Good Riddance to 2017 Reads

Dan Rather says goodbye and good riddance to this past year:



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The New York Times remembers some of the people who died this year and had some notoriety. I am sure I missed a few on my blog. After all, I don't list everybody who is famous, especially most sports figures as many of them are not that well known. A number of musicians I leave out as well.
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The San Francisco Chronicle has a "roll call" of some of the prominent people who died this year including Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Gregg Allman, and Tom Petty.

As time goes on, of course, even more prominent figures in rock music will pass from the scene as to be expected as they get into their seventies, eighties, and beyond.

I like this list because it goes month by month.
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I missed noted figure Francine Hughes, later known as Wilson, when she passed back in March. Her case was known all over the country and became the subject of the movie The Burning Bed. She was 69 when she died.
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I also missed noted and notorious pastor Tony Alamo, 82, who died in May:

Tony Alamo, a onetime street preacher whose apocalyptic ministry grew into a multimillion-dollar network of businesses and property before he was convicted in Arkansas of sexually abusing girls he considered his wives, died on Tuesday in federal prison in North Carolina. He was 82.

The United States Bureau of Prisons said he died in a prison hospital in Butner, northeast of Durham.

Mr. Alamo was convicted in 2009 of taking girls across state lines for sex. One was a 9-year-old. A judge sentenced him to the maximum 175 years in prison.

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