On June 15, 1979, George began a tour in support of his solo album, Thanks I'll Eat it Here. On June 29, the morning after an appearance at Washington, D.C.'s Lisner Auditorium, where the bulk of Waiting for Columbus had been recorded in 1977, George collapsed and died of a heart attack in his Arlington, Virginia, hotel room at the Twin Bridges Marriott. His heart attack was caused by an accidental heroin overdose.[15][16] George's body was cremated in Washington, D.C., on August 2. His ashes were flown back to Los Angeles, where they were scattered from his fishing boat into the Pacific Ocean.
According to Fred Tackett, "We were driving down the New Jersey Turnpike in this bus and we stopped at this pizza joint off the highway. Everybody in the band shared a cheese pizza but Lowell bought a large pizza with everything on it, carried it to the back of the bus, and he ate the entire pizza by himself. He died two or three days later. So, when people ask me, 'What really killed Lowell?' I say, 'It was a pizza on the New Jersey Turnpike.'"
From :
01. Lowell George - What Do You Want the Girl to Do
02. Lowell George - Honest Man
03. Lowell George - Two Trains
04. Lowell George - I Can't Stand the Rain
05. Lowell George - Cheek to Cheek
06. Lowell George - Easy Money
07. Lowell George - 20 Million Things
08. Lowell George - Find a River
09. Lowell George - Himmler's Ring
10. Lowell George - Heartache
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