It's Monday, and it's time for music.
Today I am joining up with other Music Moves Me bloggers (and you can join us at the linky above). We are a group of music loving bloggers who blog about music each Sunday or Monday (or even later in the week). If you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join! (Music Posts Only-meaning at least one music video, please! Otherwise, your post link may be labeled "No Music" or even removed.) We have occasional theme weeks, but you are welcome to ignore the theme and use music of your chice. Why not join us? You don't have to sing, or play an instrument. All music lovers are welcome.
Our head host is Xmas Dolly, and our co-hosts are Cathy from Curious as a Cathy, joined by the knowledgeable Stacy of Stacy Uncorked and, last but not least, me.
This week's theme is "Song about get-a-ways to chillaxing or anything that makes you think of summer fun" but I am going to blog about something different this week.
In the past 10 days or so, our world lost a number of music greats, and actors. So it is time for another induction into Rock and Roll Heaven.
The first three are inductions into Rock and Roll Heaven. The others show the musical sides of a couple of other performers we lost in the past week.
First up: George Kooymans, guitarist and co-founder of Golden Earring, died July 23 at the age of 77. The cause of death was complications of ALS, a horrific disease that took the lives of a late friend's father and brother. He had been diagnosed with ALS in 2020.
The surviving members of the band, which had broken up several years ago after a run of nearly 50 years, plan to play a benefit concert in January of 2026 with proceeds going to ALS research.
For my tribute I picked Radar Love, written by Kooymans, which is perhaps one of the best driving songs there is. Maybe, in a way, this fits today's theme.
Next, there is Ozzy Osbourne, who died July 22 possibly (because this is still being investigated) from complications of Parkinson's. He was 76. I decided to feature a clip from his final concert, July 5, 2025. Here is Mr. Crowley.
Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, age 84, died in his sleep in his hometown of Rochester, New York, which is about a two hour 30 minute drive from where I live. He never forgot his home city and is greatly mourned in the area. Here is the full version of his 1977 hit song Feels So Good.
Next - Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan? The sometimes controversial wrestler who died July 24 from cardiac arrest at age 71? Well, for music, yes. For a time he wrestled in Japan, where he was nicknamed "Ichiban" (number one). He wrote and performed a song called Ichiban from 1983.
Finally, actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, perhaps best known as the character Theo Huxtable" on the Cosby Show died from drowning July 20 at age 54. Warner was multi-talented, also being a poet and a musician. Here he is, ironically at a 2024 tribute concert, playing bass guitar on the song Joy and Pain.
And that is another sad wrap.
Join me again next week, when I hope not to be reporting on the induction of anyone else into Rock and Roll Heaven.
These deaths seem to come in swathes!
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