RIP

Michael Sunden, the manager of Swedish glam rock combo Crashdiet has died at Nottingham's Rock City after accidentally falling during  alive set by Saxon. Sunden was only 45 and leaves a wife and two young daughters.

UEA entertainments manager Nick Rayns has died aged 61. He had been at the East Anglian university venue, a major touring destination in the UK, for more than thirty years and had organised more that 2,000 gigs.

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors, has died at the age of 74. The keyboard player died in Rosenheim, Germany, with his family at his bedside following a battle with bile duct cancer. He and singer Jim Morrison formed The Doors in 1965 with drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robbie Krieger and the band recorded six studio albums including LA Woman and Strange Days.

Veteran British bass guitarist Trevor Bolder, best known as a member of hard rock act Uriah Heep since the mid-1970s and before that as a member of David Bowie's Spiders From Mars band from 1971, as well as a member of Wishbone Ash, has died aged 62 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Bolder featured on Aladdin Sane and Hunky Dory and Bowie wrote on his website "Trevor was a wonderful musician and a major inspiration for whichever band he was working with. But he was foremostly a tremendous guy, a great man."

Georges Moustaki, the cosmopolitan singer songwriter who wrote for Edit Piaf and had success in his own right with his hit album Le Métèque has died aged 79.

Terri Anderson, who held senior communications roles at both EMI and UK record labels trade body the BPI, has died after losing her battle with cancer.

And farewell to veteran promoter Barry Fey, the pioneering US promoter who put Denver on the touring map and also promoted in Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Dallas and Houston amongst many other cities working with artists such as Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones an U2.  He was 73.

And finally farewell to agent Paul Gourlie who worked with The Agency Group. He has died aged just 37 from a lifelong affliction of Cystic Fibrosis.