Jeff Labar Dies: Guitarist For ’80s Hard Rock Hair Band Cinderella Was 58

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Labar’s first wife, Gaile Labar-Bernhardt, told TMZ  that he was found dead Wednesday inside his Nashville apartment.Labar joined the band in 1985, replacing original guitarist Michael Schermick.

He played on all four of the band’s studio albums. The group’s first two albums, 1986’s Night Songs and 1988’s Long Cold Winter were both certified triple platinum for sales of over 3 million copies each.

But as that era of hard partying hard rock ended, the Cinderella fortunes waned. They kept working, but broke up in the early 1990s.

They reunited in 1996 and continued to perform, but stopped recording after the 1994 album Still Climbing.The band was last seen in the 2014 “Monsters of Rock Cruise,” but again went on hiatus.In addition to his work