Saturday Night Live music producer, Hal Willner has sadly passed away due to alleged coronavirus complications. He was 64 years old. WATCH: Hal Willner produces classic track Zip-a-dee-doo-dah by Nilsson While no official cause of death has been released yet, sources close to Willner have confirmed to both Rolling Stone and Variety that he passed away due to coronavirus complications.

The news of the music producer’s death comes just nine days after his last tweet in which he sent well-wishes to singer-songwriter John Prine, who also died today due to COVID-19.

In his previous post on March 28, Willner alluded to a possible positive COVID-19 diagnosis, tweeting a U.S. map of coronavirus outbreaks with the New York area highlighted in red.

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