Lloyd Price, best known as the early rock 'n roll icon behind hits like "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," "Personality" and the semi-forbidden "Stagger Lee," is dead at age 88.
Price's wife, Jacqueline Price, confirmed to the Associated press that he died on Monday at a long-term care favility in New Rochelle, New York, due to complications from diabetes.
Price was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. He is among the last survivors of a post-World War II scene in New Orleans that anticipated the shifts in popular music and culture leading to the rise of rock in the mid-1950s.
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