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After David Bowie and Prince – now is the Status Quo musician Rick Parfitt died

24.12.2016 17:29 PM

Rick Parfitt (li.) at a gig in August 2010.

photo: Peter Klaunzer / dpa

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London. The Status Quo musician Rick Parfitt is dead. The guitarist died at the age of 68 years, as the Band’s Manager announced on Saturday on the Facebook page of the British Rocker.

Accordingly, Parfitt died in a hospital in Spain in the aftermath of an infection. The musician had already been on Thursday in the clinic in Marbella to have arrived, because there had been complications after a shoulder Operation.

Born on the 12. In October 1948, he grew up in a small town South of London and learned to play with eleven years of guitar, inspired by the “King of Skiffle” Lonnie Donegan. 1967 Parfitt joined Status Quo. After the first psychedelic excursions like “Pictures Of Matchstick Men”, was the Band’s breakthrough at the beginning of the 70s with a series of rather rough and edgy, rocking Hits like “Paper Plane” or “Caroline”.

Hit with “Rocking all over The World”

Then gave way to the Status Quo rarely of your recipe for success – catchy melodies, three chords and sold over 120 million records. In 1985 they played “Rocking All Over The World” at the launch of Bob Geldof’s “Live Aid” and brought in London’s Wembley stadium to 100,000 people to run around. Other Hits of the Band were “Down Down” and “Whatever you Want”.

Parfitts first marriage broke up when his two-year-old daughter Heidi in the Pool drowned in his house in Surrey. The second suffered from his wife’s stories and his extreme alcohol and drug consumption. With his third wife Lyndsay Whitburn, and their twins, he lived in Málaga, Spain.

His excessive Lifestyle had late follow: in 1997, he survived the first heart attack, followed by cancer of the larynx, and two further heart attacks. The fourth he had in June 2016 after a concert in Turkey for minutes was Parfitt “been practically dead,” said the band’s Manager.

In October 2016 Parfitt announced, therefore, that he is not going to occur with Status Quo. He and wife Lyndsay Whitburn and four children behind. (dpa)

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