Note: This was also printed in the Time Asia Magazine on February 26, 2006
DIED. WILLIAM COWSILL, 58, teen heartthrob and lead singer of the Cowsills, the 1960s pop band that featured his mother and four siblings and inspired TV's The Partridge Family; after suffering from numerous ailments, including emphysema; in Calgary, Alta. News of his death came on the day the family--famous for hits like Indian Lake and The Rain, the Park and Other Things--was holding a memorial service for his brother Barry, the Cowsills' bass player, who drowned in the flooding following Hurricane Katrina.
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