Death
In 1979, he signed with Elektra/Asylum label. Just after his first record release, however, he died of a massive coronary at his home in Canoga Park, California on August 19, 1979, aged 46. He was interred near his brother Johnny in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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