The 16,000 strong in Kansas City's Kemper Arena went quiet, and announcer Jim Ross horrifyingly had to tell the crowd that Hart's fall was not scripted, a stunt, or fake in any way. It was his first and last performance of that piece. After testing out the blues scene as a teenage piano player in Houston, he switched to guitar in the 1950s and started grinding out influential electric blues classics and climbed the R&B charts with hits like "Those Lonely, Lonely Nights," "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," and "Cuttin' In." He specialized in playing villains, soldiers, and the not-quite-right-for-her-guy that the main female character is with at the beginning of the movie before leaving him to be with her true love. Watson reinvented himself in the 1970s as one of the best and earliest purveyors of the genre of music that would be known as funk. Throughout his life, Kodly stayed healthy and took many walks. He was a major draw at the May 1999 "Over the Edge" pay-per-view event, set to appear as an obnoxious superhero character, under the guise of which he'd be lowered from the rafters into the ring via an elaborate wire system. The applause was loud, Mr. Holland wrote, but hardly competitive with the decibel levels emanating from the stage.. After singing several choruses of "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" during a performance of The Drunkard, this 60-year-old actress collapsed on stage for her scripted death scene and suffered an unscripted fatal heart attack. A Private Family Service will be held for Zoltan. This time he forgot to fasten the rope to his safety harness. Last month, the orchestra announced that he was suffering from poor health and, following . Known asthe "grandfather of the jam band scene," Hampton tirelessly played with lots of bands, including the Quark Alliance, the Late Bronze Age, and the Hampton Grease Band. He died in hospital the next day. This 60-year-old conductor died at the National Theatre in Munich while leading Tristan and Isolde. 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott, formerly of the metal act Pantera, was shot by a jilted fan while performing with his new group, Damageplan.