What a bugger: Andrew Gold has died

Andrew Gold's music was as perfect as anything I've known within its genre. RIP, you fine man.

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Andrew Gold, Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 59By PAUL VITELLO
Published: June 7, 2011

Andrew Gold, a pop wunderkind who had barely finished high school when Linda Ronstadt enlisted him to play in her backup band, and who later had a successful recording career of his own with hits like “Lonely Boy” and “Thank You for Being a Friend,” died on Friday at his home in Encino, Calif. He was 59.

Andrew Gold, guitarist, pianist, bassist and drummer, in 1997.

His family said that he had renal cancer and had been responding well to treatment but that the cause of death might have been a heart attack.