Legendary blues guitarist Jeff Healey has died, his publicist said Sunday. The Canadian rock musician had battled cancer his entire life.
Healey, 41, had also lost his eyesight to the disease when he was only one year old.
The musician had performed with such acclaimed guitar players as B. B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert Collins and George Harrison.
His full name was Norman Jeffrey Healey and he passed away Sunday in the city of his birth, Toronto, at St. Joseph's Hospital.
Healey first began playing guitar at the age of three and formed his first band while still a teenager, at the age of 17, according to his website.
One of his best-known songs, "Angel Eyes," came from the Grammy-nominated album See the Light.
His blues band, simply called the Jeff Healey Band, has sold more than 1 million albums in the United States. But along with rock and blues music, Healey was also an accomplished jazz musician.
In his final years he had hosted a jazz program on Jazz-FM in Toronto, playing rare tracks from his vast collection of more than 30,000 78-rpm records.
Healey leaves behind his wife, Cristie, 13-year-old daughter Rachel and three-year-old son Derek.
ocillotist - 3/13/2008 6:35:18 AM oooo shitdu, gay and freddy mercury, wow, really swinging for the fences you fucking punk, go to hell with your cunting mother
metal74 - 3/12/2008 8:14:01 AM Has anybody seen ROAD HOUSE 2 ?
huevos666 - 3/11/2008 7:58:45 PM _yourstilalosr_ - 3/7/2008 10:21:09 AM
Socialized medicine - good stuff. You get what you pay for.<---HAHAHA...Dude thats just fucking cold.
hinduonfire - 3/11/2008 5:38:47 PM What kind of fag watches "Roadhouse" and takes copious notes? Was this like your own private Rocky Horror Picture Show? If I was as gay as you, I'd look like Freddy Mercury...Radio Fagga!
hinduonfire - 3/11/2008 5:37:30 PM What don't you understand, fuckface? You oscillate...get it? Lick my a-hole!
ocillotist - 3/11/2008 1:26:21 PM what the fuck are you talking about shitdu?
hinduonfire - 3/11/2008 9:44:16 AM That's your fucking problem, oscillator...you're always swingin' from one place to another...
ocillotist - 3/11/2008 8:14:34 AM "...his name is...Dalton..."
hinduonfire - 3/11/2008 7:47:38 AM Let's all take some time to praise Jesus before we all die.
analgravy2 - 3/11/2008 2:18:01 AM Damn everyone's getting cancer.
ballsmclongcock - 3/10/2008 5:08:35 PM he was stomped to death by a moose
BitchOfASon - 3/10/2008 3:05:19 PM I used to sing "Angel Eyes" to my ex-girlfriend...maybe that's why she dumped me.
_yourstilalosr_ - 3/7/2008 10:21:09 AM Socialized medicine - good stuff. You get what you pay for.
Muledong - 3/7/2008 6:59:46 AM Superlatives don't even begin to describe how fabulous Jeff was. It's so sad the best ones go first. I hope Jeff died knowing how much joy he brought into the lives of millions. R.I.P. Jeff.
vinceneilschin - 3/7/2008 5:59:14 AM Absolutely great guitar player. Saw him open up for Bon Jovi in 92 in Portland, ME and he was fabulous. My condolences to his family. Far too soon.....
