Raiders’ Paul Revere Dies In Idaho
In this Aug. 24, 2003, AP file photo, Paul Revere, whose group Paul Revere and the Raiders recorded a hit version of '"Louie Louie" in 1963, runs between groups of guitar players at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, Wash., Sunday, Aug 24, 2003. An estimated 754 guitarists attempted to set a world record for the largest group to play the tune "Louie Louie."
Paul Revere, the organist and leader of the Raiders rock band, has died. He was 76. Roger Hart, manager for Paul Revere and the Raiders, said he died Saturday at his home in Garden Valley, Idaho, from cancer. Revere was born in Harvard, Nebraska, Hart said. “He’d been quiet about it for some time,” Hart said. “Treated at the Mayo Clinic, Paul stayed on the road as long as he could, then retired recently back to Idaho, where he and his wife, Sydney, always kept a home.” Revere, born Paul Revere Dick, became known as “the madman of rock and roll” for his theatrical colonial wardrobe and infectious onstage persona with the band. “From Day 1, we’ve always been a party band that accidentally had some hit records and accidentally got on a hit television series,” Revere told the Associated Press in a 2000 interview/Associated Press. More here.
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