Michael Stanley, Cleveland rock legend, dead at 72 [View all]

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RIP Michael

I’ve been a fan forever.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Nearly 50 years ago, on his self-titled first solo album, Michael Stanley offered a plaintive view about mortality:

Here’s a song for a friend soon gone

A friend whose life and mine became entwined

Leaving soon for a lifetime/Leaving part of you behind

Stanley, who passed away Friday at the age of 72 from lung cancer, leaves more than a small part of himself behind in his native Cleveland -- and a gaping hole in a city where he was a rock ‘n’ roll king and a much-loved, award-winning radio and television personality.

To say Stanley was part of Cleveland’s fabric is anything but a cliché; It was the home he never left, and a place the man dubbed “the Cuyahoga Messiah” by Last Call Cleveland, carried with him whenever he’d tour the country to play heartland rock hits such as “He Can’t Love You,” “Lover,” “Falling in Love Again and “My Town.”

From the Plain Dealer....

https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2021/03/michael-stanley-cleveland-rock-legend-and-noted-local-radio-and-tv-personality-dead-at-72.html