Farewell, Wayne Kramer: Rock 'n roll revolutionary
Rock ‘n roll revolutionary Wayne Kramer, best known for fronting the proto-punk group MC5, has passed away from pancreatic cancer, aged 75.
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Rock ‘n roll revolutionary Wayne Kramer, best known for fronting the proto-punk group MC5, has passed away from pancreatic cancer, aged 75.
“I’ll be honest, I thought I was in Blades of Glory for most of the time that I was out there.”
Wayne Kramer, founding member of Detroit proto-punk group MC5, activist and one of rock's greatest guitarists, has died at age 75.
Fifty years ago, Manhattan dive bar CBGB began to become the home of a new musical scene – making the careers of Patti Smith, Blondie, the Ramones and many more.
The musician, who has died aged 75, co-founded MC5, a band that for all its undoubted brilliance, lurched from one disaster to the next