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Nokie Edwards, whose guitar playing in the Ventures helped define surf rock and earned the group a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died on Monday. He was 82 years old. “Nokie Edwards passed away today after several months battling an infection after hip surgery this past …

George Young, guitarist in the Sixties band the Easybeats and the co-producer on AC/DC‘s first five albums, has died at the age of 70. Young was the older brother of the band’s Angus and Malcolm Young, who confirmed his deathon Facebook.“It is with pain in our heart that we have …