Avant-garde musician and visual artist battled multiple sclerosis since the '90s.By James Montgomery
"Captain Beefheart" Don Van Vliet
Photo: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns
Don Van Vliet, the man known around the world as Captain Beefheart, died Friday (December 17), according to his manager. He was 69.
The cause of Van Vliet's death was not immediately known, though several outlets were reporting it was due to complications from multiple sclerosis, which he had battled since the 1990s.
Van Vliet was an accomplished avant-garde musician and visual artist, who along with a constantly rotating crew of fellow oddballs — his handpicked "Magic Band" — bent the rules, melded genres and thoroughly weirded out much of mainstream
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