It was reported hours ago that David Gates retired co-lead singer of group Bread is dead but upon reports from close source reveals that David Gates is still live.

The revelation of David Gates being alive was posted on Facebook by Alec Cumming  stating clearly that David Gates is alive

“Is there someone you know
You’re loving them so
But taking them all for granted?”

A rumor was spreading around Facebook earlier tonight that David Gates, the Tulsa-born, L.A.-based singer/songwriter of wonderfully melodic hit songs – for his band Bread and for a number of other artists – had died. But now it appears that this is a hoax, and that’s a huge relief.

“You may lose them one day
Someone takes them away
And they don’t hear the words you long to say…”

I’m grateful that maybe we can appreciate this particular cat WHILE HE’S STILL HERE. I had put together this Spotify playlist a couple of years ago – Darian Sahanaja had turned me onto the glorious “Suite: Clouds, Rain”, nearly nine minutes of gentle prog-soft-rock, which inspired me to collect a lot of his music into one list – including The Monkees’ surprisingly heavy “Saturday’s Child” – and you can hear that here:

I’m not keen to get into a battle about the pros and cons of David’s songs right now, so if you’re in the mood to trash him or his music I will delete your comment. I’m hoping I won’t have to delete anything, though. A hour or so ago I was leaving my sister’s house, driving back home, and thinking that David was the latest genius songwriter to die on us, and I kept thinking about how he said “Everything I Own” was really written about his father – a kind man who had encouraged David to follow his dreams, but had died right before his son was about to have his first success in the pop business, as songwriter for the Murmaids’ sweet “Popsicles and Icicles”.

I really hope we all can get a chance to let those people – the ones that mean a whole lot to us – that we treasure them *before* they go. David, THANK YOU. And, when and if you go, I hope your departure is as sweet as this:

“If the world should stop revolving
Spinning slowly down to die
I’d spend the end with you
And when the world was through
Then one by one the stars would all go out
Then you and I
Would simply fly away…”

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