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Gail Delta Collins Pappalardi (February 2, 1941 – December 6, 2013) was an American songwriter, producer, and artist.


Biography

She came to prominence (as 'Miss Gail Collins') co-producing, with Pappalardi, the self-titled debut album by Energy, a group featuring
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. She also co-produced, with
Felix Pappalardi Felix A. Pappalardi Jr. (December 30, 1939 – April 17, 1983) was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist. He is best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist of the band Mountain, whose song "Mississippi Queen" peaked at ...
, the ''Felix Pappalardi and Creation'' album in 1976. Collins Pappalardi co-wrote
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's "World of Pain" with her husband Felix Pappalardi and "
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" with Pappalardi and
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. Both songs are included on the album ''
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''. She contributed lyrics to many
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songs. Her artwork appears on many album covers by Mountain, including ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Flowers of Evil'', '' Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. She was associate producer on the 1978 album by
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, ''Double Dose''. On April 17, 1983, Felix Pappalardi was shot once in the neck in the fifth-floor New York City apartment he shared with Collins Pappalardi. He was pronounced dead at the scene and Collins Pappalardi was charged with
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. Collins Pappalardi claimed that the killing was an accident. During the trial it was revealed that the couple had an open marriage and that Collins Pappalardi had shot her husband after he had returned in the early morning from seeing his girlfriend. She was acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter, but found guilty of
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and sentenced to 16 months to 4 years in prison. On April 30, 1985, she was released on parole. On December 6, 2013, Collins was found dead by her landlord in the Mexican village of
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, a resort town with many American
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residents. She had been undergoing cancer treatments there. She was cremated.


References

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