{"id":2239542,"date":"2026-01-18T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2239542"},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:40:09","slug":"beloved-rock-pioneer-dead-at-68-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/beloved-rock-pioneer-dead-at-68-heres-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved rock pioneer dead at 68. Here\u2019s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SKW7VIE7VFBADEYNYWPAXE6CCU\">Kenny Morris, the original drummer for the pioneering punk rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, has died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PDLIJI2IVJC6HONOLBTIMTC3YE\">He was 68. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KDOFLBZA6JGR3H7NXWK4CLDSKI\">John Robb first announced Morris\u2019 death in Louder Than War. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3DCDWIQFKBAWVPELNLU2VQXDHQ\">\u201cKenny was a friend of ours, and it was always a pleasure to see and hang out with him when visiting Cork in Ireland, where he had been living,\u201d Robb wrote. \u201cHe was sweet, articulate, artistic and fascinating company and his beautiful eccentricity was adorable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DYFOICABKNAARBVGNS2NTOS7XE\">\u201cHe would turn up in a suit and a dress with open handcuffs on one hand and the next time in a totally different yet perfectly created bricolage of style, whilst still dressing in the artful confrontation of the 1976 punk era that he was such a key part of,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6KMBUBLKCJF2XD6KCXWC24SMTM\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/music\/news\/kenny-morris-drummer-for-siouxsie-and-the-banshees-dies-at-68\/ar-AA1UpGGy?ocid=entnewsntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=696c5fcdef91480390f61c73026be012&amp;ei=41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/music\/news\/kenny-morris-drummer-for-siouxsie-and-the-banshees-dies-at-68\/ar-AA1UpGGy?ocid=entnewsntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=696c5fcdef91480390f61c73026be012&amp;ei=41\"><b>Billboard reported<\/b> <\/a>that Morris joined Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1977 as the band\u2019s original full-time drummer. The outlet said that Morris saw the band perform the previous year with Sid Vicious on drums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"R3LIWGW44VGXPGN4CBWMPFCBFI\">\u201cWhen I turned up for the audition, there was some drum kit there, and I was fiddling around trying to figure out how to even set the thing up when Nils Stevenson, the Banshees manager, came up to me, \u2018You\u2019re supposed to be a (expletive) drummer, aren\u2019t ya?\u2019\u201d Morris said. I took an instant dislike to him. But by the end of the audition, we had eight songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LOUO3RWNCNAZBM5DQFDDBDEBMY\">By the time he was through with the band, leaving in 1979, he had played on two albums. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"Q5YCCFEQLBFOBHKZHD3H6VJFPU\">After leaving the group, Billboard reported, Morris continued drumming, directed a handful of short films, and also pursued painting and drawing. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Morris, the original drummer for the pioneering punk rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, has died. He was 68. John Robb first announced Morris\u2019 death in Louder Than War. \u201cKenny was a friend of ours, and it was always a pleasure to see and hang out with him when visiting Cork in Ireland, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239543,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239542\/revisions\/2239543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}