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Bye Bye Birdie star and Wild One singer Bobby Rydell dies aged 79 (ABC News)

Bobby Rydell, a famed teenage idol of the 1950s and 60s, dies in his birthplace, Pennsylvania, at 79, from complications of pneumonia.

In his biography, Teen Idol on the Rocks: A Tale of Second Chances, Rydell detailed his struggle with alcohol and depression following the death of his first wife and through a double organ transplant he received in 2012. Rydell's name carried significant weight throughout the decades, with the 1970s rock musical Grease being set in the fictional Rydell High School. - The famous rock musical Grease was set in the fictional Rydell High School

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Rock n' Roll singer Bobby Rydell dies at age 79 (CNA)

Rock n' Roll singer and actor Bobby Rydell, a teen idol in the 1950s and 60s who starred in the hit movie musical "Bye Bye Birdie" and recorded dozens of ...

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Bobby Rydell, 'Wild One' singer, dead at 79 (WCVB Boston)

Bobby Rydell, a teen idol from the '60s known for songs like "Wild One" and his role as Hugo Peabody in the 1963 film "Bye Bye Birdie," has died.

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Who is Bobby Rydell's wife, Linda Hoffman? 60s singer dies aged 79 (HITC)

Sixties singer Bobby Rydell has sadly passed away aged 79 from non-Covid-19 related pneumonia complications. Who is his wife?

The statement also revealed that he was an advocate for the non-profit organ transplant organisation The Gift of Life and urged people to become an organ donor and donate. At the time of his death, Bobby Rydell was married to a woman called Linda Hoffman. The Philadelphia born musician died on Tuesday (April 5th). His death was confirmed in a statement posted to his Facebook page.

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Bobby Rydell, US pop idol of the early 1960s, dies aged 79 (The Guardian)

Singer, drummer and actor had five US Top 10 hits, and inspired the Beatles to write She Loves You.

Like many of his teen-idol brethren, Rydell’s pop-cultural heft swiftly waned in the wake of Beatlemania and the British Invasion, but his career was sustained with music and acting appearances on numerous variety shows, most notably The Red Skelton Show. And buoyed by an enduring, increasingly nostalgic fanbase, he continued to tour for the rest of his life, such as in a trio with Frankie Avalon and Fabian as the Golden Boys of Bandstand. He also hopped on the late 70s disco craze, re-recording Sway in the style. Bobby Rydell, who enjoyed numerous US hits during the teen pop craze of the early 1960s, has died aged 79. Rydell toured Europe and Australia, and played New York’s renowned Copacabana nightclub.

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1960s teen pop idol and 'Volare' singer Bobby Rydell has died aged ... (NME.com)

Bobby Rydell, the '60s teen pop icon and singer of 'Volare', has died aged 79 of complications related to pneumonia.

— Kin Shriner (@kinshriner)April 6, 2022 RIP Bobby Rydell. South Philly legend. Rest well Bobby. We love you, Deana Martin.” Well…maybe a tie with Bobby Darin. — Stephen King (@StephenKing)April 6, 2022 Well…maybe a tie with Bobby Darin.”

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Rock n' Roll singer Bobby Rydell dies at age 79 (WHBL News)

(Reuters) - Rock n' Roll singer and actor Bobby Rydell, a teen idol in the 1950s and 60s who starred in the hit movie musical "Bye Bye Birdie" and rec...

He sold more than 25 million albums, awarding him 34 top 100 hits, the statement said. Rydell died on Tuesday of non-Covid-19 related pneumonia complications in a hospital in Abington, a statement on his website said. (Reuters) – Rock n’ Roll singer and actor Bobby Rydell, a teen idol in the 1950s and 60s who starred in the hit movie musical “Bye Bye Birdie” and recorded dozens of hits, has died in Pennsylvania, his website said.

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'Wildwood Days' singer Bobby Rydell dead at 79 (FOX 13 Tampa Bay)

Bobby Rydell, a pompadoured heartthrob of early rock 'n roll who was a star of radio, television and the movie musical "Bye Bye Birdie," died Tuesday.

But in 1985, he joined his old friends Avalon and Fabian for what they thought would be a few appearances. "I never thought of myself as a celebrity," he told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2003. Rydell and his fellow Philadelphia performers were ideal for "Bandstand" host Dick Clark, who sought to make rock n’ roll palatable to young and old. His first drum kit was a gift from his father, Al Ridarelli, who inspired his son’s choice of instrument by taking him to see Gene Krupa perform. The block of 11th Street where he grew up was christened Bobby Rydell Boulevard by his hometown in 1995. Let’s go out there and have fun,’" Rydell told The Atlantic City Weekly in 2006.

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Rock n' Roll singer Bobby Rydell dies at age 79 (WTVB News)

(Reuters) - Rock n' Roll singer and actor Bobby Rydell, a teen idol in the 1950s and 60s who starred in the hit movie musical "Bye Bye Birdie" and rec...

He sold more than 25 million albums, awarding him 34 top 100 hits, the statement said. Rydell died on Tuesday of non-Covid-19 related pneumonia complications in a hospital in Abington, a statement on his website said. (Reuters) – Rock n’ Roll singer and actor Bobby Rydell, a teen idol in the 1950s and 60s who starred in the hit movie musical “Bye Bye Birdie” and recorded dozens of hits, has died in Pennsylvania, his website said.

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The heartbreaking death of singer Bobby Rydell (The List)

Hearts are breaking all around the world at the passing of Bobby Rydell, a former teen idol who died at the age of 79 due to complications from pneumonia, ...

Well...maybe a tie with Bobby Darin," Stephen King wrote on Twitter. And "General Hospital" star Kin Shriner shared, "R.I.P. #BobbyRydell a huge fan I was!" But he still continued to tour on his own, as well as with fellow former heartthrobs Frankie Avalon and Fabian as The Golden Boys. Everybody has known us for the better part of 50 years. Born Robert Louis Ridarelli, Rydell hailed from Philadelphia and had nearly three dozen Top 40 singles in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although he could have parlayed that into more roles, Rydell refused to move to Hollywood. "We're not trying to fool anybody.

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Bye Bye Birdie star and Wild One singer Bobby Rydell dead at 79 (Crow River Media)

The 60s' teen idol passed away at Jefferson Abington Hospital in Abington, Pennsylvania on Tuesday (05.04.22) from "non-COVID related pneumonia complications," ...

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Bobby Rydell, 'Wild One' singer, dead at 79 (KCRA Sacramento)

Bobby Rydell, a teen idol from the '60s known for songs like "Wild One" and his role as Hugo Peabody in the 1963 film "Bye Bye Birdie," has died.

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Bobby Rydell, Teenage Idol With Enduring Appeal, Dies at 79 (The New York Times)

He had his first hit in 1959. Six decades later, teamed with his fellow singers Frankie Avalon and Fabian, he was still drawing crowds.

After his television appearances dwindled, he continued to perform in nightclubs and nostalgia shows, and to tour Australia, until the promoter Dick Fox put the Golden Boys together in 1985, initially or a PBS special. In 1975, Ian Dove wrote: “Mr. Rydell is not your hard rocker — his era was in the late 1950s, when rock was being softened and made less frightening. In a radio interview in 2013 with Ted Yates of CKOC in Hamilton, Ontario, Mr. Rydell explained why he hadn’t stayed in Hollywood to make more movies: “I couldn’t. There was something about the lifestyle in California that I really wasn’t used to. But the only movie in which he made much of an impact was “Bye Bye Birdie,” released in 1963 and based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, which poked fun at show business in general and rock ’n’ roll frenzy in particular. In the 2000 book “The Beatles Anthology,” Paul McCartney was quoted as saying that he and John Lennon based “She Loves You” on a Bobby Rydell song. He raised his children there, and moved in 2013 only because the house had grown too big for him and his wife. “His son had passed away, and Bobby always felt he was looked upon by Mr. Skelton as a son. The Australian police had to make a wedge to get us out of Sydney Stadium. It was scary, but all in all it was absolutely tremendous.” (Mr. Rydell went on to tour in Australia more than 20 times.) Reviewing his Copacabana performance in 1961, Variety complimented him on his “sense of career.” “Right now, he’s a teenager’s teenager,” the Variety critic said. Unlike some of the other pretty faces of his era, Mr. Rydell was a real musician. His name alone could conjure up an entire era: The 1970s rock musical “Grease,” in both its Broadway and movie versions, was set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School. Over the course of his recording career he placed 19 singles in the Billboard Top 40 and 34 in the Hot 100.

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