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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 2016.
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 terms "rock and roll" and "rock" each have a variety of definitions, some narrow and some wider. In determining criteria for inclusion, this list uses as its basis reliable sources listing "rock deaths" or "deaths in rock and roll", as well as such sources as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Jim Manolides (76), American rock and roll bassist (The Frantics) Riki Sorsa (63), Finnish singer. [50] 14 – Lasse Mårtenson (81), Finnish singer [51] 16 – Fredrik Norén (75), Swedish jazz drummer [52] (death announced on this date) 17 – Guy Clark, (74), American folk and country music singer-songwriter
Disturbed's single "The Sound of Silence", a rock cover version of the song by "Simon & Garfunkel", tops the Mainstream Rock chart for seven straight weeks. [7] The song goes on to be their highest performing song of their career to-date, going triple platinum in the US, selling 3 million copies, and having cross-over success, peaking at number 42 on the US all-format Billboard Hot 100 chart.
THE READING LIST: The legendary performer recruited three different writers to help her with her new memoir – something so stacked with detail and juicy stories that it spans two books, the ...
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More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.