The guitarist for the Detroit rock band MC5, Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith later married fellow musician Patti Smith and settled in St. Clair Shores. In 2003, he was named in Rolling Stone’s list of the top 100 guitarists of all time. on November 9, 1994, Fred Sonic Smith died of heart failure in a Detroit hospital ironically, the same malady that took the life of MC5 vocalist Rob Tyner two years earlier , Smith was buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit.
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