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keith urban's long-term tour production manager 72 dies in hospital after a fall while preparing for a concert

Keith Urban's long-serving tour manager died in the hospital last week a day after falling while setting up a stage for the musician at a festival.  

Randy 'Baja' Fletcher, 72, died on Aug. 27 at a hospital after falling the previous day while preparing for Urban's appearance at Bash on the Bay on the Lake Erie island of Put-in-Bay. 

It's unclear what kind of fall he suffered, or what kind of injuries he sustained. 

Fletcher became Urban´s tour manager in 2011 after working for music stars such as Brooks & Dunn, Waylon Jennings, Randy Travis and ZZ Top.

Randy 'Baja' Fletcher, 72, died on Aug. 27 at a hospital after falling the previous day while preparing for Urban's appearance at Bash on the Bay on the Lake Erie island of Put-in-Bay.

Randy 'Baja' Fletcher, 72, died on Aug. 27 at a hospital after falling the previous day while preparing for Urban's appearance at Bash on the Bay on the Lake Erie island of Put-in-Bay.

Keith Urban is pictured on Friday morning performing on the Today show. Last week, his long-serving manager Ray 'Baja' Fletcher died in the hospital after suffering a fall while setting up for Urban's show at Bash on the Bay on the Lake Erie island of Put-in-Bay,

Keith Urban is pictured on Friday morning performing on the Today show. Last week, his long-serving manager Ray 'Baja' Fletcher died in the hospital after suffering a fall while setting up for Urban's show at Bash on the Bay on the Lake Erie island of Put-in-Bay,

Urban paid tribute to him in an interview with Billboard magazine that Fletcher had an 'orbit of light' that once you were in 'would stay with you forever.'

'I loved him,' Urban said. 'We all loved him, and I'm grateful he chose us as his road family for 10 years.'

Fletcher received the Country Music Association's first Touring Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, describing his five-decade career as 'unparalleled.'

His lone break from five decades of touring came in 1969 when he joined the U.S. Army and served a tour in Vietna. 

Among those in the music industry who paid tribute to him on Friday was Brooks & Dunn's Kix Brooks. 

'You run the road long enough, and you find out in our business, 'It takes all kinds.' Randy Fletcher, or Baja, or 'the 'Gorilla,' was the best of the best -- if he ever had a bad day he never showed it.  

'If there was ever a problem out there he couldn’t solve, I never heard about it, and if he ever had a cross word to say about anybody, there’s a good chance, they were no friend of mine. 

'We ran the road for almost 20 years together, and when Ronnie and I took a break in 2010, Urban made the quick call. 

'Baja was a guaranteed asset to any tour, but much more importantly, he was the comfort any tour must have when the road gets long, when the crew gets tired, when the smiles began to fade at the end of a long day -- he was the man! 

'Rest in peace, my friend -- you will be missed.'   

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