| PETALING JAYA: Malaysian rock guitar legend Terry Thaddeus passed away early yesterday at the Subang Jaya Medical Centre from cancer. He was 55.
"We can't replace him. He is simply irreplaceable," said his wife Frances in a telephone interview.
Thaddeus was also survived by his daughter Melanie, 27, and son Mark, 23.
A seasoned session musician who was described by Marshall World magazine as "the Jimi Hendrix of the East," Thaddeus first sprang to prominence on the local scene as a gifted guitar virtuoso back in the 1970s, working with a number of bands from Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Japan.
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Other highlights on his resume include producing Search's Rampage album in 1992 and composing the jingle for TV3's coverage of the Barcelona Olympics in the same year.
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