In this week's paper, we published some awesome photos by Mark Gilliland, a long-time RFT freelance photographer who also documented major rock stars displaying their love of gear crafted by St. Louis Music. (Brand names include major players such as Ampeg, Crate and Alvarez.) Check back here tomorrow afternoon for more about St. Louis Music and its funeral show, which takes place on Saturday, December 13. Click on the photo of Bo Diddley, Johnnie Johnson and Billy Gibbons be
Entertainment Web site, Cinemablend, recently released its list of the 100 celebrities most likely to die this year.
Topping the macabre ranking is 60 Minutes windbag Andy Rooney. (Obviously, Cinemablend doesn't know that Rooney actually died a decade ago. It's true. Since the late 1990s producers at CBS have been using Rooney's embalmed corpse as a mannequin. And, yes, dead people's hair -- and eyebrows -- continue to grow long after they leave this earth.)
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