Lee Ranaldo

Lee Ranaldo.    American guitarist, singer and songwriter,  best-known as the co-founder, along with bandmate Thurston Moore  of the rock band Sonic Youth,  celebrates his 70th birthday today.

Here’s Lee and Thurston performing their version of Hum Bom! (on the Tribute to Fall of America)

Lee (recollecting Allen): “He was a very open person, you know. He was not a person you’d think of as having too many deep dark secrets, his life was out there on his shirt-sleeves, and I think that’s an inspiration to us all, the way in which he lived right up into the last hours of his life, and.. he was a beautiful man and we miss him dearly.”