Former Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington has died in a Palm Springs car crash. A Riverside County coroner's report says the 67-year-old Palm Springs resident wasn't wearing a seat belt when his car hit a retaining wall at about 5 p.m. Tuesday. He died at the scene. The Palm Springs Desert Sun reports that police don't believe alcohol or drugs were involved. A friend, Keith McCormick, tells the paper that Covington's wife, Lauren, suspects he had a stroke or heart attack before the accident. Covington replaced Spencer Dryden as the Airplane's drummer from 1970-72. Before that, he was with the...
- 6/6/2013
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
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