Arthur Lee, the influential singer and guitarist with sixties band Love, has died in his home town of Memphis aged 61 after suffering from acute myeloid leukaemia.
Perhaps best known for the 1967 Love album 'Forever Changes', while Lee struggled to better his early recorded work, he enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent years after launching a new version of Love in 2002 and touring quite extensively. Meanwhile the three Love albums have become increasingly admired over the years, with 'Forever Changes' being pronounced the 40th greatest album of all time in a Rolling Stone chart.
He left the reformed band last year, and it was announced earlier this year that he was suffering from leukaemia. A number of fund raising gigs were subsequently held by fans and friends to help meet his escalating medical expenses.
His death comes just weeks after that of Syd Barrett, another legendary yet erratic figure of the sixties music world, whose musical influence was often compared to Lee's.