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Billy Rancher
Billy Rancher (February 28, 1957〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', p.116.〕 - December 2, 1986〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', p.243-244.〕) was an American rock vocalist and songwriter, front man of The Malchicks, Billy Rancher and the Unreal Gods, and Flesh and Blood (all based in Portland, Oregon). One of the most prominent performers in the Pacific Northwest music scene in the first half of the 1980s, he died of cancer before reaching the age of 30.〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', ''passim''.〕 The Unreal Gods were one of the original (2007) inductees of the Oregon Music Hall of Fame.〔(Previous Music Hall of Fame Honorees - 2009 and earlier ), Oregon Music Hall of Fame, accessed 2015-10-01.〕
==Childhood and youth==
Rancher was the child of Swedish immigrant Astrid Rancher (née Svensson) and New Jersey-born Lithuanian-American Joe Rancher, who met in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, married, and moved to Los Angeles.〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', p.17-18.〕 Three months after Billy, their oldest, was born,〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', p.18.〕 they moved to Alaska, where they lived 12 years before moving to Portland.〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', p.18.〕〔Baross, ''Rocky Road'' (documentary), 1:21-1:35.〕 Billy had two younger siblings: Ellen (b. March 6, 1960) and Lenny (b. April 17, 1961).〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', p.18.〕 His father died in 1978.〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', p.64.〕 In 1980, sister Ellen married Steve Pearson of Seattle band The Heats (later The Heaters), though Billy and Pearson never hit it off well.〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', p.18-19.〕
He was an all-city shortstop playing baseball at Portland's Madison High School, and won an athletic scholarship to Mount Hood Community College, but dropped out to focus on music.〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', p.20-22.〕 His first professional band, the Malchicks, scored some local success and gained attention by quickly throwing together permits for a public tribute performance the day after John Lennon was shot, but broke up over musical differences and over lead guitarist Lenny Rancher, Billy's younger brother, being too heavy a drinker at the time even by the standards of a hard-drinking crowd.〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', p.26-48.〕 While in the Malchicks, Rancher met Karen Sage, who would remain his girlfriend for the rest of his life.〔Reader, ''Rocky Road'', ''passim''. p.43-44 for the Lennon tribute.〕
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