Glad you mentioned Randy California and Gary Thain. plus ... Neil Peart, Alwin Lee, Felix Pappalardi, Tony McPhee, Jaki Liebezeit, Holger Czukay ...

Ken Hensley and Lee Kerslake of Uriah Heep

Moon and Entwistle are on the list.

Frank Zappa he gave me a,ride home when he found I had hitch hiked to his gig!,great memories

Randy Rhoades

Yeah, that pissed me off.

Came to say the same thing. It was a local venue and I was supposed to go to the concert but ended up having to work.

I've played there many times Alrosa VIlla..and you are correct he was ambushed while playing. Having grown up in Columbus, that murder was the end of Alrosa, and our city has suffered also, we no longer get big acts that normally come through from Pitts, indianapolis, Cleveland and Cincy...now they will go to Dayton or just skip this whole area altogether. Also is torn down now...as I stated that was the beginning of the end for that place where I have tons of memories of playing there and concerts I saw there...Montrose, Trower, Holdsworth, Tubes Kreator, Mercyful Fate....

@@nasticanasta yeah, I moved a half mile away from there in ‘08 and the perking lot was never full except for one time when suicidal tendencies played there. I wanted to go so bad but just couldn’t do it. Shine down was the last concert I saw there. It was like a week or two before Damage Plan played. A friend and I were going to go but like I said I had to work and he did too. Now it’s apartments, although housing is much needed in the area, a part of me wishes the Alrosa was still there. I miss hearing Rick on the radio like when I was a kid. It always seemed like shock too and saddleback shark were always playing. lol. I know the music seems to skip us now, except for rock on the range or what ever it is now. I was thinking about all the music deaths we have had in, leaving and in the way to Columbus or surrounding areas. The bands probably think the town is cursed. What band(s) were you in? Your KZfaq handle sounds really familiar, do you go by that anywhere else?

Still pneumonia nonetheless. And besides, he can't fit that in there.

@@Theprophet3928 Then the truth should be there.... AIDS...

@@Theprophet3928 A person comes into the emergency room half torn apart from a car wreck... They do what they can, but the person coughs and sneezes and dies... so the person died from a cold? LYING does NO one any good....

They adjusted the causes to their likings. There is no such thing as a Heroin overdose; it is a overdose doesn’t matter how much you take. Don’t even think about saying I am wrong. Only a fool will use it.

Just say “complications from AIDS” instead of hiding behind the “pneumonia” bullshit.

Drugs have pickled all his organs 😂😂

K Richards has been dead for over 35 years... He just doesn't realize it... Not even a real guitar player...

​@@1956tojoThe dumbass strikes again...

I have been saying for many years if he outlives me I will be pissed

So is Mick Jagger

George Jones and Merle Haggard are questionable as well… (as rockers).. Giants in the country music industry for sure!!!!

Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby hated Rock 'N'Roll and were not rock singers.

@@user-dr2yc1de9ebut they were teenage idols in their days.

Or Andy Williams either. Close to half the people on this list were nowhere near rock stars.

@@glennso47 Which doesn't make them rock stars.

DEEP PURPLE LEGEND

And Robbin Crosby

It says Rockstars in the title, not popstars…

@@nondesperado Ok bro

Olivia aint rock

This is a very biased list... Half these people have never been heard of before but yet all these insignificant people somehow get on there... and I myself could replace at least 20 of these that you never heard of with actual famous people and with legends as well...

Linda McCartney is on here but not Eddie VanHalen... Most influential guitarist since Hendrix.

The description says it is about artist who died before they stopped making original music. I don't think Eddie Van Halen, Lemmy were making any new music for a long time before their deaths. Eddie was just playing classics with Roth on a series of tours.

Yeah, and they died the same year: 2016. Same year as David Bowie, George Michael (died Christmas Day), and Prince.

And another progressive rock giant, John Wetton, dead from colorectal cancer.

@@The_Fat_Controller. My point was the musicians I listed all died in 2016. John Wetton died in 2017.

世間はプログロックに冷たい

@@The_Fat_Controller. King Crimson was somewhat giant, but never heard of your John Wetton until I researched him.... That's why they should have had a line with the band you could relate them to... There have been 20 different people in King Crimson....

Pure ignorance and or bias.... Just look at the insignificant people on here...

When was Eddie's last original hit song before his death? We may have missed out on more reunion tours of classic hits, but he wasn't producing any new hit material.

Agreed.

People who don't get cancer or heart disease should live to 85 years old. That is real statistics. Age is relevant. A 40 year old is very old to a 21 year old

Exactly 😂

You will when you are 79!!

True, whether or not they still had enough creativity to show.

Make no mistake about it Jaco Pastorius was murdered

When you put whatever in your body just because you have talent! Please! Mental issues ? I had a friend once who told me that when you’re an entertainer that they are ways your expected to behave ! Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll !

Artists should not be forced to commit negative behaviors. Sometimes, extraordinary challenges and pressures can lead to psychological and substance use problems. Most importantly, we need to understand that each artist is a unique and diverse individual. Support and understanding are more important than judgment or unfair expectations.@@melvinhunt6976

MOST OF THE ROCK STARS DEATHS ARE 90% DRUG OVERDOSE OR ALCHOLIC ABUSE.

Absolutely nothing to see hear move along now.

Except that he doesn’t.

@@glennso47Every great does.

not necessarily

And why did Randy Rhoads die by plane crash but Ronnie Van Zant did not? Marvin Gaye was killed/shot by his Dad... Why is Prince listed as "accidental" overdose when 99% of the OTHER overdoses on this list didn't do it on purpose? Kurt Cobain shot himself just say it.

I know! He damn well should be! Best drummer ever! I saw Rush many times! He had brain cancer 😔 we miss you alot Neil! 💐 he was a brilliant man to come up with the lyrics that he did!

By saying English musician I think they are meaning it at a person from England and yes he was in the Beatles before going solo just like Paul McCartney and Ringo Star.

​@@leestashaw1753and George Harrison as well.

Ha ha

No he was in the weagles

Wasn't he in the Beetles?

... and Greg Lake. 😮‍💨

Saw Dimebag Darrel but not his brother Vinnie Paul

He could do 3 notes what do you mean

@@BlindingSun_ HAAAAA! I think Jonesy had to play Sid's bass parts in the studio. They never should have sacked Glen Matlock.

​​@@BlindingSun_That's enough for rock n roll right : )

@@heimomoilanen9654 didn’t stop about 300 bands

​@@vjenkins6815Matlock wrote and recorded bass for Bollocks. Jones taught Vicious basics for live performances. Pistols bass lines are not that difficult to play

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They got offended by you saying that?? People have "wimpy" ears nowadays! They are so easily offended! That's ridiculous!

The cause doesn't matter.

Aids was the reason he got bronchial pneumonia so he died of Aids related complications.

Его залечили от неверно поставленного диагноза. Он умер от сильнотоксичной терапии.

Yes Freddie Mercury died of Aids as did Dan Hartman I had two childhood friends Die of Aids they are great people It's not about how they died but how they lived and what they meant to our lives bringing great JOY

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We lost all the members of Motorhead.

Really? I always thought it was a suicide.

@@LadyHeathersLair ~ Well, it's open to some interpretation, but I think Mr Hutchence was living the life every man dreams of. There was a list of the 20 most beautiful, most desirable women in the world, and Michael Hutchence was banging at least 12 or 13 of them on a semi regular basis. His musical was going strength to strength. What EARTHLY reason did he have to kill himself? He was due to bang Kim Wilde that night. (We're the kids in America.) She showed up, they talked for maybe 3 or 4 minutes, and she formed the opinion he was a little too drunk / stoned to be at his best, so she left again. So they quizzed her in the coroner's court. She told them the word was out, among the most beautiful women, that Michael Hutchence was as good in bed as he looked and acted like, and the experience was one to be savoured ~ as long as he has sober or nearly sober, but once he got half way drunk or stoned, the quality of the experience dropped very sharply, and you definitely didn't want to be near him when he was right off his tree. So when he rang and asked you over, you'd rush to get there, but then spend 10 minutes or so stalling and small-talking, and trying to figure out how straight or bent he was. She figured he was slightly too bent on that occasion, and left. In the morning, they found him dead, strangled in the act of auto-erotic asphyxia. I believe the official finding was death by Miss Adventure. Perhaps you could call that suicide, but it was suicide by accident. He was responsible for his own death, yes, but that's not what he was trying to achieve.

@@LadyHeathersLairnah it was the good old asphyxy-wank

I watched a documentary recently that said he really died by suicide (by hanging), and that the auto-erotic asphyxia story was incorrect.

@@kaymuldoon3575 - Possibly true. Let's say it's open to interpretation. My view, he was living the life everybody dreams of living. Why on Earth would he choose to deliberately end it? Don't know, I wasn't there. I just think accidental death (death by Miss Adventure) sounds a lot more likely. My memory of the coroner's inquest is a bit hazy, but I do recall there was some debate about this question at the time. What I do remember clearly, is Kim Wilde telling the court that he was sleeping with half the people we'd call Super Models at the time, including her.

Jim Reeves? A country singer.

That’s still up for debate, some would say he had too much heroin in his system to lift a finger, let alone a gun.

Absolutely NOT self inflicted. But you do you

@@judasrhoadssabbathslayer4726 ...no, He did himself....I am not doing me like he did....

@@THE_HMRC didn't mean for you to do that. I meant believe what you want but he CLEARLY didn't "do himself". Nobody leaves their wallet open to their ID before they do that and then comb their hair afterwards over the open hole

@@judasrhoadssabbathslayer4726 ......you think the wife did him in??.....Is it too ironic she named her group, HOLE??

I remember that being reported. It has to be one of the oddest ways to perish. Originally the way the headline read, it sounded like a bale of hay rolled down a hillside...that would've been more odd!

@@KenGaskins-nm3gx Yes it did. It was a round hay bale.

@@sarahstrong7174 If I'm not mistaken, he was on his bicycle either to the side or behind a lorry or tractor with bales of hay, and a bale fell off crushing him either directly or by roll over. In other words, it didn't fall off the back of a tractor that was off the road on a hillside, then roll down the hill crushing him.

@@KenGaskins-nm3gxYou are indeed mistaken. Mike was not on a bike. Mike had a round delivering spring-water. He was driving along a lane & one of the huge round bales of hay that were in a field above the lane rolled down the hill. The momentum caused the bale to leap the hedge & unfortunately it landed on top of the cab of the van squashing it flat. It was a sickening sight to see that cab afterwards. Those bales are incredibly heavy & can squash vehicles & people. We were all very shocked & desperately sad. Mike was one of the friendliest & kindest people you could wish to meet. A gentle, caring soul & an extremely talented musician. I have seen those bales come rolling at speed down onto roads before. They are not particularly safe in hilly country.

@@sarahstrong7174 Wow! Didn't know it happened that way! Sad, freakier accident then I thought.

The song by the Righteous Brothers. “If there’s a rock and roll heaven then you know they’ve got a hell of a band “

I stand corrected on Pete Ham of Badfinger.