Grateful Dead’s Donna Jean Godchaux cause of death at 78

Donna Jean Gohchaux-MacKay, former member of rock band Pock’s most acclaimed, has died at 78.

Her agent was confirmed People A journal she passed on Sunday, November 2, during a Nashville health care. The cause of death was announced as “a long battle with cancer.”

To all that justice, and to those who knew her she was a waste, ” “The words of the dead descendants of Robert the Huntsman, ‘let the four winds blow home safely.'”

Before joining the most grateful people in 1971 against her husband, Keroboard Keith Kerith Eebaux, the Alabama native had already completed her legacy in music history. It was the session of the Muscle Fruits, the original song of such a figure as Elvis Presley Suspicious mind and Percy Blange’s When a man loves a woman.

Although she initially labeled the band’s sound “torn,” it was a concert in San Francisco that changed her perspective.

“For them, music was an experience, like something spiritual,” she said The Baltimore Sun In 2007. “I had never heard of anything like that. I thought, ‘This is what I want to do.'”

She went on to help shape some of the dead’s most famous songs, including The eyes of the world and Playing in a group.

After he left the group in 1979, she and Keith formed the heart of the group Gold before tragedy struck when he died in a car accident in 1980.

Golchaux-Macchay later improved the status of the Family Budget David MacKay, returning to the roots of Alabama and continuing to implement.

Inducted into the rock scene in 1994, it left a lasting musical legacy and spirit that helped define the rock era.