Although the late Bill Withers spent barely a dozen years as an active performer -- from the early 1970s through the mid-'80s, before becoming sufficiently dispirited about the music industry -- his songbook and legacy has endured thanks to a slate of covers, interpolations and re-workings of his most famous tunes.Withers died Monday of heart complications at age 81 in Los Angeles.
His death was announced publicly four days later, on Friday (April 3).As much a songwriter as a singer, the soul legend mused on his writing background upon his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination in 2015, saying, "What few songs I wrote during my brief career, there ain't a genre that somebody didn't record them in.
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