Emitt Rhodes

American multi-instrumentalist and singer, born February 25, 1950 in Hawthorne, California. Died July 19, 2020, also in Hawthorne.
In the 1960s he played drums for a number of groups (The Palace Guard among them) before founding The Merry-Go-Round in 1967.
Between 1970 and 1973 he released four solo albums; writing, producing, and playing all instruments on three of them (Emitt Rhodes, Mirror, and Farewell To Paradise).