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Paul Revere died on Saturday at his home in Garden Valley, Idaho. The 1960s rocker and organist with Paul Revere & The Raiders was 76 and had been battling brain cancer for over a year.

The Paul Revere & The Raiders website has featured a tribute to Revere, which concludes with the following words:

By your example, both professional and personal, you’ve left a blueprint of how to live a life full of love, laughter and happiness. The world will be a lot less fun, a lot less kind and gentle without Paul Revere in it. Your larger-than-life absence will leave a void in our hearts and our lives.

Love forever, from “Everyone who has ever met you.”

Born Paul Revere Dick on January 7, 1938 in Harvard, Nebraska, Revere moved to Idaho as a child and put together a band in high school called the “Downbeats”. The group would become Paul Revere & The Raiders in 1960 when signed to Gardena Records. After an inauspicious early recording career, the group moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s and achieved a number of hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Just Like Me” (#11), “Kicks” (#4) “Hungry” (#6), “Good Thing” (#4) and “Him Or Me, What’s It Gonna Be” (#5).

“Kicks” – Paul Revere & The Raiders

As well as the string of hits, the band were well known for their theatrical image, performing in American Revolution outfits in a nod to Revere’s historical namesake.

Paul Revere & The Raiders were regulars on US television in the 1960s, notably on Dick Clark’s “Where the Action is,” “Happening ’68,” and “It’s Happening”. Revere and fellow band member Mark Lindsay co-hosted the latter two.

The band’s’ biggest hit and only #1 came in 1971 with “Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian),” by which time they had gone through several line-up changes and shortened their name to The Raiders.

“”Indian Reservation” – Paul Revere & The Raiders

The hits dried up for Paul Revere & The Raiders in the 1970s, but covers of their songs were recorded by the likes of The Sex Pistols, The Circle Jerks, Joan Jett, The Farm and Sammy Hagar.

Paul Revere remained with the band until his retirement in August of this year. His funeral will take place on Monday, October 13th at the Cathedral of the Rockies, 717 North 11th Street in Boise. The public are invited.