The decreasing membership of Can has thinned out again with the passing of their singular vocalist Damo Suzuki… I’m reading online that he was diagnosed with cancer about ten years ago, at which time he was only given a ten percent chance of survival. I think it’s fair to say he beat those odds, at least up to now (indeed, his first go-round with cancer had been in the 80s, so he had some experience with fighting it).
Here they are on German TV not long after he got drafted into the band:
And The Fall, with Mark’s equally idiosyncratic tribute to him: