Pioneers, The

And he is excited about the final day when Madchester pioneers the Happy Mondays top the bill.

Eric Carmen, 74, whose plaintive vocals soared above the crunching guitars of the 1970s power-pop pioneers the Raspberries on hits like “Go All the Way,” and whose soft-rock crooning later as a solo artist propelled anthems like “All by Myself” and “Hungry Eyes,” has died.

Eric Carmen, the rock singer who led the 1970s power-pop pioneers the Raspberries before reinventing himself as a soft rock crooner who became a mainstay of 1980s music, has died.

The early country pioneers the Maddox Brothers & Rose were “the best-dressed people in country and western,” according to one of their contemporaries.

Both are driven by a pressing sense of passing time and a desire to spare future generations of tech pioneers the pains they endured.