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http://variety.com/2017/music/people-news/gregg-allman-dies-dead-69-southern-rock-1202446640/
RIP to an absolute legend of music.
Update: A local news station in Macon, GA has confirmed with Allman's manager that he will be buried next to his brother Duane Allman at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon.
Gregg Allman, whose hard-jamming, bluesy sextet the Allman Brothers Band was the pioneering unit in the Southern rock explosion of the 70s, died Saturday due to currently unknown causes. He was 69.
As recently as April 24, reports surfaced claiming Allman was in hospice. His manager previously denied those reports to Variety, which Allman then substantiated in a Facebook post.
With his older sibling, guitarist Duane Allman, the singer-keyboardist-guitarist-songwriter led one of the most popular concert attractions of the rock ballroom era; the groups 1971 set At Fillmore East, recorded at Bill Grahams New York hall, was a commercial breakthrough that showed off the bands prodigious songcraft and instrumental strengths.
After Duane Allmans death in a motorcycle accident weeks after the live albums release, his younger brother led the band through four more stormy decades of playing and recording. The Allman Brothers Bands latter-day history proved tumultuous, with other fatalities, disbandings, regroupings and very public battles with drugs and alcohol on the part of its surviving namesake.
Though Gregg Allmans highly publicized addictions, his tabloid-ready marriage to pop vocalist Cher, and his equally public disputes with co-founding guitarist Dickey Betts came under harsh and sometimes mocking scrutiny over the years, Allman prevailed as the linchpin of an act that maintained popularity over four decades and opened the commercial door for such other Southern acts as Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Marshall Tucker Band.
RIP to an absolute legend of music.
Update: A local news station in Macon, GA has confirmed with Allman's manager that he will be buried next to his brother Duane Allman at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon.