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Location of death Cause of death Chris Karrer Amon Düül, Amon Düül II, Embryo: 76: January 2, 2024: COVID-19 [1] Glynis Johns Actress and singer: 100: January 4, 2024: Los Angeles, California, US: Natural causes [2] David Soul Actor and singer: 80: January 4, 2024: London, England: COPD [3] Larry Collins Country guitarist and singer ...
Monument at the crash site of the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens; "The Day the Music Died". The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died. The list ...
The following is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in the 2020s decade. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Avicii was found dead in the afternoon hours of April 20, 2018, according to a statement from his rep. His tragic death came two years after he announced his retirement from touring in March 2016.
Having fallen into alcoholism, the sudden death of his good friend Jani Lane of Warrant propelled him to get help and become sober. Fully recovered, he started touring again as Jack Russell's Great White in December 2011 to avoid confusion with the still-touring official Great White band which had continued onward in 2009 with a different ...
Three years earlier, Winehouse's personal assistant, Alex Haines, told the British press that Winehouse, then 25, feared she would join Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, and Kurt Cobain in dying at 27: "She reckoned she would join the 27 Club of rock stars who died at that age. She told me, 'I have a feeling I'm gonna die young.'" [27]
In the first half of this decade, 89 rock stars have died as a result of cancer, surpassing the 79 cancer-related deaths in the 2000s.
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2017.