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Submitted by sernabad on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 4:34pm

Mark Linkous, lead singer/songwriter of Sparklehorse, is dead

Mark Linkous, lead singer/songwriter of Sparklehorse, is deadMark Linkous, lead singer/songwriter of Sparklehorse, is dead

Mark Linkous, brilliant singer and songwriter of the popular indie band, Sparklehorse, died Saturday afternoon.

Popular on the festival circuit, Linkous has collaborated with musician Christian Fennesz, and producer Danger Mouse among others. At the time of his death, he was working on a follow-up album to his well-received Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (2006).

Linkous, 47, committed suicide.

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Submitted by LuckyDuck on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 6:54pm.

So sad, RIP


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