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July 28, 2023

“Beatle Bob” Matonis, a life of music: 1953-2023

Bob Matonis, we loved you yeah, yeah yeah.

One of America’s greatest rock n’ roll fans known as “Beatle Bob” Matonis died on July 27  in his native St. Louis, Mo. He was 70 years old. He died of complications from ALS.

Matonis spent decades dancing a mosh-up of the Twist and the Frug in the front rows of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, South by Southwest in Austin, Tx. FitzGerald’s in Berwyn and hundreds of other music clubs. He often wore black suits that matched his black bangs, even as the world spun into global warming,

Matonis said he saw 9,439 days of concerts in a row.

That number was in an e-mail he sent out earlier this year [...]

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