title: Johnny Strike
text: Gary John Bassett (June 6, 1948 – September 10, 2018), known as Johnny Strike, was an American singer-songwriter and crime novelist. He was born in San Francisco, California. He was mostly known as songwriter for the proto-punk band Crime based in San Francisco. In 2004, he wrote Ports of Hell alongside William S. Burroughs.
  
  Strike died on September 10, 2018 in San Francisco from liver cancer at the age of 70.
  
  References
  
  Other websites
   Rudos and Rubes
    An oral history of Crime
    Crime Radio
   Amoeblog
    Murder by Guitar
  
  1948 births
  2018 deaths
  Deaths from liver cancer
  Cancer deaths in San Francisco
  American singer-songwriters
  American guitarists
  American novelists
  Writers from San Francisco
  Musicians from San Francisco
  Singers from San Francisco