What musical icon death had the biggest impact on you

[buckjohnson]

Along with John Lennon and Elvis (mainly because a member of my family loved him so much)

[buckjohnson]

I will accept write in votes, esp for Whitney Houston and James Brown, both who I forgot to include.

[oifarang]

Joe Strummer

Joey Ramone

Johnny Ramone

[Willie Escalade]

Mary Christine Brockert, Phyllis Linda Hyman, Barry Eugene Carterand Theodore DeReese Pendergrass.

I don't know how I'll react when Patrice Rushen passes away...

[kaientai]

Freddie Mercury for me and also the dead of the Big Man Clarence Clemmons saddened me

[Dino Velvet]

From that list I guess Keith Richards.

The deaths of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Ronnie James Dio both saddened me greatly.

[Merkurie]

Micheal Jackson.
I broke down and cried.
I was surprised because I have not been so much into his music in a very long time. But I remember Micheal Jackson since I was a little kid and he was still singing with his brothers. Despite not being a "Micheal Jackson Fan" and having no use for him for years, there were dozens of songs he made that I loved and grew up with.

It was like losing a family member.

[Prospero]

The loss of any great artiste is always saddening - both for what they meant when alive but also for the loss of the still unwritten or unplayed music.

Many names are missing from your list and some are simply jokes. Why no Hendrix for instance?

However for me - and I'd argue for many of my generation - the brutality and suddeness of the death of John Lennon is incomparable. Although I found much of his solo music unnappealing, the significance of The Beatles for my generation was unique. They were the mainspring of much of the music that followed and their cultural impact on the second part of the 20th century is of such magnitude that the murder of Lennon was - in some crucialways - as much a symbol of the end of an era and the shattering of a myth as the killing of President kennedy.

[Ryz]

Elvis
John Lennon
Marvin Gaye
Freddie Mercury
Mariah Carey
Frank Sinatra
Amy Winehouse
Barry White
Keith Richard
Miles Davis

[rockabilly]

Kurt Cobain.

[BellaBellucci]

Steve Ray Vaughn, Curt Cobain, and Michael Hutchence.

Mystify- INXS - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqtYrpe4RyY)

~BB~

[maxpower]

Kurt Cobain.

Second that.

[oifarang]

Bunch of fucking homos.

[Dino Velvet]

Bunch of fucking homos.

Was this a Boy Band? Never heard of them.

[Merkurie]

Bunch of fucking homos.
I think "Flock of Seagulls" are still alive.

[reformedcharacter]

Freddie Mercury is probably the only one that bothered me. The first band I ever saw live was Queen . I was 13 and my mother had to lie to my school to get me and brothers the day off so we could go to Manchester to see them

[Quiet Reflections]

I love music but an artists death doesn't impact my life at all. Sure It sucks that Bob Marley and Dimebag Darrell are dead but when famous people die I still have to go to work in the morning and pay my bills just like when they were alive. Their music will always be there when I need it unlike them since they didn't know or care about me anyway.

[BellaBellucci]

^ Today is Dimebag's birthday, and I have the same birthday as Bob Marley. May they both RIP.

~BB~

[Dino Velvet]

Today is Dimebag's birthday. RIP

~BB~

I'll honor Darrell by smoking 4 dime bags today. RIP:smoking

Pantera - Killing In Korea (full show) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTVLTlMdjQY)

[Nickodemus]

From the list John Lennon and Freddie Mercury but those that saddened me the most:
Jon Lord, Gary Moore and Ronnie Dio :rock2 :(

[BellaBellucci]

How about Gregg Allman?

~BB~

[Dino Velvet]

From the list John Lennon and Freddie Mercury but those that saddened me the most:
Jon Lord, Gary Moore and Ronnie Dio :rock2 :(

The recent death of Jon Lord got to me too.

WHOCARES - HD video - Ian Gillan, Tony Iommi & Friends (Lord, Newsted, McBrain, Lindstroem) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEjEmxi2Zd0)

Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_kez7WVUU)

[oifarang]

Was this a Boy Band? Never heard of them.

My point is why make a list at all when you have no real idea of musical icons?

[Dino Velvet]

How about Gregg Allman?

~BB~

Gregg Allman is still alive. Duane Allman RIP

[BellaBellucci]

Gregg Allman is still alive. Duane Allman RIP

Whoops! That too. I didn't mean to put him out before his time there! :lol:

~BB~

[Dino Velvet]

Whoops! That too. I didn't mean to put him out before his time there! :lol:

~BB~

Keith Richards is on the list. You're still golden. I actually checked on Gregg after your post. He said he's just resting his eyes.

[Prospero]

I miss all the ones on the list and many others because they will not be making any new music.
The list omits many many great musicians who died way too young. Like Mozart, Gershwin, Hendrix, Marley, Janis Joplin, Tim Hardin, Aaliyah, Otis Redding, George Harrison etc etc... as someone said, their music live on, but think what they would have/might have produced had they lived in ripe old age.

And I've no idea what Oifarang meant when he says the OP has no idea about musical icons.

[oifarang]

And I've no idea what Oifarang meant when he says the OP has no idea about musical icons.

I meant you can not ask a question about musical Icons when your list omits such a wealth of talent and indeed true musical Icons.

[Prospero]

I meant you can not ask a question about musical Icons when your list omits such a wealth of talent and indeed true musical Icons.
ahhhhhhh

[BellaBellucci]

George Harrison

OMG yes! How could I have forgotten?! He's my favorite Beatle. His solo work with Jeff Lynne was just brilliant! I'm always amazed at how underrated he is compared to John and Paul. Maybe it's because he wasn't named after a Biblical disciple? :lol:

~BB~

[Dino Velvet]

And I've no idea what Oifarang meant when he says the OP has no idea about musical icons.

He might think some were omitted. I would've liked to have seen Hank Sr up there but no list is perfect.

Kaw-Liga - Hank Williams - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FY7RWJAtJQ)

[reformedcharacter]

I almost forgot Arthur Lee - he was a genius, a bit of a scary nutter of a genius but a genius nonetheless

[hippifried]

Laura Nyro

[south ov da border]

this year Jimmy Castor. Overall the rapper Big L...

[LABiM75&StrF51]

.

Guess I am weird for not having this issue.

No Death of a Musician or any Celebrity for that matter has ever impacted noticeably on me.

I usually blame it on growing up in New Orleans, but maybe it is more....
Idolizing someone to any point of obsession is just not in me I guess.

..?..or maybe it is just because their Legacy lives on in their Music..?..


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[fred41]

OMG yes! How could I have forgotten?! He's my favorite Beatle. His solo work with Jeff Lynne was just brilliant! I'm always amazed at how underrated he is compared to John and Paul. Maybe it's because he wasn't named after a Biblical disciple? :lol:

~BB~

Might as well mention Roy Orbison then too...

[Lovecox]

I'm with south ov da border on this one: Jimmy Castor. To me 'Troglodyte' is the greates song of all time.

[onmyknees]

Whoops! That too. I didn't mean to put him out before his time there! :lol:

~BB~

Not to worry...Greg's not lookin' all that good these days. Cher wore him out. There was a time when he could sing and play the blues....Yes Duane and Barry Oakley both died on Harleys. "Eat a Peach for Peace" as Duane used to say.

[Dino Velvet]

If Jim Morrison had lived 10 more years I wonder how he woulda turned out.

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[rockabilly]

Ian Curtis

[onmyknees]

If Jim Morrison had lived 10 more years I wonder how he woulda turned out.

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I don't believe it would have turned out well Dino. The music was suffering form his many addictions !

[Dino Velvet]

I don't believe it would have turned out well Dino. The music was suffering form his many addictions !

I know. I didn't want to speak ill of the dead. Some of The Doors music is great but Jim was Jim. Imagine driving cross-country with Jim Morrison.

The Doors - Riders On the Storm (Remastered HD) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DED812HKWyM)

The Doors - Peace Frog (Music Video) [HQ] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=100dJmybgsQ)

[beatlephil]

Along with John Lennon and Elvis (mainly because a member of my family loved him so much)
No musical group has left an impact to equal that of the Beatles. Here we are nearly fifty years after their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and they're still influencial heavyweights not just in music, but fashion, technology, political and social matters as well. John Lennon's passing left a huge hole in my heart but so did the passing of George Harrison. Both of them were done much too soon.

[maxpower]

OMG yes! How could I have forgotten?! He's my favorite Beatle. His solo work with Jeff Lynne was just brilliant! I'm always amazed at how underrated he is compared to John and Paul. Maybe it's because he wasn't named after a Biblical disciple? :lol:

~BB~

Did you see Martin Scorsese's Harrison documentary? It was excellent.

[BellaBellucci]

Did you see Martin Scorsese's Harrison documentary? It was excellent.

Not yet, but it's on my list.

~BB~

[danthepoetman]

I remember the effect of Morrison’s death, I was a young teenager, and that of the death in the same surrounding, 70, 71, of Janice Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. It affected me too, but much more teens who were a couple of years older, and myself by reaction. The death of Yukio Mishima was talked about a lot also, in these years, mostly because of the way he died: to protest the lost of Japanese tradition, he took control of a military academy, with the help a few young cadets, and performed hara kiri on himself, then was beheaded. This made quite an impression on me; I had not read anything from him but I did after…
I’ve been shook a bit more by the death of literary and intellectual figures than I was by musicians, in the past. The death of Jean-Paul Sartre at the beginning of the 80s, for instance. Remember well being trouble by the death of Andrei Tarkowsky, and seeing his last movie, Offret, not long after; it was really moving. Konrad Lorenz, Charles Bukowski, Burroughs and Ginsberg deaths all had an impact on me in the 90s.
Since then, I don’t know… I’m not sure I admire enough anymore; or maybe, aging, I have too great a sense of my own mortality to be moved too much by that of others…

[Merkurie]

I happened to see this yesterday. Ringo and George on the death of John.
George & Ringo funny interview part 4 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AucleEqpBA)

[Willie Escalade]

A legend to one person might not be a legend to another.

[Ecstatic]

Limiting my list to five contemporaries of mine who died tragically and way too young:

John Lennon
Jimi Hendrix
Richard Farina
Jim Morrison
Brian Jones

[Prospero]

Wow--- richard and mimi farina. Forgot them. They were terrific.

MIMI & RICHARD FARINA Reno Nevada - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiYTDqoO3TQ)

[south ov da border]

I'm with south ov da border on this one: Jimmy Castor. To me 'Troglodyte' is the greates song of all time.


It hurt my heart that when Etta James Passed everyone was like aww. When Jimmy passed the same week, nobody said ****. Troglodyte is the JAM.

Jimmy has a special place in my heart because the very first time I REALLY got into him I was having a very sad day and it made me basically get over it...

[south ov da border]

and 1 other person

Brad Nowell
...

[Ecstatic]

Yeah, they only released two albums before Richard's untimely death (motorcycle accident after a party celebrating the publication of his landmark novel "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me"), followed by a posthumous album. Dick was Bob Dylan's equal in many ways, a powerful writer.

[gimmeurblood]

none of the above but when Peter Steele died a couple years ago that got to me. also Fail for no Dimebag Darrel or Ronnie James Dio

[Helvis2012]

Cobain.

[onmyknees]

[QUOTE=Dino Velvet;1187423]
Imagine driving cross-country with Jim Morrison.

I don't think that journey would ever have a conclusion... I envision something like a Thelma and Louise ending as Morrison pegged the gas and chugged the last drop of Jack Daniels laughing all the way down.

[Dino Velvet]

I don't think that journey would ever have a conclusion... I envision something like a Thelma and Louise ending as Morrison pegged the gas and chugged the last drop of Jack Daniels laughing all the way down.

Reading that I'd rather have Rutger Hauer as a passenger. Morrison's too annoying.

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[sheer1]

Frank Zappa and Muddy Waters Not really impacted but sad to see their passing

[blkmamba]

The legendary Bob Marley ofcourse...

[Prospero]

Zappa's death saw a musical genius leave us. But then so did Ellington, Miles davis and many others

[EZWind]

Very upset when Jerry Garcia passed, though he did leave us over 30 yrs of great music. Jimi and Janis, of course and Duane Allman and Stevie Ray...and Buddy Holly...all far too young. Most recently, Phoebe Snow...beautiful voice...very sad

[Prospero]

I think Jerry recorded 30 years of music - most of it played on acid!

But Phoebe Snow... so sad....

Phoebe Snow: There's a Boat Dat's Leaving Soon for New York - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xapGxL09-I)

[bimale69]

What? No Ronnie James Dio?

[dns4809]

im sorry but i agree Jerry .. a true american ICON ... real music ...

[EZWind]

I think Jerry recorded 30 years of music - most of it played on acid!

But Phoebe Snow... so sad....


...ya know, your snide Jerry remark started to piss me off, but that Phoebe tune smoothed me right out so you're okay. Thanx for that
....Boy, was she gifted or what?

[JenniferParisHusband]

I was really disappointed Lawrence Welk wasn't on this list. lol

[torcoex]

Why is there no "none of the above" box to check.

[Dino Velvet]

Little follow-up.
Lennon's killer denied parole for 7th time in NY (http://news.yahoo.com/lennons-killer-denied-parole-7th-time-ny-141429491.html)

Lennon's killer denied parole for 7th time in NY

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — John Lennon's killer was denied release from prison in his seventh appearance before a parole board, New York corrections officials said.
Mark David Chapman, 57, was denied parole by a three-member board after a hearing Wednesday, the state Department of Corrections said Thursday. The transcript of his latest hearing wasn't immediately released.
Chapman shot Lennon in December 1980 outside the Manhattan apartment building where the former Beatle lived. He was sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. The musician, singer and songwriter was 40.
"Despite your positive efforts while incarcerated, your release at this time would greatly undermine respect for the law and tend to trivialize the tragic loss of life which you caused as a result of this heinous, unprovoked, violent, cold and calculated crime," board member Sally Thompson wrote. Board members Joseph Crangle and Marc Coppola agreed.
"The panel notes your good conduct, program achievements, educational accomplishments, positive presentation, remorse, risk and needs assessment, letters of support, significant opposition to your release and all other statutory factors were considered," Thompson wrote. "However, parole shall not be granted for good conduct and program completions alone."
Chapman can try again for parole in two years.
He was transferred in May from the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York to the nearby Wende Correctional Facility. Both are maximum security. The prison system doesn't disclose why inmates are transferred.
At his previous hearing, he recalled that he had considered shooting Johnny Carson or Elizabeth Taylor instead, and said again that he chose Lennon because the ex-Beatle was more accessible, that his century-old Upper West Side apartment building by Central Park "wasn't quite as cloistered." Chapman fired five shots outside the Dakota apartment house on Dec. 8, 1980, hitting Lennon four times in front of his wife, Yoko Ono, and others.
The former security guard from Hawaii said that his motivation was instant notoriety but that he later realized he made a horrible decision for selfish reasons.
"I felt that by killing John Lennon I would become somebody and instead of that I became a murderer and murderers are not somebodies," Chapman told the board two years ago.
Ono, 79, had said two years ago that she was trying to be "practical" in asking that her husband's killer remain behind bars. She said Chapman might be a danger to her, other family members and perhaps even himself.
In a 1992 interview at Attica, Chapman told Barbara Walters that it was dark when he shot Lennon in the back with a .38-caliber revolver after he exited a limousine, headed up the walkway to his apartment building and looked at Chapman. "I heard this voice — not an audible voice, an inaudible voice — saying over and over, 'Do it, do it, do it,'" Chapman said. He explained, "I thought that by killing him I would acquire his fame."
He has been in protective custody with a good disciplinary record, according to corrections officials.




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Associated Press/Greg Lyuan, File - FILE - In this 1975 file photo, Mark David Chapman is seen at Fort Chaffee near Fort Smith, Ark. New York corrections officials say Chapman, 57, John Lennon's killer, was denied release from prison in his seventh appearance before the state Department of Corrections three-member board after a hearing Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Greg Lyuan, File)

[danthepoetman]

The guy is a complete nut case. It’s reassuring that they keep him…

[FreddieGomez]

Aaliyah

[dafame]

Ol' Dirty Bastard

[fred41]

Aaliyah

We use the expression - "died too young"- a lot, even though it's not always quite literally true. With entertainers like Aaliyah and Lisa Lopes, it is.

[ed_jaxon]

Some guys die early, some in their prime and some are just coasting along collecting residuals.

Stevie Ray died in his prime and I remember very clearly his passing.

Tupac was also in his prime and had years of work ahead of him.

Elvis was far over the hill.

Lennon was in his prime and had more to say.

[Stavros]

I recall the sudden death of Otis Redding, not on the list but surely one of the finest singers of the 1960s; Janis Joplin also, even if she knew where she was headed long before she got there. I had the chance to see The Doors in London when they shared the Roundhouse with Jefferson Airplane but declined the offer, and the same with Jimi Hendrix, not knowing these people would die some time after -whether or not they would have produced good material is impossible to know. Although I weaned myself off the Beatles easily, mainly because other music put it in its place, Lennon's death seemed then and now to be a contradiction of the man's life and message. In the cases of Sinatra and Miles on the list, they died after long careers, I think for death to be a shock it should either be an early one, like Redding, or sudden and nasty, like Lennon. In the case of drug overdoses or alcohol abuse, it goes with the territory -no need to name names. If there is an exception with Hendrix this is due to some of the allegations about the situation in Hill St on the night he shot up for the last time.

[morim]

Jon Lord few weeks ago has been a great loss for music world.
I mean "real music"!!!

[yodajazz]

I followed every musical move that Miles Davis made, and loved most all of it. One of my best friends told me he was surprised, that I did not name my son after him! Still I am left with the legacy of him being an explorer, one who always embraced new idea. So it's really more about thier living impact more so than their deaths.

[danthepoetman]

I voted Miles too, yodajazz. The capacity this man had to reinvent himself over such a long period of time is simply stupefying. And there’s something noble in that music, something that goes way beyond pop… Stavros’ point is relevant: Miles’ death was not a surprise, but what he left behind is just extraordinary.