Rest in peace, Blackie Onassis.  Onassis joined Urge Overkill as their drummer in 1991 and he played with the band until their first break-up in 1997.  He was the drummer who played on their cover version of Neil Diamond’s Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon.  The song became a hit for the band when it was featured in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and, even today, hearing it brings to mind memories of Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace.

Though Onassis would collaborate with Urge Overkill’s Nash Kato on the latter’s 2000 solo album, Onassis was not a part of the band when it reformed in 2004.  Instead, Onassis largely stayed out of the public eye, with the band announcing his death yesterday.

The video for Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon mixes clips from Pulp Fiction with clips of the band performing the song at the type of establishment that would probably be frequented by Tarantino’s characters.  In a 1992 interview with Spin Magazine, Onassis said that the mission of Urge Overkill was to “resurrect the era of the swinger” and that describes the feel of this video.

Director Drew Carolan also directed the video for Living  Color’s Cult of Personality and The Mighty Might Bosstones’s Don’t Know How to Party.

RIP, Blackie Onassis.