Another legend has passed? DJ Fontana is NOT dead at 81, just an internet rumor.

[vivaelvis]

Despite a rumored post over on another Elvis forum, the news of DJ Fontana passing is false. Someone broke that he had passed over at FECC then news from DJ himself via Facebook is that he is alive and well. There is some crazy stuff going around these days on Twitter and Facebook of people breaking falsified stories that a famous person has died when it is not true at all. Eddie Murphy had his daughters crying calling his cell one day saying that it was on twitter that he had died when he was in fact alive and well.

These things need to be stopped ASAP.

[KPM]

That is the beauty of internet usage-someone can post something on a supposedly reliable site and then the rumor causes havoc.
For all the immediacy of internet usage-it also spreads so much misinformation it is not even funny.

[Tommy]

I am just happy he is well and alive............

[vivaelvis]

That is true.

[King Of The Whole World]

I thought everything you read on the internet was true.

I'm glad this is a false story. My first thought was I'm glad I was able to see him play the drums at the 35th anniversary concert.

[KPM]

I am just happy he is well and alive............

Exactly
I recall a few years back when Bob Hope was still with us he saw the announcement of his death (sparked from an internet report)
on the local NBC affiliate in Los Angeles and he called the station to tell them he was alive, well and laughing at the story.

[Diane]

I'm happy he is okay too. Too many have passed as it is...so sad.

[karlos]

Im really happy that DJ Fontana is well and alive - Ok - Great News Indeed - Wishn Him and his family all de very best -

[debtdbruno]

.......and this only a week or so about Larry Gellar passing...also Facebook to blame

[josephinebeau]

Thank God, I just had the opportunity to speak to him at the Peabody in Memphis and tell him thank you for the great performance at the concert. Whew, that was close. Yet time marches on with us all and we will probably be losing many of these important pieces of history in the next couple decades.