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08.07.2020 / 13:18
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With Little Richard's Death, Only Two Members of the Inaugural Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class Are Still Living
With Little Richard's death today (May 9) at age 87, now just two members of the inaugural class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are still living -- Jerry Lee Lewis, who is 84, and Don Everly, the older of The Everly Brothers, who is 83.The other members of the first class, from 1986, have all died. Three of them were inducted posthumously: Buddy Holly had died way back in 1959 (at age 22), Sam Cooke in 1964 (at age 33) and Elvis Presley in 1977 (at age 42).But all of the other members of the inaugural class lived to see their inductions and in fact made it into the 2000s, which suggests that rock'n'roll really does keep you young.
