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Today we remember Mott the Hoople founder Terence Dale "Buffin" Griffin on the 7th anniversary of his death. Source: Brian Cooke/Redferns Griffin was born on October 24, 1948 in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England and attended Ross-on-Wye Grammar School with fellow Mott the Hoople member Overend Watts. He played in various local bands around this time, and in 1966, appeared on two singles by Yemm and the Yemen at the age of 18. He also began playing in the Doc Thomas Group that same year, which later became the Shakedown Sound, then Silence, and then Mott the Hoople before becoming the British Lions due to personnel changes over the years. Between the years of 1981 and 1994, Griffin was also a producer, and worked with bands such as Pulp, the Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Carcass, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Nine years prior to his death, he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease at the age of 58, and passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of ...

January 10, 2022 - David Robert Jones, known by his stage name of David Bowie, passed away on this day in 2016 due to liver cancer. He had just turned 69 two days beforehand. Source: Masayoshi Sukita Active as a musician from 1962 up until 2016, he started out in a band called the Konrads at age 15. He eventually left the band, citing his frustration with his bandmates' "limited aspirations" and joined the King Bees. Bowie went under his first personal management contract with Leslie Conn, but quit the band in less than a month.  He then joined the Manish Boys for a brief time before joining the Lower Third, where he adopted the stage name of David Bowie to avoid confusion between him and Davy Jones of the Monkees. He penned his first single under the name in 1966, which was " Can't Help Thinking About Me ". He was in one more group, Feathers, before embarking on a solo career, and found commercial success in 1969 with his first hit, " Space Oddity...