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Heads up that Badie died 15 April 2023. I have yet to find a news reference online to add into the article, but has been discussed a good deal by fellow musicians friends and neighbors in social media. (eg facebook [1] [2] [3]). As soon as one of us sees a published reference, add that to the article. -- Infrogmation ( talk) 17:16, 17 April 2023 (UTC) reply

Thanks to User:Jkaharper for finding some sources (I'd been doing web searches every day waiting for a secondary source or publication to pick up the news) to confirm his death on Wikipedia. -- Infrogmation ( talk) 15:08, 26 April 2023 (UTC) reply