He was Thomas, who announced in March that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, died from complications of the disease Saturday at his home in Arlington, Texas, his publicist Jeremy Westby said in a statement. He reached No. I will miss him as I know so many others will as well. But, at first, not everyone was satisfied.
Thomas was recovering from laryngitis while recording the soundtrack version and his vocals are raspier than for the track released on its own. How wrong I was. He was touring and recording constantly and taking dozens of pills a day. Thomas had few pop hits after the mids, but he continued to score on the country charts with such No.
He had planned to record in in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, but the sessions were delayed because of the pandemic. Thomas married Richardson in , and had three daughters: Paige, Nora and Erin. Besides music, Thomas loved baseball as a kid and started calling himself B. By his teens, he was singing in church and had joined a local rock band, the Triumphs, whom he would stay with into his 20s. But I had that little piece of lightning from that song. To love and be loved. And that takes a lifetime to accomplish.
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