Michael Brewer, well-known for making the hit music One Toke Over The Line, has handed away on the age of 80.
Taking over to Facebook, Brewer’s musical associate, Tom Shipley, confirmed on Tuesday, December 17, that one-half of the folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley has died after battling a number of diseases for the previous three years.
“My buddy of 65 years and music associate for over 60, needed to go,” Shipley wrote alongside a photograph of Brewer. “I noticed him on Saturday at Cox Hospital in Branson, and he instructed me he wished to go house.”
“He was weak and really drained,” the 83-year-old legend described Brewers’ look within the days main as much as his demise.
“They took him house on Sunday, and his spouse Scarlett referred to as this morning to inform me he was gone,” Shipley added in the identical publish by which no official reason behind demise has been revealed.
“So tonight I’ll elevate a glass to Michael and drink to all these years, all these miles, all these songs, and all of the heavenly audiences we performed for,” Shipley penned earlier than concluding his heartfelt notice with, “Go with God my buddy. I’ll see you on the opposite aspect.”
Brewer & Shipley’s breakthrough got here within the late Nineteen Sixties and early Seventies, because of their socially aware lyrics and commentary on the Vietnam War.
They scored a top-10 hit in 1971 with One Toke Over the Line, and two of their different songs, Tarkio Road and Shake Off the Demon, additionally charted on the Billboard Hot 100.
