Micky Jones has died he was 63.

With Merthyr Tydfil-born Jones, the band had four Top 40 UK albums from the late 1960s and toured across Europe and America, where admirers included Frank Zappa.

Friend and former colleague Phil Little said Jones had a "command of melody" and was "the most humble guy".

Jones, who had been fighting a brain tumour, died at a care home in Swansea.

Mr Little, who played with Jones in the 1980s with the London-based The Flying Pigs, said Frank Zappa once described Jones as "one of the 10 best guitarists in the world".

He said: "I did hundreds of gigs with him and I never saw him have a cross word with anybody. He had maximum respect from all the musicians.

With Micky Jones on guitar, Man had four albums in the UK UK Top 40

"He had great command of melody. He would improvise fantastically. He also have a very pure and soulful voice."

Jones' first band The Bystanders, was a Merthyr-based close harmony four-piece formed in the early 1960s, with BBC Wales radio presenter Owen Money, who was calling himself Gerry Braden, on vocals.

Money said he was "devastated" at the loss of someone who was a family friend as well as an artistic collaborator.

He said: "We came up together, we shared our life together. I know it was an inevitability but words can't express what I'm feeling at the moment.

"He taught me to play the guitar. His first job was as a hairdresser. He cut my hair.

"He was a fantastic musician. He had a "Frankie Valli" voice. We were set apart from any band in Wales at the time - we could do songs others could not do - because of his high falsetto voice.

Micky Jones (second right) was ever-present in the band's line-up

The women loved him so much, especially in the 60s. There we girls screaming and always three times as many screaming for Micky than anyone else. He was good looking boy."

In 1968, after Money had moved on, the Bystanders added Deke Leonard, Jones' guitar partner for some three decades, embraced the counterculture and became Man.

They had four albums in the UK Top 40 between 1973 and 1976 and toured on continental Europe and America.

Music journalist Michael Heatley, who ran a Man fans newsletter for 20 years, said the band reached "the upper second division of British rock" but had been overlooked in the history of rock.

He said: "Man were a live band. People would go and see them because they knew that the live performance was going to be much better than the record.

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Mark Linkous died he was 47

Mark Linkous,died he was 47, linkous was an Arlington County-born musician who was lead singer of the indie-rock band Sparklehorse that attracted a small but devoted following, died March 6 in Knoxville, Tenn. Mr. Linkous's manager told the New York Times the singer-songwriter shot himself near a friend's home.

Sparklehorse's albums included

"Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot," "Good Morning Spider," "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain." A 1999 profile in The Washington Post described Sparklehorse's sound as a "surprisingly fecund combination of crunchy guitars and fill-the-room jangle, all narrated by Linkous's often technically manipulated carnival-barker voice and interspersed with various outtakes, answering machine messages and hum."


Mr. Linkous, who grew up around Virginia and was the son of a coal miner, moved to New York after high school and started the band the Dancing Hoods. Unable to break into the music industry in Los Angeles, Mr. Linkous soon settled in the Virginia countryside between Richmond and Charlottesville. He won increasingly greater critical recognition over the years but still struggled with attracting popular attention.


Mr. Linkous had a troubled personal history and in 1996 collapsed after taking Valium and antidepressants. His legs were injured by the fall and nearly amputated. Mr. Linkous spent months undergoing rehabilitation, which inspired his song "Saint Mary," about the hospital where he recuperated.
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Jerry E. Smith died he was 59

Jerry E. Smith died he was 59. Smith was an author, lecturer, poet, and editor. His bibliography of published works includes three books from Adventures Unlimited Press (AUP), scores of non-fiction articles and reviews, and more than a dozen ghost-written books.
He was a close friend and literary partner of author Jim Keith. They worked together on magazines and books, and co-hosted a radio show broadcast from the campus of the Oregon Institute of Technology.

(8 April 1950, Pomona, California – 8 March 2010)

Smith's first book from AUP was HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy, which considered conspiracy theories connected to the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). The book, published in 1998, has been described as "blurring the lines between fiction and non-fiction" by detractors,^[1] and as "comprehensive and erudite" by other reviewers. While the author admits that the work is speculative, he also contends that it was not intended to explain how HAARP works, but rather to summarize the many claims made about HAARP on the Internet and to analyze their validity. Smith focused on two major points: the United Nations' Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques and mind control. After giving a brief history of each he then speculated on whether these technologies were being developed, at HAARP or elsewhere, and if so, in furtherance of whose agenda(s).






Smith's second book, published in 2005, was about the so-called Spear of Destiny, and focused on Nazi occultism and urban legends about a Nazi base in Antarctica.
His third book for AUP, published at the end of 2006, WEATHER WARFARE, covers the history of weather modification from the "Rain Makers" of the 1890s through the development of cloud seeding in the middle of the 20th century to today’s suspected ability to manipulate hurricanes. Addressed at length is the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques. Smith believed that the refusal of the mainstream scientific community to believe that terrorists and/or the military are capable of, and currently engaged in intentional manipulation of the environment skews the data in the global warming debate. This he maintained is of the gravest importance, as he felt that the politics of the 21st century, and possibly our survival as a species, would turn on how this debate played out. Also included is an update on recent developments at HAARP. Embracing the chemtrail theory, his book examines claims that chemicals are being deliberately injected into our atmosphere.

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Charles B. Pierce died he was 71

Charles B. Pierce^[4] was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, set decorator, cinematographer and actor. Pierce is best known for the minor cult hits The Legend of Boggy Creek and The Town That Dreaded Sundown. ^[5]

(June 16, 1938[3] – March 5, 2010)

A former Texarkana, Arkansas advertising salesman, Pierce began making low budget films in the early 1970s. His first film, The Legend of Boggy Creek, became a modest hit and grossed approximately $20 million.^[6] Pierce continued to make regional films, including a sequel to Boggy Creek entitled Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues in 1985.^[7]

In addition to directing, Pierce has starred in several of his own films, including The Town That Dreaded Sundown and Boggy Creek II. He also served as a writer on the 1983 Clint Eastwood film, Sudden Impact.^[8]

Pierce fell from the movie industry's public eye shortly after 1985's Boggy Creek II, slipping into relative obscurity until his 1997 interview with Fangoria magazine.^[9] Ten years later, in an interview with the The Austin Chronicle, film directors Duane Graves and Justin Meeks revealed they were in talks with Pierce to bring him aboard as a co-producer of The Wild Man of the Navidad, their homage to 70's drive-in creature features.^[10] He reportedly turned them down because he instead wanted to direct the project, which was later released by IFC Films in 2009.^[11][12]

Pierce died on March 5, 2010, at a Dover, Arkansas nursing home. He was 71. A cause of death was not immediately available.^[13]

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Daisey Bailey has died she was 113

Ms Bailey was an American super centenarian, she was the second-oldest person in U.S. and fourth-oldest in world.

Daisey Bailey was born on March 30, 1896 in Tennessee but currently lives in Detroit, MI. Click on the photo for more details about her 113th Birthday; however, the GRG doesn't agree with the alleged year of birth being 1895 instead of 1896.

March 11, 2010 Mrs. Daisy Bailey passed away on March 7, 2010 at age 113 years, 342 days.
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Mary Josephine Ray died she was 113

Mary Josephine Ray^[1][2] died she was 113. Ray was the world's second-oldest verified living person at the time of her death.^[3] Following the death of Gertrude Baines on 11 September 2009, Ray became the oldest person living in the United States.

(née Arsenault; May 17, 1895 – March 7, 2010)

She was the oldest recorded person ever to live in New Hampshire, although the oldest person born in New Hampshire was Nellie Spencer (1869–1982), who lived to age 113 years 81 days. Ray was also the oldest person ever recorded born in Prince Edward Island and the third-oldest person ever born in Canada. Since the death of Maria de Jesus from Portugal, she was also the oldest person of European descent in the world. She also ranked as one of the 30 oldest verified supercentenarians in history.

Born in Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada to French Canadian (Acadian) parents, Sabin Arsenault and Lydie Anne Blanchard, Mary Josephine moved to the United States at age three. Her father died when she was 7 and her mother also died when she was 15. Mary went out on her own, working in factories in Maine. Later she married Walter Ray (in the 1920s; he died in 1967) and moved to New Hampshire. Later, Mary Jo retired to Florida at age 80. She lived there on her own until 100, when her family brought her back to New Hampshire. At age 102, she moved into a nursing home when the family felt they could no longer care for her at home. Her paternal grandmother, Agnès Arsenault, died at the age of 97 in 1909.

Mary Josephine Arsenault married Walter Ray circa 1923. The 1930 census listing for Walter Ray lists him as age 36, married at 28; and Mary Josephine as age 34 (it was in April), married at 27. Ray had two sons, both living: Robert, 86, of Pensacola, Florida and Donald, 85, of Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Her eight grandchildren are also still alive.^{[citation needed]} In all, Ray has two sons, eight grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren.

Ray followed, as much as possible, the Red Sox baseball team. After watching baseball games, she often had cake and ice cream. At her 108th birthday celebration, she was greeted with the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and a cake with the Red Sox symbol on it. Ray continued to buy Red Sox merchandise, and commented that she intended to continue doing so.^[4] Fred Hale, who lived to be 113 years 354 days old, was also a fan of the team.^[5]

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Angelo Poffo died he was 84,

John Angelo Poffo died he was 84. Poffo was a former professional wrestler and wrestling promoter. He ran International Championship Wrestling for a number of years, holding cards in Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas. He is most noted for being the father of "Macho Man" Randy Savage and "Leaping" Lanny Poffo.

(April 10, 1925 – March 4, 2010)

Poffo started wrestling in 1948 at Karl Pojello's gym in Illinois.^[2] His first match was in 1949 against Ruffy Silverstein.^[2] He sometimes wrestled as The Masked Miser and managed other wrestlers as the Miser.^[2] He became a villainous character for the first time in 1950.^[2] In the mid-1950s, Bronco Lubich acted as his manager.^[2] He won the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Chicago version) in 1958.^[2]
He formed a villainous tag team with Chris Markoff called "The Devil's Duo" in 1966, and they were managed by Bobby Heenan.^[2] In 1973, he formed the team "The Graduates" with Ken Dillinger.^[2]
Poffo wrestled in the 1970s and 1980s under a mask as "The Carpet Bagger" for Emile Dupre's Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. He also bought into the promotion, when his sons were old enough to join.^[2] He wrestled under a yellow mask with a dollar sign on the forehead and a blue sequined ring jacket with a big dollar sign on the back. In addition, Poffo ran International Championship Wrestling from 1979 to 1983 in Kentucky.^[2]
His last match was in 1991 against Luis Martinez.^[2]
He made a few appearances in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1995 managing his son, Randy Savage. He was once attacked by "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, who put him in a figure four leglock. In 1995, he was inducted into the WCW Hall of Fame.^[2]
Poffo's parents were Italian immigrants.^[3][1] Poffo was a catcher for the DePaul University baseball team.^[2] In college, he studied physical education and was a competitive chess player.^[2] While serving in the US Navy in 1945, he set a world record for sit-ups.^[2] He completed 6,033 sit-ups in four hours and ten minutes.^[2][4]
In college he met his future wife Judy,^[2] whom he married on June 6, 1949. They were married for more than sixty years, and together they had two sons, Randy and Lanny.^[2]
After retiring from professional wrestling, Poffo taught physical education in Illinois.^[2]

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