Singer and keyboardist Doug Ingle of the rock and roll band "Iron Butterfly" performs onstage at the Fillmore East on February 1, 1969 in New York City. The last surviving original member of American ...

Doug Ingle, who co-founded the heavy rock band Iron Butterfly and was the singer and organist on songs including their signature hit, “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida,” died Friday at age 78. He was the last ...

Doug Ingle, the lead singer and organist of Iron Butterfly, the San Diego-bred band that turned a purportedly misheard lyric into “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” the 17-minute magnum opus that propelled ...

Erik Braunn, 52, the lead guitarist on Iron Butterfly’s classic heavy metal anthem of 1968 “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” died of cardiac arrest Friday in Los Angeles. Born in 1950 in Pekin, Ill., and brought ...