Musicians lost to 2016
Dear Grim Reaper.
You have been a greedy bastard. Now feck off, take a year’s sabbatical, and leave the world of music alone!
Yours sincerely
2016
The Grim Roll Call
- David Bowie
- Dale Griffin (Mott The Hoople)
- Glenn Frey (Eagles)
- Colin Vearncombe, (Black)
- Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane)
- Signe Anderson (Jefferson Airplane)
- Maurice White (Earth Wind and Fire)
- Viola Beach (all four members)
- George Martin
- Keith Emerson (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
- Andy Newman (Thunderclap Newman)
- Merle Haggard
- Jimmie Van Zant (American singer, songwriter)
- Prince
- Lonnie Mack (American rock, blues and country singer)
- Billy Paul (Me and Mrs Jones)
- Guy Clark (country and folk singer, songwriter)
- Dave Swarbrick
- Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic / Talking Heads)
- Henry McCullough (Irish rock guitarist)
- Ralph Stanley (American bluegrass artist)
- Scotty Moore,(long time-guitarist with Elvis)
- Alan Vega (electronic protopunk duo Suicide)
- James Woolley (Nine Inch Nails)
- Matt Roberts (3 Doors Down)
- Rod Temperton (Heatwave)
- Pete Burns
- Bobby Vee
- Leonard Cohen
- Craig Gill, (Inspiral Carpets)
- Colonel Abrams (American singer/songwriter)
- Leon Russell
- Ray Columbus (and the Invaders)
- Bap Kennedy, (Belfast singer-songwriter)
- Sharon Jones (Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings)
- Wayne Duncan (Daddy Cool)
- Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
- Rick Parfit (Status Quo)
- Joe Ligon (Mighty Clouds of Joy)
- George Michael
