OT: RIP Donnie Iris

[bac2therac]

Dead at 83

Loved Ah Leah..a classic

Donnie Iris, rock legend behind ‘Ah! Leah!’, dead at 83

The Donnie Iris and the Cruisers frontman was diagnosed with bladder cancer three years before his death.

pagesix.com

 

[mdk02]

I don't mean to be disrespectful, but who?

 

[Knight Shift]

Dead at 83

Loved Ah Leah..a classic

Donnie Iris, rock legend behind ‘Ah! Leah!’, dead at 83

The Donnie Iris and the Cruisers frontman was diagnosed with bladder cancer three years before his death.

pagesix.com

C'mon man- just start a running thread of dead obscure people and change the title. I put Donnie in your Susan St Who thread.

 

[bac2therac]

Not obscure that song was a huge hit on early mtv and he had 2 other big ones

 

[Vlife]

As a side note the woman (Lana Clarkson) in that video also played Mrs. Vargas in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Shot and killed by Phil Spector in 2003

 

[LotusAggressor_rivals]

Not obscure that song was a huge hit on early mtv and he had 2 other big ones

Love Is Like A Rock was also in heavy rotation on MTV in the early 80s.

 

[SHUSource]

He was also the main guy in The Jaggerz, whose 1970 song "The Rapper" went, I believe, to No. 1.