Steve Morse, Who Held Down Rock Critic Beat at Boston Globe for Three Decades, Dies at 76

Steve Morse, one of the nation’s most established and well-respected music critics during his three-decade run at the Boston Globe, died Saturday at age 76.

Morse died under care Care Dimensions Hospice in Lincoln, Mass. He had announced to friends on social media that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, 10 days earlier.

The writer was so respected by the musicians he covered over the years — even when he didn’t let them off the hook for a weak performance — that no less a luminary than Bono crashed Morse’s retirement party at J.J. Foley’s Bar in 2005, after U2 played a gig at

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