Pop and Rock Star Deaths in 2016

Merle Haggard

Band: solo country artist
Position: singer
Died: Apr. 6, 2016
Cause of death: pneumonia
Age: 79
Distinction: Had a No. 41 hit in 1969 with "Okie from Muskogee," on which he sang: "We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee/ We don't take our trips on LSD."

Watch Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard perform "It's All Going to Pot" here.

Steve Bloom

Steve Bloom

Publisher of CelebStoner.com, former editor of High Times and Freedom Leaf and co-author of Pot Culture and Reefer Movie Madness.