Editing John Mayall (section)

==Personal life==
Mayall began living in the U.S. part time in the late 1960s, living there full time by the early 1970s. A brush fire destroyed his house in [[Laurel Canyon]] in 1979. Mayall lost 2,000 hours of video-taped movies, 16th century antiques, a [[pornography]] collection dating from the 1800s and his diaries written over 25 years.<ref>{{cite web | title=FIRE IN LAUREL CANYON, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Monday September 24, 1979  | date=24 September 1979 | url=https://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1979-0916_KirkwoodBowlFire/092479_kirkwood_heraldexaminer.htm | ref={{sfnref | LAFIRE.COM welcomes you to the Los Angeles Fire Department Historical 
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Mayall was married twice and had six children and six grandchildren. He had four children with his first wife Pamela: Gary, Jason and Tracey, and adopted son Benedict.<ref>[https://abc-independentnews.co.uk/2024/07/24/john-mayall-pioneering-figure-of-british-blues-dies-aged-90/ Obituary], Henry Lucy, July 24, 2024</ref> His second wife, Maggie Mayall, is an American blues performer; since the early 1980s, she has taken part in the management of her husband's career. They married in 1982,<ref>Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916–2005 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.</ref> and divorced in 2011.<ref>[http://blues.gr/profiles/blogs/an-interview-with-singer-songwriter-maggie-mayall-the-blues-is-a "Maggie Mayall: No Limit Blues"], interview by Michael Limnios, Blues.Gr, 19 May 2012</ref><ref>[http://maggiesburningblog.blogspot.gr/2011/12/divorce-diaries.html The Divorce Diaries] by Maggie Mayall, 7 December 2011</ref>

Mayall died at his home in California on 22 July 2024, at the age of 90.<ref>{{Cite Instagram |user=johnmayallofficial |postid=C9yAsdCyVCj |title=It is with heavy hearts that we bear the news that John Mayall passed away peacefully in his California home yesterday, July 22, 2024, surrounded by his loving family. |date=23 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Rozzo |first1=Mark |title=Blues Legend John Mayall Is Dead at 90 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/blues-legend-john-mayall-is-dead-at-90 |magazine=Vanity Fair |access-date=24 July 2024 |date=23 July 2024}}</ref><ref name="Russell2024"/> He was interred at [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery]].<ref>[https://www.johnmayall.com/single-post/john-mayall-a-special-life John Mayall - A Special Life]</ref>