‘One Toke Over The Line’ hitmaker Michael Brewer dies at 80
Michael Brewer, well-known for making the hit music One Toke Over The Line, has passed on to the great beyond on the age of 80.
Taking up to Fb, Brewer’s musical spouse, Tom Shipley, showed on Tuesday, December 17, that one-half of the folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley has died after fighting more than one diseases for the previous 3 years.
“My buddy of 65 years and track spouse for over 60, needed to move,” Shipley wrote along a photograph of Brewer. “I noticed him on Saturday at Cox Sanatorium in Branson, and he advised me he sought after to head house.”
“He used to be vulnerable and really drained,” the 83-year-old legend described Brewers’ look within the days main as much as his loss of life.
“They took him house on Sunday, and his spouse Scarlett known as this morning to inform me he used to be long past,” Shipley added in the similar publish by which no respectable explanation for dying has been printed.
“So this night I will be able to lift a tumbler to Michael and drink to all the ones years, all the ones miles, all the ones songs, and the entire heavenly audiences we performed for,” Shipley penned prior to concluding his heartfelt observe with, “Move with God my buddy. I’m going to see you at the different aspect.”
Brewer & Shipley’s step forward got here within the overdue Nineteen Sixties and early Seventies, because of their socially mindful lyrics and statement at the Vietnam Conflict.
They scored a top-10 hit in 1971 with One Toke Over the Line, and two in their different songs, Tarkio Street and Shake Off the Demon, additionally charted at the Billboard Sizzling 100.
