Track-It Obituaries

DETROIT — Jerome York, a board member at Apple Inc., and a financial wizard who is credited with turning around Chrysler and IBM, died Thursday at the age of 71. Read more

LONDON — Charlie Gillett, a DJ and music historian who helped bring music from around the world to wider attention, has died at the age of 68, his employer, the British Broadcasting Corp., said Thursday. Read more

Mar. 18--BAYLESS -- John Farrin Bayless Jr., 98, of Fresno died March 11. He was a farm laborer for 40 years. Visitation: 2 to 7 p.m. Friday, Boice Funeral Home in Clovis. Graveside: 10 a.m. Saturday, Clovis Cemetery. Read more

AUSTIN, Texas -- I was supposed to go out and hear some music. I didn't know if it would be some clanging revelation, a sound I'd never heard before, or a blast from the past given new oomph by some young punks so in love with the big, crazy history... Read more

NEW ORLEANS — Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, who topped the charts as a teen and later became a cult hero with Big Star, died Wednesday. He was 59. Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — Johnnie High, a north Texas country music showman who gave such performers as LeAnn Rimes and Boxcar Willie their early exposure, has died at the age of 80. Read more

Mar. 18--Alex Chilton, the pop hitmaker, cult icon and Memphis rock iconoclast best known as a member of 1960s pop-soul act the Box Tops and the 1970s power-pop act Big Star, died Wednesday at a hospital in New Orleans. Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Wayne Collett, a UCLA sprinter who won the silver medal in the 400 meters at the 1972 Munich Olympics but then was banished from the Games for failing to stand at attention on the medals platform, has died. He was 60. Read more

Charles Muscatine, a world-renowned Chaucer scholar and a longtime advocate for higher education reform who was fired as a young assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley when he refused to sign a loyalty oath during... Read more

Mar. 17--DANVILLE -- Jerome "Jerry" Finn was a great Irishman, a good friend, a father figure and much more to the many people whose lives he touched during his lifetime. Read more