I was just about to post this, not sure people know him by his real name (per the subject) though....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...Beefheart.html
Music Obituaries
Captain Beefheart
Captain Beefheart, who died on December 17 aged 69, was the creative force behind what was perhaps the most strikingly original rock album to come out of America in the 1960s; he later forged a successful career as an abstract painter. ....