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Hal Willner

April 6, 1956 – April 7, 2020

Grammy-winning music, film and TV producer Hal Willner has died of Covid-19 one day after his sixty-fifth birthday. Born in Philadelphia, adoptive New Yorker Willner worked on albums for Lou Reed (including Lulu, the 2011 collaboration with Metallica), Marianne Faithfull, Lucinda Williams and Laurie Anderson. He was also a long-time producer of the US television show Saturday Night Live.

Steve Farmer

December 31, 1948 – April 7, 2020

Ted Nugent is “saddened” by the death of Steve Farmer, a former bandmate in his pre-solo group the Amboy Dukes. Farmer wrote the lyrics to the 1968 song , among several songs recorded

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