Kevin DuBrow, 52, lead singer for the 1980s heavy-metal band Quiet Riot, which scored a hit with “Cum on Feel the Noize,” was found dead Sunday in a Las Vegas home. He was 52.
The cause was not immediately known.
A neighbor summoned police and paramedics Sunday to the house, where DuBrow was pronounced dead, police and coroner’s officials said. There was no forced entry, and no suspicious circumstances were reported, police Officer Jose Montoya said Monday.
Quiet Riot was perhaps best known for its 1983 cover of “Cum on Feel the Noize.” The song, featuring DuBrow’s powerful, gravelly voice, appeared on the band’s album “Metal Health” — the first album by a metal band to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart.
DuBrow recorded his first solo album in 2004, “In for the Kill.” The band’s last studio CD, “Rehab,” came out in October 2006.
“I can’t even find words to say,” Quiet Riot drummer Frank Banali wrote on his website. “Please respect my privacy as I mourn the passing and honor the memory of my dearest friend, Kevin DuBrow.”
Paul Roche, 91, a noted English poet and translator who was among the last living associates of the Bloomsbury group — the skein of artists and writers twined around Virginia Woolf and her family — died on Oct. 30 at his home in Soller, Majorca, said his daughter, Cordelia Roche de Aguiar.
The author of several well-received volumes of poetry, Roche taught over the years at colleges and universities throughout the U.S., among them Smith College, the University of Notre Dame, Centenary College in New Jersey and Emory & Henry College in Virginia, where, his family said in a statement, “he used to wander stark naked through the woods carpeted with violets.”
Roche’s translations of Greek and Latin works, published in the Signet Classics series and by New American Library, long have been familiar to students. He also was known for his three-decade relationship with prominent English painter Duncan Grant, a founder of the Bloomsbury circle.
He modeled for painter and designer Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf’s sister) and fathered a child with Mary Blundell, a young English physicist. He later married Clarissa Tanner, a young American traveling in Europe. The couple, who had four children, divorced in 1983. Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Orson Welles and Christopher Plummer also made cameo appearances in his life.
