What is Ritchie Yorke?
[[File:Ritchie yorke.jpg|thumb|Yorke in 2008]] '''Ritchie Yorke''' (12 January 1944 &ndash; 6 February 2017) was an [[Australia]]n writer, [[broadcast]]er, [[historian]] and [[music]] [[journalist]]. He was born in [[Brisbane]], [[Queensland]]. He worked for [[publication]]s such as ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''[[The Courier-Mail|The Sunday Mail]]'' and ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''. He was well known for his work in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Canada]]. In 1969, he was at the [[Bed-In]] of [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]. Yorke died from [[chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]] on 6 February 2017 in Brisbane. He was 73.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/confidential/ritchie-yorke-brisbane-music-writer-dies-at-73/news-story/13b3a52f04b9a5cb4475f3b9bf01c731|title=Ritchie Yorke, Brisbane music writer, dies at 73|work=[[The Courier-Mail]]|date=7 February 2017|access-date=7 February 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yorke, Ritchie}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Australian journalists]] [[Category:Deaths from COPD]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Queensland]] [[Category:Australian critics]] [[Category:Writers from Brisbane]] {{Bio-stub}}