Pop and Rock Star Deaths in 2016

 

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1. George Michael

2. Greg Lake - Emerson, Lake and Palmer bassist/singer

3. Sharon Jones - R&B singer

4. Mose Allison - jazz/blues singer

5. Leon Russell - singer/songwriter/keyboardist

6. Leonard Cohen - singer/songwriter

7. Pete Burns - Dead or Alive singer

8. Bobby Vee - '60s pop singer

9. Rod Temperton - Heatwave songwriter/keyboardist

10. Buckwheat Zydeco - singer/accordianist

11. Bobby Hutcherson - jazz vibraphonist

12. Rob Wasserman - jazz/rock bassist

13. Scotty Moore - Elvis Presley's guitarist

14. Bernie Worrell - funk keyboardist

15. Prince Be - P.M. Dawn rapper

16. Dave Swarbrick - Fairport Convention singer/violinist

17. Marshall Jones - Ohio Players bassist

18. Nick Menza - Megadeth drummer

19. Guy Clark - country singer

20. Billy Paul - R&B singer

21. Lonnie Mack - blues guitarist

22. Prince

23. Merle Haggard - country singer

24. Gato Barbieri - jazz saxophonist

26. Andy Newman - Thunderclap Newman pianist

27. Phife Dawg - A Tribe Called Quest rapper

28. Ernestine Anderson - jazz singer

29. Keith Emerson - Emerson, Lake & Palmer keyboardist

30. Aaron Huffman - Harvey Danger bassist

31. Vanity - Vanity 6 singer

32. Dan Hicks - Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks singer/songwriter

33. Maurice White - Earth, Wind & Fire founder/singer

34. Paul Kantner - Jefferson Airplane co-founder/singer/guitarist

35. Glenn Frey - Eagles co-founder/singer/songwriter/guitarist

36. Blowfly - X-rated rapper

37. Mic Gillette - Tower of Power trumpeter

38. Dale Griffin - Mott the Hoople drummer

39. Gary Loizzo - The American Breed singer

40. David Bowie

41. Otis Clay - blues singer/guitarist

42. Nicholas Caldwell - The Whispers singer

43. More 2016 Deaths

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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.