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February 11, 2012 Whitney Houston, popular singer and actress who suffered from drug and alcohol addiction, has died in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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February 1, 2012 Don Cornelius, who created the music and dancing TV show Soul Train, has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
January 20, 2012 Etta James, the Rhythm and Blues singer known for her signature song "At Last", has died in a Riverside, California hospital at age 73.
January 17, 2012 Johnny Otis, singer and bandleader who discovered Etta James, has died after a long illness.
January 6, 2012 Tom Ardolino, a longtime drummer of the influential cult band NRBQ, has died after a lengthy battle with an unidentified illness. He was 56.
January 3, 2012 Bob Weston, former guitarist for the rock band Fleetwood Mac, was found dead at his flat in north London. He was 64.
January 2, 2012 Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt, who played with Iron Butterfly and went on to found rock 'n' roll supergroup Captain Beyond, died from a respiratory infection at a Florida hospital. He was 63.
January 1, 2012 Fred Milano, an original member of Dion and the Belmonts died at a New York hospital at age 72.
December 29, 2011 Robert Dickey was a guitarist and singer who, with his cousin, formed the soul duo James and Bobby Purify. They reached the top 10 in 1966 with "I'm Your Puppet."
December 28, 2011 Danny DeGennaro, a guitarist with the Grateful Dead-inspired group Kingfish, has died after being shot in his home in Levittown, near Philadelphia.
December 18, 2011 Warren Hellman, the San Francisco financier who bankrolled the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, died from complications of leukemia at age 77.
December 4, 2011 Hubert Sumlin was Chicago bluesman best known for his work as guitarist for Howlin' Wolf.
November 28, 2011 Ingrid Pastorius, who was married to virtuoso electric bassist Jaco Pastorius between 1979 and 1985, died from complications following an aortic aneurysm. She was 61.
November 26, 2011 Keef Hartley was an English drummer and leader of the Keef Hartley Band, played at Woodstock, and was the drummer for John Mayall.
November 12, 2011 Doyle Bramhall, a Texas blues singer/songwriter and drummer associated with Stevie Ray Vaughan, has died in his sleep at age 62.
November 8, 2011 Heavy D, rapper, collapsed outside his Beverly Hills home and was rushed to Cedar-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, where he died in the emergency room. He was 44 years old.
November 3, 2011 Cory Smoot, the guitarist who portrayed the character of Flattus Maximus in the theatrical speed metal band Gwar, was found dead of unknown causes.
October 18, 2011 Bob Brunning was a British bass player best remembered for his brief stint as bass player in Fleetwood Mac.
September 22, 2011 John William Cann, was a British guitarist, singer and member of the rock band Atomic Rooster.
August 29, 2011 Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards, the last living link to Robert Johnson,, has died at age 96.
August 22, 2011 Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson, has died at age 70.
August 22, 2011 Jerry Leiber, half of the songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, and one of the most important songwriters in the history of rock & roll, has died of heart failure at age 78.
August 11, 2011 Jani Lane, former lead singer of Warrant, has died in a Woodland Hills hotel at age 47.
July 27, 2011 Dan Peek, a founding member of the rock trio America, has died in his sleep at age 60.
March 21, 2011 Pinetop Perkins, blues pianist, has died at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 97.
March 19, 2011 Ralph Mooney, one of the most important steel guitarists in country music, has died at age 82.
March 14, 2011 Ronnie Hammond, the former lead singer for the Atlanta Rhythm Section, has died of sudden heart failure.
March 13, 2011 Owsley Stanley was a counter-culture icon, famous for his association for the Grateful Dead and for mass-producing LSD.
March 11, 2011 Hugh Martin, who wrote "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," considered one of the greatest Christmas songs of all time, has died at age 96.
March 8, 2011 Michael Starr Alice in Chains' original bassist from the group's formation in 1987 to 1993, died March 8th of an apparent drug overdose.
March 8, 2011 St. Clair Lee, a member of the Hues Corporation, who had a #1 hit in 1974 with “Rock the Boat,” was found dead in his Lake Elsinore, California home. He was 66.
March 6, 2011 Herman Ernest III, the longtime drummer for Dr. John and a fixture of New Orleans funk drumming, died of cancer at his home. He was 59.
February 24, 2011 Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan's girlfriend from 1961 to 1964, has died of lung cancer at age 67.
February 6, 2011 Gary Moore, Irish blues and rock guitarist and member of Thin Lizzy, has died while on holiday in Estepona, Spain.
January 28, 2011 Slam Buckra (Richard F. Gazlay), a rock and blues guitarist from San Diego California, has died at age 53.
January 26, 2011 Charlie Louvin was a country singer and songwriter. He was best known for singing, with his brother Ira, as The Louvin Brothers.
January 17, 2011 Don Kirshner, influential music publisher, producer, manager and host of the TV series Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, has died at age 76.
January 4, 2011 Gerry Rafferty, Scottish Singer known for his hit songs "Baker Street", "Right Down the Line" and "Stuck in the Middle", has died January 4th at age 63.
December 26, 2010 Teena Marie was an American singer, songwriter and producer. She was a protégée of the late funk artist Rick James.
December 26, 2010 Bernie Wilson, baritone vocalist for Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, has died at a New Jersey hospital.
December 18, 2010 Bob Demmon, guitarist for the 1960s surf-rock band The Astronauts, has died in Coronado, California.
December 17, 2010 Captain Beefheart, an experimental avante garde rock musician and friend of Frank Zappa, has died after a long illness.
December 9, 2010 James Moody, jazz saxophonist and flute player, has died in San Diego at age 85.
October 25, 2010 Gregory Isaacs, the Jamaican reggae singer best known for his song 'Night Nurse' has died of cancer at age 59.
October 24, 2010 Linda Hargrove, songwriter known as the "The Blue Jean Country Queen," has died after a long battle with leukemia. She was 61.
October 10, 2010 Solomon Burke, the "King of Rock and Soul", has died at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a flight from Los Angeles.
September 22, 2010 Eddie Fisher, 1950s pop singer, teen idol and entertainer, has died at age 82.
September 20, 2010 Leonard Skinner, the gym teacher who inspired the name of the legendary southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died.
September 8, 2010 Rich Cronin, former lead singer of the boy band LFO, has died after a battle with leukemia.
September 3, 2010 Mike Edwards, cellist and founding member of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), has been killed in a freak car accident.
August 19, 2010 Michael Been, lead singer and founding member of the rock band the Call, has died of a heart attack backstage at the Pukkelpop music festival in Belgium.
August 18, 2010 Kenny Edwards, a folk-rock singer-songwriter and founding member of the Stone Poneys with Linda Ronstadt, had died at age 64.
July 26, 2010 Ben Keith, pedal steel guitarist and long-time associate of Neil Young, has died at Neil's Broken Arrow ranch in Northern California.
July 19, 2010 Andy Hummel, the original bassist for the legendary Memphis pop band Big Star, has died of cancer at age 59.
July 15, 2010 Hank Cochran, country singer/songwriter who wrote "Make the World Go Away" and "I Fall to Pieces" has died at age 74.
July 12, 2010 Tuli Kupferberg, co-founder of the 1960s satirical rock band The Fugs, has died are age 86.
July 11, 2010 Walter Hawkins, a member of the gospel music family The Edwin Hawkins Singers, has died of pancreatic cancer.
July 6, 2010 Harvey Fuqua, a key figure in the Detroit music scene and member of The Moonglows, has died at 80.
June 23, 2010 Pete Quaife, the original bassist for the Kinks and member of country rock group MapleOak, has died in Denmark.
June 16, 2010 Garry Shider, guitarist and songwriter for Parliament-Funkadelic, known to millions of fans as "Starchild" or "Diaperman," has died of brain and lung cancer at age 56.
June 14, 2010 Ken Brown, who played with members of the Beatles in the Quarrymen and the Les Stewart Quartet, has died at age 70.
June 7, 2010 Stuart Cable, 40, former drummer for British rock band Stereophonics, was found dead in England.
June 6, 2010 Marvin Isley, the bassist and youngest member of the hit-making soul and funk band Isley Brothers, has died. He was 56.
May 30, 2010 Ali-Ollie Woodson, the singer who led the legendary Motown quintet The Temptations in the 1980s and '90s, has died at age 58.
May 24, 2010 Paul Gray, bassist with the nu-metal band Slipknot, was found dead in an Iowa hotel room. He was 38.
May 16, 2010 Ronnie James Dio, one of the most powerful of rock's heavy metal vocalists, has lost his battle to stomach cancer.
May 9, 2010 Lena Horne, singer, dancer and actress, has died at age 92.
April 8, 2010 Malcolm McLaren, best known for managing the Sex Pistols and for helping kick off the punk revolution of the 1970s, has died at age 64.
March 24, 2010 Johnny Maestro, who performed the 1958 doo-wop hit "16 Candles" with The Crests and enjoyed a decades-long career with The Brooklyn Bridge, has died of cancer. He was 70.
March 24, 2010 Jim Marshall, noted Rock 'n' Roll photographer who made iconic images of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash and countless other greats, has passed away in a New York City hotel at age 74.
March 17, 2010 Alex Chilton, who led the pop band Big Star, has died in New Orleans of an apparent heart attack at age 59.
March 17, 2010 Charlie Gillett, British radio DJ, musicologist and writer, credited with discovering Dire Straits, has died at age 68.
March 12, 2010 Lesley Duncan, British folksinger who appeared on albums by Elton John, Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons and Ringo Starr, among others, has passed away at age 66.
March 6, 2010 Mark Linkous, who recorded under the name Sparklehorse, has committed suicide at age 47.
February 27, 2010 T-Bone Wolk, longtime bassist with Hall and Oates, has died of a heart attack at age 58.
February 14, 2010 Doug Fieger, singer for the rock band The Knack who had a smash hit in 1979 with "My Sharona", died at his California home after a 5-year battle with cancer.
January 21, 2010 L.A. Johnson was an American film and music producer, director, and editor best known for his long association with musician Neil Young.
January 18, 2010 Kate McGarrigle, a Canadian folksinger who sang in a duet with her sister Anna, has died of clear-cell sarcoma, a form of cancer, at her home in Montreal at age 63.
January 13, 2010 Teddy Pendergrass, R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s who later had a devastating car accident that left him paralyzed, has died at age 59.
January 13, 2010 Jay Reatard, a renowned garage-punk performer and songwriter, was found dead in his Memphis home at age 29.
January 12, 2010 Jimmy O. Barikad, known as Jimmy O, a Haitian hip hop artist, was killed in Port-au-Prince during the Haitian earthquake..
January 5, 2010 Willie Mitchell, was a singer, trumpeter, producer and arranger who ran Hi Records in the 1970s and released albums by Al Green, Syl Johnson and Ann Peebles.
January 4, 2010 Tony Clarke, who produced the music of The Moody Blues from 1966 to 1979, has died at age 68.
December 28, 2009 Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan, drummer and occasional vocalist for the heavy metal rock band Avenged Sevenfold, was found dead in his home in Huntington Beach, California.
December 28, 2009 Lowell C. Kiesel, who founded of Carvin guitars and amplifiers, has passed away in San Diego, California at the age of 94.
December 25, 2009 Vic Chesnutt, an Athens, Georgia based singer-songwriter, has committed suicide at the age of 45.
December 20, 2009 James Gurley, guitarist and member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the San Francisco band that propelled Janis Joplin to fame, has died at age 69.
December 2, 2009 Eric Woolfson, singer, songwriter and co-founder of the Alan Parsons Project, has died of cancer.
October 30, 2009 Norton Buffalo, a multi-talented artist who played harmonica with the Steve Miller band, has died of lung cancer at age 58.
October 12, 2009 Dickie Peterson, founding member, lead singer and bassist for the San Francisco rock band Blue Cheer, has died of cancer at age 63.
October 8, 2009 Bluesman Freddy Robinson, who recorded and toured with greats such as Ray Charles and Little Walter, has died. He was 70.
September 16, 2009 Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72.
September 11, 2009 Jim Carroll, poet, author and punk rocker best known for his 1978 book "The Basketball Diaries", has died at his home in Manhattan. He was 59.
September 10, 2009 Sam Hinton, a San Diego folk music hero and founder of the San Diego Folk Song Society, has died in his retirement.
August 28, 2009 Adam Michael Goldstein, better known as "DJ AM", was found dead in his New York apartment less than a year after surviving a plane crash in South Carolina.
August 26, 2009 Ellie Greenwich, the songwriter behind 1960s hits including "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Chapel of Love", "Leader of the Pack" and "Be My Baby", has died of a heart attack. She was 68.
August 20, 2009 Larry Knechtel was a Grammy-award winning session bass player who performed with numerous rock greats.
August 15, 2009 Jim Dickinson, a musician and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound, has died at age 67.
August 13, 2009 Allen Shellenberger, the drummer for the multi-platinum-selling rock band Lit, has died. He was 39.
August 13, 2009 Les Paul, who helped revolutionize popular music with his innovations on the guitar and in the recording studio, has died of complications from pneumonia at age 94.
August 7, 2009 Mike Seeger, folk music revivalist Mike Seeger and brother of Pete Seeger, has died of cancer at age 75.
August 6, 2009 Willy DeVille, singer-songwriter who headed the 1970s New York punk group Mink DeVille, has died of pancreatic cancer.
August 2, 2009 Billy Lee Riley was singer and rock guitarist who had an influence on the early Beatles, who rock out on a version of his hit "Red Hot."
July 21, 2009 John "Marmaduke" Dawson, who co-founded the psychedelic country band New Riders of the Purple Sage with the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, has died. He was 64.
July 21, 2009 Heinz Edelmann, best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles' animated film "Yellow Submarine," died at a hospital in Stuttgart, Germany.
July 16, 2009 Gordon Waller, half of the British rock duo, Peter and Gordon, died in a Connecticut hospital after suffering a heart attack.
July 4, 2009 Allen Klein, accountant and record label executive whose clients included The Beatles and The Rolling Stones has died in New York City.
June 25, 2009 Sky Saxon, frontman for 1960s garage rock band The Seeds, best remembered for their song "Pushin' Too Hard. Rest in Peace.
June 25, 2009 Michael Jackson, The "King of Pop", has died in Los Angeles at age 50.
June 14, 2009 Bob Bogle, lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band The Ventures, known for instrumental hits including "Walk, Don't Run" and "Perfidia" died at age 75.
June 10, 2009 Huey Long, a jazz guitarist and former member of the Ink Spots, has died at age 105.
June 3, 2009 Koko Taylor, who rose from sharecropper's daughter to become a blues icon, has died in Chicago at age 80.
May 24, 2009 Jay Bennett, former member of the band Wilco, has died at age 45 at his Chicago area home.
May 9, 2009 Stephen Bruton, 60, a Texas guitarist and songwriter who played with Kris Kristofferson, has died of cancer at the Los Angeles home of T-Bone Burnett.
May 6, 2009 Ean Evans, member of the Outlaws and replacement bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died of cancer.
April 2, 2009 Bud Shank, an influential jazz saxophonist and flautist, has died of lung disease at age 82.
March 25, 2009 Dan Seals, half of the pop music duo England Dan and John Ford Coley, has died of lymphoma at age 61.
March 24, 2009 Uriel Jones, Motown records drummer heard on many classic recordings, has died at age 74.
March 13, 2009 Alan Livingston, who signed the Beatles to Capitol records, has died at age 91.
March 7, 2009 Jimmy Boyd, author of the Christmas novelty song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause", has died at age 70.
Feb 19, 2009 Kelly Groucutt, bassist for the Electric Light Orchestra from 1974-1983, has died at age 63.
Feb 4, 2009 Lux Interior, punk rock pioneer, singer, and founder of The Cramps, has died.
Feb 1, 2009 Dewey Martin, drummer for 1960s rock act Buffalo Springfield, was found dead in his apartment in Van Nuys, CA.
Jan 29, 2009 John Martyn, British singer/songwriter and a key figure in the London folk scene of the 1960s who worked with Eric Clapton and Phil Collins, has died.
Jan 29, 2009 Hank Crawford, was a saxophonist and bandleader for Ray Charles and the third member of Ray's band to pass in the first weeks of 2009.
Jan 28, 2009 Billy Powell, a longtime member of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died of a sudden heart attack.
Jan 24, 2009 Corey Daum, former Lizzy Borden guitarist, has been killed in a car crash in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jan 20, 2009 David "Fathead" Newman, played saxophone in Ray Charles' band in the 1950s and 1960s.
Jan 15, 2009 Leroy Cooper, baritone saxophonist and bandleader of Ray Charles' band.
Jan 13, 2009 Gary Kurfirst, a rock music manager, promoter and record executive, died while on vacation in the Bahamas. He was 61.
Jan 6, 2009 Ron Asheton, 60, guitarist and founding member of the Stooges, was found dead on his living room couch.
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