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Apr 17, 2021 · ( Classic Rock ) last updated 17 April 2023. The combination of drugs, guns and a troubled wife meant things wouldn’t end well for the Mountain bassist. Here, insiders and eye-witnesses remember his murder trial. (Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives)
Dec 18, 2020 · The couple's mutual affairs turned fatally ugly on April 12, 1983, as Louder Sound reports, when Pappalardi returned home to his Manhattan apartment after seeing Merians. In a fury, Collins shot and killed him with a handgun he given her as a gift. Collins was subsequently charged with second-degree murder, later to be found guilty by a jury of ...
1960s-1983. Formerly of. Mountain, Creation. Felix A. Pappalardi Jr. (December 30, 1939 – April 17, 1983) [1] was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist. He is best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist of the band Mountain, whose song "Mississippi Queen" peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has become a ...
Apr 1, 2024 · Only takes a broken heart: the tragic ending of Mountain’s Felix Pappalardi. Tim Coffman. Mon 1 April 2024 22:00, UK. The era that Felix Pappalardi was born into felt like the closest rock and roll has come to utopia. As The Vietnam War raged on, the counterculture scene going on in America was everything that a hippie could ask for, with ...
Gail was less amenable to Felix’s exploits away from home, where he kept yet another mistress. On April 17, 1983, Gail shot Felix once in the neck with a .38-caliber Derringer. Police recovered the weapon and pronounced Felix dead. Pappalardi was charged with second-degree murder.
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Apr 17, 2023 · Felix Pappalardi publicity photo (Image: A&M Records) April 18, 1983 started normally enough. I lived alone in a one-bedroom first floor flat in Allston, Mass. – part of Boston, the student-y part, the late-night, party-hearty, cheap-apartment rock ‘n’ roll part. I was post-grad but not averse to the neighborhood’s, uh, charms, which ...
Mar 15, 2014 · And that was cited by jurors when they rejected second-degree murder charges and convicted her of criminally negligent homicide, punishable by only a four-year sentence. Felix’s band mate Leslie West later suggested that rock stars buy their wives “diamond rings, flowers, candy … just not a gun”.
