This has not been a good weekend. First Bernie Mac...now this:
Soul icon Isaac Hayes dies at 65
US singer-songwriter Isaac Hayes has died at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 65, police said.
Police were called to Mr Hayes' home after his wife found him unconscious. He was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1408 (1908 GMT).
Mr Hayes won an Oscar for the 1971 hit Theme From Shaft.
He was perhaps better known to the younger generation as the voice of Chef from the hit cartoon show, South Park.
The cause of death was not immediately known.
I could go on about Isaac's work in music and film. Or about his role as Chef.
But above all, he deserves to be remembered for making Shaft...Shaft. One simply cannot imagine anyone else but Richard Rowntree as Shaft (sorry Samuel L. Jackson, but that's the honest-to-God truth). And one simply can't imagine the original Shaft movie without Isaac's legendary theme.
Thank you Isaac, for the Shaft theme, for Hot Buttered Soul, Black Moses, the Duke of New York, Truck Turner and for Chef.
RIP.
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