Iraj Afshar Iranian bibliographer and historian died he was , 85,.

Iraj Afshar was a bibliographer, historian, and an iconic figure in the field of Persian studies died he was , 85,.. He was a consulting editor of Encyclopædia Iranica at Columbia University and a full professor emeritus of University of Tehran.

(8 October 1925 – 8 March 2011)

Iraj Afshar recorded the monuments of Yazd in his three-volume "yādegār-hāye Yazd (Monuments of Yazd)". [1] He was known as "the doyen of standard Persian language bibliographers". Afshar played a significant role in the development of the field of Iranology in Iran and throughout the world during the second half of the 20th century. He was the editor of Sokhan, a prolific Iranology journal, under the responsibility of Parviz Natel-Khanlari and also the editor of rāhnamāye ketāb (Bibliography Guide), Mehr, farhang-e Iranzamin (Culture of Iran) and Ayandeh.
He was the chief bibliographer of Persian books at Harvard University. Afshar was associated with UNESCO and taught at the University of Bern and University of Tehran.
He was on the advisory council for the Iranian Studies Journal.

Biographical timeline

• 1925: Birth in Tehran, Iran (Father: Dr. Mahmoud Afshar, Mother: Nosrat Barazandeh)
• 1933-1945: Attended Zoroastrian Shāpour Secondary School and Firouz-Bahrām High School in Tajrish, Tehran
• 1944-1946: Manager of Ayandeh Journal
• 1945: Received Diploma in Literature
• 1945: Marriage to Shayesteh Afsharieh
• 1945-1949: Attended University of Tehran majoring in Law, thesis: Minorities in Iran
• 1946-1955: Collaboration with jahān-e now (New World) Journal (Editor in Chief: Hossein Hejazi)
• 1950: Employed by Ministry of Culture and Education as educator at Sharif High School and Gharib High School
• 1951-1960: Librarian – Law Library of University of Tehran – with encouragement from Dr. Mohsen Sabah and Mohammad-Taqi Danesh-Pajouh
• 1952-1953: Editor-in-Chief of Mehr Journal (licensee: Majeed Movaqqar)
• 1952: Continuing Founder and Managing Editor of farhang-e Irānzamin Journal (in association with Mohammad-Taqi Danesh-Pajouh, Manoucher Sotoudeh, Mostafa Mogharrabi, Abbas Zaryab Khoyee)
• 1963-1966: Publication of ketābhāy-e Iran (Books of Iran) (Annual bibliography)
• 1954-1956: Editor-in-Chief of Sokhan Journal (licensee: Dr. Parviz Natel-Khanlari)
• 1955-1961: Director ketābhāy-e māh (Books of the Month) Journal (Publication of Society of Publishers with cooperation of Franklin Publishing Corporation)
• 1956-1963: Acting Managing Director bongāh-e tarjomeh o nasher-e ketāb (Institute for Translation and Publishing of Books)
• 1956-1957: Attended UNESCO Educational and Practical Library Science training in Europe
• 1957-1958: Co-founder bāshgāh-e ketāb (Book Club) later named anjoman-e ketāb (Book Society)
• 1958-1969: Educator Library Science at dāneshsarāy-e ālee (Higher Education) division of University of Tehran
• 1958-1979: Managing Editor rāhnamāy-e ketāb Journal (licensee: Ehsan Yarshater)
• 1958-1979: Director anjoman-e ketāb (Book Society)
• 1961-1979: Founder nashriyeh noskhehāy-e khatti (Journal of Manuscripts), Central Library of University of Tehran (in collaboration with Mohammad-Taqi Danesh-Pajouh)
• 1961-1962: Director of the Library of dāneshsarāy-e āli
• 1962: Director National Library of Iran (founded Iranian Studies Branch, founded Bibliography of Iran and indexing of library's manuscripts with efforts of Abdollah Anvar)
• 1962: Return to teaching at dāneshsarā-e āli
• 1963-1964: Return to University of Tehran as Director of Center of Bibliographic Research and Indexing
• 1963: Indexing and Cataloging Harvard University printed Persian books
• 1963: Technical Manager of Library Sciences Literacy Committee (UNESCO National commission)
• 1964-1971: Director of Bureau of Publications and Cultural Relations (Later named Bureau of Publications and Library Relations)
• 1965-1979: Director of Central Library and Document Center, University of Tehran
• 1965-1973: Teaching at Iran Historical Social Divisions dāneshkadeh olum ejtemāee (Department of Social Sciences) University of Tehran
• 1966-1979: Founded ketābdāri Journal, a publication of University of Tehran Central Library
• 1969: Director National Book Center interrelated to UNESCO National Commission
• 1969-1979: Associate Professor, later Professor of History (Historical Documents and Native History) Department of Literature and Human Sciences, University of Tehran. (Manuscripts in Library Science) College of Educational Sciences
• 1969-1972: Director Iranshenāsi Journal, Publication of Department of Literature and Human Sciences, University of Tehran
• 1969-1979: Permanent Director of Congress of Iranian Studies
• 1979-1983: Established sāzemān-e ketāb (independently)
• 1979-1993: Published Ayandeh Journal from 5th volume for fifteen years
• 1983: Death of father (Dr. Mahmoud Afshar, PhD.)
• 1984: Established nāmvāreh-e Dr. Mahmoud Afshar published by Doctor Mahmoud Afshar Foundation. From 11th volume it was named pajouhesh-hāye Irāni (Iranian Studies/Research)
• 1989: Teaching at Bern University, Bern Switzerland
• 1996: Death of spouse (Shayesteh Afsharieh)
• 1998: Cataloging Persian manuscripts at Austrian National Library (Vienna)
• 2001: Established daftar-e tārikh, publishing small documents and thesis from Doctor Mahmoud Afshar Foundation

Memberships

• 1951: Society of Iranian Studies (President Ebrahim Pourdavoud and Secretary Dr. Mohammad Moien)
• 1955-1978: Founding Member Iranian Society of Philosophy and Human Sciences affiliated with UNESCO national committee
• 1958: Ministry of Foreign Relation's Library Council
• 1959: Committee to establish countrywide archiving representing UNESCO national committee
• 1962: University of Tehran Central Library council
• 1962: Executive Council "Institute of research in literature and Iranian languages council" (Ministry of Culture and Art)
• 1964-1978: Board to select book (Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture and Art)
• 1965: Executive Board (Center for Research and introduction of Iranian Civilization and Culture)
• 1965: Board of Founders Iranian Society of History of Science and Medicine
• 1972-1976: Council of Tehran Public Libraries
• 1972-1978: Book of the Year Award Committee
• 1972-1976: Iran Librarian Society
• 1974-1978: Executive Board "History Society" affiliated with "Language and Literature Cultural Center" Also the secretary of the Cultural Center
• 1974: Board of Trusties "Mojtaba Minavi Endowment Library" and Shahnameh Foundation
• 1976: Board of Trusties "Sayeed Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh Publish works" consigned to University of Tehran
• 1977: Selected guardian "Mohammad Fateh Endowment Dormitory" University of Tehran
• 1977-1978: Board of Trusties "Iran Cultural Foundation"
• 1977-1978: Supreme Council of "Iran National Documents"
• 1979-1982: Board of Founders National Monuments Society
• 1979: Europe Iranian Studies Society
• 1983: Council of Custodians Doctor Mahmud Afshar Foundation (Selected Custodian)
• 1989: Honorary Member Institute of Central and West Asian Studies, Karachi
• 1990: Board of Experts al-Furqān, Islamic Heritage Foundation
• 1993: Consulting Editor Encyclopædia Iranica
• 1993: Board of Trusties Dr. Ali-Akbar Siasi Endowment Library, University of Yazd
• 1997: Honorary Member Society of Iranian Studies (U.S.A)
• 1997: Supreme Council Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia (CGIE)
• 1998: Supreme Council National Library (Iran)
• 2000: Council of experts nāmehye bahārestān (Journal of Manuscript Research and Studies)
• 2001: Council of Guardians Eurasian Studies Journal (Italy)

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Victor Manuel Blanco, American astronomer, director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. died he was , 92.

Victor Manuel Blanco  was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered "Blanco 1", a galactic cluster died he was , 92. Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere at the time.^[3] In 1995, the telescope was dedicated in his honor and named the Victor M. Blanco Telescope; it is also known as the "Blanco 4m"^.

(March 10, 1918 – March 8, 2011)

  Early years

Blanco was born in the town of Guayama, Puerto Rico, where he received his primary and secondary education. As a child, Blanco would often wonder about the stars and became interested in astronomy. He moved to the city of Chicago and entered the University of Chicago where he earned a Bachelors of Science degree.^[5] During World War II, Blanco served in the US Army Air Force in the Pacific Theater. Blanco continued his studies and earned his Masters degree in Arts and later his doctorate in astronomy. Employed by the University of Puerto Rico as an assistant professor of Astrometry, Blanco was recruited in 1948 and assisted in the task of polishing the mirrors of the 200-inch Hale telescope in California. In 1949, he returned to Puerto Rico and reassumed his duties at the UPR.^[6]
Blanco later served as the Director of the Astrometry and Astrophysics Division of the United States Naval Observatory.^[5] The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) provides a wide range of astronomical data and products, and serves as the official source of time for the U.S. Department of Defense and a standard of time for the entire United States.^[7] He also served in Java, Indonesia for UNESCO in the position of astronomer.

Accomplishments

Blanco, a professor of Astrophysics at the Case Institute of Technology (renamed Case Western Reserve University in 1967) in Cleveland, Ohio,^[3] discovered an open cluster in 1959. The stellar cluster which was named Blanco 1, in his honor, has the blue star Zeta Sculptoris in the center of its constellation.^[1] According to "The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society", Blanco 1 exhibits subsolar ratios that are not observed among nearby field stars.^[8] Blanco and his wife Betty Blanco together with Martin McCarthy work on the stellar population in the central regions of our galaxy and in the Magellanic Clouds was pioneering. They discovered of the change in the ratio of carbon stars to M-type stars from the nuclear bulge of our galaxy to the LMC and then the SMC.^[3]
In July 1967, Blanco became the second director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). Located in Cerro Tololo mountain, Chile and founded in 1963, it is part of the National (U.S.) Optical Astronomy Observatory known as "NOAO" Blanco built the scientific, engineering, and technical staff from scratch.^[3]
When Blanco arrived at CTIO, there was a 60-inch telescope in operation. During his tenure the University of Michigan's 0.6-m Curtis Schmidt moved there in 1967, CTIO installed a 0.9-m reflector in 1967 and a 1.5-m reflector in 1968, and Yale University's 1-m reflector, was installed there in 1973.^[9] Blanco played an instrumental role in persuading various agencies to participate in the construction of a 4-m telescope. During its construction, he personally played a major role in the alignment and commissioning of the telescope. The telescope, which is the southern twin of the 4-m instrument at Kitt Peak National Observatory, opened in 1974. The 4-m became the most productive telescope in the Southern Hemisphere.^[3]
As director of CTIO, Blanco also maintained excellent relations with the Chilean astronomical community and the Chilean public at large. His tenure spanned the presidencies of Eduardo Frei Montalva, Salvador Allende, and Augusto Pinochet.^[3] Blanco was director of CTIO until 1981, when he was succeeded by Dr. Osmer.^[4]

Victor M. Blanco Telescope

On October 15, 1985, Dr. E. Bowell discovered a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1571.4391974 days (4.30 years) which he named 9550 Victorblanco in honor of Blanco.^[10]
On 8 September 1995, in a well attended mountain top ceremony, the CTIO 4-m telescope was officially named the "Victor M. Blanco Telescope" which is also known as "the Blanco 4m". The Victor M. Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory is used to help scientists study cosmic acceleration, the observation that the universe seems to be expanding at an accelerating rate. A large bronze plaque affixed to the outside the main entrance to the building reads (in Spanish, then English)^[3]:

Written works and academic memberships

Blanco was the co-author of many articles in astrophysics including:

• Telescopes, Red Stars, and Chilean Skies, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 39: 1-18 (Volume publication date September 2001). ^[11]
• Carbon stars, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica (ISSN 0185-1101), vol. 19, Dec. 1989, p. 25-37.^[12]
• Late type giants in Large Magellanic Cloud, Nature 258, 407 - 408 (04 December 1975); doi:10.1038/258407a0.^[13]
• Basic Physics of the Solar System, V. M. Blanco and S. W. McCuskey. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1961. xii + 307 pp.^[14]

He was a member of the International Astronomical Union in the following divisions^[15]:

• Division IX Commission 25 Stellar Photometry & Polarimetry
• Division VII Commission 33 Structure & Dynamics of the Galactic System
• Division IV Commission 45 Stellar Classification
• Division XII Commission 50 Protection of Existing & Potential Observatory Sites
• Division IV Stars
• Division VII Galactic System
• Division IX Optical & Infrared Techniques
• Division XII Union-Wide Activities

Death

Blanco died on March 8, 2011 at Vero Beach, Florida. He was survived by his wife of 42 years, Betty Blanco, a son, Daniel Blanco, a stepson, David Mintz, and a stepdaughter, Elizabeth Vitell.^[16]

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Richard Campbell, British player of cello and viola da gamba died he was , 55.

Richard John Campbell  was an English classical musician, best known as a founder member of the early music ensemble Fretwork and for his newer association with the Feinstein Ensemble, specialising in historically-accurate performance of 18th century music died he was , 55..

(21 February 1956 – 8 March 2011)

Early Life and Education

Campbell was born in Hammersmith, London, where his parents were teachers, and was educated at Marlborough College and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he studied Classics. After rejecting a career as a Latin teacher as having 'dubious prospects', he went to study at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Guildhall.^[1]

Career

With Fretwork, he recorded 31 albums^[2], and also performed on film soundtracks including Coffee and Cigarettes and The Da Vinci Code. Fretwork is known for its global touring and, as well as performances of early music, commissioning new compositions for viol consort.
Campbell was Professor of Viola da Gamba and Violone at the Royal Academy of Music.^[3] As a gamba soloist he has been associated since 1981 with Sir John Eliot Gardiner's English Baroque Soloists and their performances and recordings of JS Bach and Francois Couperin. He has performed as gamba-soloist or principal cellist with ensembles including Northern Sinfonia, the orchestra of The Sixteen, Ex Cathedra of Birmingham, the City of London Sinfonia, the St James's Baroque Player], Florilegium, and Paul McCreesh's Gabrieli Players. He was a founding member of Jakob Lindberg's Dowland Consort, Philip Picket's Musicians of the Globe and, Charles Humphries's ensemble Kontraband.

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Herb Kawainui Kane, American artist died he was , 82.

Herbert "Herb" Kawainui Kane was an artist-historian and author with a special interest in Hawaiʻi and the South Pacific died he was , 82..

(June 21, 1928 – March 8, 2011) 

Life and career

Born in Minnesota, Kane was raised in Waipiʻo Valley and Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, and Wisconsin. After receiving a masters degree from the University of Chicago (working at the Art Institute of Chicago), he moved to South Kona.^[1]
Kane's art and articles have graced such locations as the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the National Park Service and have appeared in books and major magazines, including National Geographic. Kane designed postage stamps for the U.S. Postal Service and several Pacific island nations, including the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and French Polynesia.
Kane was one of the founders of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, which engendered the historic Hokulea project, and a member of the panel of experts for the 1998 PBS program Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey.^[2] He is the author of Voyage, the Discovery of Hawaiʻ (1976), Pele, Goddess of Volcanoes (1987), Voyagers (1991. Bellevue, WA: WhaleSong. ISBN 0-9627095-1-4) (2nd edition 2006), and Ancient Hawaiʻi (1997).
In 1984, Kane was selected as a "Living Treasure of Hawai'i". In the 1987 "Year of the Hawaiian Celebration", he was one of 16 selected as Po'okela (Champion). In 1998, he received the Bishop Museum's Charles Reed Bishop Medal. In 2002, he won the Hawaiʻi Book Publishers Association Award for Excellence in Book Publishing.^[3] In 2005, a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) mural he painted on a custom-designed wall at Punaluʻu Beach was stolen. The painting showed life as it was 200 years earlier at the site. Thieves cut the 1973 painting out with a circular saw from a building that had been vacant after plans for the resort were discontinued.^[4] In 2009, he designed a commemorative stamp for the U.S. Postal Service, celebrating 50 years of statehood for Hawaiʻi.^[5] Kane died on March 8, 2011 at the age of 82.^[6][7]

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Moses Katjiuongua, Namibian politician died he was , 68.

Moses Katjikuru Katjiuongua  was a Namibian politician, minister in the Transitional Government of National Unity, member of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia, and member of the National Assembly of Namibia died he was , 68..

(24 April 1942–8 March 2011)

Early life, education, and exile

Katjiuongua attended primary school in Aminuis, and from 1956 to 1959 the Swedish Confederation of Labour college in Bechuanaland (now Botswana). His political activities continued concurrently with his studies. After graduation he went into exile to work in the South West African National Union (SWANU) office in Cairo, Egypt. From 1961 to 1962 he studied journalism in Magdeburg, East Germany on a SWANU bursary.^[1]
Katjiuongua met Mao Zedong during a trip to China after 1963. From there he returned to Tanzania, again to work in the SWANU office .^[2]
Katjiuongua also held a BA in political science and administration and an MA in international affairs, economics, human geography and theoretical philosophy from Stockholm University which he obtained on a study trip between 1978 and 1980.^[1] He further completed a Masters Degree in public administration at the Carlton University in Ottawa, Canada.^[2]

Return to Namibia

In 1982, Katjiuongua returned to Namibia and became the president of SWANU. In that position, he led the SWANU delegation to the Multi-Party Conference in September 1983, but his party split on the question of participation in the internal settlement. A congress called by opponents relieved him and his supporters of their posts on the Central Committee in 1984. This weakened the party's influence.^[3]
On 10 May 1985, he was appointed Minister of Manpower, National Health and Welfare in the cabinet of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGNU). He contested the November 1989 pre-independence elections as candidate of the National Patriotic Front (NPF) party founded by him shortly before, and he was the only member of the party to win a seat.^[2][3]
Katjiuongua was married to Rebecca Matjituavi. They had four children.^[2]

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St. Clair Lee, American musician (Hues Corporation) died he was , 66.

St. Clair Lee  was an American R&B vocalist with the band The Hues Corporation, which had a top ten record on the R&B and pop music charts called "Rock The Boat" died he was , 66.. The single went to number one in 1974 and sold over two million copies.^[1]

(April 24, 1944 – March 8, 2011) 

Early life

Lee was born Bernard St. Clair Lee Calhoun Henderson in San Francisco, California. When he was born, someone at the hospital put both family names into his full name title and mistakenly wrote "St. Clair" instead of Sinclair – resulting in a long name for his birth record. When he was a young man, he found out that "Sinclair" means "Big Bear" and that the Indian side of his family were Blackfoot that had migrated down from Canada to Oklahoma. It was this discovery that led him to decide to wear his trademark headband.^[2] He attended Santa Monica College.

Career

The Hues Corporation was formed in 1969, in Santa Monica and began playing frequently in Palm Springs and Las Vegas. In Vegas, Lee worked at Circus Circus. During this time, he worked on the same stages with Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle, Nancy Sinatra and Glen Campbell. When the band secured a record deal, Lee started to record and tour with the band regularly. Before their first big hit, they also contributed to the soundtrack of the blacksploitation film Blackula.
The success of The Hues Corporation is greatly tied to the musicianship Lee worked with on their biggest selling album Freedom For The Stallion. In 1973, he was in the studio with some of RCA's best talent, including: Jim Gordon, Hal Blaine, and Dennis Budimir, as well as Larry Carlton, Joe Sample, and Wilton Felder of The Crusaders – and many others.^[3]
Touring with the band took Lee to Europe, South America, The Far East and Australia. He performed for Queen Elizabeth at the same event with Dionne Warwick. He performed with The Jackson 5 in Radio City Music Hall. Lee also shared bills with The Commodores, The Spinners, Dolly Parton and with Dinah Shore many times on her TV program. Lee could perform soul, jazz, and R&B - as the group was very versatile.
After a second moderate success (Rockin' Soul) with the band and a few more records, The Hues Corporation disbanded in 1978 and then reformed in later years. Lee continued to tour and perform with the band up until his death.^[4]

Legacy

The song Rock the Boat, by The Hues Corporation, has been included on hundreds of soundtracks and compilation records since the early 1990s.

Discography

With The Hues Corporation

• 1978: Your Place or Mine (Warner Bros.)
• 1977: I Caught Your Act (Warner Bros.)
• 1975: Rockin' Soul (RCA Victor)
• 1975: Love Corporation (RCA)
• 1973: Freedom for the Stallion (RCA)
• Ultra Dance (RCA)

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Mike Starr, American bassist (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun). died his (body was found on this date) he was , 44

Michael Christopher "Mike" Starr  was an American musician, best known as the original bassist in Alice in Chains, with whom he played from the band's formation in 1987 until 1993.^[1]

(April 4, 1966 – March 8, 2011)

Career

In the mid 1980s, Jerry Cantrell began a band called Diamond Lie which included drummer Sean Kinney and Starr on bass. Cantrell's roommate, singer Layne Staley, also agreed to join while having Cantrell join his funk project which ended shortly thereafter. Diamond Lie gained attention in the Seattle area and eventually took the name of Alice in Chains. The band was later signed to a record deal with Columbia Records and enjoyed extensive success via record sales and radio play in the grunge rock movement of the early 1990s. Starr was with the group for the Facelift and Dirt albums and the Sap EP. He was most often seen playing several variations of a Spector NS-2 bass guitar through an Ampeg SVT all-tube head and Ampeg 8x10" speaker cabinets.
Starr departed the group while it was touring behind the album Dirt. According to former singer Layne Staley, in a Rolling Stone article from February 1994, Starr's departure from Alice in Chains stemmed from "just a difference in priorities. We wanted to continue intense touring and press, Mike was ready to go home." ^[2] Starr, however, mentioned on an episode of Celebrity Rehab that he was kicked out of the band due to his budding drug addiction. The unreleased track "Misery, Crack Pipes, and Gothic Main Lines" from this time frame makes allusion to Starr's use.
Starr later played bass for the band Sun Red Sun, which featured Ray Gillen and Bobby Rondinelli, both former members of Black Sabbath. The project was cut short by Gillen's death in 1993.
Starr was reported to be working with his new band which included touring with the band Days of the New. Starr expressed excitement about the new music he wrote, and was in the process of recording at the time of his death.

Personal life

Starr was later featured in the third season of the VH1 reality television series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew in 2010, which documented his treatment for methadone addiction beginning in August 2009 at the Pasadena Recovery Center. His subsequent stint staying in a sober living environment was then documented on the spinoff Sober House. He and fellow recovering addicts Mackenzie Phillips and Tom Sizemore appeared in the eighth episode of Celebrity Rehab's fourth season to provide testimonials about their recovery to that season's patients. During this appearance, Starr marked six months and seven days of sobriety.
Both Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney criticized the show Celebrity Rehab, calling it "disgusting". However, they stopped short of criticizing their former bandmate and expressed hope that Starr would turn his life around. Kinney also thanked Starr along with all other members of Alice In Chains both past and present within the liner notes of Alice in Chains' Black Gives Way to Blue album.

"I totally back Mike and I back his efforts to get clean and remain somebody that I and the band really care about — he’s a friend of ours, you know, and we wish him the best." ~ Jerry Cantrell^[3]

"So I don't support that show at all and I think it's pretty disgusting. But Mike getting his life together or anybody doing that, I'll support that." ~ Sean Kinney^[4]

On February 18, 2011, Starr was arrested and booked on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance (six pills of Oxymorphone, and six pills of Alprazolam) in Salt Lake City, Utah.^[5][6]

Death

On March 8, 2011, at 1:42PM, police were called to Starr's home in Salt Lake City where they found the musician's body; Starr was 44. Reports later surfaced that Starr's roommate had seen him mixing Methadone and anxiety medication hours before he was found dead.^[7][8] A private memorial was held for Starr at Experience Music Project in Seattle on March 20, 2011. There were roughly 400 people in attendance, including former bandmates Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney, according to Mike Inez.^[9]

Discography

With Alice in Chains

• We Die Young (1990)
• Facelift (1990)
• Sap (1992)
• Dirt (1992)
• Music Bank (1999)
• Nothing Safe: Best of the Box (1999)
• Live (2000)
• Greatest Hits (2001)
• The Essential Alice in Chains (2006)

With Sun Red Sun

• Sun Red Sun (1993)

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