The Cemetery of Rock

R.I.P.

Robin Tyner

of MC5

Date of Birth: December 12, 1944
Date of Death: September 18, 1991

Cause of Death: Heart failure. Here is a direct quote from his obituary as published in The Village Voice (October 1, 1991) ----

"According to police reports, Tuesday night the 46-year-old Tyner was driving home from a nearby grocery store in the Detroit suburb of Berkley, Michigan, when he suffered a heart attack. He crashed his auto into the back of his son's parked car and was found slumped behind the wheel, not breathing, and died a short time later at a local hospital."

Final Resting Place: Roseland Cemetery, Berkley, Michigan.

Claim to Fame: Lead singer with punk group MC5.

That's Rob up the front with the big hair.

Rob's headstone was designed by Detroit's celebrated Grande Ballroom poster artist, Gary Grimshaw, long-time friend of Rob's and an MC5 Co-Conspirator. The inscription "Let Me Be Who I Am" is of course a lyric from the MC5's call to arms 'Kick Out the Jams,' which Rob wrote the lyric for. The buffalo was Rob's "Spirit Animal," hence the buffalo figure. He was buried wearing an MC5 T-shirt.

Info thanks to David C. Thomas, director
MC5 * A TRUE TESTIMONIAL

The Cemetery of Rock

R.I.P.

Robin Tyner

of MC5

Date of Birth: December 12, 1944 Date of Death: September 18, 1991 Cause of Death: Heart failure. Here is a direct quote from his obituary as published in The Village Voice (October 1, 1991) ----

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Date of Birth: December 12, 1944
Date of Death: September 18, 1991

Cause of Death: Heart failure. Here is a direct quote from his obituary as published in The Village Voice (October 1, 1991) ----