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We are truly grateful to Mr. Freedman, and his extraordinary design team, for giving Great Lakes Theater and our entire region this amazing gift of theater which has transcended generations and united our community in powerfully meaningful ways. We extend special thanks again this year to the John P. Murphy Foundation, whose support of A Christmas Carol began with our original production in and has continued ever since. In addition, I encourage you to look through this playbill at the list of individual members, corporations and foundations that support us.

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Private duty services customized to the unique needs of you and your family. Classic theater holds the capacity to illuminate truth and enduring values, celebrate and challenge human nature and actions, revel in eloquent language, and preserve the traditions of diverse cultures and generate communal spirit. Since its inception, GLT has had a strong presence in area schools, bringing students to the theater for matinee performances and sending specially trained actor-teachers to the schools for weeklong residencies developed to explore classic drama from a theatrical point of view.

GLT is equally dedicated to enhancing the theater experience for adult audiences. To this end, GLT regularly serves as the catalyst for community events and programs in the arts and humanities that illuminate the plays on its stage. Great Lakes Theater is one of only a handful of American theaters that have stayed the course as a classic theater.

As GLT celebrates a decade in its permanent home at the Hanna Theatre, the company reaffirms its belief in the power of partnership, its determination to make this community a better place in which to live, and its commitment to ensure the legacy of classic theater in Cleveland. Then, join us backstage and party with the performers and crew!

There will be one fifteen-minute intermission. Great Lakes Theater student subscriptions are subsidized by a generous gift from Eaton. Father, who will become Bob Cratchit David Holbert Miss Abigail Sun-Hee Smith Master Robert Chase Christopher Zadd Miss Polly Marlowe Miller Skate Girl Charlotta Banzhaf Street Children Marlowe Miller Adolescent Scrooge Chase Christopher Zadd Mr.

Kelsey Anne Brown Belinda Chase Christopher Zadd Sarah Brenna Sherman Christmas Future Laurien Palmer Delivery Boy There was money to raise. There was a script to develop. Artistic director Gerald Freedman had a vision for the adaptation: Freedman and scenic designer John Ezell were determined that the production would fully exploit the resources of the Ohio Theatre, which served as the home venue for Great Lakes Theater at the time.

There were things to be built. But the set elements could only glide quickly if they were lightweight. Victorianera filigrees and other scenic elements had to be carved out of Styrofoam — including a foottall cornucopia filled with 5, grapes the size of ping-pong balls. Costume designer James Scott sketched renderings for 80 costumes, 30 of which would be built from scratch by three drapers and five seamstresses.

Actors John Buck Jr. And then there were practical problems for actors and stagehands to solve. Two stagehands had to help him manage the chains and navigate the ladder. Out of such attention to detail, stage magic was conjured. Designed to be repeated multiple seasons, the show is now in its 30th year. Maintaining the production requires the same painstaking commitment each year. But its annual restaging has given opportunities to emerging directors within the company.

Victoria Bussert, who arrived in Cleveland as a directing intern to Freedman in , restaged the piece 12 times over the years, more than any other director. Although the year-old writer had already authored six successful novels, his latest entry, Martin Chuzzlewit, was selling poorly. His publishers wanted their advance back. His spendthrift father stoked his worries.

His wife Catherine was pregnant with their fifth child. He needed a best-seller. A Christmas Carol was one for the ages. Scrooge — the very name has entered dictionaries as a synonym for miser. In the United States alone, a million copies of the story have been sold. But the book was a gamble at the time. An image of Dickens at the shoe polish factory, included in one of the earliest biographies of Dickens in By , the young man already had the wildly successful Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby to his name.

But fear of financial failure dogged him. His year-old son had to go to work in a rat-infested shoe polish factory. Undaunted by his scant schooling, the younger Dickens pursued respectability relentlessly. The festivities that we still associate with Christmas — trees and cards, family gatherings, carolsinging and seasonal food and drink — were just becoming popular in England in the s and s. Queen Victoria and her GermanEight illustrations by Punch caricaturist John Leech also marked born husband were popularizing his the first edition of A Christmas Carol as a prestige publication.

Between and , he vaulted from law Antiquarians were publishing anthologies of old clerk to court stenographer to court reporter to English carols and ballads.

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The Oxford newspaper sketch writer to author of The Pickwick Movement was promoting the restoration of Papers. And yet, with improvident parents and ritual to Anglican worship. Dickens had already siblings and a growing family to support, the written several brief Christmas sketches in writer could not rest. The time was right in for a Charles Dickens first gained attention with longer piece that indulged the growing taste for humorous sketches published in newspapers holiday cheer. But Dickens and his children at the heart of his work.

Witness Oliver publishers decided to present his new seasonal Twist, David Copperfield and Pip of Great story in a hardcover volume, bound in crimson Expectations. In A Christmas Carol, a profits. The gamble might have paid off. Whether the Christmas visions would or would not convert Scrooge, they convert us. Are there no workhouses?

The childhood theme of A Christmas Carol may have also prompted the ghost story form. Later in life, Dickens often recalled how his nanny told gruesome ghost stories. Four of the five stand-alone Christmas stories that he would publish between and would contain elements of the supernatural. Earlier that year, he toured tin mines in Cornwall, where children labored in filth. While he did give a speech about educational reform in Manchester that October, he decided that a Christmas story might have greater impact.

This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy. Economist Thomas Robert Malthus, an older contemporary of Dickens, observed the paradoxical cycle of plenty, population growth, overcrowding and population-thinning diseases. Philosopher Thomas Carlyle countered the. A Christmas Carol proliferated quickly. They lost nothing, misinterpreted nothing, followed everything closely, laughed and cried with the most delightful earnestness and animated me to that extent that I felt as if we were all bodily going up into the clouds together.

In , the Columbia Broadcast System signed American actor Lionel Barrymore to a five-year contract to perform A Christmas Carol for an annual holiday radio broadcast. Barrymore would go on to perform the role of Scrooge on radio nearly every year until In , he recorded an abbreviated version of the story for a record released by MGM.

Lakes Theater has produced A Christmas Carol every year since , spanning the tenures of three artistic directors. Five actors have played the role of Scrooge; three have played Jacob Marley. The resident company developed under current producing director Charles Fee has provided opportunities for individual actors to play a variety of roles over time and for longtime cast members to try their hand at staging as well.

Lynn Robert Berg, present photo Scottish character actor Alistair Sim, which was released in the United Kingdom under the title Scrooge, is frequently screened on television during the holiday season. Scrooge has most notably been played by Albert Finney in , George C. On behalf of all of us at Great Lakes Theater, we say thank you to each of our Choir Performance Partners for sharing their talents with us! Brecksville-Broadview Heights Chamber Choir eve. John Beebe Gary D. At Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival: Kelsey will be graduating in May from the music theater program at Baldwin Wallace University.

She is overjoyed to spend the holidays here with GLT and would like to thank her amazing professors, friends and family for their continuous love and support. Eight seasons at The Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Ensemble at Great Lakes Theater. For more information visit DavidHolbert. David is thrilled to be returning to the GLT stage. Together, our support provides services to even more people who need civil legal counsel to ensure shelter, safety and economic security. In addition to his work onstage, Patrick is a sound designer whose work has appeared off-Broadway and in regional theaters around the country.

Many thanks to the cast, crew and staff at Great Lakes Theater for their support of this magical production! Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre. God bless us, everyone. It is the gift that keeps on giving to him, this company and community — to the children who grew up performing in it and to their dedicated families that make it possible. Thank you Charles Dickens for continuing to teach the lesson which we seem to keep forgetting. Many thanks to the entire company. Much love to Marlowe and family. Forever and a day — Natalia. Bill in Mamma Mia!

Franklin in Passing Strange 14th Street Theatre. He would love to thank his mother, father and sister for their support. Charlotta is a sixth- grader at Ruffing Montessori. She enjoys voice lessons and free time with her friends and family.

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He has studied acting with the Cleveland Play. Previous roles include Mr. Nick has endless gratitude for his family and Nicki. These performances are dedicated to Dougfred Miller, my friend. Riget ended after two seasons with many loose ends and at least one further season completely scripted, due to the deaths of three key actors: Drusse , and Morten Rotne Leffers male dishwasher. Father Ted just managed to avoid this. Dermot Morgan, the actor behind the titular character, tragically died of a sudden heart attack 24 hours after filming wrapped on the series' final episode.

To quote Wikipedia, "The irony of Morgan's death, at a time when after twenty years of struggle, he had finally achieved financial and artistic freedom, was not lost on his family and friends and commented on by his colleagues in the media. His death did still invoke this trope, though, as a new series he was thinking of doing had to be scrapped.

Treme writer David Mills, who had also worked on The Wire , died of an aneurysm while on set just days before the show's premier. Rest in peace, Captain Phil Harris. He had a stroke, was put in a medically-induced coma, woke up, wrote to the film crew to keep shooting, and then died. In case you couldn't tell, he was something of a badass. Phil was also the only member of the show who had previously come closest to dying he broke a rib, which dislodged a blood clot.

Steve Irwin, aka the Crocodile Hunter , was killed in a freak accident with a stingray while filming the documentary Ocean's Deadliest with Philippe Cousteau Jr. He was posthumously featured in his daughter's show, Bindi the Jungle Girl. According to his wife, Terri, he had laid out ten years' worth of plans for Australia Zoo, their family's home base, before he died.

The Supernatural series of novels by Carver Edlund aka Chuck Shurley is actually a written account of the lives of Sam and Dean Winchester, written by a divine prophet. The series ends on the sadistic cliffhanger that is "No Rest for the Wicked," the finale of season 3 when the publishers ran into financial troubles, mirroring fears of the effects of the writers strike at the time.

Despite this he kept writing his books but can't publish them because Sam and Dean found out about it. Unfortunately, this will not improve the cliffhanger situation.

At the end of "Swansong" Chuck disappears and is presumed dead by Castiel Word of God initially stated he was God himself and simply left Sam and Dean to it so the series can never be resumed. In season nine it is revealed that new volumes of the series are being published on the Internet. They are published under the Internet handle of Becky Rosen, a fan obsessed with Sam Winchester and the former girlfriend of Chuck.

NewsRadio continued after the tragic death of Phil Hartman but the show was never the same. It only continued for one season, and only because Phil wouldn't have wanted them to stop. Same thing with John Ritter and the sitcom 8 Simple Rules , only it lasted a bit longer. The Sandbaggers ' creator Ian Mackintosh died in a mysterious plane crash halfway through the third season. The season was finished with three episodes written by other writers, and the show wasn't continued after that.

Chico And The Man: They wrote it into the script that Chico was visiting family in Mexico and then later stated that he died, and they tried to replace him with Raul , but ratings dipped in the final season and it was canceled. All the more disturbing because he killed himself a few hours after taping his final episode, "Ed Talks to God.

The show was pulled immediately, a presumed difficult decision for the network, considering that the series premiered to decent ratings and they had spent quite a bit of time in the preceding weeks promoting the series on their other programs. They eventually aired the remaining eight episodes later in the Summer of , with co-host Jessica Chobot becoming a correspondent for X-Play in order to fulfill her contract for Proving Ground , which was discontinued with no chance of revival. Pitchmen, a Discovery Channel show about finding and shilling unknown-but-great products and inventions, had as one of its costars legendarily loud huckster Billy Mays.

After Mays' death, the show floated in limbo for a while, until it was eventually revealed almost two years later that his son would start doing the show. The TV series Lime Street , starring Robert Wagner and essentially devised for Samantha Smith after her letter to Yuri Andropov brought her worldwide attention , ended even before it aired - with just eight episodes produced, the year-old and her father were killed in a plane crash not long before the series premiered.

Rather than recast her role, the series simply ceased production. That Other Wiki has the whole sordid story. When Nichols died in real life, the character of Else died as well. Ironically, the episodes concerning Else's very real death were adapted from the Archie Bunker's Place episodes centered around Edith's death - which only occurred on the show after Jean Stapleton quit. Andy Whitfield, who played the titled character on Spartacus: Blood and Sand , was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in This caused production to halt while Andy went through treatment. During this time, Starz produced a prequel series Gods of the Arena.

Andy gave his blessing for the network to recast his character so the series could resume. He was declared cancer-free two months after Gods of the Arena aired, but succumbed to a reoccurance disease in September The Joy of Painting ended when Bob Ross was diagnosed with lymphoma. It was decided that Finn would be killed off in the 5x03 episode "The Quarterback", with the show ending in The producers of Game of Thrones have reportedly planned for this in advance.

In , something George R. Martin, author of the book series upon the program is based, revealed that he has outlined his planned conclusion for the series to the showrunners, both so they can plan ahead, and also as insurance should he ever be unable to complete the final two books. A character from the source material who was set to appear in Season 5 will not do so. Because the actor who played him died in the middle of filming, and the show's creators opted to not recast out of respect.

On HBO 's Silicon Valley , one of the lead actors, Christopher Evan Welch, died in December , before the series premiere and after shooting only 5 of the 8 planned episodes. Instead of re-casting his character, the writers wrote his character out. Despite positive reviews, the show had low ratings due to Patrick Swayze 's struggle with pancreatic cancer, which made him unable to promote it himself. The show put on long-term hiatus in June , after its first and only season, so that Swayze could take the time to deal with his health issues.

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The intention was that the show would return once Swayze got better, but he passed away in September, and then the show was canceled as a result. Ever-so-narrowly averted by Jim Henson: Puppeteer Steve Whitmire took over as Kermit almost immediately Jim actually had wanted Steve to take over even before he died, as he was getting older and wanted to focus on other, non-Muppet-related projects , and - after spending several years as The Voiceless - began performing Ernie as well in Also averted with Jerry Nelson, who passed in His Muppet involvement had mostly been reduced to voicing his characters on Sesame Street , with other puppeteers having taken over the majority of his characters prior to his death.

Unfortunately played straight with Richard Hunt, whose passing resulted in many of his characters being retired such as most, if not all, of his Sesame characters or being reduced to bit parts for many years. A few Brazilian soap operas had actors dying before their completion. The standout cases are ones where the death was not due to disease: Daniella Perez was murdered by a castmate in , and Domingos Montagner drowned in Both also had sad plot connections Perez' assassin was her on-screen lover, while Montagner's character survived drowning in the very river the actor died in.

Perez's death, halfway through the plot of a telenovela written by her mother Gloria, was more difficult to handle: Gloria took two weeks out during which other authors wrote the victim and perpetrator out of the plot , once back added a subplot involving the legal system , and had to finish the soap opera two months before planned.

Montagner's, close to the story's conclusion, only had any scenes he hadn't filmed yet rewritten from his character's point of view to imply Montagner's presence. Less than a week after the Presidential election, Gwen Ifill, the widely-respected moderator for Washington Week , died of endometrial cancer just as America was in the process of entering an era where her insight as a journalist would be needed more than ever. For months afterwards, the show did not have a permanent host as PBS searched for a journalist who would be ready to fill the big shoes Ifill had left.

Los Angeles was written off as taking care of some "unfinished business". After the death of lead actor Bill Paxton , the producers of Training Day stated that there were no plans to recast his role, were the show to be renewed for a second season which ultimately didn't happen.

Oscar-winning film director Jonathan Demme died on April 26, , the same day that an episode of the miniseries Shots Fired that he had directed was first aired. Narrowly averted by Sewing with Nancy ; host Nancy Zieman had the sense to announce her retirement in September following a terminal cancer diagnosis, ultimately passing on the day after the final episode was broadcast just over two months later.

Given that he was one of the series' main characters, this leaves the future of the series uncertain. It also meant that "Dear Santa, Go Fuck Yourself", their live Christmas tour, had to be postponed on rather short notice, as there was no way they could rewrite all of his lines in such a short span of time. Hope Morrison's ending, already not looking good for her seeing how she was last seen being arrested towards the end of , looks extremely bleak after Jessica Falkholt was killed by a disqualified driver on Boxing Day, lingering for several days before succumbing to her injuries on January 17, Then, he had different guest critics substituting for Siskel until he chose Richard Roeper for his new co-host.

The show went on until , when Ebert began battling thyroid cancer and different guest critics started substituting for him. The show was cancelled in , and after Ebert's own death on April 4, , it's unlikely to ever come back. Patty Duke 's final performance before her March 29, death was on Liv and Maddie as the twins' Grandma Janice and her identical sister Hillary in October Given the positive response to that episode, along with Patty's own enjoyment of working there, it's likely that these would have become recurring roles for her.

Anthony Bourdain took his own life in while filming an episode of Parts Unknown. It has since been confirmed the show will end after Season 12, which will feature the final episodes Bourdain filmed. Fashion Police did not last very long after the passing of cohost Joan Rivers. How "finished" the hypothetical tracks are is also a subject of some debate, with Grohl, Novoselic, Love, and any number of other people often contradicting one another, and occasionally, more often than that in Love's case, contradicting themselves.

The only thing they all seem to agree on is that there are Kurt Cobain tracks the fans have not heard, and probably never will until Love dies, and even then only maybe. The massive box set With the Lights Out which contains many unreleased Nirvana songs and demos alongside previously released rarities, is considered merely the tip of the iceberg of the Nirvana cache to fans. A previously unreleased but well-known late period Nirvana recording, "You Know You're Right", was attached to a greatest hits album in and along with already released contemporaneous tracks like "Sappy" merely hinted at what directions a fourth Nirvana album could have gone.

Johann Sebastian Bach rather famously failed to finish the fourteenth fugue in The Art of Fugue, cutting off right at the point where he introduced his own name as the subject Bb-A-C-B, which, in the German way of naming notes, where Bb is B, and B is H, is B-A-C-H , although this was more a case of setting it aside for a while and not getting back to it before his death rather than dying while working on it.

There is also a convincing argument for the possibility that Bach actually left The Art of Fugue incomplete on purpose to serve as a musicological exercise, encouraging people to come up with their own completions. The fugue specifically cuts off after the first entrance of the "B-A-C-H" subject in counterpoint to the first and second subjects; the order in which the first three subjects appear in each of the four voices has led to speculation that Bach intended to make the final fugue a quadruple fugue, with the main subject from the previous fugues as the fourth subject. Some of the speculative completions of the fugue include the fourth subject most notably that of Hungarian musicologist Zoltan Goncz , others only use the three already introduced by Bach.

Ludwig van Beethoven 's Symphony No. Beethoven was already laying the groundwork for the symphony while composing his famous Symphony No. However, he only completed a few hundred bars' worth of sketches for the first movement before setting it aside, and he never returned to it. The English musicologist Barry Cooper produced a speculative completion of the first movement and released a recording in , but critics almost universally agree that the results are far less impressive than they would have been had Beethoven finished the symphony himself.

John Lennon recorded a large number of demos before his death in that were not used on Double Fantasy his album with recorded with his wife, Yoko Ono. Six were released after being polished by Ono in , along with six of Ono's compositions and released as the album Milk and Honey. Four more were given to the surviving Beatles by Ono in early These new songs - which rather split the fanbase - were parodied by Mitch Benn in "Please Don't Release This Song" in which John Lennon pleads for his unfinished music not to be re-recorded and released after his death.

John was also considering going on concert tours after several years of not doing so. George Harrison died while working on the album Brainwashed ; it was completed by his son Dhani Harrison and former Travelling Wilbury bandmate Jeff Lynne. They made it considerably more lavish than George would have if he had lived—we have Word of God on that; Lynne felt that doing otherwise would've dishonored his memory. George Harrison was also one of the producers of Cirque du Soleil 's Love ; in the making-of special his wife and son are seen watching the troupe's dress rehersal some months after George died, and it's eerie seeing Dhani with wide, bright eyes looking through a giant projection of his nearly-identical father.

On the subject of The Traveling Wilburys , the band averted this by continuing after Roy Orbison died shortly after their first album's release, but it severely shortened their intended plans, and they released one more album in before splitting. Del Shannon was briefly considered as a replacement for Orbison, as Jeff Lynne was producing Shannon's comeback album, but he died before they could do anything together. The Wilburys paid tribute by covering his hit "Runaway". As mentioned above, Roy Orbison was in the midst of a major comeback after almost 20 years and a really tragic life including a tour with the aforementioned The Traveling Wilburys Avenged Sevenfold were in the early stages of recording their album Nightmare when their drummer and one of the founding members , Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan, was found dead in his home in December of of an overdose of painkillers combined with alcohol, and the coroner noted that he suffered from cardiomegaly an enlarged heart which may have also been a factor in his death.

Production on the album was suspended and the drummer of Dream Theater , Mike Portnoy, stepped in to fill the remaining tracks on the song before temporarily touring with the band. The entire album is dedicated to The Rev's memory. Portnoy was not only The Rev's favorite drummer, but his inspiration and idol.

Even seven years after his death, the members of the band still show signs of mourning him. The last song The Rev wrote was the piano ballad Fiction. He sings the majority of the song, with M. Shadows only offering vocal accompaniment. The band have stated in various interviews that The Rev recorded the song in secret just three days before his death and turned in the finished track, stating, "this is it. This is the last song. Many of the fans and some of the band members themselves are convinced the song itself is his suicide note. When the Hendrix family regained control of his estate in they withdrew these albums and released a re-compiled First Rays The "non-family" posthumous albums featured various session guitarists overdubbed and intermingled with Hendrix's work, and given that Hendrix's guitar is pretty much why people listen to Hendrix, fans were not amused in the slightest.

Gustav Mahler dreaded the "curse of the Ninth" , so snuck in an unnumbered symphony aka the song cycle Das Lied von der Erde , although referring to it as a symphony is contentious after his Symphony No. The drafts of the 10th symphony at least were worked through to the end, but they were only partially orchestrated and a little sketchy. Deryck Cooke's completion of the symphony was the first and remains the most popular, but even this is bitterly contested, since so much of the appeal of Mahler's symphonies lies in their orchestration. Anton Bruckner planned for his Symphony No.

However, he had only completed the first three movements at his death in , and although he left enough sketches for the finale that several speculative completions have been produced, performed, and recorded, it is more usually performed as a three-movement work. Knowing he would not live to finish the piece, Bruckner suggested that his setting of the Te Deum prayer be used as a finale, but as it is in C major rather than D minor or D major , this idea has never been popular.

Hideto Matsumoto better known as "hide" from the band X Japan died before completing his third solo album, Ja, Zoo. It is still debated today whether his death was an accident or a suicide, though most agree it was an accident. Former X Japan and Loudness bassist Taiji Sawada has also died of a likely homicide covered up as suicide , becoming the second person out of both the original X Japan and the third formation of Loudness to die. The other from Loudness was Munetaka Higuchi , the drummer and creator of the band, in from liver cancer. While working on his third album, to be called Center of Six , he was diagnosed with cancer, and died in before the album could be completed; he was The songs eventually got released on two albums: It is hotly debated just how much of his Requiem Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart managed to finish before his death, and how much was done by his assistant afterward.

For instance, the second half of the Agnus Dei, the "Lux Aeterna" section, is just the first movement with new words. Which is a valid decision , but does damage Sussmayr's claims of originality. Giacomo Puccini died before completing the opera Turandot ; he had finished up to about the point of Liu's death and the rest was finished by Franco Alfano. Another recollection of Toscanini's statement is "Qui, il maestro fini" Here, the master finished. This is more in keeping with Toscanini's terse, no-nonsense character.

Puccini also died before deciding on an ending for La rondine. This has contributed to it being performed so infrequently afterwards. In addition, much of the music he did complete for it was long mislaid or omitted from performances, especially in the Giuletta Act.

The original edition of the opera was completed by Ernest Guiraud, but editors and producers have continued to tinker with the work ever since; its acts are not even always performed in the same order. Two of the best known numbers in the Giuletta Act, the aria "Scintille, diamant" and the Sextet with Chorus, were not composed by Offenbach at all but merely based on his work, and were first performed as part of Hoffmann in a production.

Ferruccio Busoni left the opera Doktor Faust unfinished. Completions of it have been prepared by Philipp Jarnach, a pupil of the composer, and by Antony Beaumont. Alban Berg left his opera Lulu unfinished. Although little work remained to be done to complete it, the composer's widow successfully vetoed any attempt to do so until her death in , forty-one years later, after which it was successfully completed by Friedrich Cerha.

Dmitri Shostakovich planned to write a set of twenty-four string quartets, one for each of the major and minor keys. However, he had only completed fifteen of them and had written a few sketches for a sixteenth by his death in Liechtenstein-born composer Josef Rheinberger planned to write a set of twenty-four organ sonatas, one for each of the major and minor keys, but he had only completed twenty of them by his death in The viola concerto was in a much more fragmentary state, with much of the instrumentation and texture still to be completed; although both Serly and, fifty years later, the composer's son Peter in collaboration with Paul Neubauer and Nelson Dellamaggiore produced performance versions of the work, they are much more speculative than the performance version of the piano concerto.

Sergei Prokofiev was working on multiple compositions when he died of a cerebral haemorrhage in The concertino for cello and orchestra was left with an unfinished finale, but Prokofiev had indicated to the work's intended performer, Mstislav Rostropovich, how he planned to complete it, and Rostropovich put together a performing version with help from Prokofiev's fellow composer Dmitri Kabalevsky. Less fortunate were his Piano Sonata No. A speculative version of the concerto for two pianos by University of Toronto composition professor Norbert Palej, with input from Oleg Prokofiev's son Gabriel, was premiered in He was also planning an eleventh piano sonata and a substantial revision to his Symphony No.

Both were subsequently completed by Leonard Lehrman. Tupac Shakur has become incredibly prolific after death. After a stint in prison and making a deal with the devil in the form of signing with infamous record label Death Row, Tupac churned out a mammoth number of songs mainly by way of recording the vocals for said song in marathon recording sessions prior to his death. The logic for this was to both make up for lost time after spending a year in prison at the height of his career and get his Death Row label contract fulfilled ASAP due to him realizing what a huge mistake it was to sign with the infamous label.

Since then, a good number of posthumous albums have been made and they've even constructed a lifelike hologram of him for Doctor Dre and Snoop Dog to perform tracks featuring Tupac alongside them in concert. Naturally, a common Epileptic Tree is that Tupac is still alive and producing new material. Franz Schubert left no less than four unfinished symphonies upon his death, including his 8th, the "Unfinished Symphony". He also left around half a dozen piano sonatas in partially completed states, most of which have been speculatively sketched to completion by some performers but all of which are generally either performed in their incomplete states or simply dropped from the repertoire.

Schubert generally sketched pieces to the point where he could easily complete them if he found a publisher for them, but his success rate at finding publishers for his work during his lifetime was rather modest, meaning he left many unfinished manuscripts at his death. The day before Brazilian satirical band Mamonas Assassinas were to start an international tour which would be followed by a break to record their second album , they were killed in a plane crash.

The Visual Kei Symphonic Metal band Versailles had gone major in , was recording their second full-length album, and was about to embark on its first world tour as a major band when, on August 9th, bassist Jasmine You, one of the most notable names in the VK scene, suddenly fell ill and died with the exact cause of his death never announced publicly. Understandably, the band's activities were halted and the album release postponed.

Unlike many of the examples on this page, however, they didn't break up; they went on their world tour the next year with Masashi who later became a permanent band member on support bass, and guitarist Hizaki filled in Jasmine's missing bass parts for the album. Michael Jackson died in , weeks before the scheduled start of his planned This Is It concerts in London. He had been working on new songs in the last few years of his life as well; some were completed posthumously with infamous Michael soundalike Jason Malachi reportedly handling vocals on several tracks , bundled together with unused songs from older albums, and released as Michael in Most of Jackson's unused material was released in his lifetime to fill out reissues and a box set; as of April the only post- Michael releases with more "vault" stuff were the Bad reissue in and Xscape in The title track was first created during the recording of Michael's album Invincible , and "Love Never Felt So Good" a duet with Justin Timberlake came from a demo made with Paul Anka in the early 's.

The Other Wiki has a running list of the known tracks and their fates. It didn't take Led Zeppelin long to decide to break up after John Bonham died. Bonham's death was particularly ill-timed: After their brief reunion at Live 8, it seemed like we might finally hear a new Pink Floyd album. Then Syd Barrett and Richard Wright died David Gilmour had flatly squashed the idea of any new work before the Live 8 show took place.

And Syd Barrett, who sadly became increasingly mentally unstable due to his drug abuse while in the band, had left the music business for good by the mids. Gilmour and Mason decided in to get the rest of Wright's recordings during The Division Bell two decades prior and make an album out of it. The result, The Endless River , was released in the fall of Fans whipped out the Epileptic Trees theory again that Waters would be involved in a new Floyd project like the chatter post-Live 8, but the pair again put that quickly to rest.

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After Queen frontman Freddie Mercury died in , many of his final recordings with the band were completed in for the Made In Heaven album. Mercury's final vocal performance is on the song "Mother Love", in which Brian May sings the final verse as Mercury left the studio to rest, and then ultimately never returned to finish it. Brian May and Roger Taylor recruited Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers to revive Queen, but the results, while not disastrous, were received lukewarmly by critics.

May and Taylor revived the band yet again with Adam Lambert for a pair of tours in , while also releasing the pseudo- Greatest Hits Album Queen Forever , based on long-lost demos and other recordings featuring Freddie Mercury. Scatman John sadly died of lung cancer in his Los Angeles home on December 3, Pepper -like concept album, but he was killed in a plane crash 18 days after recording it, and it ended up being the last song he would ever record.

Buddy Holly wrote a bunch of new songs in the months leading up to his death including "Peggy Sue Got Married" and "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" and recorded acoustic guitar demos of them. We'll never know how he intended to arrange them, but that didn't stop his label from overdubbing and releasing them on two separate occasions. Former La Bouche singer Melanie Thornton died in a plane crash before her solo album could be completed.

The vocals from two of her unreleased songs were used in a Posthumous Collaboration with the rest of the group. Peter Sarstedt , mostly known for his song "Where did you go to my lovely" wrote a sequel to it called "Last of the Breed". However, "Farewell Marie-Clair", continuing the story of Marie-Clair, unfortunately did not materialize due to this trope.

Keyboardist Dwayne Goettel of Skinny Puppy died of a heroin overdose while the album The Process was in the works, and the rest of the group disbanded for several years. Cevin and Ogre reformed the group in with Mark Walk. The night before they were due to leave for a major tour of the USA, frontman Ian Curtis hung himself in his kitchen. His history of depression and severe epilepsy made suicide almost inevitable according to his friends and family; but no one expected it that soon. The rest of the band changed their name to New Order , updated their sound to a more synth-based synthpop and practically invented the alternative dance genre, and went on to greater commercial success.

As for the leftover Joy Division material, the last two songs Curtis recorded, "Ceremony" and "In a Lonely Place", were re-recorded released as New Order's debut single, while their remaining non-album work would see various re-releases on a number of compilations. Bach , which only has a third and a fourth movement; in his monologue describing the piece, he explains that he was born too late to write the first two movements. Layne Staley, lead singer and co-songwriter for grunge outfit Alice in Chains died of a drug overdose in The band never officially split, but Staley's addiction meant that he was reclusive from the late nineties til his death, which meant that the band was also inactive.

In the band reunited, replacing Staley with William DuVall. Rex leader Marc Bolan was killed in a car crash, ending the band immediately. After five years of rising success, three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in a plane crash while the rest were seriously injured. The band's fifth album, Street Survivors , was released three days before the crash; the album cover art originally superimposed a group shot of the band onto a city street engulfed in flames, and had to be pulled from store shelves and replaced with an alternate version of the group shot on a plain black background recent CD re-releases have restored the original cover.

Eerily, Steve Gaines, who died in the crash, appeared to have his eyes closed and had his head surrounded by flames on the original cover. When Jeff Buckley drowned in the Wolf River in , he left behind an entire album worth of material that the producers had to guess the order of the songs that were going to appear. The double album Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk was released the following year, reflecting the album's Troubled Production - the first disc contained the basically finished songs he and his band recorded with Tom Verlaine as Record Producer , and the second disc is home demos made on a 4-track recorder.

The Exploding Hearts were a punk-revival band from Seattle best known for their catchy songs and melodies. They probably could have made it big if it weren't for the fact that in their van rolled over, killing 3 of the members. This left behind only one completed album , Guitar Romantic , and several unreleased songs for a scheduled album for the following year, and very little live footage of the band. Shattered was released in with the songs and several remixes along with a DVD of probably the only recording of a live Exploding Hearts performance in existence.

Since Heaven and Hell only existed so the non-Ozzy members of Sabbath could play with Dio again, the band pretty much ceased to exist after he died. Ronnie's main band, Dio, were also working on two follow-ups to their Magica concept album prior to his death. The story will never be completed now. Making the way he cuts off the narration of Magica's storyline with some teases cut off by a michevious "Ah!

Randy Rhoads died at the age of 25, after just two albums with Ozzy Osbourne. Although Ozzy continued to record and perform obviously the sound of the band changed after Randy's death, since he made significant contributions to the songwriting of the band at the time. Their album, "Back and In Attack," was cancelled when Rob suddenly died of a drug overdose in A few years earlier, Rob and Fab who had already recorded as Empire Bizarre before the creation of Milli Vanilli released a new album of their own performances, without the Milli Vanilli moniker.

Despite a promotional appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show , the album fell afoul of distribution problems, and very few copies made it to stores. Obviously, his renditions sound absolutely nothing like those of the original vocalists. Jazz critics usually cite the live recordings by pianist Bill Evans and his trio at New York's Village Vanguard as Evans' Growing the Beard moment, but 10 days after those shows were recorded bassist Scott LaFaro died in a car accident. The incident traumatized Evans and worsened his already heavy heroin addiction. Evans himself died in of a drug-related bleeding ulcer just as he was entering a creative renaissance.

LaFaro is an interesting case because, due to his elevation of the bass' role to counterpoint to instead of solely support to the soloist, he is frequently regarded as being one of the three most influential bassists in jazz. The other two, Jimmy Blanton and Jaco Pastorius, also died at similarly young ages. Paul wanted the world to know she was a great musician, regardless of the evidence The Wings-era works are mixed at best, but her most recent songs are excellent if you can get past the lyrics.

George Gershwin died after writing five songs for the movie The Goldwyn Follies ; when he died, he was intending to compose a ballet for the film's dancing star Vera Zorina to choreography by George Balanchine. After George Gershwin's death, Vernon Duke supplied the additional music necessary for the film. Hard rock band Snot was receiving a lot of attention in the late nineties from their major label debut Get Some and their infamous antics on the Ozzfest tour. They were working on a second album until singer Lynn Strait was tragically killed in a car accident. Because Lynn died before he recorded vocals for most of the album, the band used the recorded instrumental tracks for the tribute album Strait Up with guest vocals.

The only track that had Lynn's vocals, "Choose What? The band broke up immediately following his death, but a couple of the members started a new revision of the band ten years later called Tons. Type O Negative frontman Peter Steele died of heart failure in April , just as he was due to begin writing and recording for a followup to Dead Again.

With his passing, the band ceased to exist as well. A year after her only top hit , "Lovin' You", Minnie Riperton was diagnosed with breast cancer, and passed away three short years later at age Hank Williams died quite young 29 , leaving plenty of unreleased material behind and inevitably having several posthumous hits.

Posthumus ' Franz Vonlichten died in May of , effectively stopping the group. Kino frontman Viktor Tsoi died in a car crash in , and the last act of his band was to release The Black Album. Rich Mullins died in a car accident in while working on The Jesus Record. It was released the following year as a double album - one disc of Rich's home demo recordings, the other disc featuring the same songs plus one extra given the full band treatment by Mullins' "Ragamuffin Band".

Chuck Schuldiner, the guy who pretty much invented Death Metal with his band Death , was diagnosed with brain cancer in late and underwent surgery and radiation therapy. Unfortunately the cancer recurred in , and a series of chemotherapy threatments weakened his body to the point that he died of pneumonia in December Rolf Kohler, the lead singer of Systems in Blue, died of a stroke in September The rest of the group still managed to produce a second album, Out of the Blue , the following year.

Back to Black is the last album we'll ever hear of Amy Winehouse. She was working on her third album when she died in Her last song, a duet with Tony Bennett called "Body and Soul", was released not long afterward. Francisco "Frankie" Gutierrez, frontman and face of the Eurodance act Captain Jack, made famous by the Dance Dance Revolution series, died of a hemorrhagic stroke in , ending the group for all practical purposes; Until , with singer Bruce Lacy taking on the character of "The Captain".

The lead singer of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Charles Haddon, committed suicide just before the release of their first and likely last album. The album was eventually finished by T-Boz and Chilli they were determined to finish it in Left Eye's honour , in some cases using Left Eye's previously-recorded rap solos. There was also a posthumous album of unfinished solo material that was released in and was finished with contributions from many artists, including Missy Elliot, Chamillionaire and the remaining members of TLC, T-boz and Chili, as well as Left Eye's sister Reigndrop.

That suicide attempt caused damage to his legs which never quite healed. Linkous eventually took his own life in , shortly before the wide release of his Dark Night of the Soul collaboration with Danger Mouse and David Lynch. Another project, Sparklehorse's fifth album, was left in a near-complete state after his death and has not yet seen the light of day. The album was originally recorded early in this year, but the record company rejected this version. The band starting rerecording the album with producer Tony Mansfield. Unfortunately, guitarist Ricky Wilson died during the sessions for the second version of the album, which meant that the songs he hadn't recorded parts for had to be overdubbed by session musicians.

They were so short on material that one of the songs on the album Juicy Jungle is an outtake from Fred Schneider's solo album. Whilst Bouncing Off The Satellites and several singles from it were released in , the remaining band members were too upset due to Ricky's death to tour or promote it. Luckily, it got better - drummer Keith took Ricky's place on guitar in and they started recording new material.

They have been together ever since. Bradley Nowell, the singer, songwriter and guitarist for Sublime died a few months before the release of his band's breakout third album. This meant their label had a hit album, no band to send out on tour and no chance for a follow up album. Instead, the surviving two members and Brad's dog Louie starred in a series of music videos released for each of the three singles released for the album. The label proceeded to fulfill the rest of the band's record deal with a continuous and morbid series of rarity and greatest hits albums that continue to be released to this day.

The two other members went on to a series of other bands of varying success before reforming as Sublime with Rome, which is legally not the same thing as Sublime due to Nowell's estate owning the copyright on the name. Similar to the Shostakovich example, Claude Debussy planned a collection of six instrumental sonatas, but only completed three before he died.

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The surviving members Ad-Rock and Mike D have said that they may perform together in the near future, but not with the Beastie Boys moniker. Harry Nilsson , who hadn't released an album since and that album wasn't even issued in the United States , began recording a comeback album starting in He died on January 15, , and it's been reported that he finished the album a few days before that.

A few tracks have been leaked, but there's never been any indication that the album, provisionally titled Papa's Got a Brown New Robe , will ever be released. All three had singles on the charts at the time in fact, Hawkins' "Lonesome " had just been released, and would go on to 1 two months later , but Cline was the only one of the three who had continued posthumous chart success. Keith Whitley died of alcohol poisoning at age 34 in , three months before the release of his most successful album, I Wonder Do You Think of Me. RCA Records released Kentucky Bluebird in , which included several unfinished demos fitted with new instrumentation and other previously-unreleased tidbits ranging from already-finished songs to American Country Countdown interviews.

A year later, the same label released Wherever You Are Tonight , also composed of demos with new instrumentation dubbed in. Now that Jeff Hanneman has passed away, Slayer may become a three-piece band with a touring guitarist, or else said touring guitarist may become an official member once work on their upcoming album is completed. Before Hanneman's death, Kerry King stated that if he recovered from his health problems, he'd be welcome to return to the studio, but now King's forced to record all the guitar parts himself anyway.

Since , because of his failing health, Hanneman was replaced by Gary Holt. This trope is practically embodied by Cliff Burton of Metallica , who was heavily responsible for the band's sound - particularly on their best-selling second and third albums - and as a result of being musically educated, was acknowledged by the band as the most talented musician and writer in the group.

Sadly, he died in aged just After this happened, Metallica changed their style completely from the Thrash Metal genre they practically created to a slow, mainstream hard rock sound, leading to massive outcry from fans accusing them of "selling-out". This, combined with the fact that they dropped almost all Burton-era songs from the live setlist in this era, strongly suggests that Burton's death and the resulting grief is what drove the band into this change.

One thing's for certain; Metallica fans everywhere wonder What Could Have Been had Burton lived and continued writing. Mitch Lucker's fatal motorcycle accident left Suicide Silence without a vocalist and an uncertain future. KMD was a hip hop group in the early 90s that had success with an album titled Mr.

However, shortly before the release of the controversial album Black Bastards , member DJ Subroc died in a car crash, leaving the album unreleased until Folk-rocker Jim Croce died in an airplane crash in Louisiana in , but had four chart singles after his death. Lead singer Jack Vigliatura and bassist Bill White were killed.

They released two albums, and one of those Baypath Rd was self-released and is long out of print. They released the song "How to Do That" 3 days later in his honor. Their first album, which they were recording at the time, was released in July and they have only released one mixtape since. Although most dance sensations are one hit wonders anyway, the death of one of their members only a year after their hit song was release couldn't have helped matters.

Cahron "JayAre" Childs died in , the year their second mixtape was released. The day before Richey Edwards, lyricist and driving force of the Manic Street Preachers was due to fly to America to promote the band and potentially crack the market he vanished, with all signs showing that he jumped off a bridge , being declared legally dead 13 years later. Although the rest of the band went on as a three piece and still perform to this day, they acknowledge that they have never reached the creative apex of The Holy Bible , the album released six months before Richey's death and considered a reflection of his mental state at the time.

Latin tejano superstar Selena had recorded six songs for her first English-language album, Dreaming of You , before she was shot and killed in March of Her family and record company paid their respects by releasing the album with four of the songs she recorded and a mix of pervious hits. Sid Vicious died of an overdose at age 21, leaving only a few singles behind. A posthumous album, Sid Sings was released in the wake of his death. Seeing that the singing and production on it was horrible not much else has been released ever since. Metal band After the Burial lost their one of their founding members and rhythm guitarist, Justin Lowe, to a car crash on June 21, Justin was suffering from a massive Creator Breakdown beforehand and it is unknown if the crash was intentional or not.

The remaining members have yet to make a statement regarding the future of After the Burial. She had two albums' worth of material in the can at the time despite not having been on a label at the time her previous label, Polydor, had closed a couple years prior , and she ended up with two posthumous albums. In April , when Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland was struggling with his heroin addiction, his bandmates effectively dropping him from the group and pressed on in performing, an act that upset many fans.

Hopes of reconciliation ended with Weiland's death in December , though they would pay tribute to him. David Bowie 's final album, Blackstar , was released on his 69th birthday, two days before he succumbed to cancer. The meaning of many of the album's songs soon became clear after the fact - he knew he wasn't long for this world. Terry Jones, founding member and frontman of the seminal Doom Metal band Pagan Altar , passed away after a battle with cancer in May of They had recorded most of the album Never Quite Dead , and news on the fate of the band in the wake of Terry's death was scarce until April when Terry's son Alan announced they would re-record the instrumental parts of Never Quite Dead , now retitled Room of Shadows , which was then released later that year.

Brendan Radigan of Magic Circle has been acting frontman in their live shows since as well. On October 30, , Romanian metalcore band Goodbye to Gravity was celebrating the release of their second album Mantras of War. However, the use of pyrotechnics in Colectiv nightclub for this occasion turned out to be fatal - the place got caught on fire, which eventually killed 63 people and injuring more , including four out of five bandmembers: Then Scott died after a wild night of drinking.

The Youngs considered disbanding, but instead recruited Brian Johnson and made Back in Black as a tribute to Scott, with great success. What a way to go out. The death of Glenn Frey in January seems to have put a permanent end to the on-again, off-again career of the Eagles Negativland lost three of its founding members in two years. Ian Allen , who started it all, died of infection January 17, while hospitalized for routine heart surgery. He was only fifty-seven. Seven months later, on July 22, sound collage master and cultural jammer Don Joyce succumbed to heart failure, taking with him Crosley Bendix, C.

Elliot Friday, Izzy Isn't and dozens more of the group's familiar characters. Don had hosted the avant-garde program Over the Edge on KPFA for over thirty years and there was serious talk of ending the show with him. Listeners called in asking surviving members to keep and evolve OTE in Don's memory.

The first few hundred buyers also received a small container of Don's ashes. In April , Richard Lyons , whose mellifluous voice portrayed radio preachers and '70s media moguls, and whose dark sarcastic wit gave birth to one of the group's biggest scandals , died of cancer on his fifty-seventh birthday.

One of his last conscious acts was to sing in a final recording of his "Nesbitt's Lime Soda" song and the newly copyright-free " Happy Birthday to You! Mary Hansen, the guitarist and backing vocalist for the British art rock band Stereolab , was killed in when she was hit by a truck while riding her bicycle. A solo EP she had been working on, Hybrid , wasn't released until when it was completed by her Stereolab bandmate Andy Ramsay.

Hansen's harmony and counter-melody vocals were considered to be an essential part of Stereolab's signature sound, and many fans believe that they never musically recovered from her death. Over the next decade, the famously prolific band released just three more albums. Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell died shortly after performing a concert with the band in Detroit in May The death was later determined to be a suicide by hanging, which shocked many given Cornell had tweeted very optimistic messages in the days and hours before his death.

The band was in the middle of an American tour and in the process of recording their seventh album. The tour was canceled and the future of both the band and album is undetermined. Cornell's death also ended the brief reunion of his other band Audioslave , who had performed a one-off concert just a few months prior, and were strongly hinting that there would be more activity in the future. Two months later, Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington also committed suicide on what would have been Cornell's 53rd birthday.

Like Soundgarden, they were also in the middle of an American tour which they cancelled the remainder of. Unlike Soundgarden, Linkin Park have chosen to continue in some capacity, at least for the moment. Torsten Fenslau, producer of Culture Beat's debut single and signature song "Mr. Vain", tragically died in a car accident shortly after its release. Right after the song hit big, the duo Skeeter Davis and Betty Jack Davis, who, despite their last names, were not actually sisters were involved in a car accident which killed Betty Jack.

Skeeter recorded some songs with Betty Jack's sister Georgia, but after these songs proved unsuccessful, Skeeter had a Breakup Breakout , most notably with the country-pop crossover "The End of the World". Janis Joplin died of an accidental heroin overdose shortly before her only big hit "Me and Bobby McGee" topped the charts. Montgomery Gentry was working on an album for Average Joes Entertainment in and , but group member Troy Gentry died in a helicopter accident on September 8, After he died, it was revealed that the album would be released anyway. Other member Eddie Montgomery brother of John Michael Montgomery also announced that he planned to continue touring under the Montgomery Gentry name.

Therefore, the single "Ray of Sunshine" was his last.

Tom Petty died suddenly on October 2, , only a week after he wrapped up his 40th anniversary tour with the Heartbreakers, who subsequently dissolved. In his last interviews, Tom said that the tour would probably be "the last big one". Although it's unclear if he was in the middle of working on anything right before he died, he did have plans for and beyond, including: A solo tour in which he performed his Wildflowers album in its entirety, which would be accompanied by a special reissue of the album that included a second disc worth of tracks that he had initially intended to include on the original release.

A follow-up to the Heartbreakers' Hypnotic Eye , as well as a third Mudcrutch record, were intended to eventually be recorded. Right after his 40th anniversary tour wrapped, he planned to head into the studio to produce the second album by Los Angeles garage rock band The Shelters, who he raved about in his final interview. When Joe Strummer died in late , The Clash had just been announced as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and the band's classic lineup was gearing up to reunite and perform at the ceremony.

The band's co-leader Mick Jones has since confirmed that this reunion wouldn't have been a one-off, and they were planning to record a new album and go on tour as well. Grant McLennan, the co-lead singer and songwriter for the Australian indie rock band The Go-Betweens, died suddenly of a heart attack in on the night he was planning to propose to his girlfriend.

At the time, the band had been in the early stages of putting together their tenth album, and were also preparing a compilation of the solo music that both McLennan and the band's other singer-songwriter Robert Forster had put out between the band's break-up in and their reunion in Work on the compilation, Intermission , was finished by Forster and was released in Some of the songs the two had written for a new album wound up on Forster's solo album The Evangelist. Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries died of unexplained causes on January 15, in London, where she was doing some recording sessions.

A month later, her surviving bandmates said that they would release her completed recordings as a final Cranberries album. Smith, the leader of prolific post-punk group The Fall , died of cancer in the middle of their tour. Several shows on that tour - including what would have been the band's first American tour dates in a decade - postponed or canceled due to Smith's rapidly deteriorating health.

Although he performed his final few shows from a wheelchair, and was still as lively and full of venom as ever , video footage of those concerts show him to be exhausted, frequently out of breath or difficult to understand. Ultimately his health got so bad that the group had to scuttle several shows just before they were due to go on, including what would have been their final show on 17 November His death came a few weeks before the release of his second solo album Poet Artist. The Grateful Dead planned to release a new studio album in the early s containing studio versions of the several new songs that had found their way into their concert setlists following the release of their Built to Last album in

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