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One of the best and one of my all time favorites has went to join that awesome R&R band in Gods studio!!! I will never forget meeting Leon Russell backstage while working his show and actually getting a moment with him!! This man recorded with everyone from the beach boys to Frank Sinatra and just about everyone you can think of !! He wrote some of the best songs ever, Massqurade to a Song for You and let's not forget Tightrope and Roll away the Stone!! My heart has been touched this morning with the hearing of this news!!! I 
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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Learned Hand
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Another one.Not a good year.
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Re: RIP Mr Russell
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I wish I knew how to post from other sites to here but not a clue. If anyone is interested in this mans career , check out Elton John inducting him into the R&R HOF on u-tube . Explains a lot!!!
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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Joined: Aug 2009
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'04' Black America
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RIP Leon.
I remember him mostly from the Joe Cocker tour "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"
Dinosaur.
"Oh Man I only ride 'em.I don't know what makes 'em work". Donald "Oddball" Sutherland
"Don't let the bastards get you down". Kris Kristofferson
"I am only paranoid because everyone is against me". Larry [Frank Burns] Linville
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Joined: Feb 2005
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Thanks Steve!!! Isn't his history in the music biz kinda hard to believe? What an amazing talent and like I said before , seemed ( to me anyway) to be a very nice man that enjoyed what he was doing and was happy to do it. 
ENJOY!!!!! NEWT!!!!!
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Joined: Jan 2005
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Saddle Sore
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RIP, Leon Russell and Hank Wilson. Learned something new today, Leon, Duane and Gregg Allman on this recording. Which I do not recall. Batman and Robin by The SpotlightsFor those of you not familiar with Hank Wilson. Lost Highway
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New Tires
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My father once told me he first realised he was get old by all his generation's favorite entertainers dying. Jesus I'm getting old.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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