By Jem Aswad
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Executive Editor, Music
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Keith Wood, former manager of LCD Soundsystem and longtime head of Caroline Records, died Wednesday after a long struggle with ALS (motor neuron disease), according to a social media post from his family. “He managed well on this horrible disease for over four years, but in the last six months it got the upper hand,” the statement reads.
Wood was born in London in 1948 and grew up in Newport, South Wales. He attended art school in Cardiff in the 1960s and spoke often of his experiences on the music scene of the era, which included attending and even helping to paint the sign above the stage at the legendary Isle of Wight festival in 1970, where Jimi Hendrix and the Who performed. However, his focus was primarily on art and theater; he was the writer and director for “Highway Shoes,” an alternative Theatre Touring Company based in Cardiff in the mid-‘70s.
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