SEP 18 - The Death of Rock & Roll Stars on this date in history
On September 18, 1979, Greg Arama (bass player for The Amboy Dukes) kicks the bucket at the young age of 29 in a bike mishap.
On September 18, 1992, Earl Van Dyke, keyboardist for Funk Brothers, Motown's in-house band, kicks the bucket at age 62 of prostate malignancy.
On September 18, 1997, Jump blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon bites the dust at age 77 of throat disease in Los Angeles, California.
On September 18, 2005, Songwriter Joel Hirschhorn kicks the bucket at the age of 67. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song on two occasions. He also wrote songs for a number of musicians, including Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison.
On September 18, 2013, Roger Pope, (frequent drummer for Elton John), bites the dust of cancer in Southampton, England, at age 66. Pope backed Elton John in concert and on several of the singer's most enduring recordings, including "Tiny Dancer'', "Island Girl'' and his first UK chart-topper, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart’’.
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SEP 17 - The Death of Rock & Roll Stars on this date in history
On September 17, 1991, MC5 lead vocalist Rob Tyner has respiratory failure in the carport of his home in Berkley, Michigan and bites the dust at age 46.
On September 17, 1996, Bluesman Jessie Hill kicks the bucket at age 63 of heart and renal disappointment in New Orleans, Louisiana.
On September 17, 1999, Traditional pop singer Frankie Vaughan kicks the bucket at age 71 of cardiovascular breakdown in Oxford, England.
On September 17, 2006, Rock guitarist Al Casey kicks the bucket at age 69 in Phoenix, Arizona. He scored three Billboard Hot 100 hits in the United States and his contribution to the rockabilly genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
On September 17, 2013, Country/rockabilly singer Marvin Rainwater kicks the bucket of cardiovascular breakdown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was known for the ‘50s hits "Going to Find Me a Bluebird" and "Entire Lotta Woman."
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SEP 16 - The Death of Rock & Roll Stars on this date in history
On September 16, 1977, Marc Bolan of T. Rex, kicks the bucket at age 29 in an auto crash. Bolan was an English singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and poet. He was the lead singer of the band T. Rex and was one of the pioneers of the glam rock movement of the 1970s.
On September 16, 1994, Producer/singer/songwriter Thomas Kaye, (composer for Jay and the Americans, and Three Dog Night) kicks the bucket of an overdose of painkillers in Warwick, New York.
On September 16, 2003, Sheb Wooley, (known for the 1958 novelty song "Purple People Eater") bites the dust at age 82 of leukemia in Nashville, Tennessee.
On September 16, 2009, Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul and Mary) kicks the bucket of leukemia at age 72 in Danbury, Connecticut.
On September 16, 2011, Bluesman Willie "Big Eyes" Smith bites the dust at age 75 from a stroke. Smith was a Grammy Award-winning American electric blues vocalist, harmonica player, and drummer who performed with the Muddy Waters band beginning in the early 1960s.
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SEP 15 - The Death of Rock & Roll Stars on this date in history
On September 15, 2004, Johnny Ramone, guitarist for the underground rock pioneers the Ramones, passes on at the age of 55 at home in Los Angeles, California. He had been experiencing prostate disease.
On September 15, 2008, Richard Wright, a founding member of Pink Floyd, kicked the bucket at the age of 65. Wright was an English musician, composer, singer, and songwriter. He performed on all but one of their albums while performing on all of their tours.
On September 15, 2013, Jackie Lomax, (hand-picked by The Beatles to be Apple Records' first enormous vocal star, yet that never occurred, kicks the bucket at the age of 69 of a malignant growth.
On September 15, 2019, Ric Ocasek of The Cars, passes on at 75. Ocasek was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.
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SEP 14 - The Death of Rock & Roll Stars on this date in history
On September 14, 2002, Saxophone player Paul Williams kicks the bucket at the age of 87 in New York City. Williams was known for the 1949 hit "The Hucklebuck.,” one of the most successful R&B records of the time. He was an American jazz and blues bandleader and songwriter.
On September 14, 1998, Blues/jazz vocalist Johnny Adams passes on at age 66 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after a long fight with a prostate malignant growth. Adams was an American blues jazz and gospel singer, known as "The Tan Canary" for the multi-octave range of his singing voice, his swooping vocal mannerisms and falsetto. His biggest hits were his versions of "Release Me" and "Reconsider Me" in the late 1960s.
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SEP 13 - The Death of Rock & Roll Stars on this date in history
On September 13, 2004, Italian artist Giuseppa Russo, passes on at age 53 after a long disease. Russo, who was conceived in Palermo Sicily, had been essential for the public music scene since the 1970s. During her career she sang in Italian, English, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Persian, and Latin.
On September 13, 2015, REO Speedwagon guitarist Gary Richrath, who composed their hit "Take It On The Run," passes on at age 65.
On September 13, 2019, Eddie Money passes on, of an esophageal malignant growth at the age of 70. He was an American rock singer and songwriter who had success in the 1970s and 1980s with 11 Top 40 songs including Baby Hold On, and "Two Tickets to Paradise”.
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SEP 12 - The Death of Rock & Roll Stars on this date in history
On September 12, 2003, Country music symbol Johnny Cash passes on at age 71 of cardiovascular breakdown at Nashville's Baptist Hospital, coming from entanglements from diabetes.
On September 12, 2007, R&B singer Bobby Byrd (member of The Famous Flames with James Brown), kicked the bucket at age 73 of cancer near Atlanta, Georgia.
On September 12, 2013, Ray Dolby (sound engineer who invented the noise-reduction system which bears his name), dies of leukemia in San Francisco, California at age 80.
On September 12, 2014, Joe Sample (pianist of The Jazz Crusaders) took his last breath at age 75 of mesothelioma.
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SEP 11 - The Death of Rock & Roll Stars on this date in history
On September 11, 1987, Reggae artist Peter Tosh is shot and murdered during a theft in his home. He was 42.
On September 11, 2004, Famed musician/lyricist Fred Ebb, bites the dust of a coronary episode at his home in New York at age 71.
On September 11, 2007, Singer/keyboardist Willie Tee bites the dust of colon malignancy at age 63.
On September 11, 2009, Punk artist Jim Carroll passes on of coronary episode in Manhattan, New York City, at age 60.
On September 11, 2012, Johnny Perez, (drummer, musician for the Sir Douglas Quintet), passes on at age 69 of complexities from cirrhosis of the liver.
On September 11, 2014, Songwriter Bob Crewe kicks the bucket at age 83 in Scarborough, Maine. Crewe was known for tunes like "Sherry," "Young ladies Don't Cry" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.
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