http://spinningsoul.com/2010/06/marvin-isley-passes-away/

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/goodbye/marvin-isley-rip/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/arts/music/08isley.html?hpw

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That's really crazy!!!!! RIP Marvin! I knew he was sick but wow.

R.I.P.

Wow another legend. R.I.P Marvin

Thanks for the memories.

Sad to learn he's gone....so glad he (they) left behind all that great funk. One of the best in the history of the genre. RIP, Marvin.

oh wow

R.I.P ...Marvin....

He was a superb bassist and person who handled his severe disease with quiet dignity. Farewell, Marvin. You rocked!

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i had the pleasure of booking the isley brothers in the late 70s and 80s and marvin was always a gentelman and an all around cool dude rip marvin you will be miss.

Damn,we really never know what/who we got till they're gone......Thank you Marvin 40 more than 4 lifetimes of timeless music and memories

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RIP

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after reading up I'm a bit scared for all the Isley brothers to live long lives.....

RIP

RIP

Damn, dead at 56. GTFO 2010.

RIP

damn folk is droppin' like flies this year. Poor Marvin

Layzie said:

Damn, dead at 56. GTFO 2010.

RIP

Damn, 56. *SHM* 2010 is really turning out to be some shit... Wel, then again, it's still has the late 00s disease all over it...

As if career ending health problems weren't bad enough, Marvin Isley was freaking broke! Apart from Ronald taking care of his brother financially to keep him from being homeless, Marvin died with no money of his own.

DesireeNevermind said:

damn folk is droppin' like flies this year. Poor Marvin

2010 is worse than 2009. And it's only June.

TonyVanDam said:

DesireeNevermind said:

damn folk is droppin' like flies this year. Poor Marvin

2010 is worse than 2009. And it's only June.

It's still suffering from 00 decade syndrome, you know.

TonyVanDam said:

As if career ending health problems weren't bad enough, Marvin Isley was freaking broke! Apart from Ronald taking care of his brother financially to keep him from being homeless, Marvin died with no money of his own.

Yeah his illness wiped his finances out. I know Ronald, Ernie, Rudolph and Chris Jasper are HURTING right now.

Timmy84 said:

TonyVanDam said:

As if career ending health problems weren't bad enough, Marvin Isley was freaking broke! Apart from Ronald taking care of his brother financially to keep him from being homeless, Marvin died with no money of his own.

Yeah his illness wiped his finances out. I know Ronald, Ernie, Rudolph and Chris Jasper are HURTING right now.

I'm sure they are, he was their brother. And not only that, he played an important role in the group, just like O' Kelly did. We're losing legends but maybe it was his time to go, I'm just glad he's not suffering anymore.

What an awful way to start my day, learning of Marvin Isley's death. I didn't even know he was ill (I'm just learning he had diabetes and had already lost both his legs and had a kidney transplant), and sadly haven't even thought of him in decades! Blows me away that all these "heroes" that I used to scream at on stage are now dying penniless in the hospital. This wasn't supposed to happen (...it seems).

Rest Peacefully Marvin

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PDogz said:

What an awful way to start my day, learning of Marvin Isley's death. I didn't even know he was ill (I'm just learning he had diabetes and had already lost both his legs and had a kidney transplant), and sadly haven't even thought of him in decades! Blows me away that all these "heroes" that I used to scream at on stage are now dying penniless in the hospital. This wasn't supposed to happen (...it seems).

Rest Peacefully Marvin

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Maybe Marvin's death will help Ronald and Ernie mend fences and realize that

this entertainment bs isn't bigger than family and the musical legacy the entire Isley

family built.