Peter Ivers

Though he remained unknown to a general audience, Peter Ivers had a fascinatingly eclectic career, beginning in the coffeehouse folk and blues scene centered in Cambridge, MA's Harvard Square in the late 1960s before moving to Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter enclave in the 1970s. His song "In Heaven, Everything Is Fine" soundtracked the defining scene of David Lynch's debut feature "Eraserhead" (1977), and in the early 1980s, he found an entirely new audience as the placidly hippie-ish host of the underground TV sensation "New Wave Theatre" (USA 1981-83), where his interactions with the Los Angeles punk and hardcore bands of the time verged on a form of performance art. Ivers was found bludgeoned to death under mysterious circumstances in his Los Angeles apartment on March 3, 1983; the murder remained officially unsolved.