
In the United States, at the 82nd year of life, the guitarist and rock musician Dick Dale, one of the founders of the emergency direction, died. It is reported by The Guardian with reference to the familiar musician.
According to his colleague, bass player Sam Ball, Dick Dale died on Saturday, March 16. The causes of death are not yet called. In 2015, in an interview with Billboard magazine, Dale said that he was suffering from health problems. Doctors twice diagnosed him with colon cancer, and twice he defeated the disease.
Dale also had diabetes and problems with the spine, and at 42 years old he almost lost his leg that he damaged during the navigation. Despite health problems, Dale was forced to continue the tour to pay for medical bills, since the insurance did not cover the treatment.
The real name of Dick Dale is Richard Anthony Monsur. He was born in 1937 in the Lebanese-Polish family in Boston. He began his musical career in 1959, and his first album was released in 1962. Dale is considered one of the creators of the emergency direction, the representatives of which were also the groups The Ventures and partly The Beach Boys. In the 1950s, Dale took part in the creation of the Fender Stratocaster guitar model, having tested it at his concerts.
In the 1970s, Dale has temporarily moved away from music, but returned to concerts in the early 1980s. The new surge of interest in the work of the guitarist was noted in 1994, when Quentin Tarantino included his composition "Misirlou" in the soundtrack for the film "Crime Crime". Dale also played small roles in one of the episodes of the series "Beverly Hills 90210" and the film "American vampire".