List of Musicians who passed away in 2016

Rocker · December 2016

2016 has been a bad year. Please add the names of your favourite musicians who passed away this year. May they all R.I.P.

David Bowie
Glenn Frey
Leonard Cohen
Greg Lake
Prince
Scotty Moore
Lonnie Mack
Dave Swarbrick
Guy Clark
Keith Emerson
Terry Wogan
Merle Haggard
Jean Jacques Perrey
Colin Vearncombe (Black)
Craig Gill
Pete Zorn
Dale 'Buffin' Griffin
Tom Searle
Phil McGough
Colonel Abrahms
Viola Beach
Victoria Wood
Joe Sywyard
Alan Vega
Leon Russell
Nick Menze
Leonard Haze
Paul Kantner
Rick Parfitt
64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble
George Michael

Sporky · December 2016

You can't say mawkish without saying 'mmm'.

Bidley · December 2016

Lemmy and Greg Lake.

Moss · December 2016

Technically, Lemmy was last year

EricTheWeary · December 2016

I was going to add John Bradbury but he died the same day as Lemmy and that was 28/12/15.
Perhaps it's premature to do lists of the year until the year has actually finished.

Moss said:

Technically, Lemmy was last year

stickyfiddle · December 2016

How do you get more than 2 posts into this thread without mentioning fucking Prince?!?

dogload · December 2016

stickyfiddle said:

How do you get more than 2 posts into this thread without mentioning fucking Prince?!?

Because I never fucked Prince!

Bidley · December 2016

Moss said:

Technically, Lemmy was last year

Well shit.

Jimbro66 · December 2016

Scotty Moore
Lonnie Mack
Dave Swarbrick
Guy Clark

RocknRollDave · December 2016

George Michael

RocknRollDave · December 2016

Keith Emmerson was this year, I believe? Not a great year for Carl Palmer

RocknRollDave · December 2016

Terry Wogan had a hit record

Jimbro66 · December 2016

RocknRollDave said:

Terry Wogan had a hit record

And Jimmy Young but..........

RocknRollDave · December 2016

Jimbro66 said:

RocknRollDave said:

Terry Wogan had a hit record

And Jimmy Young but..........

True...but I suspect there are more fans of Wogan on this forum than of Jimmy Young, albeit, admittedly, not because of Floral Dance....

EricTheWeary · December 2016

IIRC Jimmy was a professional singist before he was a DJ so fits the brief a bit better?

RocknRollDave said:

Jimbro66 said:

RocknRollDave said:

Terry Wogan had a hit record

And Jimmy Young but..........

True...but I suspect there are more fans of Wogan on this forum than of Jimmy Young, albeit, admittedly, not because of Floral Dance....

Jimbro66 · December 2016

EricTheWeary said:

RocknRollDave said:

Jimbro66 said:

RocknRollDave said:

Terry Wogan had a hit record

And Jimmy Young but..........

True...but I suspect there are more fans of Wogan on this forum than of Jimmy Young, albeit, admittedly, not because of Floral Dance....

IIRC Jimmy was a professional singist before he was a DJ so fits the brief a bit better?

Indeed he was - the sort of thing our grandparents might have listened to but still a hit singist.

If mentioning DJs who didn't sing - Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart was amongst this year's casualties.

koneguitarist · December 2016

Merle Haggard.

StageStruck · December 2016

Early synth/electronic music pioneer Jean Jacques Perrey

DarnWeight · December 2016

Colin Vearncombe (Black)
Craig Gill (Inspiral Carpets drummer)

richardhomer · December 2016

Pete Zorn (multi-instrumentalist with Richard Thompson and others).

IvisonGuitars · December 2016

Dale 'Buffin' Griffin

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