Levon helm

• You know you may not be a kid anymore when rock n roll heroes from your youth start to die -- not in their 20s from too much, sex, drugs and rock n roll -- but in their 60s or even 70s from diseases of aging like stroke and cancer.
(Huffington Post)
• Levon Helm died yesterday, at 71, from cancer.
(Village Voice (blog))
• CHICAGO _ Levon Helm was the rarest of musical multi-taskers: an unflappable drummer and a singer who wrung soul out of every note. He also was a terrific team player and bandmate; he made the people around him sound good.
(nola.com)
• American rock multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm, who lost his battle with cancer on April 19, was top of Google search terms over the past week, seeing an increase in searches of over 5,000 percent.
(YAHOO!)
• The sprit of Levon Helm, who died Thursday after a long battle with cancer, was certainly felt at the second installment of the Coachella Music and Arts festival this weekend.
(Hollywood Reporter)
• CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Levon Helm, rock musics best singing drummer, passed away Thursday afternoon at age 71. Helm, mainly known for his work with The Band, had battled throat cancer for more than 10 years. It was the end of an extraordinary life.
(Charleston Gazette)
• Levon Helm was the Arkansas-born drummer/singer/mandolin player with the otherwise Canadian group The Band: his brilliant playing and inimitably good-old-boy singing supplied the cornerstone for the sound of these Americana forefathers.
(YAHOO!)
• Levon Helm, who helped forge a deep-rooted American music as the drummer and singer for The Band, died Thursday in Manhattan. He was 71 and lived in Woodstock, N.Y.
(Denver Post)
• Yes, weekend two of Coachella can still present surprises. And so it was when rock legend John Fogerty joined Friday nights headliners the Black Keys to pay tribute to Levon Helm, who died Thursday from cancer.
(Los Angeles Times)