Music Deaths Of 2015 Alphabetized And Graded

Alex Omes – co-founder of Miami’s electronic music fest Ultra – C+
Allen Toussaint – master New Orleans pianist and pop figure – A
Andy Fraser – Free guy – B+
Ben E. King – Drifter and solo superstar – A-
Bobbi Kristina Brown – Of all the music deaths you’ll read about. Whitney’s daughter, just 22 years old and with drug addiction embedded in her DNA from both parents, is the saddest – A
Brianna Lea Pruett – artistically valid singer songwriter – B-
Canserbero – Talented Venezuelan rapper who sure sounds like the real thing, jumped off a building at the age of 26 – B
Chinx – OG rapper shot to death – B
Sir Christopher Lee – heavy metal vampire – B
Cilla Black – best in the 60s singing UK pop – B
Cory Wells – One Dog Night – C+
Daevid Allen – Gong, Soft Machine giant – A-
Dave Ball – A Procol Harum – C+
Demis Roussos – a huge popstar in Europe and the Middle East – B+
Dennis Greene – The black guy in Sha Na Na – C+
Eddie Hardin – Spencer davis Group – C+
Edgar Froese – Tangerine Dreamer – C+
Ernie Maresca – wrote “Runaround Sue” and “The Wanderer” – C
Errol Brown – The Hot Chocolate lead singer believed in miracles – A-
Hussein Fatal – Of rap posse The Outlawz – B
James Last – MOR master – B+
Jim McCann – Of The Dubliners – B
Johnny Keating – Wrote “Theme From Z-Cars” – C
Kim Fowley – LA music man – B+
Koopsta Knicca – Of Three 6 Mafia – C
Lance Percival – actor, singer, Beatle movie star – C
Lesley Gore – I once had dinner with her and she could do as she wants to – A-
Lemmy – The incomparable one, I nearly replaced Ray Charles as the picture to represent the year in death – A+
Little Jimmy Dickens – may the birds of the paradise be flying up the country singers nose – B-
Lynn Anderson – “Rose Garden” singer – C
Michael Brown – Wrote “Walk Away Renee” with the Left Banke – C+
Natalie Cole – Invented the posthumous duet – C
Percy Sledge – r&b great – B+
Phil Austin – From “Firesign Theatre” – C
Pumpkinhead – New York rapper (died during a gallstone procedure… er?) – B
Rod McKuen – Pop poet and singer – C+
Sam Andrew – Big Brother and the Holding Company musician – C
Stevie Wright – an Easybeat – C+
Scott Weiland – May well have been the final rock and roll star – A-
Steve Strange – The inventor of the New Romantics – B
Twinkle – Helped make London swing – C+
William Guest – a Pip – C+
Comment: I thought Lemmy would last as long as Keith, that they had signed a pact with the devil. Rock lost Scott Weiland -who should have made it to at least forty…
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