Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock ‘n’ roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Personality and the controversial Stagger Lee, has died at the age of 88.
Price died on Monday at a long-term care facility in New Rochelle, New York, of complications from diabetes, his wife, Jacqueline Price, told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Lloyd Price, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, was among the last survivors of a post-Second World War scene in New Orleans that anticipated the shifts in popular music and culture leading to the rise of rock in the mid-1950s.
Along with Fats Domino and David Bartholomew among others, Price fashioned a deep, exuberant sound around the brass and swing of New.
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