Robert John, whose “Sad Eyes” hit No. 1 in the U.S. and had a Top 5 hit with a cover of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” died Monday. He was 79. His son Michael Patrick told our sister site Rolling Stone ...

Perhaps it made counterintuitive sense that Robert John would finally score his career-making solo ballad at one of the most inhospitable times for downtempo pop music in the history of top 40. The ...

Robert John, an itinerant singer-songwriter who was working in construction before scoring a Number One hit with 1979's "Sad Eyes," died Monday, Feb. 24. He was 79. Michael Pedrick, John's son, ...

A former No. 1 hit singer who charted in four different decades is dead at age 79. Robert John, who topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979 with “Sad Eyes,” died Monday, according to Rolling Stone. A ...

John earned a Grammy nomination for "Sad Eyes" Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Robert John, the singer-songwriter behind the chart-topping hit "Sad Eyes," has died. He was 79. John's son Michael Pedrick ...