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By Times staff writer Alice in Chains lead singer found deadSEATTLE -- Layne Staley, lead singer and guitarist for the grunge band Alice in Chains, was found dead in his apartment, authorities said Saturday. He was 34. Tests were required to establish the identity because the body, discovered Friday, had started to decompose. The King County Medical Examiner's office did not release his cause of death. The cause of death "was natural or an overdose -- that's the way it was determined by our investigators," said Seattle police spokesman Duane Fish. Alice in Chains was one of the most prominent bands of the Seattle grunge scene of the early 1990s. The group was known for its dark, menacing sound, which combined grunge and heavy metal, and often wrote about heroin. The group's first album, Facelift, was released in 1990. It later released Dirt and Alice in Chains. The group's hits included Man in the Box, Them Bones, Rooster, and Would? Staley's body was found just over 8 years after Nirvana singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. In the 1996 interview, Staley reflected on Cobain's death: "I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I didn't know him real well, but I just saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person who could hardly get a 'hello' out." Yahoo! yodeler sues for copyright infringementLOS ANGELES -- Wylie Gustafson, noted yodeler, singer and leader of the band Wylie & the Wild West, has sued Yahoo! for copyright infringement. Gustafson yodeled for Yahoo! in 1996. He received a one-time payment of $590, but said he was not advised that his yodel would be used by Yahoo! in any other commercials. In his lawsuit, filed this week in federal court in Los Angeles, Gustafson said Sunnyvale-based Yahoo's continued use of his yodel without compensation amounts to copyright infringement. Yahoo! officials said they have not seen the suit and do not comment on legal matters.
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