• Mike Pinera – Blues Image founder, had No, 4 hit with "Ride Captain Ride" in 1970; liver failure; 76
• Toni Price – country singer; brain aneurysm; 63
• Bernice Johnson Reagon – Sweet Honey in the Rock founder; 81
• Blake Rhea – Southern Avenue bassist; murdered in Memphis
• Rich Homie Quan (Dequantes Lamar) – Atlanta rapper; drug overdose; 34
• Lucius "Tawl" Ross – Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist; 76
• Jack Russell – Great White singer; dementia; 63
• Freddie Salem – the Outlaws guitarist; cancer; 71
• David Sanborn - Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist; cancer; 78
• Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk – New York-born singer who got her big break at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and had hits with "Beautiful People" (1967) and "Brand New Key" (No. 1, 1971); 76
• Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach); 88
• Marlena Shaw – jazz and R&B singer; 84
• Shifty Shellshock (Seth Binzer) – Crazy Town frontman; drug overdose; 49
• John Sinclair - jazz and blues poet/band leader; 82
• Peter Sinfield – co-founded King Crimson; 80
• Carl "C.J." Snare – FireHouse founder and singer; 64
• Martial Solal – French jazz pianist; 97
• John David "JD" Souther – country-rock songwriter/guitarist; 78
• Thomas "T.M." Stevens – rock bassist; dementia; 72
• Damo Suzuki – Can singer; 74
• Dennis Thompson – MC5 drummer; heart condition; 75
• Libby Titus - singer and wife of Steely Dan's Donald Fagan; 77
• Kevin Toney – the Blackbyrds keyboard player; cancer; 70
• Harry "Happy" Traum – New York-born folk singer who performed with his brother Artie; 86
• Tony Tuff (Winston Morris) – dancehall reggae singer; 69
• Brit Turner – Blackberry Smoke drummer; glioblastoma; 57
• Karl Wallinger – World Party founder and the Waterboys multi-instrumentalist; 66
• Mary Weiss – the Shangri-Las lead singer; had No, 1 hit "Leader of the Pack" in 1964; obstructive pulmonary disease; 75
• Harry Williams Jr. – Bloodstone co-founder; 80
• Maurice Williams – headed the Zodiacs known best for their 1960 No. 1 hit, "Stay"; 86
• Chuck Woolery – The Love Connection TV game show host had a hit with the Avant Garde's "Naturally Stoned" in 1968; 83
2024 Total: 124
This is a significant decline compared to 162 in 2023 and 233 in 2022. There were 198 in 2021,
Source: Best Classic Bands
