Music legends who died young who you still miss?

[Maximus_Meridius101]

Jimi Hendrix, drugs, yet again. Phil Lynott, again died far too young. It seems there are an awful lot of musicians who lived too hard, I guess that comes with the territory though.

[witteringon]

Steve Goodman, died 1984, aged 36,from leukemia.

Not what you would call a legend, but a talented singer/songwriter/guitarist, he never got the recognition he deserved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeBD3rcAMFw&ab...

[DodgyGeezer]

Randy Rhodes

[Pothole]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Pothole said:

Nick Drake.

I really like Nick Drake but I agree, I don't think he'd have been much more than a footnote in musical history had he not killed himself. I know that sounds harsh.

Maybe someone could have coaxed him out of his shell...interesting he's buried in the same cemetery as Mike Hailwood. I did a kind of double pilgrimage a few years ago.

[zetec]

Keith Moon

Greatest drummer ever? Jury is still out.

Biggest rock n roll lifestyle? Got to be.

How he performed to such a high standard while being utterly wrecked is a miracle

[Maximus_Meridius101]

zetec said:

Keith Moon

Greatest drummer ever? Jury is still out.

Biggest rock n roll lifestyle? Got to be.

How he performed to such a high standard while being utterly wrecked is a miracle

What do you call a bloke who hangs around with a bunch of musicians? The drummer.

What’s the difference between a drummer and a drum machine? You only have to punch the instructions into the machine once.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

zetec said:

Keith Moon

Greatest drummer ever? Jury is still out.

Biggest rock n roll lifestyle? Got to be.

How he performed to such a high standard while being utterly wrecked is a miracle

Mate of mine was a childhood friend of Moon and lived round the corner from him in Alperton. Apparently, he was a nutcase as a kid. Aged about 12, he set fire to Wembley Arena ice rink because they didn't have any skates available in his size.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

CeramicMX5ND2 said:

Karen Carpenter... Taken so tragically early in now such well publicised circumstances...

That voice! She was the best ever.

[pidsy]

Maybe not a legend but Chester Bennington died too young. Very talented at what he did within the genre.

[craigjm]

This is another thread that shows the age of contributors to this site. The average year of death of all the people mentioned is about 1985 and thats thanks to some late deaths or it would be much earlier. Most people on this thread have been dead 40 years plus

[Maximus_Meridius101]

craigjm said:

This is another thread that shows the age of contributors to this site. The average year of death of all the people mentioned is about 1985 and thats thanks to some late deaths or it would be much earlier. Most people on this thread have been dead 40 years plus

Other than Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse, musicians tend not to blow themselves into the weeds like they once did, so it’s unlikely that we’ll see the ‘legend died early’ thing happen much now. For one, the legend label won’t happen quite so readily because it’s all a bit generic now, and the whole ‘it’s awful, really terrible, drugs are bad mmmmkay, let’s all be really woke, not get hammered, and party until we collapse, because the wet wipes that keep us in business will explode if we do’ scenario dictates it. There’s no more ‘Rock and roll lifestyles anymore’ that’s very naughty, and will never do.

[Deep Thought]

John Bonham

[SRich]

Tom Petty hit me the hardest and still does for some reason.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

SRich said:

Tom Petty hit me the hardest and still does for some reason.

Not exactly young though was he? And you can't really say his best work was still to come-as big of a fan as I am.

[castex]

Amused2death said:

Stuart Adamson, lead singer with Big Country. Great guitarist and a real loss.

They made the balcony bounce at City Hall like no other band. He'd always tell us to "STAY ALIVE".
bd.

[Johnspex]

Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott, Keith Moon.

[Morris12s3]

Would have loved to have seen Janis Joplin, helluva voice.
The one that upset me the most was Viv Stanshall, simply because he didn't come anywhere near reaching his full potential and met such a tragic end.
As posted already, others of note to me are
Ronnie Lane - a massively underrated musician and band leader with the wonderful Slim Chance, Keith Moon and Stuart Adamson.

Edited by Morris12s3 on Monday 14th June 07:57

[Pitre]

Rick Parfitt

[conkerman]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

coffeebreath said:

Jeff Buckley ... barely got his career started yet still produced one of the best albums of all time

As I mentioned yesterday. Your point in his album being one of the best of all time still stands today-I know people know some of the songs but to listen to it for the first time in its entirety is a beautiful moment.

One of the very few albums in history that’s perfection from start to finish.

Grace does nothing for me, but his cover of Back in NYC is Magnificent..

But back to the thread

Jimi Hendrix, Chris Cornell and Neil Peart are the ones I miss.

Edited by conkerman on Monday 14th June 10:06

[Sebastian Tombs]

Adam Schlesinger - a superbly talented and prolific songwriter.
I loved Fountains of Wayne, and Tinted Windows produced one hell of an album. I'd have loved there to be a follow up.