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Blue Öyster Cult
Blue Öyster Cult
American hard rock band
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Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll
American author, poet, and punk musician
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Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo
Cuban American musician
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Kasim Sulton
Kasim Sulton
American musician
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Robby Krieger
Robby Krieger
American rock guitarist and songwriter
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Eric Bloom
Eric Bloom
American musician
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Shawn Lane
Shawn Lane
American musician
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Patti Smith
Patti Smith
American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist
8
Firefall
Firefall
American band
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Kerry Marx
Kerry Marx
musician
10
Boston
Boston
American rock band
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Tommy Thayer
Tommy Thayer
American musician and songwriter
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Cults
Cults
American indie band
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Richie Sambora
Richie Sambora
American rock musician
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Marco Mendoza
Marco Mendoza
musician, songwriter
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Spike Edney
Spike Edney
English keyboard player
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Cardiacs
Cardiacs
British band
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Lenny Kaye
Lenny Kaye
American guitarist, songwriter, producer, journalist
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James Gang
James Gang
American rock band
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Albert Bouchard
Albert Bouchard
American musician
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Dennis Dunaway
Dennis Dunaway
American rock musician, bass guitarist
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Kansas
Kansas
American rock band
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Oysterband
Oysterband
British band
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Black Oak Arkansas
Black Oak Arkansas
American Southern rock band
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Simple Minds
Simple Minds
Scottish rock band formed in 1977
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Atoms for Peace
Atoms for Peace
English-American experimental rock band
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Lou Reed
Lou Reed
American musician, recording artist, singer-songwriter (1942-2013)
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Neal Smith
Neal Smith
American rock drummer
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Wendy Saddington
Wendy Saddington
Australian singer, journalist
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Billy Duffy
Billy Duffy
Rock guitarist; member of The Cult
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The Leftovers
The Leftovers
Australian punk rock band
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Guards
Guards
band
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Eddie Jobson
Eddie Jobson
British musician
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Rod Argent
Rod Argent
British musician
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Guitar Shorty
Guitar Shorty
American blues guitarist
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American musician
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Allen Glover Lanier (/ləˈnɪər/; June 25, 1946 – August 14, 2013) was an American musician who played keyboards and rhythm guitar. He was an original member of Blue Öyster Cult.

Lanier wrote several songs for Blue Öyster Cult albums, including "True Confessions", "Tenderloin", "Searchin' for Celine", "In Thee", and "Lonely Teardrops". In addition to his work with Blue Öyster Cult, he also contributed to music by Patti Smith, John Cale, Jim Carroll, The Dictators and The Clash, among others. He lived with Patti Smith in Manhattan for several years during the 1970s.

Lanier first performed with the band (then known as Soft White Underbelly) in 1967. He left the group in 1985, and was replaced by Tommy Zvoncheck (of Clarence Clemons and Public Image Ltd fame). Lanier returned to the band in 1987, touring constantly until the fall of 2006.

Without any official announcement from Blue Öyster Cult, the band's line-up photograph was updated to remove Lanier, and a brief mention on the page for Richie Castellano has the following to say: "Since the retirement of Allen Lanier, Richie has switched over to the guitars/keyboards position, both of which he's quite the master!". That would seem to indicate that Allen Lanier retired from both Blue Öyster Cult and music in 2007, having played his last concert with them in late 2006. He would rejoin them for their 40th anniversary concert in New York in November 2012, which proved to be his last appearance with the band.

Lanier's death was announced by Blue Öyster Cult on August 14, 2013. According to their official Facebook page, "Allen succumbed to complications from C.O.P.D." Lead singer Eric Bloom posted the following:

"My great friend Allen Lanier has passed. I'll miss the guy even though we hadn't spoken in a while. He was so talented as a musician and a thinker. He read voraciously, all kinds of things, especially comparative religion. We drove for years together, shared rooms in the early days. We partied, laughed, played. All BOC fans and band members will mourn his death. Ultimately smoking finally got to him. He had been hospitalized with C.O.P.D. It was Allen who heard some old college band tapes of mine and suggested I get a shot as the singer in 1968. A lot of great memories, more than 40 years' worth. Maybe he's playing a tune with Jim Carroll right now."