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Wilson Pickett Dies

Alex

20th January 2006

Wilson Picket died on Thursday of a heart attack in Virginia. He was 64.

Pickett is well known for such hits as 'Mustang Sally' and 'In the Midnight Hour'. His manager Margo Lewis said that Pickett had been performing regularly up until a year ago when his health started to fail.

Pickett experienced a career surge in 1991 with the release of the film The Commitments based around an Irish Band who idolised him and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. He released his last album, the Grammy Nominated, 'It's harder Now' that same year.

He is survived by a fiance, two sons and two daughters. His manager said that there will be a viewing next week in Virginia, and then he will be interred with his mother in Louisville, Kentucky.