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Died: April 16, 2021. MIKE Mitchell, who has died aged 77, was a guitarist whose solo on The Kingsmen’s version of Richard Berry’s song, Louie Louie, helped define a sound that helped shift rock and roll out of the school hop and into infinitely rawer territory. The song was recorded by the teenage band in a three-track studio, where, according to Mitchell in a 1999 interview with John Broughton on Casey Radio, Melbourne, Australia, the Kingsmen’s one-take wonder of Louie Louie and two more songs took an hour all in, costing a cool $36 to make. The result saw Berry’s three-cho...

Kingsmen guitarist Mike Mitchell, who made ‘Louie Louie’ a breakout hit, was playing guitar days before he died in Oregon Updated Apr 20, 2021; Facebook Share International ‘Louie Louie’ Day is a thing, celebrated every April 11. All this because of a sloppy, slurry version of the song produced in 1963 by a Portland group called the Kingsmen. The recording is driven by what The Guardian newspaper has deemed “the song’s ultra-primitive riff, which bludgeoned its way into your brain through endless repetition.” Mike Mitchell, who died Friday at 77, is one of the men responsible f...