Facts: - instrument: guitar - years active: 1960s -- 2008 - death date: 21 january 2009 -lrb- aged 64 -rrb- - genre: rock and roll , rockabilly - birth date: 3 july 1944 - name: mickey gee - background: non_vocal_instrumentalist - birth place: cardiff , south wales - associated acts: tom jones , dave edmunds , shakin ' stevens Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mickey gee .
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michael richard ' mickey ' gee -lrb- 3 july 1944 -- 21 january 2009 -rrb- was a rock and roll guitarist who played alongside some of the most prominent welsh musicians of the last forty years .he died on 21 january 2009 in cardiff from emphysema .