Arthur Lee, Lead Singer of Love, Dead at 61

Arthur Lee, lead singer for the 60s folk-rock/psychedelic band, Love, has died. The Memphis native who called himself "the first Black hippie" succumbed to acute myeloid leukemia at the age of 61.

I really dug his band and remember their version of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David "My Little Red Book" as a quintessential moment in my rock and roll youth. The band's third album, Forever Changes, remains one that I still listen to on my iPod.

Love was a great, multicultural, Los Angeles band and Arthur Lee is the person I'll always remember as the embodiment of it.