Johnny Rowan, who drummed for ’90s alt rockers Urge Overkill underneath the identify Blackie Onassis, has died at age 57, the band introduced Wednesday (June 14).
“Urge Overkill is saddened to report that Blackie has handed away,” learn a submit on the band’s social media accounts. “Please respect our privateness presently. We’re sending a lot like to his household and all his followers. We all know he might be missed.” In a second submit, the band thanked followers for his or her “love and help” following the information and shared a latest picture of Rowan with actor/musician Jack Black. “Thanks for the love and help as we speak. We needed to share this picture of Blackie, we hope you prefer it as a lot as we do.”
Rowan — who joined the band in 1991, forward of the band’s major-label signing to Geffen — drummed on Urge Overkill’s best-known hit: their cowl of Neil Diamond’s “Woman, You’ll Be a Girl Quickly” for the Pulp Fiction soundtrack in 1994. The music was the Chicago band’s lone Billboard Scorching 100 entry, peaking at No. 59. It topped out at No. 11 on the Different Airplay chart, and the music’s music video was nominated for finest video from a movie on the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards. The Pulp Fiction soundtrack peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 and spent a hefty 107 weeks on the chart.
Urge Overkill additionally had a prime 10 rock and various hit in “Sister Havana” from Saturation, their first album for Geffen in 1993. “Sister Havana” peaked at No. 6 on Different Airplay and No. 10 on Fashionable Rock Airplay.
Exit the Dragon, the band’s second and last album for Geffen in 1995, was additionally the final UO album for Rowan, who didn’t rejoin the group when it re-formed in 2004. Onassis did, nonetheless, workforce with Urge Overkill frontman Nash Kato to co-write six songs on his 2000 solo debut Debutante.
