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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 06 > Punk pioneer Lux Interior founded band the Cramps

Punk pioneer Lux Interior founded band the Cramps

By Andrew Dalton / The Bulletin
February 6, 2009

LOS ANGELES — Lux Interior, co-founder and lead singer of the pioneering horror-punk band the Cramps, has died, the group’s publicist said. He was 60.

Interior — whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser — died Wednesday of a pre-existing heart condition at....

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