Comedy Legend George Carlin Dies At 71

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Play | The Rhapsody Editorial Music Blog found this 6/23/2008 on www.billboard.com [flag]
Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital yesterday (June 22). He was 71. [link]

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R.I.P. George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Published 6/23/2008 by Chuck Eddy at Play | The Rhapsody Editorial Music Blog
... that "such and such people were the rock stars of their day," whatever that's supposed to mean -- just over the weekend, I saw the claim bestowed upon both early '60s advertising bigwigs (in a New York Times Sunday magazine piece about the TV series Mad Men) and old-time magicians (on Antiques Roadshow.) But this morning, when  I learned George Carlin had succumbed to heart failure Sunday evening in Santa Monica at the age of 71, the obits reminded me of something -- back in suburban Detroit, in 1974, when I was ...

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