Marvin Isley, the bassist during the Isley Brothers’ legendary Seventies funk era, died yesterday in Chicago of as-yet-undisclosed causes. He was 56. Isley was responsible for the thick grooves on soulful hits like "(Who’s) That Lady" and "Fight the Power." "Another precious stone has been removed from our legendary musical building block," his friend Bootsy Collins tells Rolling Stone. "He’s part of the American soul foundation."
Before Marvin joined the band in 1973, the Isley Brothers were hard-touring soul legends. Their 1959 rave-up "Shout" first propelled them on to AM radio, and their next big hit, 1962’s "Twist and Shout" sold three million copies and was famously covered by the Beatles.
Source Rolling Stone
