Dick Dale, king of surf guitar, dies aged 81

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Dale is credited with pioneering the surf music style, by drawing on his Middle-Eastern heritage and experimenting with reverberation

. He is best known for his hit"Misirlou", used in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. He died on Saturday, 16 March, aged 81.Ford, whose real name was Thomas McAleese, was the frontman of guitar-pop group Marmalade. The band the first Scottish group to top the UK singles chart, with their cover of the Beatles’ Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da in December 1968. Ford died in Los Angeles on 31 December 2018, at the age of 72 from complications relating to Parkinson's disease.

 

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