Legendary rock promoter committed suicide on Sunday, according to the Arapahoe County Coroner.
An autopsy was conducted, but the manner of death was not released Wednesday “pending further studies,” coroner Michael Dobersen said.
In the final week of his life, an unusually downbeat Fey had called and visited with a number of friends and colleagues, complaining about his struggles following a recent hip-replacement surgery.
“The surgery was a (expletive), I’m telling you,” Fey told The Denver Post on April 19. “They tell you it’s a major surgery, but they don’t tell you how hard it’s going to be.”
A few days later, Fey told his close friend, former Denver Post columnist Dick Kreck, “I’m not getting well.”
“That concerned me,” Kreck said on Sunday.
Fey had visited with his somewhat-estranged former music-industry colleague Chuck Morris, the head of concert giant AEG Rocky Mountains, a week before his death. On Sunday, Morris described Fey as “a tortured soul … I don’t think Barry ever loved himself, and that was his problem.”
Plans for Fey’s public memorial have not yet been announced.
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