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Died On This Date (August 19, 2010) Michael Been / The Call

Posted by themusicsover on August 19, 2010

Michael Been
DOB Unknown – August 19, 2010

Michael Been is best remembered as the founding singer and guitarist for American rock band, the Call.  Formed in 1980, the group released a string of albums throughout the ’80s and ’90s , making them part of New Wave’s first generation which found a friend in early MTV.  The band’s biggest single and video were 1983’s “The Walls Came Down.  Their most successful album was 1986’s Reconciled, which included guests, Robbie Robertson, Peter Gabriel, and Jim Kerr.   In recent years, Been was working with his son, Robert Levon Been as a sound man for his own popular band, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.  On August 19, 2010, Michael Been suffered a fatal heart attack while backstage at a BRMC concert in Belgium.  He was 60.

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