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Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter has died, aged 78

Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter has died, aged 78. According to a statement from his family, he “died peacefully at home in his bed” on Monday night.

“For his fans that have loved and supported him all these years, take comfort in knowing that his words are all around us, and in that way his is never truly gone,” continues the statement. “In this time of grief please celebrate him the way you all know how, by being together and listening to the music. Let there be songs to fill the air.”

Hunter first met Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia in 1961, when they were both teenagers. While Hunter didn’t join the first line-up of the band, he began to send them lyrics from his retreat in New Mexico. Garcia encouraged Hunter to return to San Francisco, where he penned pivotal Dead song “Dark Star” and eventually became a permanent member of the band.

Later, Hunter teamed up with Bob Dylan, co-writing most of Together Through Life as well as songs on Down In The Groove and Tempest. He also worked with Elvis Costello and Bruce Hornsby, co-writing “Take You There (Misty)” from the latter’s acclaimed 2019 album, Absolute Zero.

R.I.P. Robert.
 

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Hunter was just an absolutely amazing lyricist.
Haunting lyrics that occupy your mind for a lifetime.
That really was the key to catching the dead thing.
Once Hunter's lyrics got into your head you were hooked.
You just needed to crack the code because it seemed like a great prize waited in there.

Hunter had a unique gift to take you to places that never quite existed but still seem somehow familiar.
A stylized Americana.
A landscape from a distance past that is just a bit hazy but becomes real and strangely comfortable.
In my opinion when it comes to the dead, he was the genius.
R.I.P.
 

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I love the Dead, though I'm not 'officially' a Dead Head (I never saw them live). I do like what is happening now with Dead & Co. I watch a lot of their shows through the nugs.tv website. Just wish they'd do one big show here in the UK
 

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