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Hillard 'Sweet Pea' Atkinson, Legendary Vocalist With Was (Not Was), Dies at 74

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When Chris Blackwell signed Hillard "Sweet Pea" Atkinson to Island Records, he wanted to do more than just make a solo album for the Was (Not Was) singer. "He wanted to make a comic book where Sweet Pea was the main character," Don Was tells Billboard, "because he was a larger than life guy -- which is how I still think of him.

I don't think of him as a regular human." Atkinson's large life came to an end May 5, when he suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 74 in Los Angeles, where he lived.

While Was (Not Was) became Atkinson's claim to fame, it was also the stepping stone into a career that included two solo albums -- Don't Walk Away in 1982 and 2017's Get What You Deserve -- and membership in another band, the Boneshakers.

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