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RIP – Rock In Perpetuity

Mourning the loss of classic rock stars, other musical greats and related figures

Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr called former bandmate Rourke “a kind and beautiful soul…and a supremely gifted musician.”

Along with his brothers Randy and Robbie, and Fred Turner, he was there at the very beginning of the Canadian hard-rock band.

He was instrumental in organizing the vastly successful 1985 all-star recording, “We Are the World,” which raised money for famine relief in Ethiopia

The much-honored exec was an early champion of the punk and new wave music that was breaking out of the downtown New York City clubs

With his brothers Derek and Phil, and several other members, the band released 11 studio albums during the 1970s

“We skip the light fandango”: The man who wrote the words for “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” , and all of the British band’s songs, has passed.

He played with such fellow jazz greats as Miles Davis and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers before going on to form the jazz fusion band

Barthol played on the psychedelic group’s first three albums, including the anthemic ‘I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die.’

His hits, nearly 30 of which charted in the ’60s included “Any Day Now,” “I Don’t Want to Cry” and “I Keep Forgettin’.”

His songs have been covered by everyone from Jerry Lee Lewis to Aerosmith, Patti LaBelle to Herman’s Hermits.