Robert Moog Obituary - Times Online

I'm old enough to remember when the Moog synthesizer's arrival turned the music world on its ear. Its inventor, Robert Moog, has died of cancer at age 71. His family maintains a page with a guest book here, in case you have pleasant memories to share or kind words to say to his survivors.

As I remember it, my friends and my brothers and I had sometimes-long, sometimes-heated discussions on whether "synthetic music" was good or bad - but at the same time we couldn't wait to get our hands on a Moog and dreamed of owning one of our very own...