American singer and songwriter (1941–1967)
"Otis brought us all to the dock of the bay" refers to "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding.
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The tribute to Moon was inserted between those for Redding and Morrison; the Presley tribute was the entire second verse, replacing those for Croce and Darin; and a new third verse memorialized Lennon, whose murder by Mark David Chapman on 8 December 1980 was mentioned by the line "Now we've lost John Lennon in the cruelest way".
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Dionne Warwick first performed (but never recorded) the song in February 1983 on a TV special titled Here's Television Entertainment as a tribute to many performers, including Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, John Belushi, Cass Elliot, John Lennon, Bobby Darin, Minnie Riperton, Sam Cooke, Harry Chapin, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Croce, Bobby Van, and Karen Carpenter, who had died days earlier.
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