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Singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer Lee Hazlewood died Saturday (Aug.4). In 2005 he was diagnosed with terminal renal cancer, yet undertook an extensive round of interviews and promotional activities in support of his latest album, Cake or Death.

Hazlewood is best known for writing the 1960s Nancy Sinatra hit, “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”. He also wrote “Houston,” a hit recorded by Dean Martin. He was for a time a mentor to Phil Spector in the late 1950s. However, his own output also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs covered by artists such as Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, Anita Lane, Megadeth, and Boyd Rice.

See also other versions “These Boots are made for walking”:

These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ (KMFDM, Boots, 2002)

These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ (Bombs Remix) (KMFDM, Boots, 2002)

These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ (Candy Remix) (KMFDM, Boots, 2002)

These boots are made for walkin’ (Yuna Ito, Stuck on you, 2006)

These boots are made for walkin’ -STUDIO APARTMENT Impulse Groove (Yuna Ito, Stuck on you, 2006)

These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ (Candye Kane, Diva la Grande, 1997)

These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ (Candye Kane, Best Music, 0)

These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ (Popa Chubby, Flashed Back, 2001)

The son of an oil man, Hazlewood was born in Mannford, Oklahoma and spent most of youth living between Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana. Hazlewood spent his teenage years in Port Neches, Texas where he was exposed to a rich Gulf Coast music tradition.

The following is an official press release:
LEE HAZLEWOOD has died peacefully at his home outside Las Vegas, USA , after a three year struggle with cancer. He celebrated his 78th birthday earlier this month surrounded by family and friends from around the world. He passed away on August 4, 2007 in Henderson, Nevada, and is survived by his son Mark, his daughters Debbie and Samantha, and his devoted wife Jeane.

For over half a century, LEE HAZLEWOOD proved himself to be one of the most ingenious, inspired and impressively stubborn sons-of-a-bitch the music industry ever saw. His career – a word that HAZLEWOOD himself scorned – saw him take on almost every aspect of the music industry – a word that HAZLEWOOD himself was equally dismissive of – and come out on top every time.

HAZLEWOOD ’s music has always been a staple of movie soundtracks, but it has continued to become more and more fashionable, regularly turning up on films as diverse as/ The Dukes Of Hazzard/ – which saw Jessica Simpson perform “These Boots Were Made For Walking” for the title track- and the arthouse flick Morvern Callar – which used “Some Velvet Morning” to great effect.

The family have requested that those wishing to honor LEE HAZLEWOOD
should make donations to the Salvation Army