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Smile on your brother/Everybody get together/Try to love one another right now.”While Young didn’t pen the track, he wrote numerous other songs for the Youngbloods, with the statement announcing his death nodding to his “socially conscious lyrics with top-tier guitar skills and gorgeous vocals.”His social and environmental activism was a major theme of his career, and he went on to appear at 1979’s ‘No Nukes’ protest concert at Madison Square Garden alongside Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Taylor, Jackson Browne and more.Young grew up studying piano and classical guitar, with his love of blues leading him to Greenwich Village. He released a pair of solo folk albums in the mid-’60s, ‘The Soul of a City Boy’ and ‘Young Blood’.After meeting guitarist Jerry Corbitt, the pair formed the Youngbloods alongside pianist/guitarist Lovell Levinger and drummer Joe Bauer, and the band gigged regularly around the Village, going on to release their self-titled debut in 1967.The Youngbloods’ two biggest hits, were ‘Grizzly Bear’ and ‘Get Together’, the latter of which initially only hit 62 on the Billboard Hot 100, but later became a far bigger success after being featured in a PSA by the National Conference of Jews and Christians.With stronger backing from RCA, the song later re-entered the charts and eventually peaked at Number Five on the Hot 100.

David Edward Byrd, an artist whose swirling, psychedelic, instantly entrancing illustrations gave the rock mecca Fillmore East its signature look and contributed at least two of the greatest, most recognizable posters in modern Broadway history for two beloved productions, Follies and Godspell, died Monday, February 3, at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 83.

Eric Gardner, Chairman and CEO of Panacea Entertainment who began his career coordinating tours for Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead before pivoting to talent management for such clients as Paul Shaffer, Donny Osmond, The Sex Pistols, as well as members of The Rolling Stones, The E Street Band and The Who, died at his home in Camarillo, California, July 19 from complications of pneumonia. He was 74.

Jefferson Airplane has died at 79.The news was announced on Monday night via Jefferson Starship’s official Facebook page, which wrote: “We are saddened to hear of the passing of the great John Barbata, Jefferson Starship’s original drummer. Our thoughts go our to his family, friends and fans.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The music world of the 1960s was filled with fashion icons, from the Beatles to the Ronettes, from Jimi Hendrix to the Supremes, from Motown to Haight-Ashbury. But for some of us, the mid-1960s Rolling Stones were as cool as it gets. The Beatles were in the same lane but, truth be told, the Stones wore it better.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” and even crafted a cowboy hat to wear for the occasion.Roger Stock, 74, grew up listening to the Doors, Cream, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead — and is now a member of two Swift Facebook fan groups.A native of Wales who now lives in Cyprus, Stock began listening to Swift’s music in 2011 after he realized “she wrote almost a perfect story in the lines of a song” with “I Knew You Were Trouble.”When her album “Red” was released in 2012 and he heard “All Too Well,” the ballad Swift penned based on her short-lived relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal, he was hooked.“I bought ‘Red’ on CD and when she released her catalog on Spotify, I was well pleased,” Stock said. His wife is “not really” a Swiftie, and sometimes pokes fun at him.

Thania Garcia The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation is rolling out a new industry screening series to show off a select group of music documentaries and films that feature its inductees as well as fresh talent. The inaugural title launching the series is MGM+’s “San Francisco Sounds: A Place In Time,” a new two-part original music documentary featuring Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Steve Miller and more.

Variety). She is survived by Doerge, her daughter and granddaughter.

The Rolling Stones have teased a new tour in the UK and Europe.In a new video posted to Instagram this morning (March 11), a map of the UK and Europe was dotted with the Stones’ iconic logo, which lit up over several locations – including London.They captioned the post: “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” – see it below.A post shared by The Rolling Stones (@therollingstones)Back in December, The Rolling Stones played an intimate London show in celebration of their late bandmate Charlie Watts. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, as well as former bassist Bill Wyman, were all in attendance at Ronnie Scott’s in Soho, along with a number of Watts’ family and friends.Longtime Stones drummer Watts died at the age of 80 last August, prompting a huge outpouring of tributes from the music world and beyond.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOutsider music and outsider art have been bedfellows in just about every sense since the two art forms have existed, and that collaboration is celebrated and explored in the Outsider Art Fair, taking place at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York this weekend.The exhibit — which is celebrating its 30 th year and is billed “the only fair dedicated to showcasing self-taught art, art brut and outsider art from around the world” — features more than 60 international exhibitors, including works from the Michael Stipe Collection as well as an exhibition of psychedelic art curated by Fred Tomaselli called “Field Trip: Psychedelic Solution, 1986 – 1995.”The latter is filled with work from the likes of pioneering underground cartoonist/Zap Comix artist Spain Rodriguez, R Crumb, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson along with original artwork related to artists like Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield and the Who — there’s even the original drawing that spawned the Grateful Dead’s logo along with the origin story as well as preparatory drawings for the Jerry Garcia solo album “Compliments Of” from 1974 by artist Victor Moscoso.

Michael Lang, one of the co-founders of the legendary Woodstock music festival that is widely regarded as having defined 1960s pop culture, died Saturday.The promoter, whose career included managing such acts as Woodstock alum Joe Cocker, succumbed to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 77, Deadline reports.His own fame was amplified when a documentary about the music festival came out in 1970 and included a great deal of interview footage of Michael. Dearly departed:Michael Lang, one of the co-founders of the legendary Woodstock music festival that is widely regarded as having defined 1960s pop culture, died SaturdayActs ranging from Joan Baez and the Grateful Dead to Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jimi Hendrix all performed at the festival in upstate New York.The staggering lineup of 32 acts also included The Who, Janis Joplin, Sly And The Family Stone, Ravi Shankar and Jefferson Airplane.