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Lou Christie, Pop Idol Who Hit No. 1 in 1960s With ‘Lightnin’ Strikes,’ Dies at 82
Lou Christie, the pop idol who hit big in the mid-'60s with 'Lightnin' Strikes' and 'Two Faces Have I,' has died at 82.
16 single “Rhapsody in the Rain,” which was banned by some radio stations in 1966 for its risque intimations of what teenagers might be doing in an automobile on a rainy night, finding more favor when Christie re-recorded some lyric in a “clean” version that dropped the line “In this car, our love went much too far.” As a high schooler in suburban Pittsburgh, he even had a local hit with a group called Lugee & the Lions, which included Herbert’s daughter. … I remember we were on tour and Paul and Paula had just come back from England and they said there’s a group over there called the Beatles… That was pretty much the end of the people I was traveling around the country with.
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