Arthur Lee, legendary singer-songwriter for the influential '60s psychedelic rock band Love, died of leukemia at Methodist Hospital in Memphis this afternoon. He was 61 years old. Several recent benefit concerts, including one at New York City's Beacon Theater featuring Robert Plant, Ian Hunter, Nils Lofgren, Yo La Tengo and Ryan Adams, raised money to help pay Lee's medical expenses. Lee was born Arthur Taylor Porter in Memphis in 1945. He formed Love in Los Angeles in 1965. The original Love group broke up in 1968, but in recent years Lee had gone back on the road to perform songs from that era. Love's 1967 LP "Forever Changes" is regularly cited as one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded....less than a month after Syd Barrett, too. Truly a bummer in the summer...
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