Music History Events: Deaths
April 14, 2010 Blues musician Mississippi Slim, real name Walter Horn Jr., dies at age 66 after suffering a heart attack.
April 14, 2010 Type O Negative frontman Peter Steele dies of heart failure at 48.
March 24, 2010 Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies at age 74.
March 10, 2010 Micky Jones, guitarist for Man, dies of a brain tumor at age 63.
March 4, 2010 Redbone co-founder Lolly Vegas, who wrote and sang their hit "Come and Get Your Love," dies of lung cancer at age 70.
February 14, 2010 Blues musician Lil' Dave Thompson dies in a car accident at age 40.
January 5, 2010 Record producer Willie Mitchell, who ran Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, dies of a cardiac arrest at age 81.
December 31, 2009 Blues singer Earl Gaines dies at age 74, after his declining health forces him to cancel a European tour.
July 25, 2009 World War I veteran Harry Patch, subject of the Radiohead song "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)," dies at age 111.
May 10, 2009 Songwriter/historian Julie Coryell dies at 61.
April 18, 2009 Sable Starr dies of brain cancer in Reno, Nevada, at the age of 51. In the 1970s she was a famous groupie, following rock stars around the venues of LA from the age of 14. At the time of her death she has retired from the rock and roll lifestyle and is working in a casino.
March 16, 2009 Songwriter Jack Lawrence dies at age 96 after he falls at his home in Redding, Connecticut. He co-wrote Frank Sinatra's first solo hit, "All or Nothing at All."
February 25, 2008 Stephen "Static Major" Garrett, who co-wrote Ginuwine's "Pony," Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" and many tracks for Aaliyah, dies at age 32 after contracting a rare autoimmune disorder.
February 19, 2008 Jazz musician Teo Macero dies at age 82.
May 20, 2007 Composer Ben Weisman dies in Los Angeles, age 85. He wrote or co-wrote more songs for Elvis Presley (57!) than anyone else.
January 4, 2007 Nikki Bacharach, daughter of popular composer Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson, commits suicide at age 40 after a lifelong battle with Asperger's syndrome. She was the inspiration for her dad's 1969 song "Nikki."
November 3, 2006 Lyricist Betty Comden dies in New York City aged 89.
October 6, 2006 Fabulous Wailers guitarist and trumpeter John Greek dies.
August 1, 2006 30-year-old Andy Richardson dies after he is beaten in the mosh pit during the Deftones' set at the Family Values tour in Atlanta.
January 1, 2006 Guitarist/songwriter Bryan Harvey (of House of Freaks) is murdered in his home along with his wife and two young daughters. The crime is part of the Richmond spree murders, a series of deadly home invasions in Virginia perpetrated by Ricky Javon Gray and his nephew Ray Joseph Dandridge over the course of a week.
July 7, 2005 Former calypso artist Arthur Edlin Frederick is one of 52 innocent people killed in the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London.
April 9, 2004 Weird Al Yankovic's parents, Nick and Mary Yankovic, are found dead of accidental carbon-monoxide poisoning in their Fallbrook, California. The tragedy was caused by using their fireplace with the flue closed.
January 28, 2004 Mel Pritchard, drummer for the British prog rock band Barclay James Harvest, dies of a heart attack at age 56.
September 26, 2003 54-year-old Robert Palmer dies of a heart attack in Paris after a quiet dinner and a movie.
September 11, 2003 Jewel cancels her North American tour after Terome "T-Bone" Hannon, her bassist of three years, dies suddenly of a brain aneurysm at age 39.
September 9, 2003 Bob Markley, who co-founded the West Coast Pop Experimental Art Band, dies at 68.
May 2, 2003 Composer George Wyle, who wrote the theme song for the '60s TV series Gilligan's Island, dies at age 87.
December 2, 2002 Richard Dangle, lead guitarist of the Fabulous Wailers, dies.
October 23, 2002 Lyricist Adolph Green dies in New York City age 87.
February 2, 2002 Paul Baloff, who sang on Exodus' 1985 debut album, Bonded Blood, dies of a heart attack at age 41.
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