If you could prevent ONE musicians death

Who would it be?

The trick being you’ll alter history. So say you stop Cobain, the Foo Fighters might not exist?
If you stop Danny Whitten from OD’ing, who’s to say it won’t happen again.

To make it a hard decision, try to list just one. No second and third choices at first.

It’s tough but I think I’d stop Otis Redding from getting on that plane. We’d still get Dock Of The Bay and I can only imagine the material if that was the direction he was to go in.

 

+1

 

If I could do that I'd choose my Mother instead.

 

John Lennon

 

John Lennon.

He was a real human being to me.

 

Hendrix, Lennon, Robert Johnson (sorry, couldn't resist more than one)

 

So many to choose. I will pick Karen Carpenter. The understanding of anorexia nervosa is so much more recognized and understood than it was 40 years ago.

 

James Marshall Hendrix.

 

Hendrix without a doubt.

 

Buddy Holly,Big Bopper & Richie Valens.
Take The Bus. If Has To Be One Buddy Holly.

 

Freddie Mercury / Jimi Hendrix

 

John Entwistle & Keith Moon

 

Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon
Randy Rhodes

 

As this is another Beatles thread, I’ll say Paul McCartney.

 

Duane Allman

 

GG Allin, so much to give

 

Another vote for Buddy Holly, although it is a bit of a risk as I genuinely think popular music could have followed an entirely different trajectory if he’d lived.

 

Jerry Garcia

 

An artist who died recently, like Mac Miller (9/7/2018)

Going back 20+ years might alter events very drastically. Imagine how many realities you could tamper with going too far into the past.

 

Lennon or Cobain, with Buddy Holly a very close runner up.

 

I'm sure many would pick the very same ONE they were supposed to list here.

Which musician or singer's death upset you the most?

 

Elvis
Jim Morrison
David Bowie

 

Seeing that according to the opening post there is no need for the musician to be famous or even dead yet, I pick...me.

I’ll try my best to prevent my own death .

 

No respect for parameters. Sheesh.