What musical icon death had the biggest impact on you

[onmyknees]

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

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.

[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?

~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.

[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.