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Wayne Stanley Kramer (né Kambes; April 30, 1948 – February 2, 2024) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, and film and television composer. Kramer came to prominence in the 1960s as the lead guitarist of the Detroit rock band MC5.
Feb 3, 2024 · Tributes have poured in from across the world of music and guitar playing for Wayne Kramer, guitarist for the influential proto-punk band MC5, who died yesterday aged 75. The band announced his death on their Facebook page today with the simple comment, “peace be with you.”
Feb 2, 2024 · Wayne Kramer, the co-founder of the protopunk Detroit band the MC5 that thrashed out such hardcore anthems as “Kick Out the Jams” and influenced everyone from the Clash to Rage Against the...
Feb 7, 2024 · Guitarist and activist Wayne Kramer, best known as a founder of the iconic Detroit hard-rock band MC5, died in a Los Angeles hospital on February 2. He was 75 and battled pancreatic cancer.
Feb 3, 2024 · Wayne Kramer was a poet, author, patriot, rebel, felon, jailbird-turned-prison-reformer, and—most important—part of the twin-guitar engine of the influential rock band the MC5. He died on February 2, at age 75, leaving a gap in the world of activist musicianship and a tear in the fabric of American music history.
Feb 3, 2024 · MC5 guitarist and co-founder Wayne Kramer has died at the age of 75 after battling pancreatic cancer. His passing was announced on his Instagram page last night (February 2) with the words:...
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Feb 10, 2024 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — The tributes that poured in following Wayne Kramer’s death last week came from musicians praising the MC5 guitarist’s contributions to rock music, as well as from prison reform advocates who extolled his legacy of bringing music to incarcerated people.
