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== Personal life and death == In 1966, he married April Liversidge. They had two sons, Danny and Jason.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.madasafish.com/~relf/rock.html |title=International Relf Society: Let's Rock & Roll |publisher=Members.madasafish.com |date=2002-04-02 |access-date=2014-06-28}}</ref> On 12 May 1976, Relf died in the basement of his home at age 33 from [[electrocution]] while playing an ungrounded electric guitar. He had several health problems throughout his life, including [[emphysema]] and [[asthma]]. He may have been taking medications such as [[theophylline]] commonly used to treat those diseases at the time, and these drugs may have led to [[tachycardia]] and/or [[arrhythmia]] which possibly contributed to his inability to survive the [[Electrical injury|electric shock]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Simmonds |first=Jeremy |date=2006 |title=The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtpkCgAAQBAJ&q=keith+relf+earthed&pg=PA88 |location=Chicago, Illinois, USA |publisher=Chicago Review Press, Incorporated |page=88|isbn=9781613744789 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bittar |title=The arrhythmogenicity of theophylline. A multivariate analysis of clinical determinants |year=1991 |volume=99 |issue=6 |pages=1415β1420 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2036824/ |journal=Chest |doi=10.1378/chest.99.6.1415 |pmid=2036824 |access-date=4 December 2020}}</ref> His death was announced two days later on 14 May, which is sometimes erroneously listed as the date of his death.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=French |first1 = David (1966–) |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1156990166|title=Heart full of soul Keith Relf of the Yardbirds|others=Cooper, Alice, 1948-|date=29 May 2020|isbn=978-1-4766-4046-4|location=Jefferson|oclc=1156990166}}</ref> He was buried in [[Richmond Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Beach|first=Darren|title=London's Cemeteries|year=2013|publisher=Metro Publications|location=London|isbn=9781902910406|pages=216β219}}</ref>
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