Terry Kirkman, a founding member of the folk-rock band The Affiliation, died at 83.
His demise was introduced on the group’s Facebook page.
“We’re saddened to report that Terry Kirkman handed away final night time, RIP Terry. He’ll reside on in our hearts and within the music he so brilliantly wrote. Sending hugs and many like to Heidi and Sasha!”
The group discovered recognition with songs like “Cherish,” “Windy” and “By no means My Love.”
The Affiliation was nominated for six Grammys, together with three for “Cherish.”
“‘Cherish’ got here in a single fell swoop,” Kirkman stated of writing the hit in a 2015 interview. “I really channeled it. Or I used to be channeled. I actually don’t know what the supply was. I’ve by no means understood the method nor do I believe I’ll ever perceive the method.
“And there are any variety of songwriters on the market, poets and author’s writers, and artists of every kind who will let you know that they’ve sat all the way down to do one thing and the subsequent factor you recognize, it’s finished. And also you don’t actually know the place it got here from.”
In a chunk for The Huffington Put up, Kirkman additionally wrote, “One other unusual facet of the ‘Cherish’ story — one which has notably baffled me — was that it turned such an enormous favourite for weddings. {Couples} by the hundreds known as it ‘their track,’ regardless of the actual fact it’s so very a lot about love misplaced, not victorious love. However who is aware of? Possibly it was that stirring youth march tempo that did them in.”
He performed with Frank Zappa in California within the early Sixties earlier than Zappa shaped the Moms of Invention.
Kirkman and Jules Alexander shaped The Inside Tubes, which merged into The Males.
When the group disbanded, a half-dozen members, together with Kirkman, shaped The Affiliation.
The group opened the Monterey Pop Pageant in 1967 and likewise carried out on quite a few TV applications together with “The Ed Sullivan Present” and “The Smothers Brothers.”
Kirkman left the group in 1972, re-joined when the group reunited in 1979 after which left for good within the mid-Nineteen Eighties.
After leaving the enterprise, the singer-songwriter turned a drug counselor for artists in restoration.
Kirkman is survived by his spouse Heidi, daughter Sasha, son-in-law and two grandchildren.
