- Gail Collins Pappalardi
Gail Collins Pappalardi (born
February 2 ,1941 ) is a songwriter and an artist. She was wife of the lateFelix Pappalardi . She contributed lyrics to many Mountain songs and co-wrote Cream's "World of Pain" with Pappalardi and "Strange Brew" with Pappalardi andEric Clapton . As Gail Collins, her artwork appears on the album covers, "Mountain Climbing" and "Nantucket Sleighride".On
April 17 ,1983 , Felix Pappalardi was shot once in the neck in their fifth-floorEast Side Manhattan apartment. He was pronounced dead at the scene and Gail was charged withsecond degree murder . [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E2D81638F93BA25757C0A965948260&sec=&spon= "Record Producer Slain; Police Charge His Wife", 4/23/83AP article, published in theNew York Times .] ] [ [http://www.pappalardi.com/Articles28.html 9/15/83New York Post article, by Mike Pearl, posted at pappalardi.com.] ] At the age of 43, Gail Collins Pappalardi was acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter, but found guilty of criminally negligent homicide. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E6DC1E38F931A1575AC0A965948260&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss "Wife Found Guilty In Pappalardi Case ", 9/22/83AP article, published in theNew York Times .] ] [ [http://www.pappalardi.com/Articles4.html 9/22/83New York Post article, by Mike Pearl and Peter Fearon, posted at pappilardi.com.] ] Pappalardi was released on parole on April 30, 1985. [ [http://nysdocslookup.docs.state.ny.us/GCA00P00/WIQ3/WINQ130] ]References
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