A career spanning 5 decades, 430 songs, 31 albums, and wrote and recorded with pretty much ALL of the biggest names in music for the times. Also: he looked like Santa Claus.

Name
Leon Russell
Birthday
April 2, 1942
Age
74
Died on
Sunday, November 13th, 2016
Famous
Confirmed
Tuesday, February 2nd, 1999
Leon Russell
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Guess the Stiff!

The Commissioner met him on New Years Eve 1999 in Palm Springs. It went like this: Commish: Hello Mr. Rooney - great show. Rooney: Who are you? Commish: The brother in law of your band leader. Rooney: Oh. And he walked away.

(d) April 6th, 2014