The Beach Boys may have perfected surf music, but Dick Dale invented it. Dale, who died of heart and kidney failure Saturday at age 81, singlehandedly created the distinctive surf-guitar sound that ...

Guitarist Dick Dale, known for his iconic surf-rock sound and songs like genre standout “Misirlou,” died on Saturday evening at the age of 81. Drummer and Dale’s former collaborator Dusty Watson ...

Fans and fellow musicians are remembering Dick Dale, who died Saturday at 81. Dale's sound inspired legions of musicians back in the 1960s and into the 21st century. Fans and fellow musicians today ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For a guy whose forte was guitar instrumentals, Dick Dale had a way with words. “I’ve been performing since 1955 . . . and I’m going to keep performing until I die because I’m not ...

Dick Dale, the surf rock pioneer who took reverb to new levels, died on Saturday night. He was 81. The guitarist's health had declined over the past 20 years due to a number of illnesses, including ...

Surf-music lovers will always revere Dick Dale as the King of Surf Music. To the band mates and musicians who were with him in the beginning, the waves of memories left by his passing carry the ...

Guitarist Dick Dale, whose fast, thunderous sound pioneered the California “surf rock” genre of the early 1960s and gained a new generation of fans decades later through its appearance in “Pulp ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like "Miserlou" and "Let's Go Trippin'" earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like “Misirlou” and “Let’s Go Trippin'” earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81 ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Dale, whose pounding, blaringly loud power-chord instrumentals on songs like “Miserlou” and “Let’s Go Trippin’” earned him the title King of the Surf Guitar, has died at age 81 ...