Leon Russell, a singer-songwriter and pianist who spent much of the early 1960s recording pop hits and recording on them as a Los Angeles studio musician and, who in the years that followed, became a solo artist, producer and composer of hits such as A Song for You, Tight Rope, This Masquerade and Superstar, died on Nov. 13. He was 74.
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