“It is expected that he will not survive longer than 12/24 hours.
His ventilator will be gradually withdrawn until the inevitable end.
I am so sad to have to bear this terrible news.
Credit: Andy Sheppard/Redferns
I have loved him as a friend and a fellow musician for 40 years.”
The post explained that Seligman had been on “a ventilator in an induced coma for two weeks.”
In 1985, he and Dolby backed Bowie during his historic Live Aid performance.
“Im writing this as Matthew Seligman slips out of this life and into wherever souls go next.
Everybody goes, but none of us were expecting Matthew to leave us so abruptly, forever.
Onstage he would lope and lurch and pace when the music moved him.
Matthew is, was, and always will be one of the greats.
