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NewsJune, 19 Lightnin' Strikes singer Lou Christie dead at 82
Lou Christie, the singer-songwriter who reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 with Lightnin' Strikes, has died. He was 82. Christie died at his home in his native Pittsburgh after a short illness, his wife, Francesca, told The Hollywood Reporter. With his signature falsetto, Christie broke out with two songs in 1963 that he penned with longtime collaborator Twyla Herbert - The Gypsy Cried and Two Faces Have I - and he made it into the top 10 again with I'm Gonna Make You Mine in 1969. He had a follow-up top 20 hit in 1966 with the somewhat racy Rhapsody in the Rain. Christie, born Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco and Herbert - a classically trained musician who was nearly 22 years older than him - wrote hundreds of songs together. "I never worked with anyone else who was that talented, that original, that exciting," he told Goldmine magazine in 2005. "She was just bizarre, and I was twice as bizarre as her." Christie recorded his last album in 2004, and more recently toured with Frankie Avalon and Fabian as a member of Dick Fox's Golden Boys. In addition to his wife, a British beauty queen he married in 1971, he is survived by the couple's daughter, Bianca. Their son, Christopher, died in 2014 in a motorbike accident at age 46.
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