Music History Events: Deaths
February 8, 2011 Blues singer-songwriter Marvin Sease dies of complications from pneumonia at age 64.
February 6, 2011 Gary Moore (guitarist for Thin Lizzy) dies of a heart attack at age 58.
January 26, 2011 Gladys Horton (lead singer of The Marvelettes) dies at age 66 after a series of strokes.
January 17, 2011 Don Kirshner (promoter behind The Monkees, The Archies) dies of heart failure at age 76.
January 15, 2011 Bluesman Fred Sanders Jr. dies of lung cancer at age 71.
January 10, 2011 Margaret Whiting, a popular singer who duetted with Johnny Mercer on the seasonal favorite "Baby It's Cold Outside," dies at age 86.
January 7, 2011 Bobby Robinson, who did production work for Gladys Knight & the Pips and Elmore James, dies at age 93.
January 4, 2011 Grady Chapman of The Robins dies at age 81.
December 30, 2010 Boney M lead singer Bobby Farrell dies of heart failure at age 61 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on the anniversary of Rasputin's death. The notorious adviser to the tragic Romanovs was murdered in Saint Petersburg in 1916 and was also the subject of Boney M's hit single, "Rasputin."
December 28, 2010 Southern rocker "Mean Gene" Kelton dies at 57 when his SUV collides with a school bus in Crosby, Texas.
December 17, 2010 Blues singer Robin Rogers dies of liver cancer at age 55 while her new album, Back in the Fire, climbs the blues chart.
December 5, 2010 Porn director-turned-blues musician John Leslie dies of a stroke at age 65.
November 20, 2010 Little Smokey Smothers, Blues guitarist and singer, dies of natural causes in Chicago, Illinois, at age 71.
October 25, 2010 Reggae musician Gregory Isaacs dies of lung cancer in London, England, at age 59.
October 17, 2010 Blues scholar Stephen Calt dies in Queens, New York, at age 62.
October 10, 2010 R&B/soul singer Solomon Burke dies on an airplane at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Though the cause of death was not known, the singer had long struggled with his weight and his health, and his doctor suspected he had a pulmonary embolism.
September 22, 2010 Eddie Fisher, one of the biggest pop stars of the '50s, dies of complications from hip surgery in Berkeley, California, at age 82.
September 20, 2010 Leonard Skinner, the namesake of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies of Alzheimer's disease at age 77. As a gym teacher at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida, he sent Ronnie Van Zant to the principal's office because his hair was too long.More
September 15, 2010 Calypso/soca musician Alphonsus "Arrow" Cassell dies at age 60 in Montserrat, West Indies, after a two-year battle with cerebral cancer.
September 10, 2010 Delta bluesman Foster "Mr. Tater" Wiley dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 63.
September 8, 2010 Rich Cronin (of LFO) dies of a stroke while battling leukemia in Boston, Massuchusetts, at age 36.
August 14, 2010 Richie Hayward (drummer for Little Feat) dies of lung disease, while also struggling with liver cancer, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, at age 64.
August 9, 2010 Blues bassist Calvin "Fuzz" Jones dies of complications from lung cancer and a heart attack at age 84 in Southaven, Mississippi.
July 22, 2010 Electric blues guitarist Phillip Walker, known for his 1959 hit single "Hello My Darling," dies of heart failure at age 73.
June 28, 2010 Bill Aucoin (band manager for Kiss, Billy Idol) dies of surgical complications from prostate cancer at age 66.
June 24, 2010 JoJo Billingsley (backing vocalist for Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies of cancer at age 58.
June 21, 2010 Tam White, the Scottish singer and actor who was the first person to sing live on Top of the Pops in 1975 with a rendition of "What in the World's Come Over You," dies of a heart attack at age 67.
June 13, 2010 Country music singer Jimmy Dean dies while watching television at age 81 in Varina, Virginia.
May 30, 2010 Anita Humes, lead singer of The Essex ("Easier Said Than Done") dies at age 69.
May 24, 2010 Slipknot bass player Paul Gray dies at age 38 from an accidental overdose in his Iowa hotel room.
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