{"id":568692,"date":"2025-03-13T17:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T06:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/?p=568692"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T06:26:10","slug":"rick-steele-wa-blues-legend-and-father-of-luke-steele-dead-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/news\/rick-steele-wa-blues-legend-and-father-of-luke-steele-dead-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Steele, WA Blues Legend And Father Of Luke Steele, Dead At 77"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Western Australian music community is in mourning following the death of Rick Steele – a veteran blues musician, and patriarch of the Steele family that includes his son Luke<\/a> (Empire Of The Sun<\/a>, The Sleepy Jackson<\/a>) and his daughter Katy<\/a> (Little Birdy<\/a>). Steele was 77 years old, having died the day after his birthday, and had reportedly long been at battle with an undisclosed illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following his father’s passing, Luke took to Empire Of The Sun’s social media to pay tribute. “He spent his life soothing the souls of so many through his incredible gift of music,” he wrote<\/a>. “His own musical career spanned more than 60 years; a repertoire of thousands of songs. I\u2019d often wonder how he remember[ed] them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He was an eccentric; an artist with a beautiful flair. He loved his family, garden and his castle, and he sure loved a good song. He always said, ‘You only have three minutes to tell the world what you want to say’. That always said so much to me.” Katy, for her part, simply shared a photo<\/a> of her father as a young man with a dove emoji to her Instagram page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rick Steele – ‘ANZAC’<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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