Name a musician or artist whom you genuinely mourn

14-05-2019 11:57PM #1

All this outpouring about Doris Day, she had never occurred to me in any way. I thought she was already dead.

Let's give this thread a time-lapse of, say, 2 years.

What poet, musician or artist do you mourn, who made a real and meaningful impact on your life?

My first nominee is Leonard Cohen. Someone gave me 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' for my birthday when I was twenty, and it changed my life.

I also nominate Séamus Ennis. The only man who played the pipes whom I could not bring myself to hate, quite the opposite. He led a sad life, and he died too young in a mobile-home in North Dublin, despite having already established himself as a giant of irish traditional music.

Who do you really miss, long after their passing?

Hoboo · 14-05-2019 11:59PM

Mozart. Never got to see him live.

Pherekydes · 15-05-2019 12:02AM

Terry Kath. Buddy Rich.

sk8erboii · 15-05-2019 12:05AM

lil peep

SmartinMartin · 15-05-2019 12:06AM

Ian Dury and James Brown. Then there's Bowie.

15-05-2019 12:08AM

SmartinMartin wrote: »

Ian Dury and James Brown.

I forgot about Ian Dury. I honestly don't think a week goes by without my thinking of him in some way.

Totally different type of musician, but Amy Winehouse too. She would have done amazing things to music.

15-05-2019 12:08AM

Hendrix, for the sonic vocabulary he brought to the guitar.

nlrkjos · 15-05-2019 12:23AM

Rory Gallagher, Phil Lynott and Gary Moore.

clintondaly · 15-05-2019 12:24AM

Freddie...

VW 1 · 15-05-2019 12:25AM

Mac Miller for me, rarely go a day without listening to his music.

Teddy Daniels · 15-05-2019 12:25AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRArbRr-61E

There are other musicians from Lennon to Dimebag to Cobain to Hendrix that I wish had had more time but Burton spoke to me and then was gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vAhiTUkkqQ

devlinio · 15-05-2019 12:28AM

Avicci

clappyhappy · 15-05-2019 12:29AM

Freddie Mercury, still can't bring myself to believe he's daed. The ultimate performer.

alchemist33 · 15-05-2019 12:29AM

Iain M Banks, the science fiction writer. I haven't read another author whose world-building was as deep or scope so large. Some come close but don't tick every box. He's a massive loss to SF.

donkeykong5 · 15-05-2019 12:30AM

Jim Reeves. Died so young.

15-05-2019 12:30AM

Yeah, Leonard Cohen..all the rest of them that died that year I was like "meh, people die"..but Cohen was odd..

donkeykong5 · 15-05-2019 12:33AM

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Yeah, Leonard Cohen..all the rest of them that died that year I was like "meh, people die"..but Cohen was odd..

His son Adam is one of my favourite singers. Especially the song " we go home ".

rapul · 15-05-2019 12:34AM

Peter Green

15-05-2019 12:42AM

devlinio wrote: »

Avicci

Quiet, Leo

Your Face · 15-05-2019 12:46AM

Lemmy Kilmister.

Laois_Man · 15-05-2019 12:46AM

John Lennon

Cohen was 82,

Avicii, Mac Miller, Rory Gallagher, Lynott, Hendrix all directly killed themselves in some form or another

John Lennon was just a ****in stupid/unlucky/tragic/horrific death!

tony1kenobi · 15-05-2019 12:48AM

Adam Yauch.

endacl · 15-05-2019 12:48AM

rapul wrote: »

Peter Green

Not dead.

buried · 15-05-2019 12:53AM

Daniel DeFoe. Man was dropping some real supreme science all over the shop before science even knew what it was.
One of the Autechre lads will be the next one. That will be a dark day indeed.

nlrkjos · 15-05-2019 12:56AM

Laois_Man wrote: »

John Lennon

Cohen was 82,

Avicii, Mac Miller, Rory Gallagher, Lynott, Hendrix all directly killed themselves in some form or another

John Lennon was just a ****in stupid/unlucky/tragic/horrific death!

I'd say you'd be great craic in the pub!!!:D

pgj2015 · 15-05-2019 12:56AM

kurt cobain

Ardillaun · 15-05-2019 12:59AM

Phil Lynott. His songs had wit, melancholy and superb melodies, performed brilliantly by TL. Whiskey in the Jar remains the best rock adaptation of a traditional Irish song (with just a few excellent tweaks to the lyrics) and represents a road not travelled enough by musicians since.

JupiterKid · 15-05-2019 01:01AM

David Bowie...massive influence on me in my later teenage years. His best work was long behind him at that point but much of his music is pretty timeless and I bet he is still impressing young people today.:)

Kurt Cobain...Nirvana helped define the 1990s and again were a huge influence on me in my late teen/early college years.

Iain Banks - I really loved his books as he had a brilliant imagination and threw in huge curveballs/twists in his stories but oddly enough, although I love the SF genre, I couldn’t really get into his stuff as Iain M Banks.

On the SF topic, Arthur C Clarke. He wasn’t a young man when he passed, and hadn’t written anything stellar for about 15 years at his demise, but the man was giant of Science Fiction, escpeially of what was possible in space exploration in the 21st century. He also wrote 2001, probably the best SF film ever made.

BuboBubo · 15-05-2019 01:04AM

Keith Flint. R.I.P

bodhrandude · 15-05-2019 01:05AM

Trad greats Alec Finn and Tommy Peoples. Prog greats Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Richard Wright and psychedelic great Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd and dance music legend Robert Miles.

Always Tired · 15-05-2019 01:07AM

Jeremy Kyle

Name a musician or artist whom you genuinely mourn

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