Mojo Nixon, Rocker Behind “Elvis Is Everywhere,” Dies at 66 on Outlaw Country Cruise

Mojo Nixon, the uncertain rock and roller behind the 1987 MTV-favorite uniqueness track “Elvis Is Everywhere,” passed away Wednesday. He was 66.

According to a declaration on his Facebook web page, Nixon, whose genuine name was Neill Kirby McMillan Jr, passed away after enduring a “cardiac event” throughout an Outlaw Nation Cruise Ship on which he was an entertainer.

“How you live is how you should die,” the Facebook article reviews.“Mojo Nixon was full-tilt, wide-open rock hard, root hog, corner on two wheels + on fire… Passing after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking no prisoners + a good breakfast with bandmates and friends. A cardiac event on the Outlaw Country Cruise is about right… & that’s just how he did it. Mojo has left the building. Since Elvis is everywhere, we know he was waiting for him in the alley out back. Heaven help us all.”

Nixon had actually left on the Outlaw Nation Cruise Ship with atrioventricular bundle The Toadliquors out of Miami on Sunday. Various other entertainers on the cruise ship consist of Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams. Along with doing, Nixon additionally taped a SiriusXM Session at Sea with the band 49 Winchester, in his various other duty as a SiriusXM host on the program Crazy in the Mid-day on Steven Van Zandt’s Outlaw Nation network.

Birthed in North Carolina in 1957, Nixon made his means to The golden state in the very early ’80s and partnered with artist Skid Roper, with whom he launched 6 cds in between 1985 and 1990. Roper played ripped while Nixon played guitar and sang his very own verses. Their 1987 job Bo-Day-Shus !!!, that included “Elvis Is Everywhere,” came to a head at No. 187 on the Signboard 200 cds graph.

Nixon additionally struck the Signboard graphes with “Don Henley Must Die”– a vicious track that takes purpose at the Eagles frontman from his 1990 solo cd Otis — which was a No. 20 hit on Alternate Airplay.

In a meeting with the Austin Chronicle, Nixon remembered the evening when Henley himself appeared at his job at Austin, Texas’ Opening in the Wall surface place in 1992 and asked to join him onstage. “He was shit-faced and he goes, ‘I want to sing that song, especially the part about not getting together with Glenn Frey!’” Nixon claimed.“He was beltin’ that shit out, screaming like he was Johnny fuckin’ Rotten.”

Along with his songs job, Nixon additionally functioned as a star, showing up in the 1989 Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Fantastic Rounds of Fire! and starring as Toad in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. motion picture.

A docudrama concerning Nixon, The Mojo Policy: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon, debuted at the 2022 South by Southwest movie celebration and was launched electronically in March of in 2015.

This tale initially showed up on Billboard.com.