John Prine, the singer-songwriter behind such classics as “Angel From Montgomery”, has passed away at age 73. According to Rolling Stone, Prine’s family has confirmed he died from complications due to the COVID-19 virus.
Prine had returned from a European tour last month and was hospitalized after suffering symptoms and subsequently testing positive for the coronavirus, his wife and manager Fiona Prine told RS.
He was placed in intensive care for 13 days before passing away on Monday. Prine was in the midst of a creative and commercial comeback after a decade battling cancer.
In 1998, he was diagnosed with squamous cell cancer on the right side of his neck, which required major surgery to remove diseased tissue, in addition to radiation