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July 19, 2010 Andy Hummel, the original bassist for the legendary Memphis pop band Big Star, has died of cancer at age 59.
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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 lead 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 caner 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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