Wednesday, September 5, 2012

RIP Joe South

Aw, man.

After Jon Lord of Deep Purple died, I found out that Joe South had written my favorite Deep Purple song, "Hush." I'd known him mostly for "Games People Play."

Curious, I looked up him on Wikipedia and skimmed his biography. I don't remember much of it. I just remember being happy to find out he was still alive. Not that I had any reason to believe that he wasn't, just that famous musicians tend to check out early in various cliched ways.

He managed to avoid cliches, but 72 is still too young as far as I'm concerned.

1 comment:

Fireblossom said...

"Hush" was such a good song.