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Mike Bloomfield. Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American blues guitarist and composer. Born in Chicago, he became one of the first popular music stars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, as he rarely sang before 1969. [1]
Aug 30, 2010 · Unfortunately, Bloomfield’s demon was drugs, and like so many of the superstars before him in the 1960’s — Mike was dead at 38 of an overdose on February 15, 1981 — and so this celebration of Bloomfield’s immense talent ends up wasted in a mad, and madding, dead end, for him that many predicted, but that only one failed to cure.
Feb 15, 2024 · Exactly three months later, on February 15, 1981, the man who Dylan cited as “the best guitar player I ever heard” was found dead in the front seat of his Chevrolet Impala. He’d succumbed to a drug overdose. At his peak, Bloomfield was arguably the most important guitarist of his generation.
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Apr 2, 1981 · M ichael Bloomfield, the rich Jewish kid from Chicago who demonstrated to a generation of electric guitarists that white men can really play the blues, was found dead in his car in San Francisco at...
On February 15, 1981, Mike Bloomfield was found dead in a car on a side street in San Francisco. He was 37. Somebody, perhaps a dealer, had dumped him there, not wanting to get involved.
Aug 30, 2016 · There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the life and work of Chicago-bred blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who died in 1981 at the age of 37. A career-spanning box set, From His...
Jul 21, 2021 · The dead man was 37-year-old Michael Bloomfield, a pioneering guitarist who brought blues to the mainstream and set Bob Dylan’s music alight. The cause of death was registered as cocaine and methamphetamine poisoning.
Feb 15, 2021 · 40 years ago today (2/15/81), guitarist Mike Bloomfield was found dead in his car in San Francisco from an accidental heroin overdose aged 37.
He died in 1981 of a drug overdose, but performed and recorded irregularly through the 60’s and 70’s. Background. Michael Bernard Bloomfield was born in 1943 to well-to-do family in the north side of Chicago. He chose music over the family’s catering business to the chagrin of his parents.
Feb 15, 2011 · Michael Bloomfield, the original “Guitar God”, the man who played on the biggest rock record of all time Like a Rolling Stone, who spread the gospel of Chicago’s blues and blues musicians to ...
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