Drake Levin, who played lead guitar for the teen-idol rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders during their biggest hit-making years in the mid-1960s, died July 4 in San Francisco. He was 62.
The cause was cancer, said his wife, Sandra.
Mr. Levin joined the Raiders in 1963, and for the next three years, (he left for a time to fulfill a stint in the National Guard) he provided the pulsing guitar riffs and clean solos that gave the band a legitimate rock ‘n’ roll grounding. He played on a series of hits, including the anti-drug song Kicks and Just Like Me.
