Urge Overkill Drummer Blackie Onassis Passes Away at 57

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Urge Overkill Drummer Blackie Onassis Passes Away at 57
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John Rowan, the drummer for '90s Chicago rock band Urge Overkill who performed under the name Blackie Onassis, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 57. Onassis anchored Urge Overkill during their time in the alternative-rock spotlight in the 1990s, playing on the band’s version of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon,” which was featured in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” in 1994, and staying with them through their final major-label album, 1995’s “Exit the Dragon.”

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