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Southern Rock Icon Gregg Allman Dies At 69

The music legend died peacefully at his home in Savannah, GA.

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Southern Rock Icon Gregg Allman Dies At 69
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On Saturday May 28, music legend Gregg Allman died at the age of 69 at his home in Savannah, Georgia. Allman died from liver cancer complications and will be buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia. This is the same cemetery where two other founding members, Duane Allman and Barry Oakley, are buried.

Allman was working on a new album titled "Southern Blood" and he was very enthusiastic about this project. A release date had not been set yet. His manager, Michael Lehman, said that he was listening to tracks from the album the night before his death. He enjoyed touring with his brothers and solo band because it was "essential medicine for his soul."

Gregory LeNoir Allman was born in Nashville, Tennessee on December 8, 1947. He and his older brother, Duane, lost their father, an Army Captain, in 1949 when he was shot by a drinking acquaintance. They attended Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon, Tennessee and then moved to Daytona, Florida. They played in multiple bands like the House Rockers, the Shufflers, the Untils, and after Gregg's graduation, took their band, the Allman Joys on the road in 1965. The brothers eventually moved to Los Angeles and recorded two albums as the Hour Glass.

Gregg worked as a session man in Alabama, but went to Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 where he joined his brother and other musicians to form the Allman Brothers. The band had two albums, Live at the Fillmore East and Eat a Peach. Duane Allman died between those two albums in a motorcycle accident. A year later, Barry Oakley died in a similar accident. Shortly after, Gregg recorded his first solo album titled Laid Back. The album's success, Gregg's marriage to Cher, and the band's need for narcotics, led to their break up in 1975 after the release of Win, Lose, or Draw, which did not do well.

Throughout the seventies and early eighties, Allman continued to release solo albums and in the late eighties and nineties, had somewhat of a comeback with the release of I'm No Angel in 1986. The Allman Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and Gregg received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 Grammys. In 2007, Allman received a liver transplant and was diagnosed with Hepatitis C. He continued to release albums and performed his last show at his 2016 Laid Back Festival in Atlanta, Georgia.

Allman is survived by his wife, Shannon, his children, Devon, Elijah Blue, Delilah Island Kurtom and Layla Brooklyn Allman and three grandchildren.

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