Roy Loney
Roy Loney (April 13, 1946 - December 13, 2019) was an American rock musician, best known as the original lead singer of the Flamin' Groovies. The Groovies original line-up issued releases on Epic Records and Kama Sutra Records, which "Rolling Stone" magazine described as an "influence on power-pop and punk …" Loney's albums with the Flamin' Groovies included "Sneakers" (EP), "Supersnazz", "Flamingo", and "Teenage Head"."Billboard" magazine contrasted their "gritty" sound to the "flower power" approach of their San Francisco contemporaries.

After leaving the Flamin' Groovies, Loney remained in the music industry both as a performer and in other jobs such as a sales representative for ABC Records and in various San Francisco-area record stores. Besides solo projects, he fronted bands, often in collaboration with former Flamin' Groovies bandmates, performing and recording under band names including the Phantom Movers and the Longshots (which included Scott McCaughey, Jim Sangster, and Tad Hutchinson of the Young Fresh Fellows, and Joey Kline of The Squirrels). In the last two years of his life, Loney appeared with a reunited Flamin' Groovies. Before his health failed in spring of 2019, he had expected to tour Europe with them later that year.

He died December 13, 2019 of "severe organ failure."
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