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- The original guitarist and singer of American psychedelic rock group Iron Butterfly died at the age of 56 from liver cancer. He joined the group in 1966, and its members were able to use his parents' garage as a rehearsal space. After recording the first album Heavy, he left the group a year later; on the album, he sang lead or co-lead vocals on all the songs and was credited as a writer on eight of the ten tracks, including the entire second side.