Paul Revere Dick
January 7, 1938 – October 4, 2014
Paul Revere was the founder, keyboardist and iconic face of late ’60s/early ’70s rock and roll band, Paul Revere & the Raiders. Formed in Boise, Idaho in 1958 as the Downbeats (with Mark Lindsay on lead vocals), the band scored its first regional hit in 1961 with “Like, Long Hair.” The song eventually found enough of a national audience to crack the Top 40 of the national charts. By the mid ’60s, the group, now known as the Paul Revere & the Raiders, relocated to Los Angeles and began working with producer, Terry Melcher. What followed was a string of future garage rock classics that positioned the band as America’s answer to the British Invasion. Records like “Just Like Me,” “Hungry,” “Good Thing,” and “Kicks” became radio staples throughout the second half of he 1960s. For at least the year of 1967, the band was Columbia Records’ biggest-selling rock band. The early ’70s found the Raiders’ style of music falling out of fashion, so they responded with 1971’s socially conscious “Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)”, a #1 hit that went on to sell over six million copies. The album from which it came, Indian Reservation, reached #19 on the album charts. It was the band’s final appearance of any significance on the charts. In 1976, Revere announced his retirement, only to return to the stage with a new Raiders lineup in 1978. He continued to perform in front of cheering crowds along the oldies circuit until his second retirement in August of 2014. In recent years, Paul Revere & the Raiders enjoyed a resurgence in popularity thanks to carefully curated reissues and Hall of Fame type accolades. Paul Revere was 76 when passed away on October 4, 2014. Cause of death was not immediately released.
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