Robert Moog, the father of the electronic synthesizer, has died at 71. His final days are detailed here.
It used to be you could barely find an album without the blips and bleeps of his namesake synths gracing the soundscape. Though time will tell whether he is one day afforded the same stature as Antonio Stradivari, for the moment he is at least as crucial to the developmental history of music as Les Paul.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go listen to Switched-On Bach.