That was a sad surprise
Jun. 12th, 2011 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billeylerI read in the Entertainment Weekly that Andrew Gold had died of a heart attack on June 3 at age 59.
http://andrewgold.com/
He was iconic as a musician and singer for me in my early 20s. It MAY have been my mild obsession with red-headed people then; I'm not sure. It was likely that his song "Lonely Boy" rang for me during my coming-out in 1978. But I did have two of his albums, and I played them a lot. His big claim to fame was "Thank You for being a Friend," the theme song from Golden Girls--everyone knows THAT song.
I wrote him a note on AOL about 2005 and told him how much I had enjoyed his music in the 70s. I'm sure that made us both feel old, but he responded back within the hour, thanking me.
It wasn't until about that time I knew that he had equally talented and somewhat famous parents, Marni Nixon and Ernest Gold. Movie fans will remember both of them well.
R.I.P. Andrew.
http://andrewgold.com/
He was iconic as a musician and singer for me in my early 20s. It MAY have been my mild obsession with red-headed people then; I'm not sure. It was likely that his song "Lonely Boy" rang for me during my coming-out in 1978. But I did have two of his albums, and I played them a lot. His big claim to fame was "Thank You for being a Friend," the theme song from Golden Girls--everyone knows THAT song.
I wrote him a note on AOL about 2005 and told him how much I had enjoyed his music in the 70s. I'm sure that made us both feel old, but he responded back within the hour, thanking me.
It wasn't until about that time I knew that he had equally talented and somewhat famous parents, Marni Nixon and Ernest Gold. Movie fans will remember both of them well.
R.I.P. Andrew.
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Date: 2011-06-13 05:06 pm (UTC)He was in treatment for renal cancer, was responding well, but his family thinks that might have exascerbated the heart attack.