Died On This Date (November 15, 2009) Ken Ober / Hosted MTV’s Remote Control
themusicsover Ken Ober
July 3, 1957 – November 15, 2009
Ken Ober was an actor and one-time host of MTV game show, Remote Control. Running from 1987 until 1990, Remote Control was the network’s first non-music centric original program. The show helped launch the careers of show regulars, Adam Sandler, Denis Leary, Colin Quinn and Kari Wuhrer. Ober also hosted such non-MTV game shows as Make Me Laugh, and ESPN’s Perfect Match. Later, Ober co-hosted an FM radio talk show with Susan Olson of “Brady Bunch” fame. In recent years, Ober was the producer of the hit CBS sitcom, The New Adventures of Old Christine. Ken Ober, 52, died of an apparent heart attack on November 15, 2009.
Nancy Spungen was just 17 when she left her Southeast Pennsylvania home for New York City to follow her true passion, punk rock. She quickly became immersed in the city’s growing underground scene, gravitating toward bands like the New York Dolls, the Heartbreakers, and the Ramones. Two years later, she moved to London where she met the Sex Pistols. After reportedly being rejected by the band’s singer, Johhny Rotten, Spungen set her sites on bassist, 
Luciano Pavarotti was an immensely popular operatic singer who successfully crossed over to pop music during the 1990s. In the early part of the decade, he joined Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras to perform and record as The Three Tenors. Their album together went on to become the biggest selling classical album in history. Over the years he has sung with such pop acts as U2, Vanessa Williams and Mercedes Sosa. He is the only opera singer to ever perform on Saturday Night Live. Pavarotti was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer while in the midst of his “farewell tour” of 2006. He died of the disease on September 6, 2007.
