Your most missed music stars

Bowie
Zappa
Beefheart

 

Gene Clark. As further evidenced by recent unearthed treasures, he was the equal of any singer-songwriter of the last 50 years.

I mean this as respectfully as I can: Peter Green and Danny Kirwan are still around: the former somewhat active but Danny is apparently lost. For Your (Re)Consideration: Danny Kirwan, the Sad, Beautiful Ghost of Fleetwood Mac

Their curtailed careers deprived us all of some remarkable music. They were just getting started...

 

This is a very interesting concept for a thread.
I had to think for a few minutes about what it means to "miss" someone I do not know personally, and who's music it's still available.

From the standpoint of considering which artists I would have loved to have heard more output from had they lived, the list has to be very long !
A few of the names at the top would be Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, George Harrison, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Brian Jones, Felix Pappalardi.
With the exception of George Harrison, all of those artists died very young and never had the chance to fulfill their potential. In Harrison's case, he had nearly completed work on the album 'Brainwashed', which to me is in the top 3 best albums of his entire career.

 

Johnny Cash

Frank Zappa

Elvis Presley

John Lennon

Jimi Hendrix

John Bonham

Captain Beefheart--Don Van Vliet

Michael Jackson

Freddy Mercury

George Michael

George Harrison

Joe Strummer

Randy Rhodes

John Entwistle

Ronnie James Dio

Robin Crosby

Luther Perkins

Marshall Grant

Mike Bloomfield

Jimmy Ellis

Eric Carr

David Bowie

 

John Lennon
George Harrison
Jimi Hendrix
Marc Bolan
Pete Ham
Tom Evans
Roy Orbison
Kurt Cobain
David Bowie
Freddie Mercury
Jim Croce
Buddy Holly

 

Robert Palmer
Tony Thompson
Bernard Edwards
Michael Hutchence
Laura Branigan
Joe Strummer
David Bowie
Walter Becker
Michael Jackson
Junior Walker
Chuck Berry
Joe Zawinul
Steve Clark
Glenn Frey
Rick James
Prince

Too many to name really....

 

Mick Karn and Billy MacKenzie.

 

Knowing there won't be any more new Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers records actually breaks my heart.

 

I disagree with using the word "missed," as I never knew any of them personally.
Would there be recording artists I would've liked to have heard more from, had their careers been allowed to continue ?
Yes. They are :

Elvis
Ronnie Van Zant
Gregg Allman
Duane Allman
Tom Petty
Toy Caldwell
Tommy Caldwell
John Bonham
Keith Moon
Danny Whitten

 

Karen Carpenter

 

Bradley Nowell

Adam Yauch

Davy Jones

Ronnie Van Zant

Pete Seeger

Swarb & Sandy Denny

Dolores O' Riardon

and dem Beatle boys

 

1980 - John Lennon
1991 - Freddie Mercury
2001 - George Harrison
2009 - Michael Jackson

MJ's death is the only one I witnessed on TV. Was very sad although at that time I wasn't familiar with his cataloge. I knew just a few songs back then.
When GH died I didn't know anything about him & the Beatles.
I wasn't even born when JL and FM died.

 

also Cobain

 

Two more:

Frank Sinatra

Curt Cobain

 

George Harrison, Elvis, John Lennon, Andy Gibb. The one who broke my heart most was the passing of Tom Petty - to me, he was one of the most brilliant singer/songwriters of all time for 50+ years.

 

John Lennon-not only for the music he would have done, but I would have loved to have gotten his world view on everything that has happened these past 38 years.

George Harrison-again as a person as much as a musician.

 

Dusty Springfield
Roy Orbison
Laura Nyro

 

John Lennon
John Dawson
Hughie Thomasson
Doc Watson

 

Yauch
Strummer
Zevon

 

David Bowie hands down.

 

Scott Weiland and Eddie Harsch.

I miss my buddies...the fact that they were musical geniuses just makes it that much worse for the world.

 

Layne Stanley, Dimebag Darrell, Wayne Static, Cobain, Cornell.

 

Lennon
Tosh
Reed
Bonham
Harrison
Morrison
Zappa
Cobain
Albert King
BB King

 

Joe Strummer