Large_Al
01-09-2006, 12:31 PM
Cowsill Found Dead in N.O. (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/9117582?rnd=1136834931762&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872)
Barry Cowsill, member of real-life Partridge Family, died in Katrina's wake
The body of Barry Cowsill, one of the singing Cowsills, the family band that inspired the Partridge Family, was discovered on December 28th on a wharf in New Orleans. Local authorities believe Cowsill, 51, died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the city on August 29th. Cowsill reportedly left phone messages for his sister Susan on September 1st, and was not heard from again.
Billed as "America's First Family of Music," the well-scrubbed Cowsills helped make flower-power music palatable to the mainstream during their brief run in the late 1960s. They had two Number Two hits, "The Rain, the Park and Other Things" and the title track to the hit rock musical Hair. They were nearly reality-television pioneers, as well: The filming of their daily life together was briefly considered for a TV program, before producers decided to fictionalize the story as The Partridge Family.
Newport, Rhode Island's Cowsills were formed in the early Sixties when their father, Bud, gave his two oldest boys, Bill and Bob, guitars. Barry, born in 1954, took up the bass, and younger brother John became the drummer. Later, the group would be joined by brother Paul, on keyboards, and their kid sister Susan, on vocals. Their mother Barbara performed with the group as well.
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Barry Cowsill, member of real-life Partridge Family, died in Katrina's wake
The body of Barry Cowsill, one of the singing Cowsills, the family band that inspired the Partridge Family, was discovered on December 28th on a wharf in New Orleans. Local authorities believe Cowsill, 51, died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the city on August 29th. Cowsill reportedly left phone messages for his sister Susan on September 1st, and was not heard from again.
Billed as "America's First Family of Music," the well-scrubbed Cowsills helped make flower-power music palatable to the mainstream during their brief run in the late 1960s. They had two Number Two hits, "The Rain, the Park and Other Things" and the title track to the hit rock musical Hair. They were nearly reality-television pioneers, as well: The filming of their daily life together was briefly considered for a TV program, before producers decided to fictionalize the story as The Partridge Family.
Newport, Rhode Island's Cowsills were formed in the early Sixties when their father, Bud, gave his two oldest boys, Bill and Bob, guitars. Barry, born in 1954, took up the bass, and younger brother John became the drummer. Later, the group would be joined by brother Paul, on keyboards, and their kid sister Susan, on vocals. Their mother Barbara performed with the group as well.
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