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Larry Knechtel Bassist, Keyboardist for '70s Soft-Rock Group Bread Dies

Larry Knechtel Bassist, Keyboardist for '70s Soft-Rock Group Bread Dies

Source: Michael Ricci

Knechtel played keyboards and bass with the Wrecking Crew, a group of L.A. studio musicians, before joining Bread in 1971. His arrangement of 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' won a Grammy in 1970.

Larry Knechtel, a member of the 1970s soft-rock group Bread, who had a wide-ranging career as a studio musician, has died. Knechtel died Thursday at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital in Yakima, Wash. He was 69. A hospital official would not release a cause of death, but a report ...

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