Overview
- His family announced his death on December 4 via social media, saying he passed peacefully surrounded by relatives.
- No cause of death was disclosed in the statement or in subsequent reporting.
- Yamauchi joined Free in 1972, played on their final album Heartbreaker, and co-wrote the single Wishing Well.
- He later replaced Ronnie Lane in the Faces, appearing on the 1974 live album Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners and on the single You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything.
- After years out of the public eye, he returned to live performance in 2023 and 2024 as Meets Duo with drummer Yoshitaka Shimada.