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School of Rock drummer Kevin Clark is dead after a motorist had hit him while he was cycling around Chicago. Jack Black remembered Clark as a "beautiful soul" and had tons of memories together.
Kevin Alexander Clarke, the drummer who played Freddy “Spazzy McGee” Jones in the Jack Black comedy School Of Rock, has died at the age of 32. Clark was struck and killed by a motorist while biking in Chicago's Avondale neighbourhood in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Paramedics took Clark to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:04 a.m., the Chicago Fire Department and the Cook County medical examiner's office has confirmed.Clark started playing drums when he was three years old, so had a decade of experience behind him by the time he auditioned for the 2003 movie School Of Rock, when he played Black Sabbath's Iron Man alongside the film's guitarist, Joey Gaydos Jr.School Of Rock, directed by Richard Linklater, went on to become a huge commercial success, grossing $131 million globally, making it the most successful music-themed comedy of all time, until it was overtaken by Pitch Perf