Five Man Electrical Band’s Les Emmerson Dies: Singer-Songwriter Of 1971 Hit ‘Signs’ Was 77
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deadline.comLes Emmerson, the singer and songwriter of the 1970s group Five Man Electrical Band who had a massive 1971 radio hit with the counterculture anthem “Signs,” died Dec.
10 of Covid-19 at a hospital in his native Ottawa. He was 77.His death was announced by his wife Monik Emmerson to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
She told the CBC that her husband had been double-vaccinated but suffered from underlying health issues. The singer contracted Covid last month.With its irresistible chorus (“Sign, sign/Everywhere a sign/Blockin’ out the scenery/Breakin’ my mind”) and wry humor (“So I took off my hat and said, Imagine that/Huh, me workin’ for you!”), “Signs” was recorded by the Canadian band at the height of the hippie movement in 1970, and
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