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Lesley Gore RIP, Dutch Uncles, Father John Misty, Tennis, Golden Lab   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

LESLEY GORE, the singer and songwriter who scored a string of enormous hits in the early ’60s and who helped define the way that melodramatic teenage pop could sound, has died. Her longtime partner confirmed that she passed away from cancer at Manhattan’s New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She was 66. “It’s My Party” and  “You Don’t Own Me" are your Twofer Tuesday, but there's more at the first link. Also, the NYT obit, which somehow fails to mention Klaus Nomi.

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