Storm Thergerson – The graphic designer whose Hipgnosis design house, was behind all those Pink Floyd album covers, Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, the whole lot. As well as Led Zeppelin and Peter Gabriel album covers. Something of a lost art form in the digital age, or at least not really necessary, Storm, a childhood friend of David Gilmore, was the vision of Pink Floyd. Cancer took him to the great gig in the sky at the age of 69.
Scott Miller – Lead singer with Game Theory and the Loud Family, 1980s power pop that was big in college radio but like just about everybody else never quite broke pop. Miller was also a fellow traveller, who had a blog called Music: What Happened. He was 53 years old.
George Jackson – Southern r&b guy influenced by Sam Cooke and responsible for writing "One Bad Apple" for the Osmonds, "Old Time Rock & Roll" for Bob Seger and "The Only Way Is Up", for Yazz and Coldcut, Cancer at 77 years old was the bad apple that dropped him.
Dean Drummond – The electronic and experimental composer who worked as an assistant to the percussive explorer Harry Partch as well as inventing a 31-tone instrument called the zoomoozophone. Drummond composed in microtones, most Western music is spaced by semitones. He was 64 years old.
Jimmy Dawkins was a Chicago blues guitarist and singer who was big in Japan in the 1970s and ran his own label in the 1980s. Jimmy was 76 years old when he died.