable terseness even landed him \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/t/ask-croz/\">an advice column\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby’s career was marked by countless reinventions and second chances. Years of well-documented substance abuse led to tumultuous relationships in and out of music, multiple arrests and even a nine-month stint in a Texas prison in the ‘80s. Remarkably, his voice remained strong and unweathered, a fact Crosby himself found inexplicable, as he explained to Cameron Crowe in the 2019 documentary \u003cem>David Crosby: Remember My Name\u003c/em>. Yet the film also reflected plenty of humility, portraying a musician facing his mortality by trying not to dwell on the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve hurt a lot of people,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/07/18/remember-my-name-david-crosby\">Crosby told \u003cem>Here & Now\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the midday news show from NPR and WBUR, in 2019. “I’ve helped a lot more. I just have to be able to look at it and understand it and learn from it. I’m not beating myself up about any of it. Truthfully, I’m actually pretty happy with the guy I am now. I’m trying real hard to be a decent human being. And I like it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2023 NPR. 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She was 54.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her death in a Los Angeles hospital was confirmed by her mother, Priscilla, a few hours after her daughter was rushed to the hospital by paramedics after a medical episode at her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presley shared her father’s brooding charisma — the hooded eyes, the insolent smile, the low, sultry voice — and followed him professionally, releasing her own rock albums in the 2000s, and appearing on stage with Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She even formed direct musical ties with her father, joining her voice to such Elvis recordings as “In the Ghetto” and “Don’t Cry Daddy,” a mournful ballad which had reminded him of the early death of his mother (and Lisa Marie’s grandmother), Gladys Presley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been all my life,” she told The Associated Press in 2012, speaking of her father’s influence. “It’s not something that I now listen to and it’s different. Although I might listen closer. I remain consistent on the fact that I’ve always been an admirer. He’s always influenced me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her birth, nine months exactly after her parents’ wedding, was international news and her background was rarely far from her mind. With the release last year of Baz Luhrmann’s major musical feature “Elvis,” Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley had been attending red carpets and award shows alongside stars from the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was at the Golden Globes on Tuesday, on hand to celebrate Austin Butler’s award for playing her father. Just days before, she was in Memphis at Graceland — the mansion where Elvis lived, and died — on Jan. 8 to celebrate her father’s birth anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presley lived with her mother, an actor known for “Dallas” and the “Naked Gun” movies, in California after her parents split up in 1973. She recalled early memories of her dad during her visits to Graceland, riding golf carts through the neighborhood and seeing his daily entrances down the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was always fully, fully geared up. You’d never see him in his pajamas coming down the steps, ever,” she told The Associated Press in 2012. “You’d never see him in anything but ‘ready to be seen’ attire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elvis Presley died in August 1977, when he was just 42, and she 9 years old. Lisa Marie was staying at Graceland at the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hours before he would collapse and never recover. When she next saw him, the following day, he was lying face down in the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just had a feeling,” she told Rolling Stone in 2003. “He wasn’t doing well. All I know is I had it (a feeling), and it happened. I was obsessed with death at a very early age.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would later make headlines of her own. Struggles with drugs and some very public marriages. Her four husbands included Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and Presley were married in the Dominican Republic in 1994, but the marriage ended two years later and was defined by numerous awkward public appearances, including an unexpected kiss from Jackson during the MTV Video Music Awards and a joint interview with Diane Sawyer when she defended her husband against allegations he had sexually abused a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her other celebrity marriage was even shorter: Cage filed for divorce after four months of marriage in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to sort of run into many walls and trees,” she told the AP in 2012. “But now I can also look back at it and tell you all the stuff that was going on around me and all the different people around me and all the awww — and it was not a good situation anyway. That wasn’t helping. Either way, it was a growing process. It was just in a different way. It was just out in front of everybody all the time. Because it’s all documented of course.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Marie became involved in numerous humanitarian causes, from anti-poverty programs administered through the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation to relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina. She would receive formal citations from New Orleans and Memphis, Tennessee for her work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presley had two children, actor Riley Keough, born in 1989, and Benjamin Keough, born in 1992, with her former husband Danny Keough. She also had twin daughters, Harper and Finley Lockwood, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her marriage to Lockwood would end in a combative and protracted divorce that began in 2016 and still was not resolved when she died, though they were declared single in 2021. The fight saw the girls, now 15, put temporarily in protective custody in 2017. Presley and Lockwood later had joint custody, but were still at odds over the issue, with Lockwood seeking more child support from Presley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benjamin Keough died by suicide in 2020 at 27. Presley was vocal about her grief, writing in an essay last August that she had “been living in the horrific reality of its unrelenting grips since my son’s death two years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of 9 years old. I’ve had more than anyone’s fair share of it in my lifetime and somehow, I’ve made it this far,” she wrote in an essay shared with People magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But this one, the death of my beautiful, beautiful son? The sweetest and most incredible being that I have ever had the privilege of knowing, who made me feel so honored every single day to be his mother? Who was so much like his grandfather on so many levels that he actually scared me? Which made me worry about him even more than I naturally would have?” the essay continued. “No. Just no … no no no no …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Marie became the sole heir of the Elvis Presley Trust after her father died. Along with Elvis Presley Enterprises, the trust managed Graceland and other assets until she sold her majority interest in 2005. She retained ownership of Graceland Mansion itself, the 13 acres around it and items inside the home. Her son is buried there, along with her father and other members of the Presley family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Marie Presley is a former Scientologist — her son was born in 1992 under guidelines set by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, according to an AP story at the time — but later broke with Scientology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley would make regular trips to Graceland during huge fan celebrations on the anniversaries of Elvis’ death and birthday. One of the two airplanes at Graceland is named the Lisa Marie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her first album “To Whom It May Concern,” in 2003, some fans came out to see her perform just out of curiosity given her famous family, she told the AP in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First I had to overcome a pre-speculated idea of me,” she said of the barriers to becoming a singer-songwriter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to sort of burst through that and introduce myself, and that was the first hurdle, and then now sing in front of everybody, and then that was the second one, and I’m the offspring of — you know, who I’m the offspring of — I had a few hurdles to get through, no doubt about it,” she continued. “But the scales never tipped in the other direction too much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Entertainment Writers Andrew Dalton and Ryan Pearson contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Just days before, she was in Memphis at Graceland — the mansion where Elvis lived, and died — on Jan. 8 to celebrate her father’s birth anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presley lived with her mother, an actor known for “Dallas” and the “Naked Gun” movies, in California after her parents split up in 1973. She recalled early memories of her dad during her visits to Graceland, riding golf carts through the neighborhood and seeing his daily entrances down the stairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was always fully, fully geared up. You’d never see him in his pajamas coming down the steps, ever,” she told The Associated Press in 2012. “You’d never see him in anything but ‘ready to be seen’ attire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elvis Presley died in August 1977, when he was just 42, and she 9 years old. Lisa Marie was staying at Graceland at the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hours before he would collapse and never recover. When she next saw him, the following day, he was lying face down in the bathroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just had a feeling,” she told Rolling Stone in 2003. “He wasn’t doing well. All I know is I had it (a feeling), and it happened. I was obsessed with death at a very early age.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would later make headlines of her own. Struggles with drugs and some very public marriages. Her four husbands included Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and Presley were married in the Dominican Republic in 1994, but the marriage ended two years later and was defined by numerous awkward public appearances, including an unexpected kiss from Jackson during the MTV Video Music Awards and a joint interview with Diane Sawyer when she defended her husband against allegations he had sexually abused a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her other celebrity marriage was even shorter: Cage filed for divorce after four months of marriage in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to sort of run into many walls and trees,” she told the AP in 2012. “But now I can also look back at it and tell you all the stuff that was going on around me and all the different people around me and all the awww — and it was not a good situation anyway. That wasn’t helping. Either way, it was a growing process. It was just in a different way. It was just out in front of everybody all the time. 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Presley and Lockwood later had joint custody, but were still at odds over the issue, with Lockwood seeking more child support from Presley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benjamin Keough died by suicide in 2020 at 27. Presley was vocal about her grief, writing in an essay last August that she had “been living in the horrific reality of its unrelenting grips since my son’s death two years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve dealt with death, grief and loss since the age of 9 years old. I’ve had more than anyone’s fair share of it in my lifetime and somehow, I’ve made it this far,” she wrote in an essay shared with People magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But this one, the death of my beautiful, beautiful son? The sweetest and most incredible being that I have ever had the privilege of knowing, who made me feel so honored every single day to be his mother? Who was so much like his grandfather on so many levels that he actually scared me? Which made me worry about him even more than I naturally would have?” the essay continued. “No. Just no … no no no no …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Marie became the sole heir of the Elvis Presley Trust after her father died. Along with Elvis Presley Enterprises, the trust managed Graceland and other assets until she sold her majority interest in 2005. She retained ownership of Graceland Mansion itself, the 13 acres around it and items inside the home. Her son is buried there, along with her father and other members of the Presley family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Marie Presley is a former Scientologist — her son was born in 1992 under guidelines set by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, according to an AP story at the time — but later broke with Scientology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Marie and Priscilla Presley would make regular trips to Graceland during huge fan celebrations on the anniversaries of Elvis’ death and birthday. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Friday morning, I got word that my favorite San Francisco photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/daveschubertsf/\">Dave Schubert\u003c/a> had died suddenly. The long-time Mission District resident was discovered on Thursday, Jan. 5 by concerned friends at the 26th Street home Schubert lived in for two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert’s work had been a minor obsession of mine ever since 2005, when I first saw one of his photographs at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936275/111-minna-30th-anniversary-show-review-jeremy-fish-alec-huxley-sam-flores-interview\">111 Minna\u003c/a> show. The photo in question — a chaotic 16th Street brawl involving seven people and a bicycle — has hung in my home ever since. It offers a perfect snapshot of Mission District nightlife as I knew it back then: a grimy, hedonistic community of bartenders, graffiti writers, skaters, punks and bike messengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png\" alt=\"A cluster of seven people push and pull each other in a street fight. A woman lies on the ground underneath it all, a bicycle laying on the ground in front of her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1226\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-160x245.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-768x1177.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM.png 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Schubert captured this fight outside Delirium on 16th Street in 2003. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This underworld of smart-ass scrappers, non-stop taggers and street-fighting drunkards was a large part of why I fell in love with San Francisco in the first place. And Schubert documented all of it. Back then, in the late ’90s and early 2000s, it felt like there were no consequences for any amount of ill-advised behavior. If there \u003ci>was\u003c/i> trouble? Well, the story you told the next day was just that much better. In the 18 years since I first found Schubert’s work, no one has captured that chaos better than he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert and I lived only a few blocks from each other in the Mission, so back in September 2022, I invited him out to lunch to talk about his work. He met me in the back of Old Jerusalem on Mission Street. In person, Schubert was sweet, polite, humble, and just a little wild-eyed. He told me right off the bat that he’d hit his head a lot over the years and showed me \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CLDyx_BsECr/\">photos of him swollen and bleeding\u003c/a> to prove it. “Bloody head shots,” he called them. He had a whole collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png\" alt=\"A young man with blood on his forehead and cheek, with a large lump forming on the side of his face, looks blankly at the camera. \" width=\"800\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-1020x1248.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-160x196.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-768x940.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM.png 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Schubert’s self-portraits, this one documenting the aftermath of a bicycle accident. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Schubert was also incredibly smart; a scholar about the history of photography and an easy conversationalist. We talked for longer than I expected that day about a wide array of topics. We talked about Schubert’s earliest photography inspirations: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Richardson_(photographer)\">Bob Richardson\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon\">Richard Avedon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank\">Robert Frank\u003c/a>. We talked about the history of the Mission. We talked about dead friends, in particular \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf0ZVR9u0DI/\">his best friend Dash Snow\u003c/a>, who Schubert memorialized with \u003ca href=\"https://panopticonpress.bigcartel.com/product/dash-i-miss-you-ap-edition\">a fanzine of photos\u003c/a> after Snow’s death in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert moved to the city in 1995 after being awarded a scholarship to study photography at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/sfai\">San Francisco Art Institute\u003c/a>. Once he arrived, Schubert immersed himself in the Bay’s thriving skateboarding and graffiti scene. Back on the East Coast, he’d been a prolific skate videographer, primarily in Washington, D.C. On that September day, we talked about his more recent work for \u003ca href=\"https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/gx1000-shop\">GX1000\u003c/a>, his friend’s skate company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png\" alt=\"A man wearing blue jeans, flannel shirt and a chicken head mask perches on top of a graffitied bathroom stall, money falling from his hands.\" width=\"800\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-160x191.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-768x918.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM.png 1014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo taken at The Cock, a New York City gay bar. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Best of all, we talked about the trouble he’d found himself in while taking photos of strangers doing illegal things — a habit Schubert had that reflected his audacious approach to his craft. He told me of one incident when a group of sex workers attacked him for taking a photo of them smoking crack in the Tenderloin. Mid-attack, Schubert told me, one of them began biting his finger. Hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had just watched a nature film with sharks that week though,” Schubert casually told me. “And it said if you’re attacked by a reef shark, don’t pull your hand out of its mouth because your flesh will tear. Instead, hit it in the throat so it will release you. So that’s what I did. That’s how I got the prostitute off my finger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking to Schubert, these kinds of stories weren’t unusual. They were simply how he lived his life: on the edge, always adjacent to trouble, illuminating the darkest sides of city living with his camera, so that the rest of the world might see it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png\" alt=\"A man stands casually wearing black clothing and an San Francisco 49ers baseball cap, while a woman casually tags a Muni bus in San Francisco. The bus doors are still open.\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1020x659.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-768x496.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1536x993.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM.png 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day acts of vandalism in SF, as captured by Dave Schubert. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He had a drive and passion for his work that is hard to find these days,” says Lindsay Mape, who first befriended Schubert in 1995. “I was studying painting at SFAI and he would sneak in with me and use the dark rooms all day long to print his film, while I painted in the studios downstairs. Then we would leave and go hang in the Mission or the TL all night, finding trouble, hanging with friends, laughing and chilling with my dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t have a nasty bone in his body,” she remembers. “Genuinely the sweetest soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Lang of the San Francisco gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFgYPMS43k/\">Electric Works\u003c/a>, who first befriended Schubert in 1999, has similar memories of the photographer. “Even in his darkest times, he never had any anger,” Lang says. “He was an unstoppable force of positivity. He was very generous. He was interested in sharing everything that he had. He would have 17-year-old skaters email him saying they liked his work and he would just send them [a print]. He was not looking for fame or fortune ever. He just wanted enough money to live and make his books and that was pretty much it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like street photographers are born noticers,” Lang continues. “They notice all the things that we see but don’t find remarkable, and then they synthesize it. Dave was a really great noticer and synthesizer of the coral reef around him. He knew everything about it. He could see it all and he would make a photo of it and turn normalcy into poetry in 1/60 of a second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1020x653.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-768x491.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1536x983.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM.png 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very young Stevie Williams (skateboarder) poses between friends at Pulaski Park in Washington, D.C., 1993. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in for Schubert over the weekend as news of his untimely death spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/steveespopowers/\">Steve Powers wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>: “I don’t know a better photographer that shot both skateboarding and graffiti as well as Dave did, but, as he would say about bragging, ‘Don’t tell it, show it’ … Dave Schubert didn’t take pictures, he took the time to love and to show the love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-chaos-he-memorialized-rip-san-francisco-photography-legend-dave-schubert/\">Evan Pricco of \u003cem>Juxtapoz\u003c/em> wrote\u003c/a>: “It feels as if an era of San Francisco has passed with the news of the death of photographer, Dave Schubert. Many of my earliest memories of art, of underground culture, of life being fucking lived, was through the lens and eye of Dave Schubert. He was telling me the story of my home city without me even being conscious of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Noah Lang and friends have set up a fundraising campaign to save and preserve Dave Schubert’s photographic archive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/dave-schuberts-photographic-legacy?qid=93785caa04562f1ed1bf1235d03c5de5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details can be found on their GoFundMe page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An exhibit of Schubert’s photography will be on display at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://etaletc.com/\">Et Al. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Friday morning, I got word that my favorite San Francisco photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/daveschubertsf/\">Dave Schubert\u003c/a> had died suddenly. The long-time Mission District resident was discovered on Thursday, Jan. 5 by concerned friends at the 26th Street home Schubert lived in for two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert’s work had been a minor obsession of mine ever since 2005, when I first saw one of his photographs at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936275/111-minna-30th-anniversary-show-review-jeremy-fish-alec-huxley-sam-flores-interview\">111 Minna\u003c/a> show. The photo in question — a chaotic 16th Street brawl involving seven people and a bicycle — has hung in my home ever since. It offers a perfect snapshot of Mission District nightlife as I knew it back then: a grimy, hedonistic community of bartenders, graffiti writers, skaters, punks and bike messengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png\" alt=\"A cluster of seven people push and pull each other in a street fight. A woman lies on the ground underneath it all, a bicycle laying on the ground in front of her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1226\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-160x245.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-768x1177.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM.png 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Schubert captured this fight outside Delirium on 16th Street in 2003. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This underworld of smart-ass scrappers, non-stop taggers and street-fighting drunkards was a large part of why I fell in love with San Francisco in the first place. And Schubert documented all of it. Back then, in the late ’90s and early 2000s, it felt like there were no consequences for any amount of ill-advised behavior. If there \u003ci>was\u003c/i> trouble? Well, the story you told the next day was just that much better. In the 18 years since I first found Schubert’s work, no one has captured that chaos better than he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert and I lived only a few blocks from each other in the Mission, so back in September 2022, I invited him out to lunch to talk about his work. He met me in the back of Old Jerusalem on Mission Street. In person, Schubert was sweet, polite, humble, and just a little wild-eyed. He told me right off the bat that he’d hit his head a lot over the years and showed me \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CLDyx_BsECr/\">photos of him swollen and bleeding\u003c/a> to prove it. “Bloody head shots,” he called them. He had a whole collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png\" alt=\"A young man with blood on his forehead and cheek, with a large lump forming on the side of his face, looks blankly at the camera. \" width=\"800\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-1020x1248.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-160x196.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-768x940.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM.png 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Schubert’s self-portraits, this one documenting the aftermath of a bicycle accident. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Schubert was also incredibly smart; a scholar about the history of photography and an easy conversationalist. We talked for longer than I expected that day about a wide array of topics. We talked about Schubert’s earliest photography inspirations: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Richardson_(photographer)\">Bob Richardson\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon\">Richard Avedon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank\">Robert Frank\u003c/a>. We talked about the history of the Mission. We talked about dead friends, in particular \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf0ZVR9u0DI/\">his best friend Dash Snow\u003c/a>, who Schubert memorialized with \u003ca href=\"https://panopticonpress.bigcartel.com/product/dash-i-miss-you-ap-edition\">a fanzine of photos\u003c/a> after Snow’s death in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert moved to the city in 1995 after being awarded a scholarship to study photography at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/sfai\">San Francisco Art Institute\u003c/a>. Once he arrived, Schubert immersed himself in the Bay’s thriving skateboarding and graffiti scene. Back on the East Coast, he’d been a prolific skate videographer, primarily in Washington, D.C. On that September day, we talked about his more recent work for \u003ca href=\"https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/gx1000-shop\">GX1000\u003c/a>, his friend’s skate company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png\" alt=\"A man wearing blue jeans, flannel shirt and a chicken head mask perches on top of a graffitied bathroom stall, money falling from his hands.\" width=\"800\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-160x191.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-768x918.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM.png 1014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo taken at The Cock, a New York City gay bar. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Best of all, we talked about the trouble he’d found himself in while taking photos of strangers doing illegal things — a habit Schubert had that reflected his audacious approach to his craft. He told me of one incident when a group of sex workers attacked him for taking a photo of them smoking crack in the Tenderloin. Mid-attack, Schubert told me, one of them began biting his finger. Hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had just watched a nature film with sharks that week though,” Schubert casually told me. “And it said if you’re attacked by a reef shark, don’t pull your hand out of its mouth because your flesh will tear. Instead, hit it in the throat so it will release you. So that’s what I did. That’s how I got the prostitute off my finger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking to Schubert, these kinds of stories weren’t unusual. They were simply how he lived his life: on the edge, always adjacent to trouble, illuminating the darkest sides of city living with his camera, so that the rest of the world might see it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png\" alt=\"A man stands casually wearing black clothing and an San Francisco 49ers baseball cap, while a woman casually tags a Muni bus in San Francisco. The bus doors are still open.\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1020x659.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-768x496.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1536x993.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM.png 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day acts of vandalism in SF, as captured by Dave Schubert. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He had a drive and passion for his work that is hard to find these days,” says Lindsay Mape, who first befriended Schubert in 1995. “I was studying painting at SFAI and he would sneak in with me and use the dark rooms all day long to print his film, while I painted in the studios downstairs. Then we would leave and go hang in the Mission or the TL all night, finding trouble, hanging with friends, laughing and chilling with my dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t have a nasty bone in his body,” she remembers. “Genuinely the sweetest soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Lang of the San Francisco gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFgYPMS43k/\">Electric Works\u003c/a>, who first befriended Schubert in 1999, has similar memories of the photographer. “Even in his darkest times, he never had any anger,” Lang says. “He was an unstoppable force of positivity. He was very generous. He was interested in sharing everything that he had. He would have 17-year-old skaters email him saying they liked his work and he would just send them [a print]. He was not looking for fame or fortune ever. He just wanted enough money to live and make his books and that was pretty much it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like street photographers are born noticers,” Lang continues. “They notice all the things that we see but don’t find remarkable, and then they synthesize it. Dave was a really great noticer and synthesizer of the coral reef around him. He knew everything about it. He could see it all and he would make a photo of it and turn normalcy into poetry in 1/60 of a second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1020x653.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-768x491.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1536x983.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM.png 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very young Stevie Williams (skateboarder) poses between friends at Pulaski Park in Washington, D.C., 1993. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in for Schubert over the weekend as news of his untimely death spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/steveespopowers/\">Steve Powers wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>: “I don’t know a better photographer that shot both skateboarding and graffiti as well as Dave did, but, as he would say about bragging, ‘Don’t tell it, show it’ … Dave Schubert didn’t take pictures, he took the time to love and to show the love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-chaos-he-memorialized-rip-san-francisco-photography-legend-dave-schubert/\">Evan Pricco of \u003cem>Juxtapoz\u003c/em> wrote\u003c/a>: “It feels as if an era of San Francisco has passed with the news of the death of photographer, Dave Schubert. Many of my earliest memories of art, of underground culture, of life being fucking lived, was through the lens and eye of Dave Schubert. He was telling me the story of my home city without me even being conscious of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Noah Lang and friends have set up a fundraising campaign to save and preserve Dave Schubert’s photographic archive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/dave-schuberts-photographic-legacy?qid=93785caa04562f1ed1bf1235d03c5de5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details can be found on their GoFundMe page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"headTitle": "Vivienne Westwood, Influential Fashion Maverick and Punk Icon, Dies at 81 | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at 81.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood’s eponymous fashion house announced her death on social media platforms, saying she died peacefully. A cause of death was not disclosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vivienne continued to do the things she loved, up until the last moment, designing, working on her art, writing her book, and changing the world for the better,” the statement said. “She led an amazing life. Her innovation and impact over the last 60 years has been immense and will continue into the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood’s fashion career began in the 1970s with the punk explosion, when her radical approach to urban street style took the world by storm. But she went on to enjoy a long career highlighted by a string of triumphant runway shows in London, Paris, Milan and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name Westwood became synonymous with style and attitude even as she shifted focus from year to year. Her range was vast and her work was never predictable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As her stature grew, she seemed to transcend fashion, with her designs shown in museum collections throughout the world. The young woman who had scorned the British establishment eventually became one of its leading lights, and she used her elite position to lobby for environmental reforms even as she kept her hair dyed the bright shade of orange that became her trademark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap.jpg\" alt='Older white woman with finger in mouth and other hand pointing to \"I love crap\" button' width=\"1200\" height=\"794\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923142\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dame Vivienne Westwood attends the Vivienne Westwood AW20/21 presentation and exhibition during London Fashion Week, February 2020 at London’s Serpentine Gallery. \u003ccite>(Dave Benett/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrew Bolton, curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, said Westwood would be celebrated for pioneering the punk look, pairing a radical fashion approach with the anarchic punk sounds developed by the Sex Pistols, managed by her then-partner, Malcolm McLaren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They gave the punk movement a look, a style, and it was so radical it broke from anything in the past,” he said. “The ripped shirts, the safety pins, the provocative slogans. She introduced postmodernism. It was so influential from the mid-70s. The punk movement has never dissipated — it’s become part of our fashion vocabulary. It’s mainstream now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood’s long career was full of contradictions: She was a lifelong rebel who was honored several times by Queen Elizabeth II. She dressed like a teenager even in her 60s and became an outspoken advocate of fighting global warming, warning of planetary doom if climate change was not controlled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her punk days, Westwood’s clothes were often intentionally shocking: T-shirts decorated with drawings of naked boys, and “bondage pants” with sadomasochistic overtones were standard fare in her popular London shops. But Westwood was able to make the transition from punk to haute couture without missing a beat, keeping her career going without stooping to self-caricature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was always trying to reinvent fashion. Her work is provocative, it’s transgressive. It’s very much rooted in the English tradition of pastiche and irony and satire. She is very proud of her Englishness, and still she sends it up,” Bolton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those transgressive and contentious designs featured a swastika, an inverted image of Jesus Christ on the cross and the word “Destroy.” In an autobiography written with Ian Kelly, she said it was meant as part of a statement against politicians torturing people, citing Chile’s Augusto Pinochet. When asked if she regretted the swastika design in a 2009 interview with Time magazine, Westwood said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t, because we were just saying to the older generation, ‘We don’t accept your values or your taboos, and you’re all fascists,’” she responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Group of people walking, talking, carrying flags and two men wearing headdresses\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benny Wenda, the founder of the Free West Papua Campaign and Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua politically exiled in the UK, Dame Vivienne Westwood and Joe Corré and Extinction Rebellion on their way to a protest action. \u003ccite>(Ollie Millington/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She approached her work with gusto in her early years, but over time seemed to tire of the clamor and buzz. After decades of designing, she sometimes spoke wistfully of moving beyond fashion so she could concentrate on environmental matters and educational projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fashion can be so boring,” she told The Associated Press after unveiling one of her new collections at a 2010 show. “I’m trying to find something else to do.” At the time, she was talking up plans to start a television series about art and science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her runway shows were always the most chic events, drawing stars from the glittery world of film, music, and television who wanted to bask in Westwood’s reflected glory. But still she spoke out against consumerism and conspicuous consumption, even urging people not to buy her expensive, beautifully made clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just tell people, stop buying clothes,” she said. “Why not protect this gift of life while we have it? I don’t take the attitude that destruction is inevitable. Some of us would like to stop that and help people survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood was a self-taught designer with no formal fashion training. She told \u003cem>Marie Claire\u003c/em> that she learned how to make her own clothes as a teenager by following patterns. When she wanted to sell 1950s-style clothes at her first shop, she found old clothes in markets and took them apart to understand the cut and construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not a very efficient way of making clothes, but it was a great way for me to build up my technique,” she told the magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood was born in the Derbyshire village of Glossop on April 8, 1941. Her family moved to London in 1957 and she attended art school for one term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She met McLaren in the 1960s while working as a primary school teacher after separating from her first husband, Derek Westwood. She and McLaren opened a small shop on the King’s Road in Chelsea in 1971, the tail end of the “Swinging London” era ushered in by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200.jpg\" alt=\"White man holds up peace sign, white woman drapes arm over his neck\" width=\"1200\" height=\"803\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood outside Bow Street Magistrate Court after being remanded on bail for fighting in 1977. \u003ccite>(Bill Kennedy/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shop changed its name and focus several times, operating as “SEX” — Westwood and McLaren were fined in 1975 for an “indecent exhibition” there — and “World’s End” and “Seditionaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vivienne is gone and the world is already a less interesting place. Love you Viv,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChrissieHynde/status/1608579881528623104\">tweeted Chrissie Hynde\u003c/a>, the frontwoman of the Pretenders and a former worker at the couple’s store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood moved into a fresh type of designing with her “Pirates” collection, exhibited in her first catwalk show in 1981. That breakthrough is credited with taking Westwood in a more traditional direction, showing her interest in incorporating historical British designs into contemporary clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also an important step in an ongoing rapprochement between Westwood and the fashion world. The rebel eventually became one of its most celebrated stars, known for reinterpreting opulent dresses from the past and often finding inspiration in 18th century paintings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she still found ways to shock: Her Statue of Liberty corset in 1987 is remembered as the start of “underwear as outerwear” trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually branched out into a range of business activities, including an alliance with Italian designer Giorgio Armani, and developed her ready-to-wear Red Label line, her more exclusive Gold Label line, a menswear collection and fragrances called Boudoir and Libertine. Westwood shops opened in New York, Hong Kong, Milan and several other major cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was named designer of the year by the British Fashion Council in 1990 and 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her uneasy relationship with the British establishment is perhaps best exemplified by her 1992 trip to Buckingham Palace to receive an Order of the British Empire medal from Queen Elizabeth II: She wore no underwear, and posed for photographers in a way that made that abundantly clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently the queen was not offended: Westwood was invited back to receive the even more auspicious designation of Dame Commander of the British Empire — the female equivalent of a knighthood — in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood is survived by her second husband, Austrian-born Andreas Kronthaler, and her two sons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first, fashion photographer Ben Westwood, was her son with Derek Westwood. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As her stature grew, she seemed to transcend fashion, with her designs shown in museum collections throughout the world. The young woman who had scorned the British establishment eventually became one of its leading lights, and she used her elite position to lobby for environmental reforms even as she kept her hair dyed the bright shade of orange that became her trademark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap.jpg\" alt='Older white woman with finger in mouth and other hand pointing to \"I love crap\" button' width=\"1200\" height=\"794\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923142\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1200810788_crap-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dame Vivienne Westwood attends the Vivienne Westwood AW20/21 presentation and exhibition during London Fashion Week, February 2020 at London’s Serpentine Gallery. \u003ccite>(Dave Benett/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrew Bolton, curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, said Westwood would be celebrated for pioneering the punk look, pairing a radical fashion approach with the anarchic punk sounds developed by the Sex Pistols, managed by her then-partner, Malcolm McLaren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They gave the punk movement a look, a style, and it was so radical it broke from anything in the past,” he said. “The ripped shirts, the safety pins, the provocative slogans. She introduced postmodernism. It was so influential from the mid-70s. The punk movement has never dissipated — it’s become part of our fashion vocabulary. It’s mainstream now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood’s long career was full of contradictions: She was a lifelong rebel who was honored several times by Queen Elizabeth II. She dressed like a teenager even in her 60s and became an outspoken advocate of fighting global warming, warning of planetary doom if climate change was not controlled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her punk days, Westwood’s clothes were often intentionally shocking: T-shirts decorated with drawings of naked boys, and “bondage pants” with sadomasochistic overtones were standard fare in her popular London shops. But Westwood was able to make the transition from punk to haute couture without missing a beat, keeping her career going without stooping to self-caricature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was always trying to reinvent fashion. Her work is provocative, it’s transgressive. It’s very much rooted in the English tradition of pastiche and irony and satire. She is very proud of her Englishness, and still she sends it up,” Bolton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those transgressive and contentious designs featured a swastika, an inverted image of Jesus Christ on the cross and the word “Destroy.” In an autobiography written with Ian Kelly, she said it was meant as part of a statement against politicians torturing people, citing Chile’s Augusto Pinochet. When asked if she regretted the swastika design in a 2009 interview with Time magazine, Westwood said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t, because we were just saying to the older generation, ‘We don’t accept your values or your taboos, and you’re all fascists,’” she responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Group of people walking, talking, carrying flags and two men wearing headdresses\" width=\"1200\" height=\"798\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923141\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-1181802149_1200-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benny Wenda, the founder of the Free West Papua Campaign and Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua politically exiled in the UK, Dame Vivienne Westwood and Joe Corré and Extinction Rebellion on their way to a protest action. \u003ccite>(Ollie Millington/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She approached her work with gusto in her early years, but over time seemed to tire of the clamor and buzz. After decades of designing, she sometimes spoke wistfully of moving beyond fashion so she could concentrate on environmental matters and educational projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fashion can be so boring,” she told The Associated Press after unveiling one of her new collections at a 2010 show. “I’m trying to find something else to do.” At the time, she was talking up plans to start a television series about art and science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her runway shows were always the most chic events, drawing stars from the glittery world of film, music, and television who wanted to bask in Westwood’s reflected glory. But still she spoke out against consumerism and conspicuous consumption, even urging people not to buy her expensive, beautifully made clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just tell people, stop buying clothes,” she said. “Why not protect this gift of life while we have it? I don’t take the attitude that destruction is inevitable. Some of us would like to stop that and help people survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood was a self-taught designer with no formal fashion training. She told \u003cem>Marie Claire\u003c/em> that she learned how to make her own clothes as a teenager by following patterns. When she wanted to sell 1950s-style clothes at her first shop, she found old clothes in markets and took them apart to understand the cut and construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was not a very efficient way of making clothes, but it was a great way for me to build up my technique,” she told the magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood was born in the Derbyshire village of Glossop on April 8, 1941. Her family moved to London in 1957 and she attended art school for one term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She met McLaren in the 1960s while working as a primary school teacher after separating from her first husband, Derek Westwood. She and McLaren opened a small shop on the King’s Road in Chelsea in 1971, the tail end of the “Swinging London” era ushered in by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200.jpg\" alt=\"White man holds up peace sign, white woman drapes arm over his neck\" width=\"1200\" height=\"803\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/GettyImages-592334364_1200-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood outside Bow Street Magistrate Court after being remanded on bail for fighting in 1977. \u003ccite>(Bill Kennedy/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shop changed its name and focus several times, operating as “SEX” — Westwood and McLaren were fined in 1975 for an “indecent exhibition” there — and “World’s End” and “Seditionaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vivienne is gone and the world is already a less interesting place. Love you Viv,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChrissieHynde/status/1608579881528623104\">tweeted Chrissie Hynde\u003c/a>, the frontwoman of the Pretenders and a former worker at the couple’s store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood moved into a fresh type of designing with her “Pirates” collection, exhibited in her first catwalk show in 1981. That breakthrough is credited with taking Westwood in a more traditional direction, showing her interest in incorporating historical British designs into contemporary clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also an important step in an ongoing rapprochement between Westwood and the fashion world. The rebel eventually became one of its most celebrated stars, known for reinterpreting opulent dresses from the past and often finding inspiration in 18th century paintings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she still found ways to shock: Her Statue of Liberty corset in 1987 is remembered as the start of “underwear as outerwear” trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually branched out into a range of business activities, including an alliance with Italian designer Giorgio Armani, and developed her ready-to-wear Red Label line, her more exclusive Gold Label line, a menswear collection and fragrances called Boudoir and Libertine. Westwood shops opened in New York, Hong Kong, Milan and several other major cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was named designer of the year by the British Fashion Council in 1990 and 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her uneasy relationship with the British establishment is perhaps best exemplified by her 1992 trip to Buckingham Palace to receive an Order of the British Empire medal from Queen Elizabeth II: She wore no underwear, and posed for photographers in a way that made that abundantly clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently the queen was not offended: Westwood was invited back to receive the even more auspicious designation of Dame Commander of the British Empire — the female equivalent of a knighthood — in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westwood is survived by her second husband, Austrian-born Andreas Kronthaler, and her two sons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first, fashion photographer Ben Westwood, was her son with Derek Westwood. The second, Joe Corré — her son with McLaren — co-founded the upscale Agent Provocateur lingerie line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021. He had been hospitalized for the last month with multiple ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His agent Joe Fraga confirmed his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Widely regarded as one of soccer’s greatest players, Pelé spent nearly two decades enchanting fans and dazzling opponents as the game’s most prolific scorer with Brazilian club Santos and the Brazil national team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His grace, athleticism and mesmerizing moves transfixed players and fans. He orchestrated a fast, fluid style that revolutionized the sport — a samba-like flair that personified his country’s elegance on the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He carried Brazil to soccer’s heights and became a global ambassador for his sport in a journey that began on the streets of Sao Paulo state, where he would kick a sock stuffed with newspapers or rags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the conversation about soccer’s greatest players, only the late Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are mentioned alongside Pelé.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Pele.obit_-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A man is hoisted above his teammates on the field after victory\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923122\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Pele.obit_-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Pele.obit_-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Pele.obit_-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Pele.obit_-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/Pele.obit_.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edson Arantes Do Nascimento Pele of Brazil celebrates the victory after winnings the 1970 World Cup in Mexico match between Brazil and Italy at Estadio Azteca on June 21 in Città del Messico, Mexico. \u003ccite>(Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Different sources, counting different sets of games, list Pelé’s goal totals anywhere between 650 (league matches) and 1,281 (all senior matches, some against low-level competition.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The player who would be dubbed “The King” was introduced to the world at 17 at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, the youngest player ever at the tournament. He was carried off the field on teammates’ shoulders after scoring two goals in Brazil’s 5-2 victory over the host country in the final.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Injury limited him to just two games when Brazil retained the world title in 1962, but Pelé was the emblem of his country’s World Cup triumph of 1970 in Mexico. He scored in the final and set up Carlos Alberto with a nonchalant pass for the last goal in a 4-1 victory over Italy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image of Pelé in a bright, yellow Brazil jersey, with the No. 10 stamped on the back, remains alive with soccer fans everywhere. As does his trademark goal celebration — a leap with a right fist thrust high above his head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelé’s fame was such that in 1967 factions of a civil war in Nigeria agreed to a brief cease-fire so he could play an exhibition match in the country. He was knighted by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. When he visited Washington to help popularize the game in North America, it was the U.S. president who stuck out his hand first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My name is Ronald Reagan, I’m the president of the United States of America,” the host said to his visitor. “But you don’t need to introduce yourself because everyone knows who Pelé is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUTRZGCiiFs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelé was Brazil’s first modern Black national hero but rarely spoke about racism in a country where the rich and powerful tend to hail from the white minority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opposing fans taunted Pelé with monkey chants at home and all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said that he would never play if he had to stop every time he heard those chants,” said Angelica Basthi, one of Pelé’s biographers. “He is key for Black people’s pride in Brazil, but never wanted to be a flagbearer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelé’s life after soccer took many forms. 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When he visited Washington to help popularize the game in North America, it was the U.S. president who stuck out his hand first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My name is Ronald Reagan, I’m the president of the United States of America,” the host said to his visitor. “But you don’t need to introduce yourself because everyone knows who Pelé is.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/bUTRZGCiiFs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/bUTRZGCiiFs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Pelé was Brazil’s first modern Black national hero but rarely spoke about racism in a country where the rich and powerful tend to hail from the white minority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opposing fans taunted Pelé with monkey chants at home and all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said that he would never play if he had to stop every time he heard those chants,” said Angelica Basthi, one of Pelé’s biographers. “He is key for Black people’s pride in Brazil, but never wanted to be a flagbearer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelé’s life after soccer took many forms. He was a politician — Brazil’s Extraordinary Minister for Sport — a wealthy businessman, and an ambassador for UNESCO and the United Nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had roles in movies, soap operas and even composed songs and recorded CDs of popular Brazilian music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As his health deteriorated, his travels and appearances became less frequent. He was often seen in a wheelchair during his final years and did not attend a ceremony to unveil a statue of him representing Brazil’s 1970 World Cup team. Pelé spent his 80th birthday isolated with a few family members at a beach home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, in the small city of Tres Coracoes in the interior of Minas Gerais state on Oct. 23, 1940, Pelé grew up shining shoes to buy his modest soccer gear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelé’s talent drew attention when he was 11, and a local professional player brought him to Santos’ youth squads. 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"content": "\u003cp>A girl walks into a diner and goes straight for the jukebox, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF43b38k0Mw\">the song\u003c/a> she puts on is a strange one: a wordless, off-centered jazz number that slinks around, snapping its fingers and occasionally erupting in fits of woodwind and brass. “God, I love this music,” the girl sighs. “Isn’t it too dreamy?” In the middle of the restaurant she begins to sway — eyes closed, head back, arms out like airplane wings, lost in a mesmerizing and vaguely concerning trance. At other times the girl’s air of mystery is cannily performed; here it is plain to all witnesses that the song has taken her somewhere else. At this moment, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr7gBYgk_7c\">this scene\u003c/a>, I and presumably millions of others fell obsessively in love with the television series \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> and, without then knowing, the music of Angelo Badalamenti, the conductor and composer who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142894262/twin-peaks-composer-angelo-badalamenti-died-sunday-at-age-85\">died last week at 85\u003c/a> and whose partnership with David Lynch was intrinsic to the director’s famous sensibility — the terror, the absurdity, the wild pain and sublime beauty and distinctly American ambient psychosis, the sincerity beneath it all. That part of the scene was unrehearsed, a pure reaction to the sounds; Lynch had given no warning to the actress, Sherilynn Fenn, that she’d be dancing to “this really cool, sexy, jazzy thing that Angelo and I just wrote!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF43b38k0Mw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing Badalamenti’s name flicker elegantly across a Lynch film’s opening credits — over \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXfYNMwTe68\">blue velvet curtains\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr5ZWwKEE9o\">billowing flames\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTUxRX6cwDk\">headlights on a two-lane highway\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrltOLHkzs0\">the glow of television static\u003c/a> — you might envision a stately Italian maestro with an impressive scarf collection and discerning taste for espresso, not unlike the bit part he \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVI-Jew-iHo\">played hysterically\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Mulholland Drive\u003c/em>. In fact he was a cheerful, paunchy fellow for whom inspiration sometimes struck during a round of golf at the North Jersey Country Club, a Brooklyn-born son of a fishmonger who initially needed a translator for Lynch’s gee-whiz lingo. (“This is peachy keen!” Lynch yelped upon hearing Badalamenti’s demo work with actress Isabella Rossellini for her haunted rendition of \u003cem>Blue Velvet\u003c/em>‘s namesake song, the filmmaker and composer’s first encounter. “You know, I’m from Bensonhurst — we don’t use those words,” Badalamenti laughed \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dream-team-the-semi-mysterious-story-behind-the-music-of-twin-peaks-78506/\">decades later\u003c/a>.) As a child, Sunday nights meant gathering around the Victrola as his grandfather worked himself to tears narrating the storylines of Italian operas, early evidence of music’s capacity to make someone weep. Angelo spent his teenage summers accompanying Catskills resort singers on piano, earned a bachelor’s degree in French horn from the Manhattan School of Music and taught music to junior high students in Brooklyn; meanwhile he wrote jingles and torch songs under the pen name Andy Badale. (Two of them, \u003ca href=\"https://songwhip.com/nina-simone/iholdnogrudge\">“I Hold No Grudge”\u003c/a> and “\u003ca href=\"https://songwhip.com/nina-simone/he-aint-comin-home-no-more\">He Ain’t Comin’ Home No More\u003c/a>,” appear on Nina Simone’s 1967 album \u003cem>High Priestess of Soul\u003c/em>.) Badalamenti had scored a few films before stepping onto \u003cem>Blue Velvet\u003c/em>‘s set, but his soundtrack for the 1986 classic marked his big break and the start of a 30-plus-year mind-meld with one of America’s great auteurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a serendipity to so many of Badalamenti’s arrangements for Lynch, which serve as our emotional compass for navigating the director’s uncanny worlds. So impressed was Lynch with Badalamenti’s vocal coaching he invited the musician to collaborate on an original theme for \u003cem>Blue Velvet\u003c/em>, offering no more guidance than this: “Make it like the wind, Angelo. It should be a song that floats on the sea of time.” (With them, it was always this way; sometimes Lynch would instruct his friend, “I’m gonna need some music that’s gonna tear the hearts out of people!” and at other times, a shared glance over coffee and turkey sandwiches was all it took.) Badalamenti sat down at the keyboard and out came “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMDvOhmLmg4\">Mysteries of Love\u003c/a>,” a liturgical-sounding synth arrangement I like to think of as the composer’s “blinding light of love” mode, to borrow a line from the film — startlingly hopeful music for piercing through the darkness. For its vocals he recruited a chorus girl he’d met off-Broadway by the name of Julee Cruise, whose belting musical theater voice he coaxed to sound like an angel who’d awoken on earth on the back of a stranger’s motorcycle. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry5vs331sMY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That full-immersion feeling of Lynch’s work is in part because its characters are witness to the same otherworldly Badalamenti music we are, in any number of moody dives: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wCfI2Czhjc\">ghostly “banda”\u003c/a> of \u003cem>Mulholland Drive\u003c/em>‘s Silencio, \u003cem>Lost Highway\u003c/em>‘s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyZlYj8jpt8\">sax freak-out\u003c/a> at Club Luna or jazz legend Jimmy Scott’s breathtaking performance of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vOg0HyJpvI\">Sycamore Trees\u003c/a>,” live from the strobe-lit Black Lodge. (Lately I’ve been returning to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUMR3cR1qSY\">A Real Indication\u003c/a>,” where Badalamenti raps so weirdly it made Lynch laugh until he got a hernia — a rare moment of levity in the brutal \u003cem>Fire Walk With Me\u003c/em>.) But there’s nothing quite like Julee Cruise onstage at \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>‘ Roadhouse, bringing a room of bikers, loggers and rockabilly teens to hysterical tears with her rendition of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-VRRVLGPC4\">“The World Spins”\u003c/a> while awful things happen outside. The song first appeared on Cruise’s 1989 debut \u003cem>Floating into the Night\u003c/em>, a Badalamenti-produced collection of heavenly dream pop. A year later another instrumental from that album would become the most gorgeous \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z30zg9a5M5k\">theme song\u003c/a> in television history, the opening notes of which function like that sycamore-shrouded portal to \u003cem>Twin Peak\u003c/em>‘s stylish underworld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/twinpeaks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"782\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13922852\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/twinpeaks.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/twinpeaks-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/twinpeaks-768x1000.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Badalamenti, bottom right, with the cast of Twin Peaks in a photo taken July 7, 1990. \u003ccite>(ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The day after Badalamenti’s death, my Twitter timeline was mercifully bombarded with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-eqgr_gn4k\">video\u003c/a> of the composer from 2018, the most moving account of creative collaboration I have ever seen. The 81-year old sits at the aged Fender Rhodes, where he composed all \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>‘ major themes, pointing happily to the spot where Lynch would sit beside him and dictate the images in his mind (before a single scene of \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> had been shot). “And David would say, ‘Okay, Angelo, we’re in a dark woods now, and there’s a soft wind blowing through some sycamore trees, and there’s a moon out, and there’s some animal sounds in the background, and you can hear the hoot of an owl…’ And I started playing…” Badalamenti plays the minor introductory chords of “Laura Palmer’s Theme,” in whose spare elements the essence of \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> is contained — the persistence of love in the face of supernatural tragedy. “Then he would say, ‘Okay, Angelo, now we gotta make a change, because from behind the tree in the back of the woods, there’s this very lonely girl, her name is Laura Palmer…” In his Brooklyn accent it comes out “Laura Palma,” and as he changes keys and builds to a crescendo, he shuts his eyes and goes on in Lynch’s voice: “‘Oh, that’s it! Angelo, oh, that’s tearin’ my heart out! Now she’s starting to leave, so fall down — keep falling — go back into the dark woods. That’s it. Keep going.’ ” He releases the song’s final chord and opens his eyes, and they shine with love and pride. “David got up, he gave me a big hug, and he said, ‘Angelo, that’s \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>.’ ” That’s the way Lynch and Badalamenti worked: a mystic connection through pure instinct and feeling, building off one another until they’d summoned a universe. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a.jpg 1958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, featuring Michael Ontkean as Sheriff Harry S. 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In the moment, it felt like home, and today it seems like a miracle, the chance to let Badalamenti tear our hearts out one last time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+fantasia+of+Angelo+Badalamenti%2C+veil-piercing+composer&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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At this moment, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr7gBYgk_7c\">this scene\u003c/a>, I and presumably millions of others fell obsessively in love with the television series \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> and, without then knowing, the music of Angelo Badalamenti, the conductor and composer who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142894262/twin-peaks-composer-angelo-badalamenti-died-sunday-at-age-85\">died last week at 85\u003c/a> and whose partnership with David Lynch was intrinsic to the director’s famous sensibility — the terror, the absurdity, the wild pain and sublime beauty and distinctly American ambient psychosis, the sincerity beneath it all. That part of the scene was unrehearsed, a pure reaction to the sounds; Lynch had given no warning to the actress, Sherilynn Fenn, that she’d be dancing to “this really cool, sexy, jazzy thing that Angelo and I just wrote!”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/DF43b38k0Mw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/DF43b38k0Mw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Seeing Badalamenti’s name flicker elegantly across a Lynch film’s opening credits — over \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXfYNMwTe68\">blue velvet curtains\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr5ZWwKEE9o\">billowing flames\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTUxRX6cwDk\">headlights on a two-lane highway\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrltOLHkzs0\">the glow of television static\u003c/a> — you might envision a stately Italian maestro with an impressive scarf collection and discerning taste for espresso, not unlike the bit part he \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVI-Jew-iHo\">played hysterically\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Mulholland Drive\u003c/em>. In fact he was a cheerful, paunchy fellow for whom inspiration sometimes struck during a round of golf at the North Jersey Country Club, a Brooklyn-born son of a fishmonger who initially needed a translator for Lynch’s gee-whiz lingo. (“This is peachy keen!” Lynch yelped upon hearing Badalamenti’s demo work with actress Isabella Rossellini for her haunted rendition of \u003cem>Blue Velvet\u003c/em>‘s namesake song, the filmmaker and composer’s first encounter. “You know, I’m from Bensonhurst — we don’t use those words,” Badalamenti laughed \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dream-team-the-semi-mysterious-story-behind-the-music-of-twin-peaks-78506/\">decades later\u003c/a>.) As a child, Sunday nights meant gathering around the Victrola as his grandfather worked himself to tears narrating the storylines of Italian operas, early evidence of music’s capacity to make someone weep. Angelo spent his teenage summers accompanying Catskills resort singers on piano, earned a bachelor’s degree in French horn from the Manhattan School of Music and taught music to junior high students in Brooklyn; meanwhile he wrote jingles and torch songs under the pen name Andy Badale. (Two of them, \u003ca href=\"https://songwhip.com/nina-simone/iholdnogrudge\">“I Hold No Grudge”\u003c/a> and “\u003ca href=\"https://songwhip.com/nina-simone/he-aint-comin-home-no-more\">He Ain’t Comin’ Home No More\u003c/a>,” appear on Nina Simone’s 1967 album \u003cem>High Priestess of Soul\u003c/em>.) Badalamenti had scored a few films before stepping onto \u003cem>Blue Velvet\u003c/em>‘s set, but his soundtrack for the 1986 classic marked his big break and the start of a 30-plus-year mind-meld with one of America’s great auteurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a serendipity to so many of Badalamenti’s arrangements for Lynch, which serve as our emotional compass for navigating the director’s uncanny worlds. So impressed was Lynch with Badalamenti’s vocal coaching he invited the musician to collaborate on an original theme for \u003cem>Blue Velvet\u003c/em>, offering no more guidance than this: “Make it like the wind, Angelo. It should be a song that floats on the sea of time.” (With them, it was always this way; sometimes Lynch would instruct his friend, “I’m gonna need some music that’s gonna tear the hearts out of people!” and at other times, a shared glance over coffee and turkey sandwiches was all it took.) 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But there’s nothing quite like Julee Cruise onstage at \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>‘ Roadhouse, bringing a room of bikers, loggers and rockabilly teens to hysterical tears with her rendition of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-VRRVLGPC4\">“The World Spins”\u003c/a> while awful things happen outside. The song first appeared on Cruise’s 1989 debut \u003cem>Floating into the Night\u003c/em>, a Badalamenti-produced collection of heavenly dream pop. A year later another instrumental from that album would become the most gorgeous \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z30zg9a5M5k\">theme song\u003c/a> in television history, the opening notes of which function like that sycamore-shrouded portal to \u003cem>Twin Peak\u003c/em>‘s stylish underworld.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/twinpeaks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"782\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13922852\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/twinpeaks.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/twinpeaks-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/twinpeaks-768x1000.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Badalamenti, bottom right, with the cast of Twin Peaks in a photo taken July 7, 1990. \u003ccite>(ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The day after Badalamenti’s death, my Twitter timeline was mercifully bombarded with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-eqgr_gn4k\">video\u003c/a> of the composer from 2018, the most moving account of creative collaboration I have ever seen. The 81-year old sits at the aged Fender Rhodes, where he composed all \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>‘ major themes, pointing happily to the spot where Lynch would sit beside him and dictate the images in his mind (before a single scene of \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> had been shot). “And David would say, ‘Okay, Angelo, we’re in a dark woods now, and there’s a soft wind blowing through some sycamore trees, and there’s a moon out, and there’s some animal sounds in the background, and you can hear the hoot of an owl…’ And I started playing…” Badalamenti plays the minor introductory chords of “Laura Palmer’s Theme,” in whose spare elements the essence of \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em> is contained — the persistence of love in the face of supernatural tragedy. “Then he would say, ‘Okay, Angelo, now we gotta make a change, because from behind the tree in the back of the woods, there’s this very lonely girl, her name is Laura Palmer…” In his Brooklyn accent it comes out “Laura Palma,” and as he changes keys and builds to a crescendo, he shuts his eyes and goes on in Lynch’s voice: “‘Oh, that’s it! Angelo, oh, that’s tearin’ my heart out! Now she’s starting to leave, so fall down — keep falling — go back into the dark woods. That’s it. Keep going.’ ” He releases the song’s final chord and opens his eyes, and they shine with love and pride. “David got up, he gave me a big hug, and he said, ‘Angelo, that’s \u003cem>Twin Peaks\u003c/em>.’ ” That’s the way Lynch and Badalamenti worked: a mystic connection through pure instinct and feeling, building off one another until they’d summoned a universe. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13922845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/gettyimages-85129552_wide-f5631190d5d36cfda4aa7aebc4176b113de8435a.jpg 1958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, featuring Michael Ontkean as Sheriff Harry S. 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McGrath, the longtime, original cast member of the iconic children’s show ‘Sesame Street,’ died on Sunday. \u003ccite>(Larry Busacca/Getty Images for AFTRA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bob McGrath, an actor and recording artist who was an original cast member on \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em>, died on Sunday. He was 90.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrath died of complications from a stroke, his daughter Cat McGrath confirmed to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actor’s death was announced by family members on social media: “He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family,” read the post on McGrath’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/bob.mcgrath.7165/posts/pfbid09EXZXQucDg3iyoGrSGkKe85JpsYsGTztXkvrZyVJPvD5NDw8U67T6fcNSvzfSxa6l\">Facebook page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrath, one of \u003cem>Sesame\u003c/em> \u003cem>Street\u003c/em>‘s first human cast members who starred in the children’s television show 1969 pilot, became a show regular for nearly five decades, playing the friendly neighbor character Bob Johnson, alongside Big Bird and a host of other beloved Muppets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_11867386']Sesame Workshop shared a statement on social media mourning “a beloved member of the Sesame Street family for over 50 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bob embodied the melodies of Sesame Street like no one else, and his performances brought joy and wonder to generations of children around the world, whether teaching them the ABCs, the people in their neighborhood, or the simple joy of feeling music in their hearts,” the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SesameWorkshop/status/1599557469113843712?s=20&t=R0_Yt6RkyIwYUKeNJTclBQ\">Workshop said on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born in Ottawa, Ill., McGrath studied music at the University of Michigan and, later, the Manhattan School of Music. McGrath was a veteran performer by the time Sesame Street recruited him. In 1962, NBC brought on the tenor singer to perform as part of Mitch Miller’s family-friendly ensemble TV show, \u003cem>Sing Along With Mitch\u003c/em>. After the show was canceled two years later, McGrath continued to sing with the group, holding down a residency at Las Vegas’ Desert Inn. He took his talents on tour in Japan, where he found a fervent teenage fanbase, \u003ca href=\"https://bob-mcgrath.com/bob/\">according to the biography page on his website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13922332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/BobMcGrath.Parade.jpg\" alt=\"A parade float with a Sesame Street theme moves down Broadway in New York City \" width=\"800\" height=\"593\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13922332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/BobMcGrath.Parade.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/BobMcGrath.Parade-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/BobMcGrath.Parade-768x569.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sesame Street’s Bob McGrath waves to the crowd while riding on a float during the 2009 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. The longtime, original cast member of the iconic children’s show died on Sunday.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was Dave Connell, a fellow University of Michigan alum who worked as a producer for \u003cem>Captain Kangaroo\u003c/em> before executive producing \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em>, who approached McGrath about auditioning for the kids show. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrath, who hoped instead to break into the U.S. teenage market with his own show, according to his site, had no interest in working on a children’s program at first. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after he was shown tapes of Muppets creator Jim Henson’s work, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYv83c2ZYXA\">told a crowd at a 2016 convention in Florida\u003c/a>, he was “totally blown away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, to heck with that teenage thing, this is what I want to do,” he said. “Because it was obvious from the very, very beginning this was going to be a very unique and incredible show.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_11864851']In 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/08/03/488548572/c-is-for-contract-longtime-actors-in-grown-up-dispute-with-sesame-street\">Sesame Workshop cut McGrath\u003c/a> and two other longtime cast members from the show, deciding not to renew their contracts. In response to the cast shakeup, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11864851/sesame-street-lets-go-longtime-cast-members-bob-gordon-and-luis\">Workshop had pointed\u003c/a> to its need to constantly adapt its content to children’s educational needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although McGrath ended his run on the show that year, he continued to make public appearances tied to Sesame Street, including his feature in the 2021 HBO documentary \u003cem>Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrath, a father to five children and a grandfather to eight, is survived by his wife Ann Sperry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the late hours of Dec. 2, 2016, a fire swept through the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/ghostshipmemorial\">claimed the lives of 36 people\u003c/a> — a loss that left friends, families and the Oakland artist community confused and hollow. Angry and disheartened at the lack of answers and accountability following the tragedy, flutist and composer \u003ca href=\"https://artietrodriguez.wixsite.com/artierodriguezflute\">Arturo Rodriguez\u003c/a> began developing \u003cem>Requiem Sinfónica: A Requiem Without Words\u003c/em>, a commemorative nine-movement orchestral suite that \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/awesome-orchestra-presents-requiem-sinfonica-requiem-without-words-tickets-420791989167\">debuts in full on Saturday, Dec. 3\u003c/a>, at the Malonga Casquelourd Center in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rodriguez, the process of writing the requiem mirrored his restlessness about the tragedy. Melodies and themes floated in and out of his head. Unrefined echoes of cello and lower bass notes appeared like shadows, looming overhead as he tried to jot them all down. As Rodriguez contemplated the form of the musical requiem, where the journey of souls toward paradise is traditionally explored through lyricism, he opted to forego a choir and focus on the instrumentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside link1='https://www.kqed.org/ghostshipmemorial,Honoring Those Lost to the Ghost Ship Fire' hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/OaklandFireMemorial-11x17.jpg']“My work is supposed to represent the silencing of voices. I don’t know what their last words were,” Rodriguez said. “I can only imagine what they were thinking to themselves. 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He was 97.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe died Friday night at home in Palm Springs, California, after catching pneumonia, said Joanna Morones, a spokesperson for Laboe’s production company, Dart Entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His final show was produced last week and broadcast Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe is credited with helping end segregation in Southern California by organizing live DJ shows at drive-in eateries that attracted white, Black and Latino listeners who danced to rock ‘n’ roll — and shocked an older generation still listening to Frank Sinatra and Big Band music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DJ is also credited with coining the phrase “oldies but goodies.” In 1957, he started Original Sound Record, Inc. and in 1958, released the compilation album \u003cem>Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 1\u003c/em>, which stayed on the Billboard’s Top 100 chart for 183 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 449px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-74258282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-74258282.jpg 449w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-74258282-160x212.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe and host of the television show ‘American Bandstand’ Dick Clark chat, circa 1960. \u003ccite>(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He later developed a strong following among Mexican Americans for hosting the syndicated \u003cem>The Art Laboe Connection Show\u003c/em>. 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