Guys: Death took a holiday for the longest time, until we had our first death: Blind singer Jeff Healey is dead. He was 41. Mark Ewing gets the 59 points plus a 10-point bonus(for first person on a list to die) for a whopping 69 point event. Read the obit below:
Jeff Healey DEAD
The house band at the Double Deuce has lost its leader.
Grammy-nominated guitar great Jeff Healey, who rocked Patrick Swayze's Road House, died Sunday at a hospital in Toronto of the cancer that left him sightless as a child. He was 41.
Top 40 fans may remember Healey for the 1988 soulful hit, "Angel Eyes." Bad-movie fans surely and fondly remember Healey as Road House's Cody, the blind musician who memorably observed of Swayze's philosophizing, Tai Chi-posing bouncer, James Dalton, "I thought you'd be bigger."
Bryan Adams, a Canadian like Healey, remembered his countryman more simply, calling him one of his nation's "greatest talents."
"It is a huge regret to have to say goodbye," Adams said Monday, per the Canadian Press. "Wherever you are Jeff, we remember rocking with you."
Born March 25, 1966, in Toronto, Healey was stricken with retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eye, at age one.
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