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Sal Maida Dead: Bassist With Roxy Music, Milk ’N’ Cookies Was 76

He also played with Sparks, Ronnie Spector, Cracker and The Runaways during his career.

Born in New York on July 29, 1948, Salvatore Maida was raised in the Manhattan neighborhood of Little Italy, where he “heard a multitude of sounds emanating from the jukebox below my window, from Sinatra to the Stones, Motown, Ray Charles, The Beatles and Dinah Washington,” he once wrote. A devoted Anglophile, he traveled to London after graduating from Fordham University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and was working in a record store when he met Roxy Music drummer Paul Thompson. In recent years, the fun-loving Maida hosted a radio show, Spin Cycle, and wrote the 2017 memoir Four Strings, Phony Proof and 300 45s — the last bit of the title is a reference to his prodigious collection of 45s — published by HoZac Books.

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